| for clearance table orchids they do not seem to be doing too bad. They were on clearance because the store wanted anything before the store killed it.
Removing the yellow leaves and cutting the roots is one very common way of caring for it. It is what I do commercially for damaged plants.
You seemed to have given your plants every possibity of surviving.
I am a little concerned about what you meant when you said they were half buried. Orchids need air circulation around their roots. That is why clay 'orchid' pots have slits on the side. It is more for air circulation than drainage. If yours are buried for looks or stability you might put some more air holes in the top of the pot. It is probably plastic, since phals do well in plastic pots, so use a hot glue gun to drill holes in the pot (this suggestion was in an American Orchid Society magazine article)
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