Lc. Angel Love x skinneri

[sunshine]

This was my first ever mini catt and just love it. I have almost lost it a couple times but it bounces right back.

The new growths come in that nice pretty shade of green and then they get this black spot on one side of the leaf then it slowly spreads to the other side. Then the whole leaf starts turning black. I have sprayed with Physan 20 and have cut the leaf just below the black stuff and treated with cinnamon. The sad part was one of the new growths had a sheath and it infected the sheath,too This is the only one of my catts that give me a hard time. It's not spreading to my other catts. Oh yes, I had help taking the pictures

[TheBlazingAugust]

Ouch, that is very suckish! I guess the only thing I could say is try not to mist it, or get any water on the new growths. Hope it gets better!

[hera]

Is it getting enough air circulation? Are you allowing water to splash on the whole plant when you water? Does it have scale? Those are my thoughts for now.

[tangers40]

ya know, i have been having something similar happen to my mini catts this summer....their new growths would get so big, then blacken and eventually die. i figured out they were getting too hot under my lights. is your plant getting pretty roasty at all? i'm not sure it's the same thing, but it does look very similar.

[orchids4me]

Humm I'm not sure either. But 2 good tips maybe 3 here don't get the new growths wet, increase air flow and if under lights maybe the young growths aren't adapting qiuck enough backe them off a tad during growth from where it normally is until they toughen up a bit and adjust maybe ? I'd try this next growth cycle and see if it changes anything, that if someone else doesn't get it all figured out as something else.
Good luck!