Xuan, you THE BEST!! Yes, I had new growth just like you posted, had them during the summer time. The ones I have right now look like flowers! YAY!! And yes, Sweetcicely, I will try to post my pics! Quicky question : the night Temps here might drop soon to about 40F ( +3- +4C), but 55-65F daytime (about +15C).. Should I bring my Cyms inside for the night? We dont have freezing temps yet.. MG

Hi, I'm a newbie with orchids in general and cym in particular. When my cym spiked 3 months ago, I asked the same question you did now and was told to "water and feed the plant as usual to nurse and spikes and help keep the blooms last longer when they would finally open". I did just that and my cyms are now blooming beautifully - one plant has 7 spikes and the other has 5. Xuan

Cool! One of my few Cym's is in spike, as well. I lost it's first spiking, last year. I did a few stupid things with it!;~) This year, I'm not getting near it and I hope it doesn't see me! Everyone else has been threatened with great pain if they get within 100ft of it!;~) Scott

Last year, my bulbs were in lawless conditions. I bought a children pool and put them in it in their pots. It was easier to water them this way. I just poured the water in and they all got some. But then some rains came and completely drenched the bulbs. They were neck up to the water and they stayed that way for a long time by the time I noticed it and let the water away. So I ended up with most of the bulbs shrunk to tiny bulblets that I didn't think would even survive. Then I had to move to the new house, so I unpotted them, cut the leaves and put them in the new wine cooler I bought for this purpose to make sure that the bulbs do not freeze down. A month later I noticed that the wine cooler froze down and even killed about 10 bulbs. I returned it to the store and just bought a huge standing fridge that had the freezer part separately. I kept my bulbs in that fridge. Then I planted them up from Summer, hoping that they would still come back to me. And to my amazement: More than 50 percent FLOWERED! They shrunk, they were sitting in water, they froze down, they were in dormancy for a half a year or LONGER, and they BLOOMED! I am still floored by some of them. Now, they are out in the flower bed, fattening up. I hope they enjoy the situation. So you see, once they want to bloom, they just bloom, even if they kill themselves.