Help!!!!!!!!!- rootless bllra

[Pk93]

okay so i received a bllra tahoma glacier green early this year and for some reason never checked the roots because it seemed to be doing perfectly fine and it even bloomed.
today i decided to repot it and to my surprise i found that all of the roots were rotted/hallow . i separated the pseudobulb's into 3 sections each containing at least 1 backbulb and 1 new growth.
- Is there any way i can save these?

[frostedeyes]

dont worry my old pseudobulb has no roots ionno but it does blooms before. anyway i always put more concentration on new growths than the old bulbs... old bulbs are now the storage for young ones... so its ok with no roots... just keep an eye dat some back bulbs do rot... and if dat happends u have to cut it... and apply cinnamon with some sticky paste... i use honey with cinnamon and mine works... lol!

[Pk93]

thanks for the advice, hopefully the back bulbs dont rot on mine. thats a good idea with the honey and the cinnamon, cause the honey will never go bad, its natural, and its good to eat

[camille1585]

The fact that there are new growths is good news. The older bulbs probably won't make any new roots, but they will continue to feed the new growths that hopefully should put out some more roots. Keep the plant warm and humid, out of direct sunlight until new roots develop. I would not have divided your plant into such small pieces. It's recommended to have at least 3 bulbs per division for the plant to be stronger.
My Beallara also had no roots 8 months ago. The old bulbs are mostly rootless and useless now, but all the new bulbs grew well and are nice and plump. I even got some blooms.

[Ray]

As has been said, it is the new growths that will form new roots, so while there may have been a significant setback, if you keep them shady and humid while they recover, the plants should be fine.

For the future, it is usually better to keep divisions to a minimum of 3 growths - 2 old, 1 new - but sometimes the situation doesn't allow that, which was probably your situation.

[Pk93]

Thanks for the info. All of the seperations but one have 2 old and 1 new the other only base 1 old and 1 new. The biggest has 4 old and 1 new. What do you suggest repoting them in?