A very sad story on the loss of the flowers. This is one of my favorite dends.

It's a good flower, even if it's only one.

Stacy

When I had a den unicum, I remember that it would not sprout new canes until all the flowers from the existing canes have faded, and I started watering it again.
This is one of the orchids that insists on having a definite dry period starting at the time that it has dropped its leaves up to the time that the flowers are gone.
Continuing to water it could encourage development of new canes early and compete with the flowers for nutrition.

Here is mine which was aquired last July so the blooms might not be my credit.
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I watered mine twice a day in the summer, once daily in spring/fall, and once every 3 days in the winter. But it got a lot of light. In the summer it is outside of my east window, and it was in my south windowsill in the winter.

I forgot to mention I left it outside in Oct/Nov to chill it before the night temp dropped below 50F.

wetfeet, thanks for the tip. I might have started watering too early, but the plant started sending up new canes long before the buds appears. Confused plant (and confused grower!). Maybe this winter I'll try it a little dryer...

Q, nice plant, and great photo. After the cool treatment in the fall, what temps did you give it during the indoors Dec-Apr period?

I live in an apartment, the temp is central controlled in the building, so there is not much I can do to adjust the temp. But at night, I left the window open a little on the top so the temp can dip down to 60F but there is no direct draft to the plants, day temp is around 75F. When the buds began to form in the Spring, I put the plant in my terraium to prevent bud blast.

But new growths started before all the buds opened, that caused some spikes aborted (left soe protruding nubes on the plant).

Take heart though, I have seen several large orchids like this that have both full foliage and blooming canes.
I guess once the plant is mature enough, it can store enough energy to support both flowers and new cane production at the same time.
Its just a hard push for the tiny ones and it becomes a trade-off between flowers or new canes.

You are too cute! I am so glad to hear that I am not the only one with toddler associated plant problems. Mine really likes the flowers squished in his little hands.