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01-04-2022, 08:25 PM
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Bad Vacation Buy? Spots on leaves - what would you do?
Yeah, I was so excited to buy some miniatures in person on vacation. I bought five and thought I examined them carefully, but apparently not... You can see in the pictures that the front of the Chamaeangis microterangis hariotana I chose looks not so bad. Seems to have bloomed multiple times. Later I saw underneath there are a lot of spots. Should I be worried? Some spots are light brown, but most are dark brown/nearly black in color and pitted. They look like they have been there a long time. None are larger than the head of a pin. I have the plant in remote quarantine. The other plants look fine and where not near this one in the greenhouse I bought it from.
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01-04-2022, 08:38 PM
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Was it transported with low humidity? I haven't grown this but many high-humidity orchids look like this if kept in low humidity. I bet the roots looked better when you bought it for the same reason.
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01-04-2022, 08:46 PM
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I wouldn't be concerned about that at all.
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01-04-2022, 09:15 PM
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Originally Posted by estación seca
Was it transported with low humidity? I haven't grown this but many high-humidity orchids look like this if kept in low humidity. I bet the roots looked better when you bought it for the same reason.
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It was, but I snapped a picture of it's tag the day I bought it, and can see there were some spots then. I have no idea if the greenhouse purchased the plant from elsewhere recently. Pretty sure they weren't raised there.
Really good to know about the low humidity - it's being quarantined in low humidity now. I'll figure out something better ASAP.
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01-04-2022, 09:40 PM
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Totally agree... nothing to worry about, but give it the humidity and water that it craves.
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01-04-2022, 09:47 PM
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Thank you guys, feeling less panicked now
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01-17-2022, 06:17 PM
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Ok, I don't usually like cutting things off, because I figure even if roots are only working at 1%, they are better staying on there, but I trimmed this guy back quite a bit, and he's bouncing back. Also, I found a random baby orchid on the floor in front of my orchidarium (you know how that happens) and have determined it must be from this, so I sort of stuck it down between the leaves. It does have several other new growths.
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01-17-2022, 06:20 PM
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I think that you did quite well with this vacation buy... Looking good!
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01-18-2022, 04:41 AM
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Originally Posted by PlumCrazy
Yeah, I was so excited to buy some miniatures in person on vacation. I bought five and thought I examined them carefully, but apparently not... You can see in the pictures that the front of the Chamaeangis microterangis hariotana I chose looks not so bad. Seems to have bloomed multiple times. Later I saw underneath there are a lot of spots. Should I be worried? Some spots are light brown, but most are dark brown/nearly black in color and pitted. They look like they have been there a long time. None are larger than the head of a pin. I have the plant in remote quarantine. The other plants look fine and where not near this one in the greenhouse I bought it from.
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I was told by one of the head gardeners at Toh Gardens in Singapore that this type of black spot pitting is common when a orchid is grown too hot. Which happens a lot in Singapore. Not much to worry about if its old growth.
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01-18-2022, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by YetAnotherOrchidNut
I was told by one of the head gardeners at Toh Gardens in Singapore that this type of black spot pitting is common when a orchid is grown too hot. Which happens a lot in Singapore. Not much to worry about if its old growth.
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Thanks for the info - good to know.
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