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Pansy orchid doing poorly
paperpheasant
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hello everyone, so I got this lovely little plant some time ago, but I'm struggling to keep it happy, it seems to be slowly withering away, could anyone help me with identifying what's wrong and how I can help it?
thank you!
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one more photo of the roots as well
Hi - I haven't got a pansy orchid, but I have got several orchids. I keep getting them as presents, and I love them
Is the foliage withering as well, or is it just the flowers?
I think it's just the flowers, but I'm not sure what the leaves and roots are supposed to look like, I have several phalaenopsis and I mostly can tell if they are doing good or not...
I have two with no flowers on at the moment, and a white one that looks just like yours. The flowers have all died at the same time, but the foliage is healthy and there are signs of a new leaf at the growing point. This has happened periodically to all my specimens, after a while they produce new flower stems and are full of flowers again.
I don't look after them properly I'm afraid - I do all the wrong things, neglect them no end, and they still last for up to four years - I don't know how long they're supposed to last. I'm just going to do what I always do when the flowers die, cut the stems right down and just wait for new stems to appear.
I've never actually bought one or bothered to educate myself about them. I can only tell you what I do, probably all wrong, but they keep on flowering. Perhaps an expert will come along to educate both of us - sorry I haven't been very helpful. At least you know that mine are the same, and they do come bouncing back.
Good luck.
Hi paperpheasant,
Difficult to say what exactly is causing the problems with your Mitonia, especially since I haven't had one in years.
Miltonias aren't the easiest of orchids to look after, but here is some general advice on how to look after them.
Their compost should slways be kept slightly damp, but never completely dry or wet. And the temperature in which they are kept should be between 15 and 27 C.
They need light, but no direct sunlight, and the atmosphere should be quite humid, between 60 and 70 percent.
To achieve that, it might be an idea to put the pot on a dish with a layer of gravel and water, so that the bottom of the pot doesn't touch the water.
That way the evaporating water will create a slighly damper atmosphere around the plant.
They also have rather fragile roots, which makes repotting them rather difficult.
I would leave the roots which are growing out of the pot well alone.
Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
From the picture it looks like you have two stems with flowers and buds.
I can see some small flower buds ,which seem to be on a smaller bit of stem, and they don't look too bad.
I would remove the stem with the flowers and buds with brown and black patches on them, because they definitely won't recover.
But maybe, with lots of luck, the two small buds which don't seem to have any black or brown bits, could grow into flowers.
The roots look alright to me, a far as I can see in the picture.
Not sure what's causing the young leaves to turn yellow, but that is sometimes caused by low temperatures.
I hope you'll manage to save the plant and get it to flower again.
Good luck!