Baby Orchids
In this video i pot up some baby cattleya warscewiczii and cattleya rex and get a surprise.
Baby orchids. Keikis are baby orchids and this formula makes it easy to create a new keiki either from the base or from a node on a bloom spike more typical. Normally you cut off the flower spike once the blossoms have dropped. The overlapping petals resemble a tulip flower. All orchids are perennial herbs that lack any permanent woody structure.
A leaf growing on a flower stem probably is a baby orchid starting to grow. The roots and branching leaves that are growing on your dendrobium orchid are orchid plantlets or baby plants called keikis the hawaiian word for the little one. This orchid and many others including vanda dendrobium and catasetum can be easily propagated by removing keikis hawaiian word for baby at the right time. Swaddled babies orchid is one of the largest plants at nearly 2 feet in height.
There are two types of keikis. The name refers to the appearance of a tiny baby swathed in blankets in the interior of the flower. Leave it there at least until it has several healthy roots of its own or if the stem between the two orchids dies off. While some oncidium types seem to be more genetically disposed to the black leaf spotting and oncsharry baby is definitely in this group all of them may get it at one time or another.
Moisten the potting medium and place the baby plant where it will receive a little less light and mist it. Another name for the plant tulip orchid is indicated by the exterior of the plant before it opens up fully. A keiki growth is just one of the many ways orchids propagate. The experienced growers with whom i have spoken tend to think of it more as a cultural problem than anything.
Im a lazy orchid grower. The new baby will be genetically identical to the parent or source plant and it is about the simplest way we know of to get a new baby just like the original. The stem grows from a single bud leaves are added from the apex each year and the stem grows longer accordinglythe stem of orchids with a monopodial growth can reach several metres in length as in vanda and vanilla. Basal keiki and apicalariel keiki.
Sympodial orchids have a front the. From douentza garden in wexford ireland. Once youve removed the keki and potted it up you may want to add some type of support to keep it standing upright such as a craft stick or wooden skewer. They can grow according to two patterns.
I have a phalaenopsis moth orchid which is one of the more common orchids especially for beginners. Securely stake the stem it is growing on and trim it back. A keiki is essentially a baby orchid produced from your original mother plant. Orchid keiki care or baby orchid care is actually quite easy.