I'm new to the forum and I too feel i am on a one man mission to save dying and neglected orchids from stores such as lowes etc. thus i have a ragtag collection of unnamed undoubtedly rejected hybrids. My favorite is a phal that, after much "research" (aka looking through orchid books and catalogs), I believe to be Ahmbo Buddha, but who knows
when I bought it it had one sad little leaf with a few patches of rot, but with a whole lotta TLC and a liberal dose of luck I resuscitated it and to my delight IT BLOOMED then a few months later the spike branched and it's about to bloom again! the foliage still hasn't fully recovered and tends to be long narrow and drooping but I have confidence in it.
I recently acquired an Encyclia rufa whose pseudobulbs were badly shriveled (they have since plumped up) This may sound dumb but the leaves have black irregularly shaped pits mostly on the bottom of the leaves but there are a few on the top. That's viral damage isn't it? if so is there anything I can do about it? I have isolated it and thoroughly checked it for pests and parasites. but I was wondering if there was anything else I could do?