Absent-minded = Vanda Rot

[WaterWitchin]

There's no question here... just a sad tale. So as we get older, we get more forgetful. Some of us more than others. Here's what vandas look like when you put them to soak in a rain barrel for "a half hour." Then three sequential days of rain, and your half hour turns into a three-day soak.





Where's the smack my head, kick my butt emoji when ya need 'em?

[Roberta]

Yikes! Those uglies will be around for awhile... or if it got the crown, give it time... With luck, if those leaves drop, you'll get some good keikis.

[WaterWitchin]

It was quite the wicked day... The semi-terete... do you see this DC?

[estación seca]

Owww

[DirtyCoconuts]

Face palm, major.

The one I sent you might be okay after a dry out. The shape of the leaves and the way they connect is more forgiving than the strap leaf types.

I find that vandas are tanks so you might just have some ugly plants for a little

[JScott]

THat's gonna be one ugly dude for quite a while, but it looks like it's still got plenty of life in it. I know nothing about Vandas, never grown one, but there's still lots of good green, and from the pictures, the roots look okay to me. I bet it recovers. A long recovery for sure, but I bet it survives.

[estación seca]

I fear the worst. Three days without adequate air exchange and respiration.

[DirtyCoconuts]

I assume you did this but hang them upside down

[SouthPark]

WW ------ the leaves were nice and pretty much all green before this episode, right? If so - maybe also consider fungal activity. It appears this orchid does grow outside - not inside, so I'm thinking air-movement might have been quite ok. But if there somehow had not much air movement for quite a while, then some unwanted activity on the leaves could occur too.

Could probably hit the leaves with monterey garden phos, or copper spray.

I have dends and angraecum growing full outdoors that have been bombed with up to a whole week of heavy rain - almost nonstop - seriously - and they come out of the wash just fine. So consider the possibility it may not have been your doing here. You didn't necessarily cause the issue.

----- unless I'm mistaken in my interpretation of events ---- as in it was soaking in a rain-barrel, and the orchid was inadvertently left in the barrel for 3 days, and the rain even filled up the barrel.

[DirtyCoconuts]

I was reading it as three days of total immersion...

If it was only partly submerged I think they would bounce back for certain. My concern as ES said was that three days is suffocation of cells time