If leaves are yellowing and dropping off Phal plants more quickly than
normal; more quickly than they are being replaced, and you can't find
anything else wrong, check for mites.
"Ray" <raybark [at] firstrays.com> wrote in message
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> If the root system is viable and sufficient in size to support the plant,
> and you're watering sufficiently and don't have the pH of your water
> and/or fertilizer solution way out of whack, I'd turn my attention to
> disease or insects/mites.
>
> Beyond that, I can't add much without knowing more of the details.
>
> I'm off to NC to pick up my daughter from school. Be back about mid-week.
> I hope someone else can jump in in the mean time.
>
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> "dada" <phalunatics_ [at] yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> any idea how to stop the plant from dying.. the roots looked OK to me!
>>
>>
>> "Ray" <raybark [at] firstrays.com> wrote in message
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>>> In my experience, most of the time when a phal loses several of its
>>> lowest leaves - the occasional one being pretty much normal - it's
>>> because the plant is either diseased, or the root system is so
>>> compromised that the plant consumes the oldest leaves as a way to keep
>>> the younger, more vigorous parts of itself fed and watered. That is,
>>> the nutrition and water HAVE to come from somewhere, and if it cannot be
>>> obtained adequately through the roots, it resorts to "self cannibalism".
>>>
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>>>
>>> Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com
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>>>
>>> "dada" <phalunatics_ [at] yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>>> Hi.. i have a phal which is loosing its leaves. I have had phals lose
>>>> leaves due to crown rot, but this one is loosing the older leaves
>>>> first. Right now i have repotted it and is on its last two youngest
>>>> leaves. What can be the reason for it? I have never experienced this
>>>> before with phals.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Dada
>>>>
>>>>
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