Help saving my Ocidium Sharry Baby - Things in the roots!

[jenmonkey]

You're hilarious! I'm generally a very rational, logical person, I swear! But between fear of those stupid pellets and the three episodes of True Blood I watched before bed, I'm not gonna lie, I had nightmares all night!!

Orchid-eating alien babies. Classic.

[JennS]

Lol. This post is hilarious. I thought they were eggs too when I first saw them. No alien sightings however... Hahaha

[SFC]

funny post....but if I were you I would cut away the rotting part of the plant asap, sacrifice the spike and buds for the health of the plant.

[thakshila smith]

As all of our members advised you first clean all the roots. And as per experience of two years onceidiums grow a large root system as noodles and need a lot of space .
Get a nice bigger pot with holes . Roots need a lot of ventilation and space too. And try to get a log that you can put into the pot. Tie the orchid on the log with a rope and put it into the pot .
Then there is a lot of room to grow up. Nobody will hide in.
It is very unreasonable to squeeze that plant into a smaller pot.

[jenmonkey]

Originally Posted by SFC

funny post....but if I were you I would cut away the rotting part of the plant asap, sacrifice the spike and buds for the health of the plant.

I will, I promise. I understand the risk, but I want to wait for one more day until the Physan and the S/H pots come in! I'm very eager to make it healthy again, but I want to do it right. I've been keeping an eye on the rot, and it's spreading very very slowly.

In the meantime, I'm glad I could make everyone laugh.