Look what I got in the mail today! 🙂
It’s “Budilizer” – aka “Keiki Paste”, which is basically a goo-ey substance that contains the hormones that makes an orchid grow a keiki. If you don’t know what a Keiki is, read my next post, as I will explain how to identify and take care of various types of keiki’s. 🙂
Anyway, I got the paste because one of my Phalaenopsis’es has developed a terminal spike, which is a spike in the center of the leaves, that prevents the orchid from growing new leaves and eventually kills it. I would like it to grow a keiki so I still have an orchid like it when its time comes and it’s no longer with me anymore. But there are also other plants that I would love keiki’s from – I have applied the paste to the following plants:
(“NoID” simply means that I don’t know what hybrid the orchid in question is)
- NoID Phalaenopsis hybrid, white with pink lip (the one with the terminal spike)
- NoID mini Phalaenopsis/Doritaenopsis hybrid, yellow with pink stripes and lip
- NoID mini Phalaenopsis/Doritaenopsis hybrid, white with pink stripes and lip
- Phalaenopsis/Doritaenopsis Tzu Chiang Sapphire
- Phalaenopsis Amoinensis x Equestris
- Dendrobium Hercoglossum
- Dendrobium Sulawesiense/Glomeratum
I will probably also apply it to the following plants, when they arrive in the mail and has settled in:
- Phalaenopsis Brown Sugar
- Phalaenopsis Equestris
- Phalaenopsis Hieroglyphica
- Phalaenopsis Pink Swan
- Phalaenopsis Bellina var. ponkan
- Phalaenopsis SOGO Twinkle Abundance
- Dendrobium Wardianum
- Dendrobium Tortile (I always read that as “tortilla”, haha)
… and, finally, my tiny Dendrobium Nobile Akasuki Comet King, which I just received in the mail yesterday, after trading a Dendrobium Cretaceum x Anosmum keiki for it. 🙂
I won’t put it on my Dendrobium Cretaceum x Anosmum though, as it already has three keiki’s on their way, so it has plenty of mothering to do already without needing more “kids”. 😛
Anyway, this concludes the first post in my “Project Keiki” journal. Next up: a few pictures and a “special”: the keiki care sheet!
Speak soon! ❤
Best wishes,
-Janni
Diary of an Orchid Addict 