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escualo
September 1st, 2008, 10:53 AM
i find one of my paphs, that i bougt i a local market, the lad who sell me didn't know what an orchid is and was recently planted in soil very tight because she said that before the plant was in some wood and she think that is better in soil.

I thin that the plant looks like that have a deficit of calcium.

What do you think????????

orchidlover
September 1st, 2008, 11:05 AM
If that Paph was planted in soil then it sounds like the roots may have suffered. How are the roots have you checked the roots? Have you replanted it back in orchid bark mix?

escualo
September 1st, 2008, 11:11 AM
yes i check the root and i did a rehydration therapy almost of them where rotten, but i wait until the plant developed four new roots of about 3 cm and y planted in orchid bark mixture of medium size with calcareous broken rocks and rice husk.

escualo
September 1st, 2008, 11:12 AM
and i forget to tell since them the plant is better and start o grow new leafs

orchidlover
September 1st, 2008, 11:17 AM
Well then you did great! It sounds like the plant is recovering and that takes time.

Paphy57
September 1st, 2008, 07:35 PM
It also looks like leaf tip burn to me...Most likely from over-fertilization.

escualo
September 2nd, 2008, 09:35 AM
it could be because here in the local plant commerce they use to put high dosis of solid fertilizer with high Phosp to get the plant almost death but with flowers