| The growths on the far right and far left are the new growths, and should slowly lengthen their leaves. Maybe you should measure the length of the inner leaves to satisfy yourself that it is actually growing. The wrinkled leaves can be from one of several problems that I have heard of.
1. Letting the plant dry out to hard. Miltonias should get close to dry, but never completely dry.
2. Low humidity. Well, I am suspect of this really being a cause.
3. Too much magnesium. Had a friend growing a Miltonia in semi-hydroponics that got some very strange growth, in addition to wrinkled leaves, by using the standard fertilizer solution that she always added when the plant needed more water. She has, since reading that magnesium could be a problem, started using plain water only on her Miltonia, and only time will tell if the plant starts normal growth. What it was doing was to grow upward only, and not start new growths, sort of like a monopodial. It looked very strange to say the least.
The pale color is sort of normal for many Miltonias, certainly for vexillaria which yours looks like it may be related to, but sounds a bit paler than normal. I am not a very sucessful M. vexillaria grower, so don't know the solution for the pale color.
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