Complete root loss on Phals - please, help!
Good morning, Orchid lovers! I'm a beginner and a new member - and need you advise real bad. My story is in 'Introduction" but I've been advised to post it here too. So, I have 3 Phals, 2 Doritaenipsis', Vanda, Cattlea and couple of new cuts of Dendrobium what I'm trying to rescue. All my free time I'm reading Giude to Orchids to learn about my orchids and how to take care.
My two Phals are in trouble now I bought them before Easter, they sit on east fasinf window, have 2 spikes of blooms - beautuful. I didn't water them - sprinkled only- both leaves and medium everyday (may be too much). Lately their lives started to wrinkle and feel soft (no turgor). It was getting worse and worse, yeasterday I took one out of pot - poor thing was sitting in sphagnum moss only, when I washed it off - all roots were white-gray and empty, didn't seem alive. Here are the pictures from "before" to "efter". didn't touch second Phal yet - afraid, but pretty sure it's condition is the same.
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