It's not your fault. It was written. (Islamic fatalism)

Nick

PS Phaelies with healthy roots and no leaves often make keikis, I never throw them away.

Jane, if they are showing the beginning of new leaves from the crown, they'll be all right. It appears only the leaves were burned and the crown of the plant is okay. It will just take time until they replace them all. You won't even know the accident happened by the time a year has passed.

In their native habitats, Phals often lose their leaves during typhoons and manage to replace them easily.

Keep in the shade, humid, don't over-fertilize them.

Good luck.

Thanks, thats what I figured. Just hard to convince my poor relatives, who babied these plants for so long. These plants look really bad.

Jane

Go to Lowes and check the clearance rack. Buy them cheap Phals to baby while their old ones recover.

I agree with coffeemom. Get some new ones while the burnt ones are recovering. I'm primarily a paph. grower but do have a mixed collection. The non paphs. section is now getting bigger and bigger. I just returned yesterday from a 2 week vacation at a condo in Myrtle Beach, S.C.. Last May when I was there I was SHOCKED to walk into Kroger Grocery Store and be confronted by 75 to a 100 no name phals. in full bloom. Where not talking your basic white or pinks, just the opposite. Yellows, oranges, lots of harlequins all for $10 each. Many had two spikes and I even brought home one with 3 spikes. So, one of our first stops this year was Kroger's and they only had a couple phals. but there where lots of box's laid about. We left and returned that night after supper and once again they had a 100 NOID phals that where just beautiful. I grabbed a shopping cart and filled it up. Then went back a week later and they had added even more phals. Just before we left we went back again and they had started replacing the phals with what one might expect in a grocery store. Is this normal for a Kroger's that is down south? I came home with the backseat full of phals and as I said before, the person in Florida should just get some new ones while waiting for those plants to recover.

Update. Repotted all yesterday. One looks to be a gonner, but I repotted anyway. It had a spike but the crown was totally burned and the center leaves fell off. I left it because I thought the spike might produce a keki (talk about guilt).

Roots on all were beautiful. Was really surprised because they were in old sphag and wood chips, which were now fine dirt.

I cut off most of the burned parts. I think they will make it but look ugly for a year. Coffeemon and Bob, good idea. The owners birthday is next weekend, maybe I can find a bunch of cheap Phals to hold her over until these recover.

Jane

PS: The owner had bought 7 ceramic pots which matched her kitchen colors. She insisted I pot these burned plants into these pots. I was going to tell her it wasn't a good idea, but she looked close to tears...so in they went!