Katrina,

You say that you posted about this Phal "a couple of months ago" and that
since then "nothing has changed". I would not necessarily expect a new leaf
for example to develop in only a couple of months. How long have you had it?
How many leaves does this Phal have? Also, when you say HUGE, how many
inches or centimeters is that? Some Phal species and their hybrids have
really huge leaves, and that's normal for them (extreme example: phal
giganthea). Also some phals have longer periods of little new growth than
others. Do you happen to know the hybrid/species/perantage of this phal?

I am questioning whether your phal is necessarily a poor unhappy thing -- it
does not necessarily have to be, I think.

Joanna

"White Monkey" wrote in message
...
Some of you may remember that a couple of months ago I posted about a phal
I
rescued. Someone had been trimming the roots flush with the edges of the
pot
for God knows how long, and the poor thing had four gigantic leaves, I
mean
HUGE, and no new growth whatsoever. Well, nothing has changed. Since I
picked it up, it lost the flowers it had naturally over time, and has sat
here making those leaves bigger and nothing else. It has not put anything
out the crown, started a new spike, lengthened any roots, anything at all.
It just keeps looking generally unhappy, and throwing all its energy into
enlarging these giant leaves. The leaves are fleshy and stiff but they
droop
due to their sheer size, and one is hypertrophied in the middle so that it
has started to split along the vein. There is no sign of rot, fungus, etc.
No spots on the leaves, and the leaves are a good color. The leaves are
currently about 40 cm. x 10 cm. I repotted it around five weeks ago.

Anyone have any suggestions for turning this fellow around?

Thanks,
Katrina


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