Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Anitum disaster

Here is another confirmation of the rule "the less you fuss with orchids - the better they grow". I was so worried about anitum flask: if it gets too much light, if there is not enough air flow, if it started to rot from the bottom as everyone suggested they would. So I kept checking and checking on them until my clumsiness played evil and dropped whole big phalaenopsis plant right on the tray with poor anitums.
Needless to say there is a lot of damage - broken top on one, lots of broken and bent leaves on others, tray jumbled up, so I had to literally repot them.
As it always happens, the biggest and best were affected the most.
Here they are after disaster:





Not sure about survival now and feel quite down: instead of giving them good start I managed to make sure they get a huge setback. If I could I would go and get another flask to do everything right from the start, but unfortunately have no such luxury, only maybe next year. Darn it...

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