I largely agree with comments from Estacion Seca, except for:
In HI it rains a lot, so they have to use large size bark nuggets - otherwise it will never dry out during the rainy season.
Having said that, you need to repot into whatever combination works for you. It should be somewhere between what you would do for a reed stem Epi, and what you would do for a Cattleya.
I have never grown the species, but I did have an Epicatt with ilense as one of the parents. It surprised me by blooming a second time on an old spike (which branched).
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