Should I pot this orchid in media or continue sphag and bag?!!! Help please!?!!

[Orchid grower]

Hello everyone!! Hope you're having a great Saturday!

I have this orchid that my husband gifted me 2 years ago, it was my very first orchid and is what started my obsession. This orchid is so sentimental to me and I have been trying to save it since I received it. It has never fully recovered.

This is a noid Phal that is actually supposed to be quite large. All of the leaves it currently has are new and happened while in my care so are quite small than the ones it came with.

Recently it lost its only good root so I decided I would finally try sphag and bag and I'm really glad I did.

It has 3 new roots and when I started it had 0! My question now is should I pot this up in media or continue sphag and bag?! I would pot it up in a mix of sphagnum moss and a bark orchid media mix and then place it on a heating mat.

What I've been doing so far is having it in a ziplock bag with some wet sphagnum moss and its placed on a table with bright indirect light. Once a week I soak it in a mix of water and liquid seaweed plant food (pic below). What do you guys think of this method?

I would appreciate any advice regarding getting this orchid back in good health!

Thank you everyone in advance!!!

[Ray]

The way the roots have grown will make it tricky, but I recommend potting it up with the plant sitting on top of the medium, held steadily in place by some stakes or other means of preventing motion.

Before you do so, soak the thing in a solution of 4 ml of KelpMax per liter. It is a far superior root growth stimulant that is available from ccorchids.ca. Water the plant in with that solution, then use it - and nothing else - the next two waterings.

Invert a clear plastic bag over the plant and pot to keep the RH high around it, keep it really warm and shady, and the plant will grow its roots down into the medium. I'm afraid that planting it deep enough to cover the existing roots would likely lead to basal rot.

[Optimist]

Hi orchid grower. That is one sad orchid, and needs some real help. Have you considered Keiki paste? This is a growth hormone that you can spread on the base where the roots come from. Nothing can be gaurenteed, but this might possibly get some roots going. It can be bought from Amazon or Ebay if you can't find it in person.

The reason the new leaves were smaller than the old leaves was that it did not get as much sun in your cade as in the past. I am also assuming that the roots rotted off because of bad drainage in the pot. Roots do die off but there is usually a mix of new live roots, middle age roots that still function, and then roots that are shriveling up and dying.