Quote Originally Posted by opaline View Post
........and did you ever find out/ sus out the culprit for your orchid tragedies from that shipment Connie? If theres one thing if not included in care routine, its to have it in stock for immediate use as these things act so quickly and can be quite advanced in some cases on recognition. I will be using a systemic fungicide in routine bi or 4 weekly intervals, soapy water to wipe every and each cymbidium strap leaf monthly and PV+ or pyrethrin based product also monthly.

We must be suckers for punishment musnt we?, on the commencing journey into orchids. Im sure most normal folk would give up! by the time they learned their phal roots have rotted.
When the plants arrived and I watered them, i'd noticed how odd the roots of a Oncid. Josephine looked (note I even know the plant name! i'm still mad at the guy...who is no longer in business thank goodness!). With in a few days a few other plants looked bad and within a week over 30 were affected. I had sat it out on the porch and even plants ten to fifteen feet away caught it, while others next to it were fine. I was in an uproar for about a month or two until I got it under control. I finally began taking anything suspicious to the other side of the house where air movement was way better and finally got it stopped...on top of spraying/treating anything that looked suspicious till it got better or died. I sent the guy several emails but he wouldn't even take it back for a refund. I now only buy from a select few vendors. Since then the only problems are the occasionnally cloned into weirdness plant with wacky flowers. I also no longer rescue anything with bugs...rescue that is. I did get a buggy cattleya this summer, but it was so big and healthy I knew i'd get it under control when I sectioned it.