Hey Roberta,
Thanks for your input as usual. In the past I have had black spots on my encylcia that were defeated (no more trace of them). And defeated black rot due to calcium defieciency in a cattleya seedling. Seedling grew 3 new shoots since last summer, and still has the same infected growth, but clean now. Both plants looks really great right now. I do think I caught both of them in the early stages, I think I posted this in the past last summer. Was really suspecting cercosporia on the encyclia. But I do think you are right, there are a lot on there that I don't think they will go away. Have to keep an eye on it, I am beginning to in-cooperate more calcium in my feeding anyways (clean city water) and working on making my own fertilizer formulaition, Made my own when I did hydroponics years ago. It probably will be a while until I am making 100 percent of it. (will practice on a few first LOL)
But I'm still kind of confused why these spots are contained in the side leaves and there seems to be a sharp delineation to where they start and are not there, Does not look like the typical sharry baby spots that I have seen on the others.
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