Please Help me. paph yellowing.

[UK Orchid lover]

My paph `Lona` (bellatulum x ferrianum) is yellowing the bottom leaves after getting it and they are not just drying up, they are going brown/yellow and the upper leaves have a strange yellow spots under them. please help. this does not look like usual leaf drop. the plant does not have a new growth yet. i brought it a few days ago and this happened.

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is it lack of water or a disease?

[UK Orchid lover]

here are the pictures

[Ray]

First of all, it's Paph. Iona, not Lona.

Did you repot it? Are you keeping it evenly moist?

In all honesty, if you've only had it a few days, I'd say it might have been in "iffy" condition when you got it, and now it has progressed to the point of showing.

[UK Orchid lover]

i did not repot and i have kept it evenly moist. the tag said lona. i contacted the seller and they think its cold damage?

[Mechanica071]

It definitely looks like cold damage, possibly in shipping. Any idea on the weather conditions between you and the seller while the plant was in shipping? I've seen more than a few arrive near-dead from cold damage.

[UK Orchid lover]

the weather was cold when it arrived but luckily the newer leaves have not gone brown, it seems like it will pull through