Hi,
I've been lurking around here for a while and have finally bit the bullet and decided to join. It's a pretty amazing resource you guys have built up here!
I need help with this problem with my complex - Paph global challenger x (tingtagel x sparsholt).
I've had it a for 2 or so years, there are actually 2 plants in the pot. Not two growths as I though when I first acquired it.
The problem on its leaves has been there for maybe 2 years slowly killing off the lower leaves. To begin with I tried cutting them off, but they are discolouring quicker than they are growing and I'm beginiing to run out of leaves!
The damage is only on the top of the lower leaves, the lower side seems pretty clean. It starts on the leaves opposite each other as small red freckles which spread, the leaf turns yellow - not dry - and if I leave it on, eventually just goes sort of soft and brown. When I first got it, I though it was normal senescence of leaves, but as time had gone on, and the pattern has become worse, I need to figure it out.
I repotted recently and was surprised by the top plants to see a pot brimming full of big healthy happy furry roots. The mix is medium bark, chc (well soaked), coarse perlite and charcoal.
I grow on a heat mats in a north east facing window in Melbourne Australia. I shade with blinds, its not ideal, but its the only natural light I've got.
It was suggested on another forum that this was sunburn, but I've done that to plants before (poor encylias, summering outdoors was my worst plan yet) and know the pattern, and I don't think this is it. At my old premises this plant was kept in very low light, and still exhibited the same traits.
I though it might be mites, but I've been wiping it with alcohol and dish soap, but I'm not getting anything coming off on the cloth.
Help! I put it into quarantine, as I've just added a selection of pricey, fancy multis to the collection and if this happens to them I might just cry!:sob:
I've been lurking around here for a while and have finally bit the bullet and decided to join. It's a pretty amazing resource you guys have built up here!
I need help with this problem with my complex - Paph global challenger x (tingtagel x sparsholt).
I've had it a for 2 or so years, there are actually 2 plants in the pot. Not two growths as I though when I first acquired it.
The problem on its leaves has been there for maybe 2 years slowly killing off the lower leaves. To begin with I tried cutting them off, but they are discolouring quicker than they are growing and I'm beginiing to run out of leaves!
The damage is only on the top of the lower leaves, the lower side seems pretty clean. It starts on the leaves opposite each other as small red freckles which spread, the leaf turns yellow - not dry - and if I leave it on, eventually just goes sort of soft and brown. When I first got it, I though it was normal senescence of leaves, but as time had gone on, and the pattern has become worse, I need to figure it out.
I repotted recently and was surprised by the top plants to see a pot brimming full of big healthy happy furry roots. The mix is medium bark, chc (well soaked), coarse perlite and charcoal.
I grow on a heat mats in a north east facing window in Melbourne Australia. I shade with blinds, its not ideal, but its the only natural light I've got.
It was suggested on another forum that this was sunburn, but I've done that to plants before (poor encylias, summering outdoors was my worst plan yet) and know the pattern, and I don't think this is it. At my old premises this plant was kept in very low light, and still exhibited the same traits.
I though it might be mites, but I've been wiping it with alcohol and dish soap, but I'm not getting anything coming off on the cloth.
Help! I put it into quarantine, as I've just added a selection of pricey, fancy multis to the collection and if this happens to them I might just cry!:sob:
