Neuropathy (Nerve Damage). Nerve damage from diabetes is called diabetic neuropathy (new-ROP-uh-thee). About half of all people with diabetes have some form of nerve damage. It is more common in those who have had the disease for a number of years and can lead to many kinds of problems. If you keep your blood glucose levels on target, you may help prevent or delay nerve damage. If you already have nerve damage, this will help prevent or delay further damage.
Since other orchid varieties will not bloom again from the same flower spike, you can cut their spikes back to the base of plants after flowers fall.
Orchid seeds landing on a tree trunk are attacked by fungi, and in some cases the seeds are killed, in some cases the seeds kill the fungus and then the orchid starves to death, in some cases the orchid does not allow the fungus entrance and it will die too, but in a small fraction of cases, the fungus repeatedly attacks the orchid while the orchid repeatedly degrades and consumes the tissues of the fungus.