Don't you love that place? Sooo dangerous. Unfortunately I can make it over there in ~15 mins. As a result I'm up to 11 plants from them since last November - you can see some of them at my office (including my bllra. from a few weeks ago here -
http://www.orchidboard.com/community...my-office.html
I try to limit myself to 1 visit a month... It's kind of scary that I have 'my orchid guys' James and Kent. I bet it was one of the two who was helping you.
I bought a lovely big bllra. like the one you pictured a couple of weeks ago - it's now up to over 20 blooms on the 4 spikes. The roots on mine are crazy as well. I find it works well to mist them heavily every day, in addition to the regular watering.
We should have a meet up there one Saturday.
-the redhead-