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| Sorry...no picture yet....didn't have time to take a picture of it last night and yet again I am at work. But the phal was worse off than I thought. It only has one partial leaf left. We had to carefully scrape off the fungus from the crown of the plant and spray with fungicide. I've secluded it in my bathroom where there isn't as much light so that it can rest. I've also cut the spike so that it'll use up whatever energy is left into growing new leaves or at least recovering from the rot.....I promise I'll try to get a picture of it in a little bit. |
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| Don't give up! Don't give up on your orchid! I had one with crown rot that ended up killing all the leaves. If your plant still has a good root system, just leave it for a few months in dimmer light than usual, and water it every so often. There might be a dormant node that will grow again--mine's got three cute leaves now. It will take a while, but if you really like your orchid, it's worth it! |
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| Rena, I was just browsing www.physan.com and am planning on buying Physan 20. If you don't have it, maybe think about buying some. I've heard (from experienced orchid growers/hobbyist) that this stuff works. Anyway, there's info on treating crown rot. Go to the website and click on Orchid Instructions on the left navigational bar.
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| Thanks Arelene, I'll go ahead and get this stuff. Quote:
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| It looks to me that the rot may have stopped, no wetness around the center of the plant. My recommendation is to remove the spike, that plant can't support itself, much less a spike. If you are losing leaves to a color loss, not a wet rot, I would look to mites, water quality, or roots loss.
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Thanks all for the support! |
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| The same thing just happened with one of my phals - odd, because I know I didn't get it wet where I shouldn't have. I don't know what I did. The roots look okay, so I'm just going to hope for the best. It had just stopped blooming, then all at once the leaves started drooping and dropped off.
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