Everything is wrong with my orchid... HELP!

[Tindomul]

Originally Posted by Xinjia23

1) the roots on the surface were turning white!

White roots are good roots, just dry. They turn green when moist. You should check to see if they look shriveled or brown-black.





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Originally Posted by Xinjia23

3) i started noticing a layer of white on the top of the soil.. i'm assuming snow mold... every other day, the soil would be covered with it, especially the areas of the soil under the leaves where they don't get as much sun

I would like to see a picture of that for sure. At first I was going to say a build up of salts, but salts don't build up that fast.




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Originally Posted by Xinjia23

4) i found a dead spider on the top of my orchid and also a live one at the bottom of the pot; it crawled out when i wattered my orchid.

Hey, what can you do? Spiders have minds of their own.




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Originally Posted by Xinjia23

5) i saw what looked like fungus gnats (a little bug with wings) and well killed 2-3 and then did not see any again

They usually appear when the substrate (soil or otherwise is too wet).




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Originally Posted by Xinjia23

6) i however keep seeming TINY white bugs in the soil. At first i thought it was mealybugs but I did not seean antenna and did not strike me as being these type of bugs..

Soil???? I hope don't actually mean soil unless you have a terrestrial orchid. Please let us know what kind of orchid you have.
Also, the little white bugs, if they are smaller than a pin-tip then you probably are seeing springtails (Collembola). The will appear to jump if you blow on them. They are nothing to worry about, except that they are there because they eat dead plant matter, which can be found in soil or old sphagnum moss is good to the them too. Do you have this plant in soil?