Please help! Catt Seedling dropping leaves, PS.B brown and dry - Page 2 - Orchid Board

emmajs243 · #1 03-07-2019, 02:27 AM

Guys. I am at a complete loss and really quite heartbroken. I got my first two Catt seedlings this past December. This One has been doing pretty good. Not very many new roots yet but she had a nice new little growth that's been coming in over the past couple of weeks and it's been so exciting.

Ok. Sunday, I was watering and suddenly one of the leaves just dropped with literally just the lightest touch. I thought it was weird but I tend to over react so I decided to just keep an eye on her. I hadn't misted that week like I normally do and figured I had screwed up and underwatered her. The next day, the once green pseudobulb (it was the oldest) with the dropped leaf was dried up and brown exactly like a stick.

Monday night I am checking on them and become a tad worried on this seedling so decide to put her in my "sick/isolation bay". I then do a spritz of just the top bark and roots (I always am extremely careful about not getting the plant itself wet or drying them off immediately), I went to dry the next oldest pb/leaf and barely dab when that leaf falls off. Yesterday, once again, the remaining pb was dry as can be and shrunken like a twig. Also, the new growth started to look darker In color....

And this has repeated. This morning I lost another leaf pb and now tonight I see a brown band forming on the base of the next oldest pb and her new growth is 100% dark brown. I mean when the First two leaves dropped I thought maybe this was just due to me being busy and not misting last week but now I only have two leaves/pb left and one looks like it's going down hill. I just always over react so I really thought I just needed to relax but now....Definitely not the case...I just have no idea what could have happened or what this is.

No new plants have been introduced, I am extremely careful about contamination, I have scoured the plant trying to find possible bugs and idk.....I found these black spots on the pb that now has this brown band forming but idk if they are a bug or not? I am beginning to question everything....the little spots are so tiny...how tiny are the common orchid pests?

Ughh guys I just have no idea....Is it a fungus what? At this point I am ready to cut off the last remaining pb bulb in an effort to try and save it as unlikely as that may be. Then again, at this rate the entire plant will be dead by tomorrow night probably....I am especially worried my other seedling might be sick though so I need to figure this out so I can catch this early on this time....

Please help & thank you!