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Originally Posted by Dimples
Not having seen the plant in person, it looks completely normal and I suspect you removed two healthy and functional leaves. Sometimes the connection point along the stem can look a bit rough, especially if leaves hang around a long time, but it doesn’t require that much tissue to maintain a functional connection between leaf and stem. Unless the leaves pull away from the stem *very* easily, don’t take them off.
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You may not understand, but the base of the leaf with these spots is completely dry. When I pulled this one leaf off, there was no sap or any liquid. Why the leaf itself looks healthy is also a mystery to me, but it definitely does not exchange any fluids with the stem.
Have you ever torn off dried leaves of a phalaenopsis? Here is the base exactly the same: dry, thin and papery in feel. The green leaf blade is thick and dense, and this spot is flat and dry. Dry leaves don't always fall off on their own either.
I tore off the second, smaller, leaf (it was below the first one) because such a spot appeared on it too (about 40% of the base of the leaf). The rest 60% of the base was green and thick, and there was sap.
It's local, It appeared in one place on one leaf in the middle of the stem and began to spread around, and up and down. It only spreads where the green tissue of other leaves touches these dry spots.
You see, the plant was not like this originally. It's strange that you assures me that this is healthy leaf. I've had about 20 phalaenopsis in my life over the years, and I've never seen such dry spreading spots on them. It's somewhat similar to sunburn, but the thing is that the sun never shines on this phalaenopsis.
The problem is that these spots are growing and spreading to the bases of neighboring leaves that touch this spot, up and down.
The previous responder also said, like you, that this is absolutely normal, and I did nothing, and these spots spread to two other leaves.
But wait what, until these spots spread to all the leaves?
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