My Orchid is not flowering, but..

[Deena]

It needs food to flower i.e. fertilizer. If you water the orchid with simple water all this time, it doesn't have enough nutrients to develop flowers. I've found that the temperature drop isn't as important as periodically feeding your orchid. This seems to be a common beginner mistake to never use fertilizer and then wonder why the orchid isn't flowering - I did this to my very first orchid and it just grew leaves and keikis for two years.

The fertilizer that has worked well for me is Better-Gro Orchid Plus 20-14-13 mix. I dissolve about 1 teaspoon or less of this mix in a gallon of water and soak my orchids in this solution once every 2-3 weeks depending on humidity. Soaking time is about 15-30 minutes, and you need to drain them well so that no water remains in the pots. My orchids flower all year round after this treatment.

Another great thing to do is to take a spray bottle with diluted fertilizer solution and spray it on the air roots and the base of the plant. This tends to stimulate the orchid to grow new roots, which doesn't seem to be a problem for the orchid in your pictures, but in case the orchid has few air roots it's a great way to encourage it to grow some 'backup' roots.