Scale like bump. May be an egg?

[sweta]

Originally Posted by Girl_With_An_Orchid

So the soaking looks liked it worked! It’s been 5 days and no sign of bugs! Sweta, I’m glad you mentioned the crown rot. I did have one orchid start to rot but it’s seems to have dried after only one leaf but it seems to have dried. I’m keeping an eye on it. The flowers did not survive either, but I can live with that. I do weep for my lost spike though. 3’ and 22 flowers… it would have been so amazing!

I can imagine how hard it must have been to cut down flower spike that you must have been eagerly waiting to bloom. Glad there are no bugs so far.. you might want to just spray the leaves with 3 in 1 bayers insecticide every week for next 4 weeks that will kill any hatched nymphs lurking around on the foliage. Systemic insecticide takes some time to get into the plant system and by the time systemic starts working there could be any surviving juvenile scale move to other plants in close proximity. Even one survivor is sufficent to multiply rapidly. Also for the stem/crown rot just keep a watch over any yellowing of the top or newer leaves. One of my phals I was able to save because leaves in the middle started yellowing. Then I just ripped off some leaves to expose the rot and removed the rot with a clean tweezer and dabbed cinnamon. It was very hard to rip off healthy leaves to locate the rot but I was very sure there was rot inside which is sometimes not evident until the rot has progressed further and its too late. Heres my phal growimg a new basal growth as the crown is gone.