Brassidium Yellow Star - Yellowing Leaves
Hello!
I’ve had this Brassidium Yellow Star ‘Golden Gambol’ for about a year and its been doing quite well up until a couple of weeks ago. I noticed that a couple of its leaves have started browning at the tips and eventually start turning yellow. One of these leaves is on the side of the pseudo bulb so no big deal, but the other yellowing leaves are on the tops of the two newest bulbs and I’m wondering what’s going on...
I have the plant in an east facing window with a couple other oncidium types and a few phals. It’s in a 4 in clay pot in bark (RePotMe’s All purpose orchid bark mix) on a humidity tray and it gets watered once a week. I water with RO water, but our RO system has a second set of filters that supposedly adds some minerals back in so it doesn’t taste so weird. I don’t know if that actually works, but the TDS reading is about 16 ppm. I don’t PH test but maybe I should? I fertilize when I remember about once or twice a month with MSU formula full strength.
I’m in upstate New York, so it gets a bit nippy this time of year. We keep our house on the cooler side in the winter, 68 day temps and 62 night temps. The plant is right up next the the window so it’s likely even cooler than the ambient room temps. Could the temps be the source of the leaf drop? What do you all think?
Any ideas are appreciated! Thanks!