Howeara / Leomesezia Lava Burst not looking so good

[rosemadder]

I just got this little one in the mail about a month ago.

It came out of the box looking like this:



All that black stuff worried me from the beginning. Several of the leaves were folded/broken at the base, and there are brownish edges, translucent spots, and yellow areas. The tiny pseudobulbs are quite corrugated.

New roots are growing rapidly from the youngest growths, but that's not all...

Within days of planting it in its new S/H pot, I started noticing the hydroton looking hairy. I started hitting it with homemade soap/neem/cinnamon spray, and it would appear to diminish for a few days, but grow back fast.

Pretty soon I had cobwebby-looking fuzz spreading all over. None of my other plants have it, just this one.


So I've got unhappy leaves,



Nasty fuzz,



And black parts.




I dumped it out of the pot and hit it with some peroxide today. The hydroton is soaking in a bleach solution. I guess I'll be keeping this one barefoot for a while and probably trying out a few treatments. Sigh.