Ebbykay,
Does your plant have a label? Do you have photos?

More info would be helpful, if possible.

--Stitz--

What did you cut off? The spike with the flowers or just the flower? Maybe you could post a photo. Catts do not flower from the old spike. Must be a different species.

Jane

Cattleyas bloom only once from a pseudobulb. A cattleya ususally blooms once a year, but many modern hybrids can bloom twice a year. But only from a new pseudobulb. Depending on species background, a new growth form, basically a leaf, and then a pseudobulb forms and swells as it matures. Some cattleyas will bloom soon after the new growth matures. Others will rest and bloom later. In some cases, like spring bloomers, a plant will produce a new growth and flower sheath in the summer or fall and then rest and bloom in April or May. In some cases the sheath may become brown and dry. In some cases, a psuedobulb may not produce a typical sheath and still produce a bud or buds from the axil of the leaf and pseudobulb. A plant can also branch out along its rhizome and produce multiple growths and blooms at the same time. Large specimen plants do this. However, once a bloom is spent and the infloresence (flower raceme) is cut, the plant will not produce another flower.
If the orchid is a phalaenopsis, then if the main flowering stem is cut, and there are a few inches left near the base with intact nodes, these dormant nodes can produce another set of flowers. Or even keikis or baby plants.

Ok, so I shouldn't be expecting another bud from an old psuedobulb. It could be that it is in the edge of the eve of the house and we are having daily rain that it is just swelling to its natural girth.

Thanks to all who answered for me.