have a conundrum with abused phal

[Paul]

Okay this won't be a pretty sight but here's the long drawn out story.

A buddy of mine gave me a phal of his when I moved that I always liked -- red spotted, nice deep yellow flowers that didn't seem to fade as many yellows do. It was a cross he had made [and named after his daughter]. Well the leaves started looking rather pitted [only on the upper surface] and generally cruddy. After what was probably too long, I wiped the leaves with a alcohol soaked cotton ball. A reddish residue came away on the cotton. Didn't look like any sort of mite so assumed it was a fungus -- perhaps rust. So I sprayed him down with Bayer's systemic fungicide/insecticide. The friend who gave me the plant had mentioned that he found it useful to use on orchids. Shortly thereafter, the phal lost every leaf. Now whether this was due to the systemic or whatever the ailment was or both I don't know. The stem however was still green which gave me hope that it would "live again".

New growth is now in evidence. And here's where we hit conundrum city .........





As you can see, there appear to be about 6 new leads all starting in one small area. Will such a tight cluster prove problematinc? Should I eliminate some of them so those remaining will have more room? Should I leave them all & see if any abort on their own?