another catasetum misbehaving...

[isurus79]

Originally Posted by kindrag23

Bad part is he is also very particular about which ups/fedex guy comes bc one of them gives him a treat when he comes. So if it the wrong one I have to be there or they wont get out. He is rather a toad.

Do you have a pic that is a bit wider out? New growths shouldn't be having the issued you've mentioned and if its not rot (which it still could be) and its not mechanical damage, I'm kind of baffled. Could you be hitting the top of the new growth when watering? What time of day are you watering?

[kindrag23]

water is usually around 4 30 in the afternoon or 930 in the morn depending on my schedule. No I try really hard not to let those get wet. I also leave the little screened windows open on each end for air flow. Dont think its rot because I moved it to a bigger pot carrier the roots look really fat and healthy....im not at home until tomorrow. But I will post then.

[kindrag23]

Heres pictures of my frilly doris and my teneborosum both of which are having issues...

1st frilly doris

2nd teneborosum

[kindrag23]

2nd set is my teneborosum. U will see a hole in the base of it. I found a soft brown spot immediately cleared it out with super hot sterilized scissor then took q tips w lightly wetted cinnamon and dabbed in there to seal it off (1.5 weeks ago) that seems to have healed. ..this is 2 days after I used the cinnamon anti fungal spray. New leaf spotting.....

[kindrag23]

If anyone questions what the spray does to spiders...I thinknit melts them or that is what it looked like happened to my little bug catcher on my frilly doris...

[isurus79]

Your pics are pretty fuzzy so I can't really see anything, but a few spots on the leaves won't hurt the plant. The hole in the side of the p-bulb is definitely a bad sign, most likely of conditions that are too wet in cool temps.

[kindrag23]

We had a few cold snaps after they went out into my greenhouse. But I have cleaned it out since and it has not rotted any more.

For some reason that was the best I could get of them. No more black spots or anything. No other signs of rotting either. I am going to keep spraying it once a week for 2 or 3 weeks to assure that the possible infection/bacterial/fungal stuff will not spread any farther.

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I also now assure it never stays to wet or to dry.

[kindrag23]

So i' m not sure what is still going on with this plant. I am ready to scream!!

I saw that the 3rd largest growth was on one of the 2 big back phulbs so I used sterilized sheers and removed it as you see in picture 1. It is not but 2.15 inches. I had to cut a piece of its leaves off. Could that be a reason for this misbehaving? Because I was having to water the 2 well past 3 inch growths and the small one was not liking it? It also I noticed has 4 small growths developing along the base.

[kindrag23]

This is the mother plant w its 3 growths. The main leaves are what concerns me...w all its spotting is this one at leastnokay now or am I still looking at fungus.

[kindrag23]

And this is my teneborosum I think I finally got it in a good place..I hope! I also see a tiny baby growth coming in at the base of the old brown spot. Which has not continued but stopped all together!