Hmmm....what is going on with my Aeranthes?

[FinnBar]

i still doubt it. sunlight induced burns are caused by the inherent UV-rays.
i don't think any lights used for our purposes contain those wavelenghts to that degree. a more likely burn when growing under lights is caused by heat.

Ross- strange, i know especially when our conditions are fairly similar when it comes to temps, humidity and fertilizer.. though those levels apply only for Aerangis. Angraecums get higher.

[shakkai]

My first thought was burn... that's the newest leaf, isn't it? Possibly slightly more tender than the others?

Ross, my mystacidii and modesta both get fairly low light. The mystacidii has flowered for me, but the modesta hasn't yet I have the rhodosticta in higher light - maybe I should move it and see if that triggers it to spike?!

[Ross]

I'm far from an expert (even though I have lots of these guys) but I thought they liked a bit higher light. I've set all mine Aerangis as well as Angraecum for 1500 FCs.

[Becca]

Hi Ross, I have read that Aeranthes ramosa likes lower light levels....and hates having it's roots disturbed.....come to think of it....would these spots arise if I had problems with the roots? Anyways....I know the leaves look pretty dark in color...it actually came that way and it had previously bloomed.

The spots are getting larger in size so I think I am going to cut the worst part off...the Dragon's Blood doesn't really show up much in the picture...the dark spots are the spots that are bad, so if I wiped the leaf down it probably wouldn't make much of a difference.

D, I looked on my bottle of Dragon's Blood and I do believe the link you found is the correct info on it, but I purchased mine from a company called the Healing Forest...sometimes I have found it to help and other times it doesn't.

Thank for all of everyone's help! It is always hard to diagnose these type of things and I will probably never know what it is, except possibly a bactierial infection or a burn.

[Becca]

Well just a quick update....I waited as long as I possibly could stand to see the yucky spots on my Aeranthes newest leaf....so today I got my snippers out and disinfected them and away I went....I won't post any pictures as it is ugly...lol....but I basically had to cut the top third to half of the leaf off and then another spot at the base of the leaf was still growing as well so I tried just cutting that part out......my poor poor baby! Oh...and I dusted it with cinnamon too...but I had been doing that previously to the dark spots as well and it still wasn't stopping it. So I will keep my fingers crossed and hope this will be the end of it and I will just have one ugly orchid now.

One quick question....I accidentally got some cinnamon in the crown and I can't get it out because it is so deep...will this hurt anything? I tried tilting it upside down and I still couldn't get it to come out and a q-tip won't reach it either!

[FinnBar]

two words Becca, vacuum cleaner

sorry, i don't know whether it could cause any harm or not.

[Becca]

Well I don't know why I didn't think of that...lol...and I don't see how it could possibly harm anything if I am careful...so I will be giving the vacuum cleaner a try...lol.

[caseydoll]

Becca! Don't suck it up in the vacuum like I would do! Don't quote me on it but I think I read on here somewhere that getting cinnamon in the crown doesn't hurt anything. But now I can't find the thread. Btw, dragon's blood is a great incense!

[Becca]

Hi Sarah! I think I am more worried about accidentally sucking up the potting medium...lol. I was just looking at the link D, provided previously on the dragon's blood and I have the liquid form of it, I have never tried the other forms of it.

[Becca]

Yet another update.....I never used the vacuum to clean up the excess cinnamon since I ran out of time before I left for the weekend. When I came back, the brown areas that I had previously cut out and put cinnamon on had spread more so I cut the entire leaf as much as I could and sprinkled more cinnamon on the cut, but that doesn't seem to be stopping whatever it is. I even moved the location of it in my orchidarium since I didn't want the mist from my MistKing System to get on the leaves and cause further problems. I have since taken it out of the orchidarium in hopes that the dry environment would help slow things down, but to my knowledge, this 'chid likes high humidity so I hope I am not just causing further stress. At least it is only one leaf, so hopefully the brown spots won't transfer to other parts of it. I am sooooo stumped and frustrated!

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