Questions about resting period

[mendoccino]

Hello,

I have two orchids which have not flowered yet. I guess they have a different growth pattern than normal. I'd like to hear a few suggestions on what to do, as I recently lost a plant that didn't get a proper resting period.

The first is a laelia pumila which I own for a bit more than a year. It looks like there are pseudobulbs in every stage of growth, even one with a bulge that looks like a bud. (Pictures 1 & 2) It was also growth in every stage last winter but I thought it to be some kind of acclimatisation. From what I read, the plant rests in winter.

The second is a cattleya mossiae. (Picture 3) I bought it just before midsummer and it lost lots of roots because of shipping, thus it made a smaller pseudobulb. This year's pseudobulb is now making a second growth. It seems it won't be complete till winter, when the plant is supposed to be resting.

The plants are in 500ml ice cream containers, which I have plenty so that I can soak the pots in similar sized containers. My solution to fix these small plants is sewing a net on top so that plants and wood chips don't move around.

In the summer, the plants got brief morning sun followed by bright shade because of an apartment block. Starting from october till april, they get direct sun for a longer time. Summer temperatures are between 35 and 25 celcius. In winter it is between 25 and 15 celcius. I water the plants with less than half strength balanced fertiliser. (so that water is around 900μS/cm)