I cut back my orchid since it was all stem and this is what is growing. Is that a flower growing in the second photo? I thought orchid flowers began as buds. New orchid owner here trying to learn more. Any and all insights would be helpful.
by icewolf16d
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You set your poor plant up for a slow death by drowning and it propagated itself (made a keiki) in a final desperate attempt to survive …
Place you orchid in a proper orchid pot, with orchid media, read up on proper watering and fertilization and it has a slight chance.
Influencers with phals in water culture are doing so much dmg to growers’ collections it’s really unreal. There’s multiple posts with people’s phals dying in water culture a day but no abating the trend.
Where are the roots, and why is it drowning?
The roots had rot while in the nursery pot so I cut the rotten root away and put it in water. I read that the outer shell of the rotten roots and be cut away so it’s been left with the root cores only.
What is happening here indeed… Dump some of the water off so that it isn’t touching the stem and prop it up on something so that the tip of your “roots” is the only thing touching the water. Might work, but probably a goner depending on how long it’s been drowning.
Get her out of water and into high humidity! Try some sphagnum moss bro
Atleast you have a second chance now
Pull it up from the water, they are not water growing!
Maybe a 10% chance of saving it if you place it in moist moss in a bag and add a little root hormone gel. Maybe it will grow roots, but that’s a far stretch.
In this condition in water it is not going to make it.
That’s a Keiki I think? Which is a baby plant
It looks like someone’s torturing a poor, defenseless orchid.