Odd looking growth
 

Umm, what?
If you would have asked me two or three weeks ago I would have put good money on this being new growth. Now I’m not so sure.. I have been growing Catasetinae for three years now and I have never had a growth OR a spike present it’s self like this. So does anyone have any idea what’s going on here?

I see it's a Fred Clarke plant so perhaps email him foto with your concern. If it's unusual,I'm sure he'll be very interested,as am I! :hmm

That’s a good idea and I think I might just do that, unless someone else has had this happen? I mean, did it change its mind in the middle of night or something? :lol:

It looks like a flowedobulb.

I had the exact opposite happen! What started out as a spike turned into a growth. A weird elongated growth with a tuft of leaves at the end. The pbulb swelled a little toward the final phases of development but it will never mature correctly or fully. First time I've ever had something like this and I've been growing ctsm for several years.

Well I guess as long as it doesn’t turn into a dudobulb, I’ll be happy

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So strange! I had no clue they could do this. I am assuming it returned to its normal growing after that happened?

Very strange!

It happened at blooming time this fall...I thought I was getting another (later) spike but it was just a fake-out by the plant. This group loves to keep us on our toes!

The weird growth started into dormancy awhile back...the base swelled a little prior to the start of dormancy...but it'll never amount to anything. The rest of the plant is perfectly normal.

Personally, I've grown quite tired of most of this group so I began eliminating many this past fall and sold off more than I kept. My biggest annoyance is that I constantly get female flowers rather than males. That and the battle w/spider mites every fall. I'll be keeping a few of the clowesia (my favs in the whole group!) and maybe a mormodes or two...the rest will find new homes. I like Lycaste a lot more and that side of my collection has grown by leaps and bounds over the past 2 years so they need the space.:biggrin:

Isn't it strange, how the longer one grows orchids how ones tastes change.

That sure looks like developing flowers... from the tag, I'd expect really dark flowers, in late summer. (and these look like they're going to be white, in a few weeks) Email Fred Clarke. If there was a mis-identified batch, he'd no doubt recognize it.