On 12/01/09 I received a call from someone that works at a big box store saying that they had a couple of Phals(NOIDS) that were going on sale for half-price. and that the spikes were still attached, the plants having just lost their flowers. I rushed rigt over and bought them. There was a method to my madness! I had just purchased Keiki paste, but all my phals were without spikes at the moment. So I started applying Keiki past to the nodes where the flowers had been on my new phals. And below is the result.

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This one has begun to root

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This already had a leaf and I applied the paste in the axil of the leaf, resulting in the growth you see here. I know it looks like a lot of paste, but it's really a small amt, just spread around. I apply the paste every 7-10 days. I'm not sure when I should stop the application, probably when the roots develop.
The other spike on the second plant died soon after purchase.