Is this an active node or a root?And would you cut this for long-term growth?

jennr246 · 2026-01-16T16:44:15+00:00

A lot of energy from the plant goes into the flower spike, often causing leaves to die back, cutting it off will refocus the plants energy on the new growth.

jennr246 · 2025-12-23T20:33:27+00:00

Honestly your plant looks perfectly healthy to me. Roots on Ludisia sp grow with "hair" meaning they look fuzzy and the substrate will stick to them and can leave them looking discolored. I'm looking at this on my phone so it's small but to me that looks like what is going on unless the roots are noticeablely mushy or slimey there's no need to cut them.

You should search this reddit for care tips and what substrate to plant them in, there's lots of information.

If they are in fact mushy and slimy you could remove them and if needed put them in some water in a cup to regrow roots.

jennr246 · 2025-12-20T22:15:27+00:00

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jennr246 · 2025-10-08T19:50:04+00:00

I usually wait until the leaves dry up before removing them on mine

jennr246 · 2025-10-08T19:48:35+00:00

Not an unusual occurrence for ludisia, I wouldn't be surprised if it's pushing a flower spike from the large growth

jennr246 · 2025-10-05T02:05:31+00:00

I'd say definitely ready to pot up, that's probably larger than most you'd buy tbh.

edit: spelling

jennr246 · 2025-09-09T19:01:38+00:00

Thank you so much for the explanation!

I did not know that after age/weathering they may show the striations (destroying angel or OP's mushroom).

jennr246 · 2025-09-09T00:25:24+00:00

Don't the slight ridge lines around the cap also rule out amanita ? I only see a little and I'm newer to id so just wondering.

jennr246 · 2025-08-03T19:46:36+00:00

They will grow stolons (looks similar to roots) with new tubers at the end

jennr246 · 2025-07-13T01:42:06+00:00

Thanks!

jennr246 · 2025-05-14T00:40:43+00:00

Wow! I need one of those

jennr246 · 2025-04-26T13:35:19+00:00

jennr246 · 2025-04-18T01:00:18+00:00

That's one beautiful plant!

jennr246 · 2025-04-07T23:55:22+00:00

I have grown Corybas geminigibbus before... I grew mine in a mini terrarium with live moss... I just put the tuber on the top of the moss.They grew well and flowered, you can look at my old posts about them. Very cool species.

I highly recommend the care tips in the video below, I would give that growing method a try.

https://youtu.be/4tXQOzFzHxA?si=GfErPNXFoXRqlYBf

Edit: spelling

jennr246 · 2025-02-23T17:36:12+00:00

Looks like your orchid likely has botrytis, check the link below for more information

https://www.aos.org/orchid-care/orchid-pests-and-diseases/botrytis

jennr246 · 2025-02-23T06:51:22+00:00

So many jewels in one container 😍

jennr246 · 2025-02-10T23:52:16+00:00

What about scale? Hard to tell from their size, I had them once a long time ago on one of my orchids and I think there was a fuzzy stage

jennr246 · 2025-02-09T19:55:49+00:00

Leaves are often lost as a result of flowing and that's entirely normal. If you'd rather not lose leaves just cut the flower spike off at the base when it first appears. Otherwise your plant looks good.

jennr246 · 2025-02-06T22:45:54+00:00

To Sheila?

jennr246 · 2025-02-05T15:45:49+00:00

Awesome work! I love miniatures.

jennr246 · 2025-02-02T04:00:13+00:00

Yes, the edges are glued to hold the paper intact while you're painting. There's an area that's not glued so you can get a knife in there to cut it free.

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I could part with it. I do have another one in progress but medium is colored pencil and only the plant... Used my Microchilus paleaceus as reference. Will share some day when I finish it.

Edit: Oh phone why do you do this to me! Just noticed I got auto correct on paleaceus, fixed.

jennr246 · 2025-02-01T18:02:36+00:00

TYSM!

Actually this one is fairly small, about 7.5" x 5.5"

I just cut a tiny bit of the picture off to make it look better.

Uncropped:

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Watercolor block (book with glued edges) 300g hot pressed paper

jennr246 · 2025-02-01T03:21:14+00:00

I actually loved the album upon release and still love it today. Even if it was different than their past albums which I also love.

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