Sickly Zygopetalum with significant problems.

[BrassavolaStars]

Thank you for your reply.

That sounds like the best course of action. The moss is a bit soggy because I just drenched it in fungicide. I can put it in front of the fan to dry it out some though.

[aliceinwl]

I’ve just put Zygopetalums like this in a clay pot with some room on the sides so there’s lots of air around the root mass and try to keep them damp but not wet. Then I add media around the edges once the roots start growing. I grow mine outside and they all have spotting on the leaves to some degree.

I do have a NOID Zygopetalum (my second one). I was very aggressive about removing all the media around the roots when I repotted and ended up killing the whole root mass. It lost all its leaves and a pseudobulb. It sat with nothing but its two surviving pseudobulbs for months, but then sent up one small new growth and then another. Even if you loose everything but the pseudobulbs, it can bounce back.

Now I don’t do any old media removal beyond what shakes off or comes out on its own when I run them under a hose and just plop them in a larger pot with some media on the bottom and sides. Once root growth takes off it seems to be so rapid and vigorous that old media just isn’t an issue. With plants I’ve had for a year or two, I usually can’t even find much media in the pot because of all the roots.