Phal with root problems

[orchidee_de_la_mer]

Hello everyone!

I bought a phal, not so long ago, that was pretty cheap. It had quiet a coupple of blooms at the time but quickly they disapeared and the phal also lost two leaves. It came in a quiet shaddy pot. So today, after everything fell-off and I noticed that the leaves where purple, I decided to repot it, and as I took the plant of it's orriginal pot, big chunks of sphagnum moss fell of the top by them selves and revealed a set of not so good looking roots that where probably hidden on purpose...

I am not quiet sur of what to do next, I took all the sphag out and all the roots look pretty crappy, many of them are rotten or just dead and dried out. I was thinking of repotting it into fir bark...

I posted a couple of pictures here:

Thanks!!

[orchidee_de_la_mer]

Here is one more...

[Ray]

If that was my plant I would cut the bottom 1/4" of the green part of those two roots in the last picture, dip the cut ends in cinnamon powder, and remove all of the other, already-too-far-gone roots.

Then I'd pot it up in a moist, but airy medium and keep it very warm and humid. In a few weeks, it should begin reestablishing itself just fine.

[quiltergal]

You can tent a plastic bag over the pot and that will help keep the humidity up. Keep an eye out for mold though.

[addictedcountryman]

Barb,

Ray has some very helpful advice on his website (his signature link) about sphag and bag, which might be what you need to do to prompt root growth.