V. coerulea looking sad, will it perk up eventually?

[amandarenee]

I bought a v. coerulea online, and when I got it it was beat to heck. There were actually three plants competing with each other in the basket, so I gently pulled them apart and put them in vases. They look healthier, but some of the leaves were bent and droop to the side (though they are otherwise healthy), some look like the ends were cut off, and they really don't look much like your typical, upright, healthy plants. I got a replacement plant that is much larger and a little "straighter", but some of the leaves are wavy and a little disfigured.

I have 4 plants total, and all of them have at least a few big, healthy root (I love the white specks on them! So pretty!), and some have a few yellowish roots. Should I cut off the yellow roots?

Is there any hope that the leaves will fix themselves and start growing correctly?

[cday2inflorida]

No, on the disfigured leaves. You just start from now and with growing habits you will have new leaves growing from the top of the plants. I would make sure that what you are calling yellow roots are dead. Vandas produce lots of trailing roots.

[wonderlen3000]

Easiest way is sock up the whole plants in water for a few minutes. Any roots that doesn't turn green, when it wet, are dead and you can trim that away.