Cymbidium tracyanum: Light - how to know when it is just too much?

[Jak]

Hi Ray, Roberta,

Thank you for your replies.

The plant has as the other cymbidium been repotted for the past 2 years into fresh medium, and the other plant is doing fine (except for the bent leaf issue of my other post :-))...

Having said that I did take out the other small plant I realized was probably not helping things after I watered the plants, it did have a kind of earty scent to it as the medium was disturbed, but this could have been the watering itself? For the life of me I cannot remember how much medium I removed and then replaced with this specimen, but I know it was know it was a lot more than the other cymbidium, which is growing well.

Another point which may point us in a direction is that the new growth on this one is very much larger comparing to the other growths for the past 2 years...

Sorry for more questions... :-)

J.

[Cym Ladye]

Have you checked for spider mite? I am looking at the back of the leaf on the left in the first photo. It looks a bit suspicious. An extreme case of spider mite can cause this sucking of chlorophyll from the leaves. I have never seen it do this to so many of the leaves but you are growing this plant in conditions spider mites love.