Need help with Phal, Urgent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

18 years ago

I have a beautifull Phal that a friend of mine gave me, it is pretty big, leaves are like 10 inches long, 3 long leaves, one litle growing, it was perfect, until my husband drop it in the floor. Now the 2 big leaves are broken in half, the small that was growing also broke.

I don't know what to do, I moved the phal outside in my porch, it's in shade but gets a lot of shaded light, it's been only a week, but it looks like is dying, the leaves where very strong and firm, now they are wrinkle and down.

Should I cut the leaves that are broken, should I put it inside again (I put it outside becasue I thought the filtered light was going to help), any special treatment to bring it back, she was perfect just one week ago, what should I do?????????????????

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york
18 years ago
In my personal opinion, you should provide filtered light, and provide lots of humidity. Don't cut the leaves, because the plant may try to extract moisture from them, but do cut them away when they are completely dry.

Good luck with your phal.
claire1_2007
18 years ago
Hi Dominicanmiami,

I agree that you shouldn't cut the leaves just yet. Is there a way that you can prop the broken leaves back up. I know it sounds strange but I rescued a phal that had one of it's leaves broken almost from one side to the other. I used strapping tape, the stuff with string in it as a butterfly bandage and taped the leave back up to the other portion still attached to the plant. It's been a little over a year and that leaf never did die. It's still as green as the other leaves and it's doing fine. Yea, it looks a bit odd with the "bandage" still on it but I don't want to risk tearing it off.
If all of the leaves on the phal are wrinkling that suggests that it's not getting enough water. If it's just the brocken portions that are wrinkled than they may be ready to die. Did you lose any roots when your husband dropped it? Orchids are very resilient so I think you have a good chance of helping this one through it's fall. I wouldn't change it's environment too much at this time because it just adds additional stress to the plant. If the plant was originally in the home than bring it back in. No direct sun or high heat right now - and lots of humidity - which shouldn't be hard if you're in Miami.
Also, don't worry about the small new leaf breaking. It will either continue to grow or the plant will start a new leaf out of the center. (Yep, I've also broken the small center leaves on a couple of phals. One just kept growing - the other one broke far enough down that it was just replaced. It took about 4 to 6 months for the new one to appear but it finally did.)
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dominicanmiami
Original Author
18 years ago
thank you for all your post over here I will put it back inside and check the water, it's not to wrinkle is like soft. I didn't break the leaves so I will just leave it like that.

I hope I can save it, because the lady that gave that Phal is a friend of mine that has a lot of orchids and she told me this is one of my best ones, so I feel bad because of that