What plants are you struggling with now? - Orchid Board

Kevin_PR · #1 10-03-2013, 12:22 AM

We all probably have 3 or more plants that are trying to commit suicide. No matter what they just wanna kick the bucket. Maybe if you list them you might get a "chance" bit of advice or a lead on a replacement.

Epidendrum ilense: I received a 2 cane division(1 cane leafless 1 cane w/leaf) was going great. then 2:3 new growth was devoured by snails. 1 rotted and now the cane w leaf is turning black from the base."Die back"

Epidendrum magnificum: Rot

Bulbophyllum speciosum: 3 bulb division, 2 bulbs rotted right after arrival. 1 older bulb hanging on

Dendrobium friedericksianum: "Got Keikis?" that should be a shirt!!!!

Dendrobium falcatum: barely saved it from "die back"
Is die back a phenomenon or is it due to microorganisms?

peeweelovesbooks · #2 10-03-2013, 01:36 AM

Ansellia Africana. I overpotted it. Like WAY overpotted it. It's dying. I'm going to buy another one. Learned my lesson...fast!

TOMMYMIAMI · #3 10-03-2013, 01:58 AM

Just came back from my trip after a week. Thanks god all survived, but I have dying Dendrobium bracteosum, not due to my trip, I did struggle with it for months, this year it just did not grow as it should, and I decided to re pot it, which I did some 2 weeks ago, and I think it just killed it. The only thing I see after my trip is that one of the spikes with forming blooms on my Monnierara does have some strange coloring now, after I came back, and it was kinda dry, one bottom leave turned yellow also, so I hope my absence did not kill the spike and blooms, and it is just the way the blooms are forming and coloring. But I came late evening and can not see much, so I have to inspect all babies tomorrow and hope nothing else is wrong!

RosieC · #4 10-03-2013, 05:07 AM

Brasavolla nodosa... it was mounted but not actually gripping the mount for the last few years, and it's only grown stubs of new leaves the last few years and it's old leaves are getting just that... old.

Can't decide how to pot it... Oh well!

Bolero · #5 10-03-2013, 07:51 AM

Paphiopedilum randsii

Not sure why this one is so much harder than all the other multiflorals for me.

Silje · #6 10-03-2013, 08:56 AM

I think my dendrobium jenkinsii can now officially be declared dead...I've been hoping it would miraculously change its' mind and put out a new growth or some roots, but it just not happening.

Leafmite · #7 10-03-2013, 11:38 AM

My new theobroma cacao came with what seems to be Lasiodiplodia theobromae or some other nasty fungus with the same effect. I have been nursing it along while it slowly suffers die-back. My other theobroma cacao is thriving. I keep the suffering one far away from all my other plants as, last spring, the two plants near it began to suffer the same symptoms and died.
When I was doing research on the symptoms, I discovered just how precarious our chocolate supply is.

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Kevin PR, the die-back might be caused by a fungus.

AnonYMouse · #8 10-03-2013, 07:23 PM

I was having problems with my angraecoids. I repotted them in CHC (was in Orchiata), put them in more light and now my Angraecum distichum is finally growing new roots and my Aerangis has a spike nubbin!

I've had trouble determining a good watering schedule for mounted Isabelia virginalis. It was always too wet or too dry. I think the last dry spell went too long for it.

A couple others are the potted Nageliella purpurea and Den. abberrans. They initially went a little backwards and haven't done much since. If they died, I'd get replacements but this is worse. They are in Limbo!

Most problems have answers. Its just the speed in which to find the correct answers are the problem.

Not a persistent problem but my Phals' spikes stalled. Hoping added warmth and light will solve that problem.

And for non-orchid plants, Lily of the Valley. I love them, possibly more than orchids. I can't grow them at all!

The Mutant · #9 10-04-2013, 03:01 AM

I have a Paph. Maudiae' Schwarze Madonna' that hasn't decided yet if it should kick the bucket or not. I think many on the Swedish Orchid forum ordered siblings to mine, and it seems most of them have died. It had a lousy root system when I got it, and, me being a Paph newbie, managed to kill the new ones it eventually grew. It has one small fan left, and no roots... Still growing though, but since it has consumed the bigger fan it had, I don't think it'll last long.

I've also almost managed to kill my Phal. lindenii. It hasn't thrived in my place (no surprise there, I have it potted after all), and only had three leaves. It got crown rot this summer, and there's only one single, yellowing leaf left now. It has a spike, and I know I should've cut it immediately, but I thought I should wait till I see what the flowers look like first. Due to this, I think I've doomed it. It doesn't pay to be greedy, people!

Ordphien · #10 10-04-2013, 03:34 AM

A NOID "blue" phal. Looks just like that kenneth something or other cross.
It is beautiful and I love it but it wants to die I think.
It first killed off all but one leaf. Then grew 6 leaves in a year. Started roots. Stalled roots. Aborted roots.
Then it killed off all its leaves except two. Grew three more leaves. Killed off two leaves.
And now it's growing a leaf now, but dropping the bottom one. It's also starting three new roots, and so far so good. Here's to hoping.

I forgot that it's also started a basal keiki.

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