I hope someone can help me with this devil. A Phal with a six inch spike was fine one day and the spike was dead the next day. About 1.5 inches from the tip, the tissue was shrivelled and limp. It appeared to have white spots on it and I thought of insects except that nothing moved or was scraped off. I cut off the spike and examined it under a binocular dissecting scope at 40X magnification. There were a hundred or more white spots of all different sizes. The largest looked like a dense clump. The medium sized spots looked like snowflakes and the smallest looked like a few white "eggs" sitting together. Only the largest show up in the photo
The unusual thing is that all of this was inside the plant tissue; just below the surface. The largest clump were about 1 millimeter in diameter (sorry about jumping to metric) or about 1/25 of an inch. The smallest clumps were a tenth of that. The size of the "eggs" was very small. Three of them were about the same as the diameter of a fine hair.
My calling them eggs is only descriptive. I don't think they are insect eggs, but I am hoping someone else has seen this infection and can steer me in the right direction.
The photo is the best I can do without a scope mounted camera.
Weird spike killer.....help please
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