how green are the maters on the broken stem? You can take the stem and put it in very moist potting soil and see if the plant continues to ripen the maters. Generally a damaged plant will expend every last ounce of it's available energy trying to ripen the existing fruit. In fact one 'trick' to get green fruit to ripen at the end of the season is to damage the plant to get it to hurry up. This damage is generally using a shovel to hack off part of it's root system, but damage is damage ;-) Let the plant ripen them as far as possible and then let them finish ripening on their own. I wouldn't suggest leaving the maters outside in the sun after they are removed from the plant though. Bring them inside and place in a paper bag with a sliced up apple to ripen them. Apples produce ethylene gas naturally. Ethylene is what commercial growers use to ripen tomatos harvested green for shipping.

Good evening. Well to start off, you can take a deep breathe and don't worry your orchid will be just fine. What you have is a flower spike that has appeared to have broken in half. Your orchid itself will be just fine. The only thing is you won't get to enjoy those beautiful flowers that were developing on that spike (aka stalk you mentioned). Now depending on weather or not the break occurred above a node on the spike, it may or may Not push another spike out of the node and rebloom again for you. So at this point leave the rest of the spike on the plant and wait to see if it will respike again for you just below the break. It might take 2-3 weeks but as long as that spike doesn't turn brown you may see it go again. For future reference, be sure to support your flower spikes with twiste ties or something to help support the weight of the flowers and the spike. When you start getting 10,12,14 or more flowers on the end it tends to get really heavy, hence the snapping of the spike. Best of luck to you and your growing. From the picture, your Phal orchid looks really healthy.

first go to the moving co and place a claim - you likely had some type of minimum coverage w/moving co Then do you have homeowners insurance - after filing claim with the moving co , file with insurance co Not sure what the prob w/tv is good luck

Thanks DbarronðÂÂÂ, but a psychopsis would actually fall under the Oncidium alliance, which produce sheaths, a phalaenopsis does not have psudobulbs so it don't produce a sheath. But a phal spike would normally come below the third leaf from the top an in the leaf axil. I actually have 32 of them âº, they are my favourite variety. If you don't have any as yet I would suggest you try one, they are easy and the blooms last very long. Thanks again Velleta