First, you do need to specify which Lycastes. They don't all want the same culture. There's a group of yellow-green ones that are deciduous, flower in late spring/early summer then grow leaves, which want less water in winter. The larger flowered ones I water all year. I am sure that the Japanese growers who have produced some fantastic large, round, colorful hybrids (based on Lyc. virginalis) have refined the culture far beyond what I could even imagine. Some of the Anguloas like to be a little warmer, but not all - again, get down to the species level. You can't generalize for either genus. And species vs hybrids also different.
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