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Old 12-03-2006, 12:47 AM posted to rec.gardens.orchids
 
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Default New Orchid owner, can someone provide advise?

Ext237 -

Yeah the plant looks turgid and happy.

Black stuff at leaf tip is most certainly a fungal black rot. Not all
that unusual. A very slow progressor and killer. Can try to remove the
infected tissue (and at least 2 inches around the rot perimeter) with a
sterile razor blade. Otherwise just leave it, and watch the drainage
as wendy said. If it's too dank and wet down there too often, that
thing is toast.