Granted I can't see the entire plant in that photo, but what I can see of those leaves doesn't look that out-of-the ordinary. Yes, those lower leaves look a bit yellow and I can see a few marks, but those are also the oldest leaves. They have some age and some battle scares, but I don't see anything to freak out about. My question would be about the newest leaves. Are they in good condition? If they are, I wouldn't worry. Remember the leaves on the bottom will eventually turn yellow and die as part of the normal process. Maybe they're starting to do that now. Yes, at one point in my past life, I grew a whole crap-load of phals. Had some of them for over 10 years as a matter of fact. K

Nice to hear a success story, sooner or later, you have to do maintenance on those "everblooming phals" read the stuff in the "cut or not cut" thread down the page. Do not make drastic changes to your care routine, just increase your watering frequency a bit. One of the best growers in our local orchid society uses a low nitrogen fertilizer (bloom booster is bulldust) on a very large mixed orchid collection as his base fertilizer.

Hi! ^ ^ I think it could be of use to someone if I type out my experience. Perhaps a collection of experiences will lead to some form of conclusion of the hypothesis about lighting etc. It began when one of my two orchids had a nasty little pussy cat tip over it's pot. The orchid's spike severed completely off. Since my orchids both bloom at the same time I cut the spike off the other orchid. Of both the spikes, the yellow had 2 blooms (1 bud spike was 6 inches long). The purple had 8 buds (one bloom spike was 10 inches long) which is the one the cat had tipped over. I will also note that I put the purple stem immediately into water since I had heard the plant crash. I have had both spikes into a clear glass vase (about 1-1.5 cup of water) in a pitch black game room except light from the teli and monitors. To be more specific the vase is in the shadow of the "light". The temp is always around 78 degrees fahrenheit. I enjoyed the blooms for a couple of weeks and the large bloomed ones finally started to look fatigued so I pinched those off (about 4-5). The rest dropped off by themselves. I totally forgot about these stems/spikes. Here is where it gets interesting, about 2-3 month later I was dusting and cleaning up the "mess" at the sink when I noticed the yellow spike was still green at the end, the purple was brown so I cut it under water to a healthy green looking point. I had decided regardless of the various postings on the intraweb saying that a spike couldn't grow roots I would still let these two try. It now has been 5 months, the yellow has a small root growing at the end, the purple is still green. They are in the pitch black room, I change the water sporadically from every 4 days to 3 weeks with tepid from faucet. Basically when I remember the poor babies but more so at the beginning than now (which changes now I see a little root). I will also mention I was using the cities icky chlorinated fluoride injected tap water, I will now change to bottled water and watch the results.

This question has been asked many, many times over the years. There is no "correct" answer. It is your decision. The link is to past threads on this subject, found by putting cutting Phal in the search box on top of this discussions page. Here is a link that might be useful: Past thread on this subject