Hello,
I have a serious problem. There is some or other bacteria killing my plants and it moves fast. Sunday my last surviving growth of Paph armeniacum was healthy and Monday morning it had rotted off. Whatever this is, it moves fast.
The problem first occurred in summer/fall of this year when I lost all my Satyriums and several other plants. The leaves just started turning brown and mushy and nothing stopped it. The Paphs seems a bit more resistant but I have now lost several plants to this rot (and it looks like my Gege Hughes is next, all of its attempts to make new growths have failed). I'm also down to my last healthy growth of bessae. Most of my deflasked seedlings are dead and many of my Catts and Onc hybrids have also succumbed. Luckily, my Tolumnia and Restrepia seem resistant.
Anyone have any suggestions? I'm thinking of spraying everything with some dilute hydrogen peroxide to surface sterilize everything.
I have a serious problem. There is some or other bacteria killing my plants and it moves fast. Sunday my last surviving growth of Paph armeniacum was healthy and Monday morning it had rotted off. Whatever this is, it moves fast.
The problem first occurred in summer/fall of this year when I lost all my Satyriums and several other plants. The leaves just started turning brown and mushy and nothing stopped it. The Paphs seems a bit more resistant but I have now lost several plants to this rot (and it looks like my Gege Hughes is next, all of its attempts to make new growths have failed). I'm also down to my last healthy growth of bessae. Most of my deflasked seedlings are dead and many of my Catts and Onc hybrids have also succumbed. Luckily, my Tolumnia and Restrepia seem resistant.
Anyone have any suggestions? I'm thinking of spraying everything with some dilute hydrogen peroxide to surface sterilize everything.