Noid orchid growth and disease question

[lmartiny]

I've been watching the new growth. Is this a pbulb growth? Or a flower spike? It looks very differnt from the plant growth.
It has been outside and the pbulbs have been damaged. They aren't mushy and have actually firmed up some. I moved it to higher light and think I burnt it. Do I have burn? Or burn and now fungus?
I'd appreciate some input. Thanks.

[articuno75]

It's a new growth. It also looks like you got your plant got a bit of burn, along with some squirrel bites, and a tad of fungus.

[lmartiny]

Thanks Jenny, so new growth.
I've been spraying it with Brookn's cinn mix. How often should that be? Anything else?
Plus it has been in and out with everybody else for the cold snaps. It's very dry when inside. I've tried to hydrate them all between cold snaps and inside trips. Now, dammit, it is going into the 20's again. Here we go again.

[FLBob]

It looks that something has been chewing on the psudobulb. I have the same problem with some of my oncidiums, I think it may be palmetto bugs. The leaf looks like some sun.

[digitalgate]

yah, it burned. You should get new flower from this pseubulb. This look like a Miltonia, or a
Brassia.

[NancyH]

Hi, The Natioal Orchid Society sends out a great CD on Orchid pests and diseases that you can show to your orchid clubs. We just did it for our club: Central Coast Orchid Society. It had really good information with real plants with real disease and pests problems explained. One thing that was brought out about sunburn is that the burn will turn the leaf crispy and dry in the center. If it is not crispy then it is some sort of fungus or virus. Anthing mushy is not a sunburn. I don't know if this helps, but might as time goes by. Nancy

[amersault]

that new growth is precisely that - a new growth. you should get blooms from this in time

it also looks like you've got a bit of sunscald on that one leaf. just take care that it doesn't get direct sunlight too long w/ the new round of growth. spots on Oncs are normal unless they totally overwhelm the plant - then it's due to fungus and the plant needs to good air cirulation and to dry between watering.

my Zygo outdoors also has the same 'chomp' marks. can squirrels really do that?

it's a bit hard to tell what kind of plant this is unless we had a bloom pict. i guess we'll all be waiting anxiously w/ you to find out :

[lmartiny]

Thanks Amersault, I really hope I can post that bloom sometime in the future.
Chompers could be squirrels, snails or palmetto bugs as suggested by a memeber. UGH. Roaches. I did back off the light exposure. But still had it outside.
Now they are in and out with freeze snaps and no one is liking that one bit.