Thanks all. Thanks Highjack for sharing your equestris experience. Perhaps this is just normal for it? Now that it has been repotted, I'm going to treat it like the rest of my phals. As it does have a good looking root system, no evidence of any pests, and I haven't seen any black spots to make me weary of fungus, perhaps this is just normal for this type of phal. It is my first equestris hybrid, so I didn't know how it may vary from my normal size phals. For now, I'm going to continue as normal. Hopefully it will start to produce new leaves as spring slowly arrives. I stuck it in brighter light as well, so perhaps that will help. Thanks again. Debbie

One of my phal that suffered cold damage grew a 2nd leave when the first one was barely 1 inch long, but both of them continued to grow till about 3 inch long each, and its basal keiki in the same pot did exactly the same (2 leaves together). Now I don't know it's growing 2 leaves simultaneously is because at that time it only had 1 leaf left so instinctively it wants to grow as many and as fast as possible? Your phal seems a lot healthier than mine so I assume your old 'new' leave will continue to grow :)

Thanks for the input everyone, I'll just keep doing what I've been doing and keep my fingers crossed. I've had pretty good luck in the past with my other orchids. I moved a few months ago from Texas to Utah and even though I kept my orchidarium set up the same for some reason the orchids seem to be doing much better here in Utah. Everything I have has some type of new growth from roots to spikes, All my oncid intergenerics have double new PBs coming in right now. I'm not sure if it's the elevation or what but I'm really happy about it. This phal is the only thinbg I've been worried about but from what you all say I'll stop worring and let it do it's own thing Thanks again, Adam

Thanks, jane and Al. Oddly, this is one of my least watered orchids (realizing that doesn't mean it's not overwatered) -- pretty much 'pour-through' maybe once every couple of weeks, lightly misted every 2-3 days, but very thoroughly soaked prior to out-of-town vacations 4x annually. It sits in a mixed bark/sphagnum/perlite medium, and the plastic container has air holes poked in the sides and bottom -- lots of air flow and drainage, I think. I do think this is a good time to carefully pull the fern out before it overtakes. Perhaps a very low bar to set, but I'm a novice: if the leaves and roots look fairly healthy, and the plant flowers, I feel I'm doing something right. :) It's recommended to freshen up the sphagnum moss about every year anyway -- something I'll really need to work on.