Ianklarkara Cheyenne Marie Green Gecko with Yellow Mottled Leaves

[dianecty]

Thanks for your input. Does yours have tiny brown spots too? What do you do about them? Grow one then lose a pseudobulb?

[Orchidtinkerer]

I tend to agree with the advice given above but I also disagree.
I have 3 zygopetalums and they are decidious to a degree but well looked after ones keep their leaves for 3 years.

Yours is dropping leaves as fishmom says but why... A healthy zygo would not be doing this, only one that is trying to conserve energy. As you can see the new growth is getting all the energy and is looking great.

So that is the good news and as long as the roots aren't rotting then it might just be a natural progression from a weak plant to now wanting to "wake up" in your care. It only has 2 bulbs which is very little for a zygopetalum and too little for a novice to work with imo but the new growth is looking great so as long as you can keep the roots happy it will grow out of this (after dropping the leaves)

If the roots are in a bad shape the plant won't be able to get any more energy and will probably decline further though

[Dollythehun]

Originally Posted by dianecty

Thanks for your input. Does yours have tiny brown spots too? What do you do about them? Grow one then lose a pseudobulb?

Some time ago Roberta pointed out to me that many of these zygo hybrids have lots of different parentage. And from what she said it appears to me that the parentage greatly contributes to how vigorous the plant is. I have some that just grow like crazy, like weeds. And then I have two that do this, they grow a bulb and lose a bulb. Yes, before the leaves fall they do get spots on them and those spots are not bad. I just tossed a zygo that had completely black leaves. If you're concerned about it spray it at regular intervals with neem oil. That's a fungicide as well as an insecticide and all natural. Unless you grow this particular plant, I think you would expect different things from it. I don't see that you're doing anything wrong, from my experience it's the nature of that particular plant. ES tells me that they like to grow on the cool side, you might try reducing the temperature.