Cybil has been through some hard times. I had to rescue her from an illness that I was sure was going to kill her. She started growing new leaves and I thought we were on the right track for a long while as she grew a flower spike and gradually the spike showed buds. At about that time I moved her to face my lamp hoping that the consistent light source would cause the flowers to all face one direction. Suddenly the buds stopped growing any bigger and the leaves started to show some bad signs of yellow. I had to cut off almost 2 entire leaves before the illness spread and it took an unusually long time for the buds to start growing again. Eventually, though, they did open, kind of, and the photos are the result. You can see that the flowers did not end up facing the same direction, but more noticeable are the overall crappy condition of the flowers. About 2 of the older flowers at the top still aren't completely open and I don't expect them to open any further. The bottom sepals are also yellowed and look like stained sheets. I just hope that when these flowers drop the plant can recover and grow some badly needed new leaves.
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