I've been scratching my noodle on the op's question before co-incidentally coming across this post. I noticed Andy's said as a warm grower but many others say cold. I'm currently growing a seedling, most of my other similar looking Encyclias are warm growers that tolerate very cold conditions and I suspect this to be similar. I will update this post with my results, at this stage it's being growing intermediate ok but will test as it gets bigger.