In the wild, the strong survive! I'd bet that in those huge colonies of orchids you might find they have evolved into strains that are disease resistant. Or possibly they grow where there is some pathogen that feeds on the fungal disease organisms? There are lots of possible explanations as to why those wild orchids grow the way they do. If Ecuagenera has orchids for sale that are descendents of those wild ones, I wonder if they would be more disease resistant too?
Maybe even it's the surroundings that we give our orchids that promote the pathogens in captivity?
New one for me opening today, Lc. Renate on her second bloom this year, a nice spike with 5 buds, and there's another coming, too!
