How to trim your orchid flower spike. Yesterday I showed you what you can do in the case of having two flower spikes. This option is for orchid spikes with secondary flower spikes. Secondary spikes are not common in lower nodes of the main primary spike so that is why I chose to cut mine all the way down at the base. Once you get a secondary spike out of a main orchid, new secondary spikes will tend to produce less flowers. The second reason I did this, was because my main orchid stem has a lot