Help needed - any antifungals from household/organic products?

[allla]

I was just trying to feed it... it looks so sad starving over there in the plastic bag. Should I not spray now and then with dliuted folliar feed (kelp based)?


Anyway, it seems a little better after the honey bath so I will give it a rest for a month in the bag (the bag has some holes to avoid mold). Thank you very much for the help and the culture guide! I use here only what I have access to - French cultivators popular wisdom...

Btw, fermented stinging nettles tea and maybe horsetail tea seems to be a grow booster. I sprayed one miltonia on advice from a neighbor and it grew twice as big as the ones non sprayed. It stinks like hell though...

[stumac]

Originally Posted by allla

I was just trying to feed it... it looks so sad starving over there in the plastic bag. Should I not spray now and then with dliuted folliar feed (kelp based)?


Anyway, it seems a little better after the honey bath so I will give it a rest for a month in the bag (the bag has some holes to avoid mold). Thank you very much for the help and the culture guide! I use here only what I have access to - French cultivators popular wisdom...

Btw, fermented stinging nettles tea and maybe horsetail tea seems to be a grow booster. I sprayed one miltonia on advice from a neighbor and it grew twice as big as the ones non sprayed. It stinks like hell though...

I agree with Cymladye and leave well alone wait for the new roots to grow

[Cym Ladye]

Spraying now with honey water will only attract ants and cause mold. The whole thing about teas at this point is moot and meaningless and pure hogwash in my opinion. LEAVE IT ALONE!

[allla]

I came back to ask again what I could do...

The cym doesn't do anything. It is in a north facing window has no roots now and just bits of sphagnum moss around its base (base being in small wood chips) all in a plastic bag with holes. There were 3 bulbs of wich one now seems dead it shrank a lot but still has green leaves.

The other two bulbs were babies and still hand around doing nothing.

Perhaps I can do something else to help? I am just looking at it every day.

Anyway in order to finish this sad story with a positive thing.... I sprayed my orchids with undiluted horsetail and calendula fermented "tea" (1 part dried plant to 10 parts of water) stincks like hell for about 2 days. Well... among other effects... I noticed all the insects (I had mites) are dead. Certainly not the best experience to have indoors, however I am hoping a less toxic one.

of course it is too early to cry victory because I have to keep spraying for the next month or so every 4 days with homemade miticides.

[Cym Ladye]

Alla,

I would love to see you get another orchid and share your time between the two. Then perhaps you would stop fussing so much with this one!

It is going to take time to develop a new growth with new roots, maybe months. If you keep this one too wet, you may never get a new growth. Spraying every 4 days with a miticide, makes absolutely no sense in my opinion! Stop worrying about fertilizer. Without good roots, it cannot absorb it anyway as is shown by your shriveled bulbs.

If you have no viable roots on the bulbs with leaves, you need to remove the leaves (or severely cut them back, not my first choice) as the bulb is trying to keep the leaves alive instead of trying to develop a new growth. It will eventually "give its all" and die without having a new growth to carry on.

It would still help to see a photo.

[allla]

I tried to post photos but my phone doesn't want to download them anny more. Perhaps I have to search for a program for that.

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Thank you every one!!! I have roots!!

Especially to you CymLady for your kind and patient guidance.

Unbelievable to me after 9 months of rootless suffering my cym orchid with only 2 baby bulbs left sprouted new roots and new bubils. With your method it just came back to life!!
Wow!

Thank you so much! I love this orchid so.

[allla]

I wish I had more patience and knew how long it takes an orchid to recover because my impatience killed the plant.

When I checked to see if it was ok I disturbed it time and time again and it was just on its way to recovery every time. I guess in the end it had no resources left. Poor little one!

Perhaps this would serve someone else in the future as a lesson and me too for my new cymbidium

[orchidsarefun]

I just read this thread. I use hydrogen peroxide - 3% solution - for any fungal issue. It works great and doesn't have to be diluted. Something to remember for the future.

[Cym Ladye]

One final thought for the future: "More orchids are killed with kindness than with neglect".