Black pearl catasetum - root rot survival - now what?

[bunnylotus]

Hi everyone-

This poor catasetum orchid of mine! I have had it for almost five years a gift from my husband, and it has had quite the journey. Lots of new growths, no flowers, survived an ant infestation, a mites infestation, and this past year grew me a huge bulb (no flower spike ), and oddly when that bulb was still active (had all leaves) it started growing another bulb!!

I learned (the hard way) that you’re supposed to cut off the dead/old roots every time with dormancy, and hadn’t done that…and well the dang thing got rotten moldy nastiness on the roots for the new growth and spread to all the older /dead roots.

I was able to remove the mold and also got rid of all the dead roots, and the catasetum actually split into two sets of bulbs (figured this is normal and can happen). See pics. A few of the super old bulbs died off.

Sadly the new growth is super weak, and kind of squishy (completely green but definitely not firm). I figured obviously with the rot it experienced and now it has no way of getting nutrients/water, makes sense. I have tied it to the most recent bulb in the meantime. Is this normal considering things?

Mostly, What I want to know is what next? Do I just let both sets of bulbs “chill”? Some of them look a little brown on the bottom (firm not squishy) - should I remove them or just wait and see? I feel bad, the orchid keeps having so many set backs. Frankly, I find it the hardest one to take care of.

Any advice? Do the sets seem viable? The one with the newer growths I feel like will be okay - but the set of the older three…thoughts?

Thanks everyone!

-Bunnylotus

edit: uploaded pictures