Here are pictures of it on day 3. It's opened up all the way. There is a tiny bud behind it, but it's so small that I won't know if it'll open. Will more spikes grow throughout the season? I do not see any other spikes. Then again, I didn't exactly want to bother it by prying apart any leaves to peek.
I have repotted all of my orchids. I repotted this one when I smelled a foul odor. It turned out that it was potted in a sphag bark mix and the medium was moldy in the center. I lost a lot of roots as it adjusted to a bark only mix. I packed it with styrofoam to allow for better aeration, but still had mold spores on the wooden skewer. Based on advice from people on OB, I water by soaking it for 15 minutes (room temp) and just decided to water it less often - which is why there is pleating in the leaves. In the summer, the mix seemed dry in about 2 days but I was afraid of overwatering and killing it, so I decided to just wait and water it once a week.
When I repotted, I cleaned up the roots. I don't think it's two plants, because it's all connected. I do admit that when I saw the bloom, it was drastically different from the avatar. It never occurred to me that it could be a different plant all together, since they were all connected when I repotted. I was just happy to see a bloom!
Kelo: I put the wire around it, because all the leaves fell all over the place. I have them sitting in homemade humidity trays - tupperware filled with PrimeAgra and water (with a tiny bit of physan solution to prevent algae). I have 2 orchids per humidity tray so I didn't want the leaves to fall all over my other orchid.
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