twin orchids one does well the other loses all its leaves

[Gazpacho]

Let's say that they were two absolutely identical orchids but from different nurseries.... from seedlings, one nursery feeds and waters twice a week.... the other does it once a week. One is therefore hardened off more than the other.... I've been told they like the same conditions... not the same as each other... but the same conditions that they, as individual plants have grown accustomed. You can apparently gradually introduce plants to different conditions to those to which they are accustomed... but throwing them outside like that is probably quite a shock.

On the other hand, maybe a pest, virus or infection was involved in the demise of one, but not the other.


I loved reading your idea of an orchid hospital...
Gaz

[madimae]

Originally Posted by Gazpacho

Let's say that they were two absolutely identical orchids but from different nurseries.... from seedlings, one nursery feeds and waters twice a week.... the other does it once a week. One is therefore hardened off more than the other.... I've been told they like the same conditions... not the same as each other... but the same conditions that they, as individual plants have grown accustomed. You can apparently gradually introduce plants to different conditions to those to which they are accustomed... but throwing them outside like that is probably quite a shock.

On the other hand, maybe a pest, virus or infection was involved in the demise of one, but not the other.


I loved reading your idea of an orchid hospital...
Gaz

See that's just the thing is that my new orchid shop is a nursery. I bought them in the green house. I'm pretty sure that from step one they have been in the exact same conditions as each other. The 2 ice cubes every 10 days is what the green house attendant told me to tell dad. Some of the roots that I trimmed were squishy and yellow and from all my times repotting I have never seen that. Normally the good ones are green or silvery and hard and the old ones are like paper over a string. So I'm wondering if it was an infection like you said? can something cause the leaves and roots to rot off?