My kingianum, having grown like a weed for the past few years and
keiking madly, has now started dying. This year it produced no new
basal shoots, only keikis which dropped their leaves after turning
brown at the tips. I had repotted it in spring and the roots seemed
Ok, but I guess are now dead. I think it may have been kept too dry
last winter and spring.
I have tried detaching larger keikis but none have grown - all
shrivelled and died. I am now down to about two small keikis which
still have roots with a green growing tip - how can I save them?
Should I cut the shrivelled cane which supports them and pot the whole
thing up so that the keiki roots can be in the growing medium, and
what would be best for that given this situation? How much should they
then be watered?
Hope someone can help because this was the one orchid that I had not
been able to kill, all others never lasted no more than 3 years! And
yet I still keep trying - strange eh? :-)