Burrageara nelly isler VERY SICK
Hello,
Hopefully someone can help me out saving my beautiful burrageara. I've had it for almost a year; it has flowered twice this year. After it's last flowering (about 3 months ago) problems started:
- It had scale and/or mealybugs: I removed pest with cotton buds dipped in alcohol and sprayed with neem oil several times. Had to cut off a lot of leaves that just died. Sprayed a bit of insecticide once because I was desperate. Pest is gone now. Or so it seems.
- We have continued to fertilize (once every 2 months approx) with an orchid fertilizer and added a bit of calcium about a month ago.
- Then it just continued to kind of "rot"; as you can see in the picture the bulbs look like they have rotten or are on it's way of rotting.
- I water once/twice a week and am now spraying with water every day so it doesn't dry (it's in bark).
- We only have north and west windows; west has good sun in the afternoon but don't know if it's good for her; she doesn't seem to be liking anything now.
- I just changed her to the north window even though there won't be much light there. I have fluorescent lamps where all my orchids are but I'm afraid that she could be contagious...
Is there anything I could do to save her?
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