Purple Martin: Limp, Pale Leaves

[BigGreenLeaf]

Hi everyone,

I have a question about my purple martin. it seems a bit unhappy. I bought it at a local orchid show about a week ago now.

It's got one huge, lovely leaf but it is pale and droopy. Some of it's other leaves are also pale.

I am trying to figure out what is wrong. I've been treating it like my NoID Phal letting it nearly dry out before re-watering.

- It's very warm here right now, around 21 C in the house all of the time.
- It is not in direct sunlight but gets some of the sun coming through our East facing window.
- It's still blooming but did loose one of it's older blooms recently.
- It is in sphagnum moss/orchid bark mix (about 80/20) because that's how I bought it and that's how I keep my other phal. Also where I live it is extremely dry right now.
- The container it is in has tons of holes in it to encourage the moss to dry out fully.
- It does not live over a humidity tray yet, but I want to move it over one if you guys think it needs it.
- Just looked at the roots, most are green, but I noticed at least one where the root sheath had gone grey and was like not attached to the root anymore?


I apologize, but my phone is on the fritz and I can't take any photos of it. The leaves are pale green but not yellow (one leaf is on its way to being yellow though).

I have however included a photo I took on the day I bought it, you can see that there was light green/yellowing in the leaves then, this is now the color of most of the leaves and the larger leaves you see in the photo are all a droopy now. There is NO wrinkling on the leaves.

Any tips or ideas?