I have a phal with root rot. I've had this one for a while and it has
bloomed several times. It now has a new flower spike with three
branches and many buds. I noticed that the flowers that opened looked
somewhat deformed. Then a bud fell off. Shortly after that one of
the new flowers died. Now the leaves are starting to look a little
wrinkled.

I removed the plant from the pot and saw that at least 50% of the
roots were mushy. I cut off all the bad roots. I removed all of the
old medium. Washed the remaining roots and repotted it.

It's not looking too good, but it's kind of soon to tell.

My question: this is one of those phals that always wanted to lean
over the side of the pot. It leaned over so far that it looked like
it would fall out of the pot. I would try to straighten it but that
never worked. Any chance that my fooling around with it shocked the
roots?

I never water without sticking my fingers way down to the bottom. If
it feels moist I don't water. I can't figure out what happened to
this one. I'd hate to lose this one, but I certainly don't want my
other six plants to get infected. They are all growing new spikes.

What should I do?