Some advice needed with Catasetinaes and dormancy period

[bil]

There are two ways to look at this.

1. Taper off water at the end of the year and New Year's day cut off all the leaves and do not water again thus enforcing dormancy.

2. Be more laissez-faire. Be guided more by what the plant is doing. If it has green leaves, keep watering and feeding it, and only stop watering when the leaves have all fallen.

I'm a laissez-faire kind of guy.