that second plant in bloom looks terrible.
I'm assuming that is not your picture?
You seek inspiration from that? I mean look at the stem, have you ever seen anything more black and brown?
It's as long as my arm! That is shocking. It might be one last ditch blooming attempt but I'd be embarrassed to show that plant in the condition it is in, blooming or not, I'd be very surprised if it survived another winter after that picture was taken. So I'd take little inspiration from that picture.
So it was hung upside down, the plant has just made a u-shape and has turned itself around to have the leaves pointing up again which iwll have stressed the plant lots and slowed down growth while adjusting.
As to your plant, it looks great, hard to tell if its is two separate plants or if they are two fans from the same plant, if they are connected somewhere then chances are they are the same plant. In time either scenario will provide twice the flower spikes although I don't like having two plants get tangled together. Sometimes one plant can strangle out and compete against the other plant with one becoming stronger and the other weaker but for now I wouldn't touch them, it will take it some time to get used to your environment so plenty of time to observe how it is doing before you decide to seperate it if you ever wanted to. Even if it is one plant it can be divided but I wouldn never rush such a move, it causes a lot of stress. So only ever do it to an orchid that has been in your care for a year first if you can.
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