Hello all i just recently joined this site in hopes of learning more about My Favorite plants/flowers and expand my collection through networking, and just discussing orchids!
I have 2 paphiopedilums with beautiful mottled foilage i belive they are the Maudiae one is the color of lemonaide (and just as sweet) and the other the color of portuguese wine and just as euphoric i also have 2 newly obtained brassidiums one being a Brassidium. Shooting Star x Brs. longisima and the other Brs. Haleahi Spider 'Golden' x Brs. Caudata. both produce similar spidery blooms although they are newly aquired and have not rewarded me with any blooms as of yet. This past monday was my birthday andalong with a bebe shoppign spree i recieved a phalaenopsis orchid from boxstore as a gift. Beautiful cream colored blossoms possibly 30 or more flowers all with deep pink/light red lips. a true gem
However after a 2 days the flowers were all wilted, ive owned a phal before and it constantly rewarded me with plentiful fuschia blooms 2 sometimes 3 times a year, and grew a large keiki i gave this plant to my sister when i moved from beauty school to a salon as i figured she wanted more plants and i didnt have room for it on my new station at work..she killed it wiithin a month Convinced i had the orchid touch i couldnt help but get excited about my newly aquired Phal. and then i took a look at its roots and decided it needed a good trim. upon uprooting the phal and beginning the proces the more I snipped off the more i came to the conclusion that this plant must have very little root if any, to my horror when the process was over although i generously tried to just "Trim" the roots, i inevitably had to discard any root on the plant due to the fact none of them were viable.
This plants leaves are pert and errect the flowers spent in less than a day and it has no root system to sustain this orchid. i dusted the stump left by the "trimming" with rooting hormone more for its fungicidal properties rather than rooting properties Boiled some orchid medium in water and prepared a plastic tupperware pot by poking holes all over it . wrapped the dusted end of the orchid with sphagnum moss and plants it best i could allowing the crown to rest on the medium but not so much as to burry it and rot it anymore. i placed two cpu fans around the pot to insure good ventilation and am constantly spraying the leaves with lukewarm water. is there a chance this plant can come back, and if so what could help my chances.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and id love to hear about any of your orchids as well. i am very interested in paphiopedilums especially the ones with long sepals. such as mount toro and paph philippinense.

Cheers, Hiza