Orchid 'babies'

[Jumbo747]

I have several healthy Moth Orchids, but one of them is producing babies! A bit like spider-plants do, but these are attached along the old flower-stalk. I have removed one and potted it on (but it's not doing much), there is another one with 4 fairly large leaves still attached to the parent plant and to-day I see there's yet another tiny one forming! What am I doing wrong please? And how can I persuade this plant to flower again like a) it used to and b) all the others?
Many thanks in advance.

[chi-chi66]

I have an orchid like this it has three smaller plants attached to the top of the last flowering stem, one has already grown a flowering stem and now gone over, but is now growing a second stem. I am going to leave it until spring to try and re-pot them I believe this is quite a natural way to propagate.

[Jumbo747]

Thank you for this - I'll be patient!

[boxtops]

I don't think you're doing anything wrong, it's the nature of plants to want to produce babies - your climate must be just right for it!

[rowanwitch]

leave them connected and pull the stem down to the pot for the baby fixiningg it to the surface of the soil with hoops of wire pushed into the soil either side once it is growing well then sever it from the parent plant

[Jumbo747]

Thank you all for this advice! Rowanwitch, you mean like strawberry plants? But why isn't this orchid flowering? Or do you think it will, once the day-length increases?