Hello, my fellow orchid growers! I am in dire need of someone with experience in regards to diagnosing Phalaenopsis Orchid possible bacterial/fungal/etc infections. If you can give me some information that may point me in a direction so that I may properly tend to this nasty illness my plant succumbed to that would be gnarly!
Here I will list general tidbits of information I've noticed in my orchid recently:
Roughly, a week ago I noticed a white fuzz growing on my medium near my Orchid roots after getting rid of the bugs in my medium that eat mold as my girl is allergic to them.
I tended to the root system with hydrogen peroxide (after finding out you shouldn't as it messes with the roots!), the white fuzz was gone after that and I haven't seen it since.
After this I noticed one of my leaf's had a red tinge going down the middle of it. With each passing day it seemed to get worse and worse.
I assume its a fungal infection, but after a quick google search none of the photos in regards to a fungal infection match up to my orchid. So I do not want to put it on an improper treatment leading to more stress which'll not help it fight off its illness, I bought a Copper Fungicide to possibly use to help my plant.
Here I have supplied a link to a google doc that contains a photo of my Orchid baby! (cant figured out how to add a photo srry)
Untitled document - Google Docs