Phalaenopsis with basal keiki and yellow leaves

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Originally Posted by PaphMadMan

Normal leaf loss, and the plant looks perfectly healthy. The keiki doesn't need to get roots. It owns all the roots now. The leaves of the original crown will gradually die off and the keiki will take over as the new crown. In a few years you won't even be able to see that the mother was ever there.

Wow. I have a NOID phal with a basal keiki as well. The mom is huge, and the baby actually does have at least one root that I can see. I'm chiming in here because I thought that I would have the mom and the baby together in one pot, and that eventually I'd have 2 phals that would bring even more spikes and flowers. I went to great lengths to be sure not to bury the baby under bark when I repotted mom. Do basal keikes always win out over the original plant?