Many species in this group come from tropical areas that are warm to hot all year. Rain falls heavily for 3-5 months in the summer, then there is no rain at all for 7-9 months. Humidity rises before the rain starts, and this may be a trigger for root growth. Fred says in talks that the new root system becomes almost fully formed before the rain begins, so it can begin taking up water as fast as possible.
Most of the ones I watered early, when roots were just emerging, stopped growing roots that year. Many of those died because they didn't have enough root mass to support the developing plant.
Maybe what she's doing works for her. Much of Cyprus probably has higher humidity than many other areas have. Plants can survive with smaller root systems when humidity is high than they can where it's low.
I'll pay attention to somebody whose income depends on growing them without losses.
Last edit: How big are her plants? I have not seen any photos posted here on OB of plants even 20% the size they get in habitat. Many of us are keeping them alive and barely flowering them, not growing them to anything approaching perfection. I have seen Mexican plants in this group that completely encircled large palm trunks below the leaves. There must have been thousands of pseudobulbs the size of softballs.
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