Death of unopened flowers in cattleyas

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by Merita

I took a picture of the flower after it rains so it looks full of water.

Do your orchids grow outdoors? And did you get much rain recently? If so ----- then could maybe consider whether or not water got caught up either inside any sheaths, or in the gap between pseudobulb and the pseudo-bulb's outer covering (- the covering that usually splits and peels away naturally). Sometimes, if water gets trapped in some places, it might lead to some issues. This might not be what's happening. But could take a look into it.

Merita ----- for all photos - see if you can resize them to 1024 pixels across in the horizontal direction before uploading ----- just to make the photos big enough for details to be clearly seen.