Cycnoches: Life Span of Plants and Flowers

[NYCorchidman]

While I'm at it, here's another one.

My very first plant of this group was Cycnodes Golden Shower, a very beautiful bright yellow flowers with banana scent.
The thing is the flowers only lasted for barely ten days or so. I was told this is quite normal for plants in catasetum group.

Then I was gifted with Monni. Black Magic Witchcraft Millennium (I know the order of the name is really messed up, but I just remember the components obvisouly but you know what plant I'm talking about), whose flowers also lasted short time, like ten days.
but this is not cycnoches, I'm just mentioned anyways as it is catasetum family.

Both of them rotted dead in the following summer after the new growth had like 8 leaves. I know.
So I lost interest in them.

This year, I got myself two plants of Fred Clark's creation.
Jumbo Cooper x cooperi (not yet flowered although it's trying) and Cascading Sawn x warscewiczii which is now fading after being in bloom for well over a month!

Cascading Sawn x warscewiczii only gave me two female flowers and the rest of the spike dried up and blasted.
The flowers had strong banana scent, which woke me up every morning. I loved it!!!

Now, those two flowers have been in bloom well over a month. Is that normal? I mean I like it, but I thought these flowers do not last over two weeks usually.

Another important question, as I searched on the internet, I found information saying that cycnoches is a short lived plant lasting barely three years.
It says the plant grows and flowers the first year, and then it will grow a new pb and flower again the second year.
The third year, typically plants will start to deteriorate.

I find this hard to believe because my cycnodes and both my current cycnoches were all first time bloomer on their third pbs.
What can I expect now? They will flower two more years and then rot away?

How long do your cycnoches last?
Also, is dividing into separate pb each fall a way to keep them going for many years?

I'm curious.

I of course first have to learn to keep these plants from rotting before worrying about keeping them going for many years. lol

Speaking of rot, I read that cycnoches is known to be rot prone among the catasetum group, unfortunately this is about the only type in the group that I find attractive.

Some pictures below.

The color is hard to capture.
It is yellowish green with heavy brown hue all over on the front side, and the back side is much much darker reddish brown.
Smells very strong of banana with some kind of spice, but overall very pleasant.