What you're describing is not bud blast, it's just flowers dying. Bud blast is when the bud turns yellow or brown and doesn't open at all. Orchids are most sensitive to environmental changes when they're in bud. Changing the environmental conditions while they are opening can cause the buds to fail or flowers to die prematurely. For some strange reason orchids are much less sensitive once the flowers are fully open. Any time you give a phalaenopsis as a gift, you're better off giving one that has the flowers already open rather than on that's in bud. At least that's my opinion.
I suspect that the flowers died because the orchid was too dry. Phals don't have pseudobulbs so they can't tolerate dry conditions for long. That's especially true when they're trying to bloom. Flowers are 90% water so the orchid needs moisture in order to open those flowers. You said the plant was fairly dry and then you waited two and a half weeks before watering. That sounds too dry to me. After all the stress on that plant, any flowers that do open, probably won't last long.
Repot in a good mix and give it good care. Next year it may reward you with some new blooms.
Last edited by tucker85; 04-23-2013 at 05:09 PM..
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