Fredclarkeara After Dark 'SVO' spike watch

[Roberta]

My Fredclarkearas seem to need to get big to bloom for me. Fred Clarke seems to be able to get them to bloom on young plants... My 'Black Pearl' bloomed the first year I got it, and then skipped several years before blooming again, then skipped a bunch of years (and got large), finally in spike this year, a "coming attraction". A lot of the other Catasetinae bloom on much smaller plants.