Broke a spike...comfort me!
 

I have an Oncidium Wildcat that I rescued from Lowe's, and I have not seen it bloom. It had developed a beautiful, think, TALL spike that I was so proud of, and I broke the tip of it off by accident today! I think the section is over an inch long. There is nothing to be done, of course, but I'm SO IRRITATED!
What do you folks do to keep that from happening? I think I reached across the plant to get to another one when it happened.

Sorry about your spike :( I have had a similar incident, it is very frustrating. I guess the only thing that we can do is place the plant in a safety zone where the chances of hitting the spike are reduced. It's hard to do, especially with a very long spike. Just know that you gave the plant such good care that you got a nice spike. You will get another one and it will bloom and be beautiful!

Yeah, sod's law. Ah well, at least you didn't knock the plant over and break it.

Sorry about your spike, I broke a spike of one of my oncidiums, and I just left it alone, next thing I new it just kept growing from were it was broken, I don't think it put out as many buds as it would have with the original, yet still put up a nice show. So if you leave it be you may still get to see some blooms.

Now yesterday I broke a growth of 3 of one of my encyclia orchids while watering. I was puzzle for a minute because I hear the "click" and I new I broke something, but I had not seen a spike from any of the plants that I had just brush by, and then I saw it, well you know the feeling:((:(:_(:bua:

It's heartbreaking.

How long was the spike? If it was only a piece of the spike, if you leave it alone, it might still flower after a few months.

I don't know if it will comfort you or make you laugh at my ineptitude, but I once accidentally left a huge specimen sized oncidium outside in November to freeze to death. It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day and I just KNEW I would remember to bring it in before it got dark. Nope. FOrgot all about it. I beat on my self for months because of that. Look on the bright side, oncidiums can have more than one spike.

I broke off more tha an inch and a half. It looked like an asparagus tip! l'll still get a bloom, but it won't be as tall as it might have been. It's really a thick spike, and since I have no idea what it will look like, I was really babying the plant.

Oh I am so sorry!
I had my heart broken a month ago - I took out our cattleya to sit in the winter sun for a bit, forgot about it that day and next morning found it murdered by our puppy. And by murdered I really mean murdered to shreds. I was so livid with myself :( Nothing we can do now I guess, it happens.

I'm sorry about your spike that is sad. I have yet to break on but I have dropped or knocked them off the shelf and broke the pots. One noID pahl I did that too more than a year ago didn't bloom this year it was so pissed off.

The only thing it would do is grow roots. Just last week I finally see it is starting to put out a new leaf, it was really one pissed off orchid. I told it I was sorry.