Should I cut off dying buds?

[Elise]

Greetings! I've had my first phal. for about a month now. When I bought her she had 1 full bloom and about 10 small buds and 2 or 3 large poufy buds. Over the past few days, a couple of the tiny buds are turning pinkish/red and look shriveled. Should I cut them off or let them fall naturally? We've had some drastically fluctuating temps over the past couple weeks (50s one day, 80 the next!). The leaves look fairly good-light to medium green, not real bright green though. She's in a west facing window and it has been very cloudy lately as well. Do I really need to move her to a south facing window? Also the very tips of the stem where there are a few clusters of new buds are sort of purplish as opposed to green, like the rest of the stem. Is this normal?
Thanks in advance for any advice!!

[philoserenus]

heyhey, welcome to the world of growing orchids, haha.

i normally just leave them and when they fall off, then they do. in nature, no one comes around with a pair of scissors--if u get my drift.

if itz light to medium green, i would say just leave it where it is, u'd move it if it was dark green or bluish in hue.

as for the last question you have... i really cant say much without a picture.

take a few pics and post them into the reply, it will help us all ^^

good luck

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Hmmm... about the 'purplish' colour, I find the tips of my phal's spike look that way when they are growing (well the phals that have pink./purple in theit flowers) My steps then are more of a reddish- green.