if I may add my two cents...
I have one that blooms in Dec/Jan that is grown with the cattleyas, watered and fertilized all year, and blooms just like the one in the last photo above.
Then I have one that is just now budding up, and going to bloom in the next week or two (mid March), that must have the fert stopped, and the light increased or it won't bloom at all.
They look the same, smell the same. The later one is smaller, and darker, and the canes are smaller and shorter, but otherwise they seem the same to me.
It is the variation in the species that accounts for this, I believe.
So, if yours doesn't behave one way, treat it the other way.
Keep trying--the fragrance is worth every sniff!!!!
Rex
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