I'm fairly new to orchids. I had one botched attempt a few years ago, in which i mistakenly threw out my plant thinking it dead or dying as it had not made any kind of change in 2 years. not this time!

This orchid was an impulse buy, but only after scouring the web for what i did wrong last time. I think it's a phal, but "just add ice" does have a label on their flowers. Not to worry though, I'm not freezing out its poor roots.

I had it in a window over the winter after the flowers fell, but once spring hit, the longer sun exposure seemed to start burning its leaves so i moved it to my office desk{{gwi:807}} where i have florescent lamps under an overhead storage cabinet. It really seems to like this. Almost immediately after i cut off a brown segment, a new shoot started from the node below, a leaf is growing and all of the air roots have shiny new tips. One of the roots looks a little wonky, but it's still growing so I'm leaving it be for now.

I don't have any pics of the original flowers, but they were white with dark purple Rorschach-like markings, which is what originally drew me to it. I'll post some if it progresses all the way to bloom again.

This post was edited by Zim83 on Tue, Apr 23, 13 at 9:54