Repotted a Phal and leaves are turning yellow

[Schila]

I got this small phalaenopsis a month ago and it was in full bloom , then the bloom all felt off and the spike started to turn brown.
May 7 I decided to repot it since it was potted in full sphagnum moss. I bought a bag of orchid bark and to be honest I only let it soaked for around 1 hour. I repotted my phal and now the leaves are turning yellow and falling one by one. Please help me here. What can I do to save this orchid? Attached are some pictures of before.

[-k-]

Looks like it's on its way to crown rot... I would unpot it and check out the roots, but since the yellowing has affected the whole plant it may not be able to be saved.

[gabi_borza]

K is right! That is most probably crown rot. Did water get in the crown of the plant?

[Schila]

Thanks for your response.
Now I don't think that I have let water get in the crown. I did fertilize with an Orchid 30-10-10 fertilizer after repotting. Do you think that this could have damage my phal? That same day I repotted and then fertilize 4 more and this is the only one with this problem

[gabi_borza]

You don't get that kind of injuries from fertilizer. Most common factor for crown rot is water getting in the crown, not necessarily through the top of the plant, but even at the base of each leaf.

[dounoharm]

since it has turned yellow at the stem, all the way down the plant, on each leaf, i would say its pretty well dead....no green = death....somehow when you repotted it and watered it, it must have been exposed to too much water in the crown of the plant and around the leaf clefts, i think maybe it got a chill at the same time, compounding the problem....so sorry, buy a new one and try again....it may have been drowned before you got it....

[tangers40]

Originally Posted by dounoharm

it may have been drowned before you got it....

i think douno might have hit the nail on the head here. looking at the "before" pic of your plant, it doesn't look to be in the best of health anyway. the leaves are droopy and it just looks kinda unhappy. so the yellowing and leaf drop may not have been any fault of your own. it looks to have been mistreated before you ever got it.

[Schila]

Originally Posted by tangers40

looking at the "before" pic of your plant, it doesn't look to be in the best of health anyway.

Really?? The before picture doesn't look like a healthy phal? Even though is so full of bloom? When I see the before picture, it looks like a healthy and beautiful phal to me.....

[Schila]

Ok so there is something here that I don't understand. Everybody is telling me that probably water got in the crown and it rot the plant. If this is the case, how do they do in the forest when it rains. Obviously water is going to get in the crown of the plant. So when it rains in the forest, does that means that all the orchids will die of rot crown?

[dounoharm]

when in a forest, the crown of the plant (which is growing on the side of a tree) is pointing near sideways or downward in some cases, which naturally will allow the rain to excape from the crown of the plant....

[Mkguy68]

This happen to me too on the first orchid i got after re-potting . I just got the orchid bug I guess you could call it because now i have 5 orchids.

[Mkguy68]

The only diff is that mine the bottom leafs turned yellow not the top ones so when i repoted i just removed them. I also had root rot and removed the roots that that were rotted and put it in a smaller pot a 4". I am not sure if mine is going to make it either but i have it in some lightly moistened peat most and is i keep the leafs misted this will get it to grow more roots? I read this to do list somewhere. I just can remember where. I had to cut off all most all of the roots because of over watering it. i guess we all have to learn sometime

[Ron]

Hi, defiantly not crown rot, most likely the plant has suffered a really cold spell and that is enough to start the plants dropping its leaves.
Also if it was in spag and it got totally soaked and cold as well, that is also enough to cause the leaves to go yellow and fall off. roots would also be dead or nearly dead
after all people should remember these orchids come from the tropics and need warmth at all times.

Crown rot starts in the crown of the plants, goes mushy and stinks, death of the plants usually.