In the Operating Theater for an Orchid C-Section - (No)NaBloPoMo Day 26

My orchid had a baby! Here's a photo of the orchid while she was still pregnant. I should have removed the purple ribbon so you could see the baby better, but it grew right off the stalk of the mama orchid. It got so big! It had gangly roots flopping everywhere. 

The baby orchid growing
from the Mama orchid's stalk

At some point, conversations ensued about when the baby would be ready to get clipped off and planted. Or born, if you will. The orchid resides on the table in my office, so of course this decision required at least ten people to weigh in and took a week to finally pull the trigger and induce labor.

Someone brought in all the tools necessary for a successful orchid c-section. Hydrogen peroxide and alcohol to swab off the clippers (orchids are prone to fungus). And then cinnamon to dab on the "open wounds" if you will, because cinnamon is a natural fungicide.

We laid out the equipment and got to work:

The operating theater

We planted to baby orchid in the same pot as the Mama. Someone had read that the Mama orchid would regulate the moisture for the baby during its early life.

Mama and baby are alive and well!