Catatante 'Orange Kiss'

[charlesf6]

After many weeks of trying to dry out & seeing pseoudobulb lower bottom darken checked medium (all spagh) and saw very moist still, so decided to repot in mostly all bark, afraid to water now?

[Dollythehun]

Charles...no photos...

[charlesf6]

[Dollythehun]

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[charlesf6]

Originally Posted by Dollythehun

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I always do.
Do not understand it was fine on my end last night.

[charlesf6]

better yet?

[Dollythehun]

Yes, sir!!!

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I am not familiar with this type. My gut would say water sparingly but I could be dead wrong. I agree, it doesn't look good. When the others chime in, we'll both learn something. Nice repotting job

[Orchid Whisperer]

It looks like some kind of brown rot. Unfortunately, the plant seems to only have one mature growth (now rotting) and some small growths that are not mature enough to survive on their own. A lot of Oncidium hybrids seem to be sold this way nowadays.

You can try keeping it on the dry side, see if the rot stops or halts long enough for the immature growth to mature an grow roots, allowing it to be successfully removed.

[Dollythehun]

OW, I knew it was in the oncidium tribe.

Oh, I see: Odontocidium Catatante ' Orange Kiss' ...

[estación seca]

I think it's probably a goner. The brown rot almost always enters through the roots, and kills the rhizomes of the parent pseudobulb and any new growths, before it is visible.

I can keep Oncidiums alive, but unhappily too dry, in large bark. If I could water every day it would probably work, but I can't.

Moss works extremely well for me when it's cooler. I have to stand them in dishes of water. Moss does not work at all here in hot weather.

S/H works well for Oncidiums here once they get established. If they aren't established in S/H before hot weather hits, that's really bad.

A member of our orchid society grows Oncidium intergenerics wonderfully in her low-humidity home, in vases, with standing water partially up the roots - not touching the pseudobulb bases. I'm going to try that.

At our orchid society meeting three nights ago, another member showed a Colmanara Wildcat flowering in a vase with just water. A nursery clerk gave him a single pseudobulb, pulled out of the trash, in November 2016. He had heard our water culture member talk about it during club show and tell. He put the pseudobulb in a vase with a little water. As it grew roots he raised it so the pseudobulb wasn't touching the water, but the roots were in it. The plant matured one new growth, flowering now, and is making two more.