[brookn]

booboo,
Cut the spike as far down as you can without damaging any leaves. Some phals will produce flowers at another blooming, from the same spike therefore it should be left alone, but I do not think that is the case with yours. I believe that phalpal's perpetual bloomers just constantly are sending out new spikes. I experimented with cutting the spike partway down on two of my noids, and they are currently sending out subspikes. My experiment was to see 1) if they would send out subspikes or keikis and 2) to see if my conditions were good for my plants to spike at all (they are inside where there is air conditioning). So far so good. I do believe that the reason I got subspikes instead of a keiki had to do with how far I cut them ( above the second node). My thought is that to get a keiki I should have perhaps cut lower. I also used these plants because they were very healthy, one is also producing a leaf while the subspike sets (yay!). The other phals that I have, I cut the spikes as low as I could cut them so I could get new growth and rest the plants. Hope this helps. Good luck.