Scott,
I've had an Epi. ilense for nearly three years now. I got it mounted on bark and read that it didn't like high levels of light, so I moved it into my Paph room and it grew pretty well. At least until I knocked it off its hanger and broke off two of the growths!
Then a year or so later, I read they liked high levels of light, so I put it in Catt-level light and it seemed to stop growing for nearly a year.
I forgot I had watered it in the shower this spring when I went away for the weekend, and when I got home it had put out a spike and two buds in two days! The moist dark rest seemed to be the trigger, but who knows?
The flowers weren't well formed, and didn't last very long, so I was convinced it wasn't getting the moisture it needed bare rooted on the cork. So I carefully removed the mount and plunked the plant into sphagnum in a clay pot. It immediately put out two more buds that bloomed normally and are still happily strutting their stuff.
I now have it in bright indirect light, and it's pushed up a new growth and is looking content.
Hope this helps!
Julie
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