Phal. cornu-cervi

A small update on Phal. cornu-cervi. It scared me a bit by starting two keikis at the same time just out of the blue.
I thought plant was dying and it was the last attempt to keep its genetic material.

Now it seems my cornu-cervi is doing fine. It grew some new roots and started new leaf. As I see it, it is pretty far from dying now:



The two keikis are still very small but extremely cute:

Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi

I had Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi regular form for really long time.

I did fuss with it a lot at the beginning, rotted a lot of its roots, tried to mount it, dried some more roots, took it off the mount, potted into moss and clay and let it be. It lost some leaves, then grew some new ones, grew some new roots. Now it looks a bit on a smaller side, but still alive and healthy.




Two spikes didn't do much all this time.
Now both of them activated, but they are not growing the buds, both of them started a keiki:



One already unwrapped the leaf, another one just started at the bottom node.

Since plant just grew a new leaf and the roots seem ok, I checked recently, I refuse to beleive that it is going to die soon and now desperately growing those keikis to save its genetic material.

What would be the other explanation? I didn't even know cornu-cervi liked to grow keikis, I thought it was equestris or pulchra and lueddemanniana thing.
Now, it is fourth plant that started to grow keiki instead of blooms on the existing spikes. Is it something I do wrong? I fertilize with dilluted solution of balanced 20-20-20 all purpose fertilizer, maybe that's a problem and I should switch to specialized orchid fert with higher middle number?
Any ideas?

Phalaenopsis cornucervi

Phal cornucervi has pretty sad history. Initially it arrived mounted with bunch of healthy roots and two inactive spikes.
I potted it into plastic pot with moss and promptly rotted most of the roots.
Scared of loosing the plant I took it out of pot and mounted on the piece of wood. There is a blogpost about it: Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi mounted

After a while I noticed that instead of improving it lost more roots that just dried out. I freaked out and potted it again but this time into smallest possible clay pot with sphagnum moss: Phal. cornucervi potted again

Now I can report that it was probably the right decision. Phal cornucervi now started a new healthy leaf, new root and activated a spike. There is a new bud growing now:



I don't hold my breath about the bud, because it probably will blast while the heat is still on, but at least there is some good activity going.

Phalaenopsis cornucervi

Well, I have to admit that putting my phal cornucervi on the mount didn't do much good. It lost several more roots that dried out completely:



I think the humidity drop could be the cause. There are still some live roots but I don't have the nerve to keep it on the mount.
I just took it off and potted into clay pot with sphag as most of my other phals.



The good thing is - it stll has healthy leaves and spikes are still green. If it will die in the sphag, I'll just avoid buying this phal in the future.
It might be that I will never have luck with this species, just like with phal lobbii.

Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi mounted

I had this Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi for several months. It came with two spikes but not active. I have potted it into sphagnum moss as all my phals and waited for the blooms. Nothing happened.
I tried lower temps, higher light, higher humidity with no success at all. Finally I decided to look into moss and discovered that none of the roots had fresh growing point, but all started to rot. After trimming rotted parts I decided to mount my phal cornucervi onto one of the grapewood pieces from the pet store.



Wood has a hole through, so it can be hanged.

The roots don't look all that good:



Hope they will improve on the mount.

Phalaenopsis cornucervi

This cute plant with bunch of healthy roots arrived together with Vanda denisoniana below. I am pretty sure on the advertisement picture it had dark solid flower not yellow with dark pattern, but at the time of packing or transition flower dried up and got lost. Now I need to wait for a new bloom to confirm it. So here it is - Phalaenopsis cornucervi with two spikes.

I know by now that Phal cornucervi continues to bloom on the same spikes, I should not cut them off. Also I really hope that these spikes would stay not yellowing as it happened to my Phal bellina. For now it looks like a little swan in the lake of sphagnum :).