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Originally Posted by Orchidity  The plant appears healthy. Now that I'm growing a bit smarter, I should probably have split the plant when repotting into two. Between outside mature pseudobulbs there are eight others, which are a bit crowded in the middle. |
Those smaller bulbs in the centre of the plant look like they are the bulbs produced when the plant was seedling size, before it got big enough to bloom. I do not think it was a mistake to leave them. The will store some nutrients and water for the plant and when they are no longer needed, they will dry up and die.
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Originally Posted by Orchidity The two with dual pseudobulbs are both newest growth. Crowding could possibly be the cause, but then why would leaf drop from pseudobulb, and rather than die out it grow another pseudobulb (newbie question, I suppose)? |
You're question is not a newbie question. In my experience (limited to about 5 of these kinds of Encyclias over the course of about 5-6 years) this is not typical behavior. It's unusual. Normally the flower spike would come from the top of the pseudobulb, not another pseudobulb.
Is this the first time it has done this?