leaf drop on phal with white fuzz on roots

[butterfly_muse]

^ Also make sure you sterilize your cutting instrument, I always rub my scissor blades down with alcohol first.

[Cintirella]

Looks like root rot. I see in the pictures some roots are brown. When you do re-pot, cut only the mushy brown roots. I just did mine few days back to an Orchid with 2 babies. I was afraid to do it sooner until they advise me, to save the babies I had to save the MOM. And they were right. I did, and now Momma is putting out new roots and leaves are perky and strong. It was very difficult for me, having to wait 9-10 for next watering. Misting is encouraged. I did follow instructions. I'm glad I did. I wish you the best and stay in touch I too am learning from everyones posts.

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[butterfly_muse]

Also, I just read your other questions for other people, and no, not a bag over each leaf. Think something like this: http://www.rv-orchidworks.com/orchid...catts-bags.jpg

If you want to watch a good video on how to do it, go to YouTube and type in "How to save orchids with no roots."

Regarding roots telling you when they're thirsty, they will go from being plump and green to kind of silver, like this: http://l.yimg.com/ea/im_siggU7RgX7kJ...ga-183digi.jpg

Next, I have never heard that about chlorine, and you could damage the plant by doing that if the chlorine doesn't leave the water... It would also receive salts and other yuck in your water (like calciums and so forth). A lot of people use distilled water or rain water. I've got a water filter on my faucet and I use ONLY filtered water on my guys. I don't know that I'd trust tap water with chlorine in it. >.< Gallons of distilled water are pretty cheap at grocery stores.

Final thing on phals, they grow pretty slowly. So be patient. I have a guy that I have dunked in KLN TWICE and it hasn't done anything. It hasn't grown new roots...buuuuuuut it hasn't died. Still waiting that one out. It might take 2-3 weeks if you do a hormone dunk before you see anything, maybe a bit longer.

If you don't want to use a humidifier, you can mist them. I do it 3-4x a day. Idk if it helps, our temp/humidity meter is all wonky from not being correctly calibrated when we moved last, lol. But I'd *like* to think it's 65% humidity over there! xD My guys' leaves seem to be happy and they seem generally pretty satisfied over there where they are. Grouping plants together also assists with raising humidity because of respiration, as I understand it. Hope all of this helps.

PS: DEFINITELY read The Phal Abuse Ends Here. It's such an informative thread! It took me about a week to get through it cuz I read it on and off but it's sooooooo worth it. In fact, I may read it again once I move and start setting my guys up under grow lights.

[allyqat]

Hello, everyone! Thank you all for your support and guidance. I am afraid my dead flower has died. I bought distilled water, the bark/perlite/charcoal mix, that humidity monitor, and the pot [pictured below] and fertilizer from repotme.com came in. I took her out of the soil-y stuff, and found many roots that were the hollow-with-tough-string dead-ness. I turn her up-side-down, and her last remaining beautiful leaf falls off. She has some sort of rot, I think? Pictured below is the area where the leaf rotted, and the leftover nub near the roots (sorry for the bad quality). Sad day!

I cut the hollow roots off with rubbing alcohol cleaned scissors. I unfortunately didn't take a picture of all the roots before I trimmed. Pictured below are the few measly remaining roots. I soaked all of her in the diluted neem oil for about 10 minutes, rinsed her with distilled.

I made a little humidity tray by cutting off the bottom of a plastic gallon milk jug and filling it with the bark/perlite/charcoal mix that I had soaked overnight in distilled water. I put some of the soaked medium in the bottom of the slotted pot and suspended the remains of the orchid on a straw so her roots didn't touch the medium. I then covered the whole thing with a gallon ziplock bag. The humidity sensor reads 99% when in the bag. The room she's in now stays around 68 degC on the little table by the covered window. I found that little orange fungus spots kept showing up while under the plastic bag so I wash those off with neem oil dilute and have taken to misting frequently when the roots are dry. Outside the bag humidity is reading about 63%. All but one of her roots is hollow now, and what's left of her crown is black and stiff.

Does anyone know what caused this rot? I understand that she's dead if she isn't already, but I'd like to try and prevent this from happening to future babies. Is it crown rot? I thought I always dried out her crown with paper towels if any water ever dripped there

Thank you again for ALL of your help and guidance. You guys are wonderful!!!

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[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Over watering.

Not enough air circulation to the roots.

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Btw, for the size of the root mass, that pot you posted a pic of is way too big.

Sorry for your loss.