Help with disease ID on paphiopedilum philipinensis
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Remove every leaf that is infected and hope for the best. If it is spreading rapidly there is not much else you can do. If the plant does have remaining clean leaves you could treat with subdue or banrot for phytopthera but if it’s bacterial it will be hard to treat. Do you have a pic of the plant?
philipinense do seem to be slightly more susceptible to rot
philipinense do seem to be slightly more susceptible to rot
Segregate from your other plants. Remove all affected tissue. Drench with Phyton. Repeat drench in 3 weeks. If you don’t have Phyton, drench with hydrogen peroxide and dust with cinnamon for now and order Phyton the quickest way possible. Rot can spread throughout your collection quickly. Phyton works.
I received a philppinense from Orchid Zone's denouement around 2020. It had been quite spectacular in bloom but by the time I got it it was struggling and quickly succumbed to something that looks like what you have. I pulled out all stops, soaking in bare-root in peroxide and then Physan solution, they repotted in bark and treated several times with KelPak. The tiny leafless nub left above the medium seemed to have some living turgidity and so I just treated it as a regular plant, watering with RO/K-Lite and treating with KelPak, baseially living on hope... 9 months later I thought I saw something greenish and over a few weeks a growth bud developed. I now have a 5-inch-wide growth of this plant. It was a compact form to begin with and is growing verrrry slowly but it did live, so far. Sharing this tale in hopes that it can be of help to you.
