| Thank you for your help. It is a Lc. South Esk 'Catherine' cattleya orchid. I bought it last June in 2007 in Florida and brought it home to Indiana. I had it in one of my windows that gets more sun but still not too much. It was doing fine until about a couple of weeks ago. I water with a orchid fertilizer mixed with water after allowing it to dry out between waterings. I have read different information that sounds as though it could be what I have going on. It does sound like a fungus and I have read that I should cut out the spots with a sterile and sharp razor blade and put cinnamon powder on the cut. I am not for sure if this is the best course of action or not and what to do what is best in order to help keep my plant alive and healthy. It was the most beautiful plant with beautiful healthy green leaves and when it was in bloom, it was a fantastic site. I have read the fdifferent repies but with this added nformation I have provided, what steps do you recommend now. On another note, I have four other orchids as well. They are different kinds and have not bloomed in quite some time. One is a dendrobium, variety unknown, the other two are Phalaenopsis with one being a P. Sogo Yukidian variety and the other is unknown to me, and the last is a orchid that grows in Florida that a friend who lives there gave me. It has small orange flowers when it blooms, which my plant has not bloomed, and she said it was and orchid but none as I have every seen. It grows in the soil down there, for all I know it may not actually be a real orchid. Any advice on how to treat my unhealthy Catherine and how to get my others to bloom would be greatly appreciated.  |