Thats normal. The older bulbs die off. It will dry or or might get soft. You can remove it by twisting it from the roots and it should come off. Otherwise you can cut it.

Jane

Don't remove it until the new growth has matured. The new growth doesn't have roots yet, the old bulb is feeding the new shoots until they develop roots of their own.

I've got some doing this now, but I've also got others that have looked like that for over a year. Leave it until it's obviously dead, it isn't quite ready to go yet.

> Thats normal. The older bulbs die off.

Oh good. I was worried.

So the orchid will "travel" then, right? Old growths die in the back, new ones grow forward; repot when there's no space to grow or before the mix collapses, correct? When repotting, set the oldest growth by the pot wall, so there is plenty of space on the growing side of the plant?

> Don't remove it until the new growth has matured. The new growth doesn't have roots yet, the old bulb is feeding the new shoots until they develop roots of their own.

Got it. There are 2 or 3 other growths, but the second oldest is not nearly as fat as the one starting to die - how much should I read into that?. I've attached a pic of how it looked at repotting ~6 weeks ago. Since then there is another offshoot growing, with its own roots penetrating the mix right now. It's pretty cool to watch all this progression happening. (I am new to orchids - can you tell? haha)

Thanks, all.