Sequential blooming Phalaenopsis orchids are those types of orchids which produce flowers, year after year, from the tip of the same flower spike. Each spike can last for a few good years, while others might be produced. All sounds pretty neat, but the spikes are not ever lasting if.. stuff happens.

First off if you break the spikes it's easy to assume they will not flower anymore. They are pretty rigid so breaking them, from the base, it's really not as hard as you might think.

Sometimes the stem of the orchid just goes bad, rotting, desiccation and other things that can affect the stem of the orchid will affect these spikes as well.

If an orchid is too young it might produce a 'faulty' spike, with a tip that will not develop too much. That is somewhat normal and is to be expected, it is the first spike of the orchid, she doesn't know better :)

Then there comes the damaging of the tip. But fear not, these spikes can branch out, so leave that spike be and maybe you'll still get blooms from it.

Ofcourse if your orchid is sick or depleted it might abort some spikes, but this is valid for many orchids, not just sequential Phalaenopsis orchids.

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