| If leafless pseudo bulbs could provide nothing, we would not be able to grow new plants from leafless, rootless old pseudobulbs, but I do it all the time. It is a question of how borderline the plant is for survival. If I should happen to wind up with a single leaf on a recent growth, and two bulbs with no leaves, and that is all (this kind of thing happens all the time if you grow enough orchids), then you would certainly want to keep those two leafless bulbs. It would probably cut the flowering time in half.
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