Kathy, Have you used a systemic insecticide in the last year or
so? About 5 years ago there was Cygon available (Now off the shelf)
Anyway I always red tagged a plant & kept notes on what treatment I
used etc.
Well I noticed this going on with most of my red tagged plants,
as well as a lot of deformed or mutant flowers?
Just a thought?
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Cheers Wendy

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K Barrett wrote:
I posted this on the OGD in order to get a wider variety of input,
but then Peter Croezen started up yammering about some god forsaken
place in South America, so I doubt anyone there will answer me,
they'll be too interested in watching the trainwreck that always
seems to follow Peter's posts. So I come to rgo for some ideas.

For the past 2-3-4 years the inflorescences on my catts haven't been
emerging from their sheathes. They've been getting shorter and
shorter until now the flowers open inside the sheathe. I turned
over a new leaf this January and have been taking better care of my
orchids, being sure they are watered, fertilized and disease free.
Yet this has been getting worse and worse as time goes on.

I'm puzzled. What am I doing wrong?

http://www.orchidtrek.com/sheath1.JPG and
http://www.orchidtrek.com/sheath2.JPG