This can happen sooner or later in 2-8 weeks, depending on the time of the year, the health of your orchid and the growth conditions your orchid plant is growing, and many more.

It is often confused with Monstera Adansonii as it has the same slit leaves and a similar vining growth habit. First, the node starts to swell, and within a couple of days or weeks, you see something emerging from the node. Provide fertilizer to the mother plant during this growth period, because it’s now ‘eating’ for two! Choose a mature orchid that is healthy and actively growing and has flowered previously, not a really young or old plant. If you are growing on a windowsill you should provide extra humidity for keiki development by misting, plastic curtains, plastic bag, etc.Add some to buds on bonsai trees to encourage growth in a particular direction, to the lateral buds on the stems of leggy plants to make them bushier, even on the unfurling buds of new orchid stems prior to flowering to encourage these to branch out into sprays, thus giving you loads more flowers. Apical dominance controlled by a constant flow of auxins allows plants to have an important survival mechanism when a plant is damaged. Hopefully specimens propagated fromthe collection in the RBG will be made available to hobby growers across Canada.

One of the reasons could be that the parent suffers a major health problem (such as stem rot, crown rot, root rot) and the parent dies before the keiki is fully developed.A person who has worked for a bio-chemical technology company said that his company has actually done some extensive testing of whether they can use coconut water instead of the chemical hormones.

In my experience nodes closer to the base of the plant are more likely to result in a keiki while nodes closer to the flowers are more likely to result in a new flower stalk so choose one, two (or three) nodes based on what your ideal outcome is. However, there are several aspects and risks you must be aware of and take necessary precautions when you proceed.When applied to a plant’s stem or leaf node, the paste stimulates the growth of new plant tissue, which eventually develops into roots or leaves. Essentially, you will need 1g BA/BAP in 1kg of lanolin or some kind of cream, such as wrinkle cream, as a substitute for lanolin.