Restrepia Brachypus unhappy in S/H - weak roots, black spots/stem
Hello,
I bought a restrepia a few months ago from a reputable dealer. It was packed poorly in moss and kind of sideways, so I decided to pull it out and replant it. Unfortunately as gentle as I was with it, the plant split into four pieces when it came out of the moss. There were almost zero roots, just a small ball where the leaves originated. That is where it separated. So I took the largest piece of the ball and replanted it in a small S/H pot. It has four leaves on it now, some have died, some have grown. But I cannot get it to look healthy. I had it fairly close to a east facing window that gets mild light, and also a well shaded south facing window. Neither worked. I have been watering it about every 5 days (I'm in Seattle), but the leaves always look dry, even when there is definitely water wicking up the S/H media. On top of all that I occasionally get black spots on the plant, but it comes and goes. Currently there aren't any spots, but that's not to say there won't be any in a week. Also the base of the stems all look a bit black, although the mounted ones are getting greener.
I have no idea what is going on here. I have been using 10-10-10 about every third watering. For the other pieces that fell off I mounted them to cork and they are doing decent, although the are only now developing about 2 cm of roots.
Did I just get a bad plant or am I doing something terrible wrong?
Thanks for any info, -Todd
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