Laelia lobata

[Spider]

Hallo Federico. Thank you for your answer. I am so glad today the flowerbud is opening. I will have to take a picture. The plant has grown, so the last bulb is sitting on the edge of the pot. It was replanted last year. I have heard that it does not like to be repotted. I do want more flowers next year. Do you have any sugestions

[Frdemetr]

Originally Posted by Spider

Hallo Federico. Thank you for your answer. I am so glad today the flowerbud is opening. I will have to take a picture. The plant has grown, so the last bulb is sitting on the edge of the pot. It was replanted last year. I have heard that it dos not like to be repotted. I do want more flowers next year. Do you have any sugestions

Spider,
You could try to copy their habitat, ie, much light, heat and low humidity during the day, but high atmosferic humidity (fog) and 'lower' temps (but never cold; Rio de Janeiro 'low temp' is almost never below 20ºC!) at night. They don't like a 'compact' media, and grow better over a 'soft', loose mixture (or any media at all! often my lobatas do better when grow out of the pot!). Frequent sprays at the end of the day and early in the morning are welcome (never under the sun!); I don't do that (I think it's unnecesary), but some people put a few drops of iodine in the sprays for lobatas (to 'copy' the sea sprays), with good results. I use 'bokashi' (japanese fertilizer, with powdered fish, soy and mamona and other smelly stuff) in the media (1 teaspoon, every two/three months, far from roots) and Peter's 0,5-1g/L every week.
I'm waiting for the pics!!

[Spider]

Hm, I try to copy nature and use Ro-water with a little of Peters fertilizer every watering. It gets a spray of water morning and evening. I have a humidity of 60-70% with the humifier that also is an aircleaner. I also have a few fans around the flat that I live in. I use halogen spotligts on a ramp with 3 lamps in each window. The temperature in my home is rarely below 20 degrees C. I realy wanted to know how I should do now when the plant has grown out of the pot. By the way, what is its name Laelia lobata or Sophronites lobata?