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Old 07-28-2024, 02:00 PM
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Hi, all!

This is more of a sanity check than anything else as a post. I have a small orchid with the second to lowest leaf turning yellow-brown and curling. The orchid was reported a month or two ago after dropping blooms, and it's exhibited signs of growth since then - that small leaf on top has all grown since it's been repotted. I assume I should just wait for it to drop, and there's no real intervention that I should take at this period, especially since the plant is still putting energy to growing despite it.

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Your assumption is correct. Let the yellowing leaf drop on its own. New growth is always a good thing.
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The plant is likely pulling the mobile nutrients from the lower leaf, a leaf that’s shaded and older, to help fuel all of the new growth. Looks like a very happy phal.
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Quick follow-up; I see some pink hues around the edge of the curling leaf, and the texture it seems to have developed is very "bumpy". Is this a sign of an infection? Should I remove the leaf?

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