Paph Brown Tip

[anakcili]

Can someone please advise what's wrong with this paph.

I even tried to cut the brown tip but it ended the remaining leave turn brown.

[Musika]

I had an oncidium that was doing that. I had to cut about an inch or two into the green, to make sure I went down far enough it had not gotten to that part yet. I'm still learning, but that's what everyone else told me to do.

[dounoharm]

looks like a little fert burn....make sure your dosage of fert is very light for paphs....

[orchids4me]

I agree with dounoharm especially since these leaves aren't touching a surface of anything. I had some touch a surface that was wet I figured would dry and the leaves did this also because the area they were touching didn't dry over night. So in this case dounoharm's answer sounds right on target.

[anakcili]

Originally Posted by dounoharm

looks like a little fert burn....make sure your dosage of fert is very light for paphs....

Hi
It has been 1 year I did not change the media for this plant.
Can such media cause fert burn?

My media consist of LECA, charcoal and bark

[Ray]

There are a number of things that can cause such symptoms.

• Your water and/or fertilizer solution pH is WAY off from what it should be
• Your water has contaminants in it
• Your water is too high in dissolved solids, and/or it is when you fertilize (i.e., too strong)
• The medium has accumulated too high a dose of dissolved solids, or plant waste products

There could be other possibilities I haven't considered, but those jump to the top of my consideration.