The return of the living dead...

[The Mutant]

With the patient coaxing (okay, there wasn't any coaxing involved from her side, instead it was more from my bad conscience's side) of one of OB's super moderators, Camille, I've now resurrected my P. equestris aurea in an attempt to try to save its basal keiki.

I panicked yesterday and tossed the entire plant away (because of this I've not had a good night's sleep) but luckily I didn't throw the garbage bag. So I dug up the abused Phal, noticed that the alleged stem rot had happily spread during the stay in the moist and warm environment, chopped off everything I could, used two different types of disinfectant (one of them is rather strong so if I'm really unlucky it'll be the death of the Phal, keiki and all) since I didn't have any peroxide, sprinkled all the cut surfaces with cinnamon, re-potted the Phal in a much smaller pot, and put it in quarantine.

All I can do now is wait and see if the basal keiki will die, develop roots or if the entire Phal will get whisked away by passing aliens.

One thing is for certain though, I'll never be nominated for best Phal caretaker...