Stem questions

I have been fighting to keep this plant alive since I received it. It was another one of my sisters throw aways. Anyways it is doing much better now, but what I thought to be new growth has turned out to be 2 peduncles. So I am assuming that the new growth is going to come from the node at dirt level, am I right or will new growth come from the next node down as well? Also when you cut a stem back, it is going to start new growth from the first node down from the cut, but what happens when that new stem gets cut back as well? Will the new stem come from the other side of that same node, or do you cut it back to the next node? Does that make since? I'm getting ready to start replanting in Feb. and I want to clean up alot of stems that don't seem to be doing much. Thanks for any and all advice.

Oh and another thing. Harry at Chula Orchids is having a 1/2 price sale on some things, anything with a WOW by it is half price. I made a pig out of myself on the sticky traps.

H. callistophylla

Wow...two peduncles on your H. callistophylla!!! How cool is that!? I had a H. megalaster that did that...bloomed for 2 years and never put out any new growth. Then I did the unspeakable... (whispering), I cut off the peduncle. New growth started.

Now..your questions about where the new growth will come from...the answer is 'YES'. New growth can come from anywhere there is a viable growth point. I sometimes leave a third node at the top if it is 'bare' and sometimes new growth will come from there...sometimes IN the pot... They always keep us guessing!

It tried to bloom twice and blasted both times, I thought for sure it was blooming for the last ditch effort to save itself. I'm not sure I could do the unspeakable, well maybe after I saw a bloom I could. I'm finding that it likes to be kept on the drier side, is that how everyone is growing there's? I try to follow the rule, the thicker the leaf the drier, the thinner the leaf the wetter, but this theory just doesn't hold up for all hoya's.

I was told by David Liddle never to let calistophylla get dry...so I grow it in good light (indirect), really fast draining mix and I 'never let the pots go dry'. They also seem to have smallish root systems, so even the larger plants are in small pots. You might 'get a grip' (LOL) and cut ONE rachis off...letting the energy go into the other. After all...with that small cutting, lots of energy is going into 2 rachis.

Aloha

cut a penducle?!?!?!

::faints::

LOL gaiadisciple thats funny. Seems sick and wrong doesn't it ...

I don't know Carol, I see the reasoning behind it, but but but....

You CAN do it!!!! (or maybe ask your DH to!!!) I know that when I finally cut the peduncle off my H. megalaster it started to grow!!!