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Originally Posted by BrassavolaStars
The blast from the heater is what I am thinking happened. It has malfunctioned a couple of times this season and made temps close to 95f inside. Not only did this dry out my plants but it also incurred a multi-thousand dollar energy charge for that month  . This plant was in fact in the path of the heater.
My thermometer says that the coldest it got in the greenhouse has been 50f where this particular plant was. That said, I have another temperature gauge in the colder section of the greenhouse that allegedly got down to 41f in some sections. I think I damaged some phals and others that way. |
Yikes! Both the damage to plants and the energy bill! Yes, I think that's heat damage on the Angraecum... if the ambient temperature was 95 deg F, the heater was putting out much more, and the plant that was unlucky enough to be in the path of the output got toasted! My condolences!
You could trim the totally fried leaves, but my inclination would be to just let them fall naturally (which they will) if you can tolerate the pain of looking at them. Then you won't end up cutting away something that might still have life in it (and so benefit the plant) even though it looks bad. Not a disease, so any spread that you see is just damage that takes awhile to show. The plant very likely will survive, even if it looks ugly for a few years until it grows some new leaves.
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