I have officially killed my first plant. This was the Paphiopedilum Odette Doubled which I bought at the POE. After the flower dropped I gradually noticed the larger older leaves falling off. I've seen this before so I didn't worry too much especially because there seemed to be a healthy younger group of leaves sprouting up. I had already repotted this guy so I figured the roots might just be getting used to their environment. Well, when I did finally take him out to check, I saw the roots had this scary scale or fungus which was destroying everything. I don't know if it was scale because the leaves were not at all affected. I tried to move him to this cup and treated it with neem oil and peroxide. What I didn't do was use alcohol to remove the spots that were already there. I think this would have helped. RIP!
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