Vanda dying - black crawling dots on roots - please help
Hello all,
I hope someone could help. I have been attempting to grow phalaenopsis orchids for a few years now, but vandas scare me and my first experience is not turning out to be so great.
My sister bought this rather expensive vanda back in November. It is not potted in any media (I think) just dropped into a large vase but the base is in a sort of small basket. The advise the man gave me was to fill the vase half up with water and let it stand for 20 minutes. After doing this for 2 months I noticed leaves dropping off starting from bottom and going up. The base of the leaf turned brown and then yellow. Obviously all the flowers fell off and I cut off the spikes as recommended.
I got worried that this was some sort of rotting issue from being immersed in water, so I changed my watering technique to spraying the roots every morning. The rate at which the leaves are falling off slowed, but not stopped. Now most of the roots are brown and these tiny dots are crawling on the roots. Somewhere on the forum it was suggested that something like this could be Globular Springtails, but I really can't tell.
Unfortunately I am unable to add pictures at this stage (being a new member).
I also bought something called 'Superthrive' as this was recommended somewhere here for root growth, but have not used yet.
Please help/advise. Also apologies if I put this in the wrong thread as I probably have more than one issue.
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