Roots on repotted big-box orchid

[musicloveranthony]

Hello! About a month ago, while shopping at Home Depot, I walked by a beautiful phalaenopsis I just couldn't pass up. It was the best looking of the orchids they had available. The spike was tall, gracefully curved and had large, well developed flowers. I noticed the plastic pot seemed very heavy, though.

Upon getting the flower home, I didn't once need to water it in the month I've had it. every time I poked a chopstick into the sphagnum to test for moisture, it came out very wet. I noticed the visible roots were starting to turn black. I decided to repot it in fir bark.

Upon removing the plant from the pot i realized it had literally pounds of thoroughly soaked (and thoroughly mildew-smelling) sphagnum packed into the roots. I can't even begin to fathom how they got that much moss into the pot! I had to use the garden hose on strong, along with half an hour of picking and pulling to get rid of all the moss

Anyways, on to my question. Obviously with all the rotten moss, many of the roots were dead and rotted I trimmed all these away and repotted the plant in fir bark. I've posted pictures of the pruned root mass. It looks like it is still rather rotted, down to the base itself. I decided to snip the flower stalk entirely off to allow the plant to (hypothetically) devote its energy to regrowing healthy roots.

If anyone would be willing to look at my pictures and let me know whether It was an OK idea to snip the flower stalk, and whether it is at all realistic to expect the plant to survive given the condition of the main mass off the roots. There are still plenty of healthy roots, but the juncture from which they arise seems rotted.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!

PS: the pictures show the post pruning roots (trying to focus on the rotting at the main portion of the root mass) and the pile of disgusting moss i pulled out from the plant. I also put in a macro shot of one of the flowers, pre-snip!!