Phal. gigantea

Something is going on with gigantea seedling. Two bottom leaves are getting yellow and will drop soon:



Usually when a bottom leaf is dying like that I don't worry because it seems like a normal process, but when there are two leaves doing it simultaneously - I am not sure anymore.
The roots are fine and bottom part of the stem looks green and healthy.



There will still be three more green leaves when the two yellow ones will drop, hope it is enough for now...

Gigantea repotting

I decided to repot my seedling of Phalaenopsis gigantea.
Partially because it was growing in very small clay pot and with largest leaf pulling on one side - pot was constantly tipping over from the slightest touch.
The other reason - I wanted to see what is going on in the roots department since they didn't look that good last time (that's why it had to downsize to the smallest pot).
This time roots don't look that bad:



There is not too many of them, but I was glad to see fresh growing tips and all the branches on the old brown root.

For the new potting I chose the plastic net pot. I found that in the humid environment of orchid tank they work the best - allowing moss to dry out faster and not showing as much of salts deposits and algae as my favorite clay pots:



Probably eventually and gradually I will move all my phals in the tank into net pots, at least those that grew out of two-and-a-half inch clay pots.

Phalaenopsis gigantea

Here is someone who definitely likes being in the orchid tank.

After doing nothing except rotting some old roots, Phalaenopsis gigantea seedling now in the tank is growing two new roots (second one is on the other side):



And I just noticed the start of the new leaf:



Hopefully this growth continues...

Phalaenopsis gigantea

It is just a seedling:



New leaf is shiny and quite large comparing to the rest of the leaves. I am a bit worried about my phal. gigantea because I already tried to grow a seedling last year and promptly killed it with crown rot.
Now I am very careful when watering it and never mist the leaves at all.