What Steve and Ray said and you might also post a picture to
alt.binaries.pictures.orchids or somewhere else and post a link to its
location.

bob
"Steve" wrote in message
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JaneB wrote:

I have seven phals. All in the same place and all doing extremely
well, except for one.

This one is losing two large leaves. The are not the oldest leaves,
which is what concerns me most. It has seven leaves. Four are very
large (one is almost all yellow and another is starting to turn
yellow). The remaining three leaves are smaller and at least one is
relatively new.

This plant has already bloomed twice. Last time it was growing a
flower spike I repotted it with all new bark and moss in a slightly
larger pot. That was about 6 months ago. It bloomed beautifully and
did very well.

All the other phals are doing great. One is going to bloom for the
third time and two others are in full bloom now.

Is there anything I can do to save this plant?

Thanks

Thanks for the reply Ray. It was a reasonable guess, but actually I'm
always very careful not to get the leaves wet.


OK. Any ideas how? As I said my other six phals are in great shape.
Should I isolate the one with the green leaves? The problem with
doing that is there is no other place in the house where these plants
will grow so moving it ensures it's demise.


Move it anyway. Nothing bad will happen from a bad location in the short
run. I'm thinking a month or 2 at the most.
I'm remembering loosing a vanda type orchid. It had some leaves turn
yellow about half way between the bottom of the plant. Only a couple of
leaves and, at first, I wasn't concerned. Soon, more leaves were yellowing
and I tried to save it. It pretty much fell apart from some disease
killing it from the inside out.
The yellow leaves on your plant will fall off or you will remove them. If
nothing else bad happens, move it back to the good location. If it
continues to loose leaves, I would un pot it (even though it is freshly
potted) and remove every bit of dead roots and ay other dead plant parts.
If it has an internal rot of some kind, it might fall apart before you get
around to this.

Steve