I have a Phal Hilo Lip X Phal Hilo Lip 'Mendenhall' which started a spike about a month or so ago...and now that it has buds on it, they are just tiny. Smaller than my Mini Mark buds were. And these have the elongated stem away from the spike already, which I usually notice when the buds start getting ready to open. See what you think
I know they will get a big bigger when ready to open, but still...these are extremely small compared to what I'm used to.