Many a sheath, nary a bud.

[Gwenchanter]

I've been growing Cattleyas for about a year now, and I've flowered about 30 phalaenospsis this winter, but still none of my Cattleyas have bloomed.

I have lots of sheaths showing up but none have flowers inside them. I grow my Cattleyas on a south west facing porch in South Florida. I use Dynamite slow-release fertilizer pellets (the red bottle) as reccomended by a friend who grows huge specimen size cattleyas. I have tons of new psudobulbs and healthy new roots, but nary a bud.

I have been told that the problem could be not enough light, but I'm stuck as to how to provide them with more light. I think putting them in my screened-in pool area would be way too much light and the sun would probably burn them, and it's extremely hot out there, in the high 90's most summer days. It's cooler in the shade but they are not flowering in the shade so it's a loose loose situation.

If anyone has experience with this in South Florida or any other hot and humid place, please tell me what I should do!