| Dan -
There is no such thing as "normal" rot! If your plant is properly taken care of you should expect NO rotten rots. If you want to truly salvage this plant I would take it out of the pot and clean up the root system - remove all black, mushy, fibrous stringy roots and leave all plump tan/green/grey fleshy ones. Put in fresh media. Spray with Bayer Rose and flower spray or something similar to get the systemic going in the plant and cut off at the pass any new crop of mealies that might be thinking of making a secondary attack! I know everyone grows orchids for the flowers, but if your plant is really suffering you might consider taking off the remaining flower spike(s) to let the plant put all its energy into rebuilding. My two cents worth - others may feel differently. mike |