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Old 05-15-2014, 05:13 PM
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Repotting a humpty dumpty Phal - flowers wilting
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Hello,
So I got this beautiful noid phal for Mother's Day that had a very nice spike with 5 branches, about 6 open flowers and at least 20 buds of various sizes. It was potted in a very flimsy plastic pot in tons of tight old sphagnum moss, so I decided to repot shortly. The very first evening this humpty dumpty of a phal took a great fall off of my shelf, about 5 foot high. The fall damaged 3 flowers, but the phal looked otherwise ok. I repotted it the next day into a moss/bark/perlite mixture from repotme.com into the only plastic orchid pot I had on hand, but the fit was poor. So the following day I repotted it again into a glazed ceramic pot (with one large hole on the bottom). This was two days ago, and now I notice that two flowers (not the damaged ones but the ones lowest on the spike) are wilting. Three new buds are opening up, and the phal looks otherwise ok, but I was wondering if the fall, or the two repottings, or even the glazed ceramic pot are causing the wilting? I'm now afraid the remaining buds will start blasting. In the future, if I get a phal in bud/bloom, should I not repot until it's done blooming, even if the medium is old and packed very tightly? I got a sinkful of old nasty moss out of that 4" pot! For what it's worth, the roots looked pretty good, only a couple dead ones. I'm attaching some pictures of the phal in the original pot before the fall and the repotting.
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