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Messing around with keiki paste

So how does the application process work? Is it a big mess operation or something you can play with in a living room?

BTW I like how meaty and fat your plants look. Nice.

Sorry didn't see this.
Of course, you can handle it in your living room. I just applied with a really small sharp point the hormones either in a little cut I made in the crown or I peel the spike stems in the bottom nodule sheets and apply the product.

The problem with the cuts in the crown is that could get infected so I seal it with hot candle waxed after applying the hormone

It is fun and easy.

I just gently peel the bract at the node on a spike once the flowers have dropped and then you get the colony to spread!!

Update:
Phal #2
Is like an amusement park 😁

4 spikes
Flying roots

https://i.imgur.com/ddKziiM.jpg

That keiki should have produced two roots but seems to have produced two spikes instead.

Do you think it's because of the keiki paste?

It's been a while, but I used to use keiki paste regularly on Dendrobiums and other genera in order to increase growth into specimen sized plants.
I would lightly smear it on new nodes near the bottom of the plants during the plants normal growth period to increase the number of new growths starting up each year.
It is so much better than trying to grow new plants from keikis.
It would work on any undeveloped node, flower or otherwise.

For Phals, I would pick an undeveloped node on an older but still living spike, smear some on and wait for a new plant to develop, then throw them out.

I am not a Phal aficionado.
I had no real interest in propagating Phals.
I was just curious and trying it out.

I picked up a container of some a while ago.
It has sat for a year or two now.
From my previous experience this stuff will probably last for ever for future use.

EDIT:
I would use a toothpick or a cotton swab being very careful to not do any damage to the nodes.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shadeflower (Post 977381)

That keiki should have produced two roots but seems to have produced two spikes instead.

Do you think it's because of the keiki paste?

The truth is that anything with Keiki paste is abnormal and weird; the result is uncertain. I tried it out of curiosity and nothing more. I have had no need to develop keikis.

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Originally Posted by voyager (Post 977693)

I didn't know it worked with Dendrobium...I thought it was only with Phals. Good to know.

Where would one apply the paste on old canes of dendrobium anosmum, or do I need to use the actively growing new cane?

I haven't used it on Dens. But on anosmum and nobile types, dormant meristems are at every bract near the base, and in the small bump you may see just below (or above, depending on species) every leaf that has not produced flowers.