I've had this plant for almost a year now, and it has finally decided to bloom.
It smells heavenly of coconut/ cream/ chocolate ---> it just smells so sweet.
The color is burgundy and the flowers 4 1/2 cm across. I've got three of these sweeties in bloom, and I've got plenty more emerging from the sheathes of the pseudobulbs.
My cultural tips:
Watering: Keep the medium well watered and don't let the pseudobulbs get shriveled. I was having a problem with shriveled bulbs with my once a week watering in a fine bark mix, so I changed it to hydroponics.
Light: Bright light. The leaves should be a grassy green to light green. A east window is ideal. It could also be grown with cattleyas. It is also okay if the leaves get burned a little bit.
Feeding: Honestly, I haven't fed my orchids for about a year now. All of them are blooming healthily and happily. But rule of thumb: weekly, weakly.
Flowering: Warmth + high light = good blooms. I've learned that the hard way. You could also throw in a temperature difference into the equation, but I didn't find that as important as warmth and high light.
Temp: They like warm temperatures to bloom. I've grown them in temperatures ranging from 50's to 60's, they grow new pseudobulbs and such... just no flowers.
* hope this helps to whoever is having trouble getting this species to bloom.
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