I've been successful with plain old peroxide. I've scrubbed out all the vile smelling crown rot down to clean hard tissue, washed the plant off well and poured peroxide straight from the bottle from the drugstore into the remaining tissue. It froths etc. Luckily the plant pupped from the side and continued to grow. I think if you have good roots the plant has a better chance of recovery. Prevention is always the better course of action. Don't own more than you can inspect, water and dry at the kitchen sink. I don't know how the Taiwanese do it, but water standing in the axils and crown only leads to trouble (in my hands). Eventually they will lean to the side in the pot, or you can intentionally pot them so they don't stand upright, allowing water to shed from the crown. K Barrett N Calif, USA > If their is a more safer chemical to control these types of problems in > > Phalaenopsis I would be very interested in giving it a go.> I have been > growing Phallies for about 2 years and so far never had any > problems but am > increasing the numbers grown and do not want a disaster > to happen.> > > Cheerio> Ron> _________________________________________________________________ How well do you know your celebrity gossip? http://originals.msn.com/thebigdebate?ocid=T002MSN03N0707A _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
