I just got my package of plants (mostly phal species) from the redland orchid festival, and things look pretty good. one thing though that has me concerned are the two phal mariaes that came from the philippines. I bought one last year and it was a beautiful plant, but the leaves were pretty limp. This year the plants again are nice but with again limp leaves and I'd like to know what I can do to get them to perk up? I know higher humidity would be helpful but since I don't have a greenhouse that I can use for my plants, and soak the floor down and have a big fan going, I am stuck a little. I've heard about doing sugar water soaks sometimes for seedlings, and I also have some anti-transpirant spray which I could put on the leaves. most likely these plants have been in a high humidity environment so that the stomates are probably locked open...
the plant I had last year dried out too many times, the leaves fell off and it croaked. there aren't many roots, so am stuck there as well
probably post pictures tomorrow
probably post pictures tomorrow