My Psychopsis problem

[clareinolywa]

I just love these plants, but the feeling is not mutual. I've had a cross for about one month now, and during this time, the new 4 inch growth got mushy, a mature leaf got mushy and now another mature leaf is drying off at the base. What is my problem? I can only think that it's my watering. I water once a week. I thought the mushyness might be caused from getting water into the leaf base, but just don't know. I now have two blooming spikes and 2 leaves and five back rhisomes. I am so totally clueless.

[jankey]

where are you located, and what kind of medium is the plant in?

--j_a

[clareinolywa]

I live South west of Seattle. Since it is blooming it is in the kitchen temp 60-70 along with the blooming cyms and zygo. The medium is small bark with perlite which appears to me to be appropriate for the size of its roots.

[tenman]

It is not a myth that they can bloom themselves to death. One of mine did. It was a smallish plant, just a couple mature growths, and bloomed for almost 18 months on and off from one spike, then collapsed and died.