*What shall we do with the basal keiki?*etc.

[Miri the Wildmage]

Hi everyone!

About a year ago I bought a nameless phalaenopsis orchid for my mother. Standing water was allowed to remain on its crown and it came down with crown rot. My mother realised what had happened quite quickly and managed to save it, and now, six months on, it has thrown a basal keiki! My issue is, I don't know what to do with it!

Should I separate it from the parent plant now, or later, or not at all? It has two healthy leaves but no roots to speak of.It looks happy enough, but the parent plant is sulking! Although it also has two nice green leaves, it has a scar in the centre where the rot was, and none of the aerial roots have green tips, so it is not growing. I am scared that it will die before the keiki is separated from it!