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title: "An orchid one of my friends gave me grew a spike and a keiki! Any…"
description: "An orchid one of my friends gave me grew a spike and a keiki! Any tips for the baby? I think its a phal... I'm not 100% sure tho... I'm at another friends…"
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# An orchid one of my friends gave me grew a spike and a keiki! Any…

_Posted by LittleMorningLatte on 2025-10-26_

An orchid one of my friends gave me grew a spike and a keiki! Any tips for the baby? I think its a phal... I'm not 100% sure tho... I'm at another friends house rn but I can put a full pic in the comments on Monday if that helps any :)

Side note: if anyone has a foxtail orchid, can you show a pic? I wanna get one and I don't know anything about them lol. TIA!

![Attachment 1 of 2](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/S6QRMiN_un-a4fAqRIfUYlaWbGER5q6-mj5kXW-AEHc/SqXzIPlsRDW7z6FyiF9JCw.webp?size=large)

![Attachment 2 of 2](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/S6QRMiN_un-a4fAqRIfUYlaWbGER5q6-mj5kXW-AEHc/fGDWZ0lBQs2aGshzhUgHMA.webp?size=large)

## 6 comments

### Waspinator commented on 2025-10-26

You can use keiki paste to help speed up development. Leave it on the stem long enough for it to grow its own aerial roots before you remove and pot it. Once you do pot it, especially young orchids tend to need higher moisture retention, so use sphagnum moss while it's little

#### LittleMorningLatte replied on 2025-10-26

Alr, Ill have to get some of that. Thx!

### MeasomerPi commented on 2025-10-26

Good rule of thumb is two inches of leaves, two inches of roots before removing from the mother plant.

#### LittleMorningLatte replied on 2025-10-26

Thx

### Sharon commented on 2025-10-28

This is my foxtail, it is currently in the early stages of growing a spike :)

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/kiiRQCINMAEQfEGGj6fFthOrl8dJU_mfT1xP9TiERDI/0f-vr2msSzeGXf5GjRzX7w.webp?size=large)

#### LittleMorningLatte replied on 2025-10-29

Pretty!

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