You may wish to apply a rooting agent. I do not know what brand names would
be available in your area; around here, people generally use either
"Superthrive" or Dynagrow K-L-N. Do not overdo it -- one or two treatments
will either do the job or not; more will not help and might hurt. Good
luck,
--
Kenni Judd
Juno Beach Orchids
http://www.jborchids.com
"caparazon" wrote in message
news:1102546930.92610d4354525cc295e8662fe66f9a4d@t eranews...

Hello,
I am new to this forum, I live in Southern Spain, and the reason for me
to register and intervene is to ask for some help regarding the
following:
I have found two Cymbidium plants at a relative's house. They were pot
planted into a heavily wet compost for normal plants (by then I knew
that Orchids cannot stand normal compost and that they are potted in
fir bark soils mixtures or similar). Therefore a have repotted them
into an appropiate soil in two pots.
The two plants do not have flowers at the moment and are showing green
well formed top to bottom leaves that seem to indicate that they are
reletively healthy...but when it came for me to inspect the roots, I
found out that , they were a complete disaster, specially in one of
them: most of the roots destroyed, very white, and easy to break when
they are simply touched. Is there any method to save this plants?


--
caparazon

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:50:24 -0500, "Kenni Judd"
wrote:

You may wish to apply a rooting agent. I do not know what brand names would
be available in your area; around here, people generally use either
"Superthrive" or Dynagrow K-L-N. Do not overdo it -- one or two treatments
will either do the job or not; more will not help and might hurt. Good
luck,

Many of my Cym have white and some what brittle roots. Be
careful they do break fairly easily.

The root treatments are potent. Do not use more than twice and
no matter how small the directions say to use... THEY are
CORRECT. NO more. Kenni knows what she is talking about.
SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:50:24 -0500, "Kenni Judd"
wrote:

You may wish to apply a rooting agent. I do not know what brand names would
be available in your area; around here, people generally use either
"Superthrive" or Dynagrow K-L-N. Do not overdo it -- one or two treatments
will either do the job or not; more will not help and might hurt. Good
luck,

Many of my Cym have white and some what brittle roots. Be
careful they do break fairly easily.

The root treatments are potent. Do not use more than twice and
no matter how small the directions say to use... THEY are
CORRECT. NO more. Kenni knows what she is talking about.
SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php