| The Good News
Your new growth looks good, really quite good in my opinion. Does it seem to be actively growing? Bigger today than last week? If so you're making progress. Also even though they are shriveled, your pseudobulbs do not look dead or rotten to me from what I can tell from the pic.
The Challenge
There are a couple of challenges here:
1) reducing water loss from your plant - your new growth is using up some of the plants energy reserves (pseudobulbs are plump when they're hydrated and contain energy stores) you can't help this, you actually want the new growht to use the stored energy so it can mature and grow new roots. Your plant can also lose water through transpiration (the plant breathing). So I'd recomend you put is somewhere where it can get more humidity (and therefore won't loose moisture to the drier outside air). Can you put a clear plastic baggie over it all, pot and everything, to create a kind of mini-greenhouse effect with higher humidity inside?
2) patience - no need to comment further, the one word says it all.
Couple More Things
1) I would definitely not divide the plant. Think of that new shoot drawing on the rest of the plant for its energy and nutrients. If you cut the plant in half, you've just also cut in half the amount fo energy that new shoot has to draw upon. It's the same as beign on a long road trip and you see you're starting to get low on gas, so.....you immediately siphon off half of your remaining gas? No, don't split the plant up.
2) I know the sphag-n-bag method is popular on the forum but I'm alsways a little concerned about the extra moisture rotting off new growths. You could do a half-way thing whereby you bag the potted plant (as I mentioned above). I'm sure others will have opinions on this. i'd like to hear them as well.
Best of luck!
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