NOID oncidium (like Twinkle, not sure) - hole in pseudobulb and moldy leaf
Hey everyone!
I tried posting this a few days ago via mobile, but my pictures weren't loading properly and I was very ill and slept most of last week away. Poor me, right?
I didn't have a chance to fix my post, but now I am posting again correctly (it seems a mod removed my old one– thanks mods!)
Anyway, I was away for 16 days from my babies and turned them over to a family member for care while I went to Hobbiton. She did a great job on the watering instructions I gave her, so I don't believe this is her fault at all.
This plant is the first plant I have ever split. It was just loaded with pseudobulbs! Really impressive! I split it into two and one plant STILL has 3 new growths and the other has two.
I purchased it about one week before vacation, so I haven't gotten to know it just yet, and I didn't have time to really observe it and see what sort of issues it may have.
**While I was gone, one plant from the division developed a little black hole in one of its older pseudobulbs. It freaked me out for sure! Since it was an old bulb, I just twisted it off and tossed it out, but I wonder why such a little black hole would form in the first place. Do you guys know?
Did I do the right thing in twisting it off?
What if I had left it?
**Additionally, one of the leaves from the center of a new growth was orange looking, so I pulled on it, and it popped right off! It had white fluffy mold and mush on it and I was really surprised that the rest of the new growth seems totally healthy and unscathed.
Was it perhaps just a stray splash of water that rotted this single leaf, or are there worse things going on that I should be concerned about?
**Finally, this plant has a problem with some leaf tips going black for me. They go blackish with an orange-ish border and it creeps farther and farther back along the leaf. I just cut a chunk of the leaf off when I see this, but it appears later on another leaf here or there and I wonder if there is anything I can do to stop this. What do you think?
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