Hi!
I have this orchid- this is actually my second one. I LOVE this plant but have had terrible luck with it thus far. I would love some help!
I bought one which looked small but fine, potted in maybe a 2" pot with bark and some perlite. After I had had the orchid about 2 weeks, during which time I had barely watered it, I noticed the orchid was doing very poorly. I unpotted the orchid and saw that all the roots seemed to be rotted, so I cut them off and put the orchid in a new pot and sprayed the orchid lightly every day (I approached the problem of the rotten roots this way because I had had a dendrobium once before that I received with rotted roots, I cut them off and sprayed the orchid and it re-grew roots, bloomed and grew great). At first this orchid grew some kiekis, but then it slowly shriveled and died
So I got a new one mounted a little while ago. The plant itself was a little better looking and larger than the previous one I had gotten. The moss on the branch the orchid was mounted on was black and decomposed when I got it, and after I had had the orchid for about a week it again looked less plump and healthy than when I got it, so I decided to un-mount and maybe remount it. When I un-mounted the orchid some of the roots were dead, but there were a couple still alive. I put it in a basket for now while I do more research, but the orchid doesn't really look any better.
Can anyone help?!?! I would really not like bracteosum #2 to die
My apartment is pretty warm, there is bright light year round (big southern windows). I have a fan and a humidifier on my orchids.