| I just followed the various advice given in here( may be a little variation).
Some of the Phals were in really bad shape: dried up media, droopy leves, rotted and /or dried up rooots. What I did was to take them out of the pots , got rid of aall the materials, trimmed the roots as close to the base as possible, washed them in Safer's soap, washed them again in fresh water, and potted them in new pots with a little sphagnum moss (to wrap the base) and used my own mix of bark,coconut husk (main),sphagnum moss and a little peat.
Right after potting I sprayed a little fertilizer (Schultz 19:31:17).
May be the only thing I did a bit differently is to keep the media moist ALL the time.
I will try and get a photo of one that is gradually coming back to life (took about 2 months, I think).
I took Cynthia's advice of throwing out the old mix ( I actually use discarded mix in other tropical plants like hibiscus,banana, anthurium etc.
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