Blooming Frustrations!!

[Reeses]

In the four or so years that I have been growing, I have enjoyed seeing new leaf, root, and pseudobulb development. It's made me so happy to see my babies getting bigger. But the one thing I haven't been able to do is get blooms! I know it's a lighting issue--none of the windows in my apartment get much light, so I've supplemented with grow-lights. Then this summer, I worked up the nerve to put them outside, and what do you know--for the first time in years, I got a spike on my oldest phal!

But when I moved them back in, the window I put the phal by was more drafty than I realized, and when I looked at it today, the single bud I have is starting to blast
Just come on, let me have blooms for once!