Gongora Chocoensis 'Columbia' Water/Humidity Question

[Dalton]

Hey everyone,

I'm at work and I'll get the pictures I know you'll all request this afternoon.

I acquired a Gongora Chocoensis 'Columbia' that has very pretty flowers. I'll try to include pictures of those too, as I took a pic while in bloom at the home of the guy I purchased it from.

To save me money and to keep some for himself, he kindly divided it and sold me some of it. Surprising to me, since most of mine bloom infrequently, it very soon started putting out what I took to be an air root. It wasn't. By the time I determined that it was a flower stem, it had started dying and drying up.

Low-and-behold, but it's started doing it again a short time later. I'd really like to not loose it this time.

Current growing conditions are as follows. It's in tightly packed bark, with possibly some of those packing peanut type things at the bottom, based on what else I've seen from the original grower. The pot is ~6". I was watering it once a week, which I now know to be too infrequent for this plant. The leaves have gotten a slight wave to them. I've upped it to twice a week. I don't know if this is often enough or not. It does have pseudo bulbs, which is why I'm posting it here. (Let me know if this isn't the correct section.) However, the pseudo bulbs are a naturally corrugated type. I think it's cool, but it's really hard for me, with no experience with them to know when they're drying out.

It has moderately bright light for most of the day between two lamps (6700k) and a window 3' away. Humidity is between 35-45% and temp is around 73 deg. (Edit: I set my humidity/temp meter back up and it's been reading between 74-84deg and humidity is averaging about 44-55%)

If anyone can tell me if just watering it more frequently will keep this stem from dying I'd appreciate it. I could potentially mist it with a water bottle, but I know that only messes with the humidity for a short period of time. I can't run a humidifier in the room it's in because I have a lot of books and I don't want to damage them. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Also, you can see what appear to be a couple of new psuedobulbs forming. Oh yeah, and I've never used them, but after reading about it on here, I've bought some wooden bbq skewers and I've inserted one into the middle of the pot. I'll wait 30min before checking it and water when it's almost dry. The bark looks dry in the picture, but I watered it last night and it's slightly damp to the touch on the surface.

Here are the pictures I promised