| From what I'm seeing, it DOESN'T look like crown rot. It looks like the base of where the leaves were are green and healthy. Even the bases of the leaves that fell off look healthy... they're not mushy and black as would be expected with crown rot. That's what has me baffled. My best guess is that something in the pesticide soak caused the leaves to abort. Because those leaves are the ones in active growth and have more "activity" at the cell level, maybe more of the chemical was pulled into those areas of the plant. Hopefully, in time a new leaf will emerge from the crown. I had brought a co-worker's Phal home to care for it and quite randomly it got a bacterial rot in the newest leaf. I cut the rotted portion of the leaf... but then it continued to die back (looking a bit like the crown of yours does now). I just noticed this week that a new leaf is starting to emerge (it took about 3 months). Good luck! |