Hi all, I need all your advices/opinions/thoughts desparately!?
I bought this phal 1.5 yrs ago. Soon after it arrived home all the buds dropped. I then cut the spike between the last flower and node. Thankfully this is a healthy plant, and the spike remained green the whole time. Since then the plant not only grew new roots and leaves, I also got another bloom and keiki from the same spike. I planted the keiki, and cut back the spike another node, and now that same old spike grows another keiki!? But I noticed the old leaves wrinkled and soften (not yellow yet), and the new keiki and the new leave (from the crown) grow very slowly. It finally dawned on me that this plant is probably very very stressed. Now my question is, should I sacrifice the keiki (it doesn't have its own roots yet) by cutting the whole spike to the base so that the poor plant can recover??? Or should I leave it alone? What should I do?
Thank you all!?
sw