We bought it when it was wee and in bloom for my Grandmother’s memorial a few years ago. It has since grown and sprouted a lot and seems to be quite happy in its big pot next to the sliding glass door, but it has nary bloomed but for the florist where we bought it.
I’m thinking that it may be getting too chilly at night? I’ve been feeding it regularly with Shultz 10-15-10 Plant Food Plus.
Patience, grasshopper. Orchids have their own agendas. Don’t over think (or overdo) the water and fertilizer. It will send up a shoot when you least expect it. We had orchids in our front window for over ten years and they bloomed when they damn well felt like it. It’s either that or buy yourself a nice humid greenhouse.
Yeah. It was just such a nice bloom 
From what I’m reading it isn’t getting too cold and may have the opposite problem. So I moved it outside as per a tip from a site I read. Hoping for it to send up a shoot or two in the winter. I’ll move it back inside in the fall unless it doesn’t seem to like being outside. We’re in coastal Northern California, so it isn’t going to freeze any time soon.
I have experience with tropical aromatic flower plants and when you feed them the fertilizer you mention - they just grow big and do not flower. I would suggest using a fertilizer with less Nitrogen and more phosphorous to encourage flowering. The 10-15-10 represents Nitrogen-Phosphorous-Potassium. Also - do not over water them.
I will certainly give that a shot, thanks!
Also, orchids like to be fairly root bound. If your container is too large, the plant won’t produce as expected. Additionally, splitting an orchid will encourage better shoots. You’ll need to look for a youtube vid to show you how, or talk to a local orchid society/greenhouse.
Ok, it is still outside but I think it is getting a sunburn and/or getting beaten up by the wind. Many of the leaves that were all bright green when I moved the pot outside are now discolored with a purple to brownish hue. The margins of most if not all of he leaves have the purple, but it is the flat surfaces, the ones oriented so that the sun shines directly on them the most through the course of the day, are the ones turning brown and worrying me the most.
A couple of leaves have bent over to the point that they buckled, which may either be wind or pets.
Should I pull it back inside?
Mine has rust or black places on the leaves.
I am bravely leaving it outside and giving it plenty of water, hoping that it will bloom with cool weather in the Fall.
I’m in North Little Rock, Arkansas, and it’s damn hot and dry.
Now wait a darn minute.
They like to be root bound, but splitting them up makes them grow better?
The brown areas on mine are quite large, but they only appear to be on the upper surface of the leaf, not all the way through. I’ve moved it back inside as it was pretty much in direct sun for most of the day. I don’t really have a shady spot to put it in right now, but we’re hopefully moving into another house across the county before summer is over. Summer temperatures here (coastal Northern California) don’t ever reach much past 80F with lows in the high 40s, so I think I’ll be ok if I can just get it into a shadier spot.
Two questions:
After a plant blooms, should I immediately cut off the stem or wait until the stem dies?
And if a plant has lost all its leaves, can it grow new ones or is it hopeless?
There was a similar discussion on this topic here:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=627306&highlight=orchids
Just as an aside, my cymbidiums have just started to bloom. My yard is full of the damn things!