[journorchid]

I have what used to be a healty single-stalk phal orchid plant (purple) with two large, mature leaves and two small, younger leaves. The stems form a sort of Y because the bud top of the original one was shorn off (see my only other post) and it then sprouted a flower spike off the side halfway down.

Last night, five of the beautiful flowers wilted quite suddenly. Not sure if this is temperature, humidity, smoke (fireplace), or other-related, but I want to save what I can of this plant for reasons discussed in the other post. Please let me know what might cause sudden bloom wilt (some of them had dried top petal, but others seemed more like an overwatering situation) or what I need to check. While you're at it, maybe you could recommend whether I should snip off the left (non-budding/blooming) fork of the Y, the one that extends upward and is splinted but has no apparent new growth.

Thanks all for sharing your expertise with an ignoramus like me.

Dan