Gottcha.
Sounds like you've got things under control.
I just went and read your other post regarding your Cattleya. I think you are fine as well. Catts are tougher than you think. Especially growing them in the Keys because our environment is very similar to where most of them naturally occur. They seem to bounce right back no matter how much abuse they might be subjected to.
Just keep an eye on it. Regarding water, mine are in a shade house and get watered for 15 minutes every fourth day PLUS every drop of rain that naturally occurs. That means they get a lot of water during the summer growing season and not so much from fall to spring. If you are only watering once a week, I think you could stand to up that some but NOT if it's potted in a lot of sphagnum. Hard to tell from your pics but a Catt in the Keys wants to be either in a basket with loose coarse media (or none at all) or a pot with loose coarse media. They can drown and suffocate in sphagnum.
If it's in sphagnum and never gets any water other than what you provide, then once a week is probably OK but that can create other issues like it's tough to get super dried sphag to absorb any water at all after awhile. You're beter off in the Keys letting the Catt go "au natural" in the yard. Rainwater is their friend.
Whereabouts exactly in the Keys are you?
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