Help my Baby it has mold! - Orchid Board

natalia5612 · #1 11-15-2009, 05:50 PM

Please! I need help! I love orchids and I gotten orchids as a gift, an onicidum heaven sent. For some reason the leaves are brown-yellow and there is white-puffy-mold growing from the roots and went to my plants. My bulds fell and so have some leaves! I have been reasearching for solutions and I herd about cinnomin spice and hydrogen peroxide... can these two things help my plant kill the mold? should i repot the plant? HELP!

I have picture of how my oni looks like

Ross · #2 11-15-2009, 06:06 PM

I use rubbing alcohol on mine. I also see some rot developing. For that I would water with a solution of Thiomyl (or Phyton 27 might work as well.) You want a systemic.

natalia5612 · #3 11-16-2009, 12:41 PM

Thank you so much for replying! Can I save my babies or will it be too late? I have researched that I need to get phyton 27 for them... Should I repot them though?

natalia5612 · #4 11-16-2009, 01:03 PM

Opps another thing, how do i do the alchol thing do i just pour it like i would with watering my plant or do i just take like and ear pick and rub the infected area?

Ross · #5 11-16-2009, 04:02 PM

I use an eye dropper for the alcohol. Yes, you should be able to save it.

shadytrake · #6 11-16-2009, 04:31 PM

I did the same thing with my Max. It got moldy so i mixed up alcohol and hydrogen peroxide in a sprayer and went to town. Then I sprayed it with Physan 20.

I figured that if that didn't kill the plant, it sure would kill the mold. It took 2 applications plus I put the fans up one speed in the GH and the mold went away.

Good luck.

stefpix · #7 11-16-2009, 05:38 PM

Does it kill fungus too?
I found out one of my orchids a Blc mem had black at the top of the PB and some leaves fell off. one PB was soft - I pulled it out of the plastic pot and smelled a bit moldy. weird because i have no such problems with others [that are most in hydroton SH]

this was in bark from parkside...
Once i sprayed alcohol because a mandevilla had aphids and it made the leaves dry and fall off. so i wonder if alcohol may be too strong.

so what should i do with the Blc? i washed the roots in water / peroxide / listerine [which is basically diluted alcohol].

or should I use a systemic fungicide? I bought some Daconil spray but it is very dense not a mist. hard to apply.
stefano

natalia5612 · #8 11-16-2009, 08:05 PM

Thank you so much

stefpix · #9 11-17-2009, 12:29 AM

actually would peroxide by itself be enough?

natalia5612 · #10 11-17-2009, 07:47 PM

I had just tryed the alcohol today... How many applications do I put in and how many times a week (incase)? I removed them outside to get fresh air, repot them, and removed all the old leaves and dead-infected parts of my omnici. What i did is that I skurt it on the infected area (black) then I just put in a little bit of water to run it down after a couple a minutes, (do I do that?)