Help with Mokara orchid

[everlastingspirit]

Ok was hoping for a bit of help as this is rather strange.

I recently purchased a Mokara orchid baby (mericlone) from ebay. (approx 10cm high). It arrive a week ago and all was fine as plant had good thick roots and nice stong leaves. Last night the plant was also fine, except for 1 veyr slight split in leaf (not mich or an issue as have other chids & phals that have small ones. Except i woke up this morning and the split is approx 1/3-1/2 accross the leaf & all the leafs have brownish soft(er) spots (erratic shape) over a few of them.

Its quite significant for over night i must say.

I mist the orchid twice a day (3 if its boiling hot). They are on a windowsill with net curtain to diffuse light and this particular orchid has not yet been fertilised (although it has been in contact with plants that were fertilised a week ago).

I have put the orchid 1/2 metre away from the rest of the orchids on the windowsill to keep it aside for he meantime until i can get soem advice.

Hoping you can help as the flowers are going to be really beautiful when it eventually blooms

Update with pictures:





Thanks
Ben

[everlastingspirit]

H ithere, added pictures. any advice?

thanks
ben

[Samheartsorchids]

Thats very strange.....sorry, i'm of no help to you, but i'l see if i can point out your problem to someone who can

[Angurek]

Was the plant right next to a bright light source? I have a young vanda seedling that gets a red blush when I put it in a bright spot. The blush usually goes away on its own once the plant adjusts.

If the spots appeared overnight, I'm going to guess that it's a fungal or bacterial infection. I'm not entirely sure.

[Samheartsorchids]

I'm going to enlist the help of some of the people who helped me when i first joined.....don't worry, someone here is bound to know how to help.....once again, sorry I can't, im new to this whole "orchid scene"

by the way, welcome to the OB

[susiep]

Hello Ben,

Well, to me this looks like damage that happened during shipping. It just took a while to show. I have a few vanda orphans that I adopted with spots, dents and dings like that. It is hard to know what kind of stress the plant has been through in the last 2 weeks. Just my Hopefully this is the extent of it and it won't get worse. Good luck!

[Ray]

With that limited amount of info, I would agree with Susan. Mokaras like to be very bright and very warm, with humidity to match, but wetting it down by misting does not accomplish that, and may lead to fungal or bacterial infections.

	Mistking Looking for a misting system? Look no further. Automated misting systems from MistKing are used by multitude of plant enthusiasts and are perfect for Orchids. Systems feature run dry pumps, ZipDrip valve, adjustable black nozzles, per second control! Automatically mist one growing shelf or a greenhouse full of Orchids. See MistKing testimonials

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Looks like a bacterial infection. You can ue 70% isopropyl alcohol and 3% hydrogen peroxide.