Question
Greetings Mr. King

Was gifted what I was told was a Golden Urchin early last summer.

I am a complete nube who has grown everything but orchids.

The orchid went through the bloom cycle with no difficulties.

It has been afforded a dormancy with a temp drop.

It has developed three new pseudo bulbs, that are plumb and viable in appearance.

It had developed an emergent bloom spike of about 6 cm in length.

Now here is where it gets unfortunate.

The emergent spike was trapped in the leaf at the base of the pseudo bulb and was curled up. I thought that was curious but I left it, thinking that the spike would naturally break free. I assumed the spike was strong enough to disentangle itself.

I went to look at it the next day and found that it had been
severed from the stress.

The top where the row of future blooms were developing is gone.

Do you have a prognosis and advice for me.

Thanks in advance,

Margaret Smith

Answer
Margaret, thanks for sharing your experience with me.  It sometimes happens that leaf sheaths will trap the emerging flower spike.  Since you were unaware that this could happen, there was no way to prepare for it.  It is not impossible for the plant to yet send up another spikt through another sheath if it exists on the same pseudobulb, but, it will not rebloom from the same sheath where the bloom spike aborted.  I attempted to look up the name Golden Urchin, but I have found nothing registered under that name as either Cattleyas or Oncidiums.  Sometimes names are just given without a formal registration so it may be an unregistered hybrid. In the future, if you notice such a flower spike cramped in its sheath,you may carefully split the sheath to failittae bud emergence. Be careful not to get water into the sheath when you water.