This little guy wouldn't bloom for us the first fall. We had just moved to Florida and probably didn't have it's fertilizer and light regime right. It bloomed for us this last September though! We were super excited. It felt like we had waited forever.
It came to us in a little tiny plastic pot, but the new growths were soon going over the edge and the new roots weren't going into the medium and then were dying off. We repotted it into a slightly larger plastic pot, but I think we just had really bad timing with that, because a few of the new growths never got roots and eventually died off. We decided to try something new when we repotted it after it flowered. We had seen a lot of really gorgeous cernuas at shows that were mounted. We don't think mounting would work well for us, not having a greenhouse. We took apart an 8 inch basket then put it back together only about 2-3 inches tall, so we just took out some of the pieces. We put bark in it like normal and tucked the cernua in. I think it's a perfect combination of mounted so that it's not going to run into the problem of having roots outside the medium for years, and not having too much medium that it takes forever to dry out like it would in a full height basket. So far it seems very happy with it's new arrangement. When we repotted we cut off the sad pseudobulbs and have been trying to get them to sprout new growths. Once the new growths on those are big enough we will tuck them into the basket with the rest of it, and we'll have a big one!
I water it and fertilize weekly with Dyna Grow, and use Dyna Gro Bloom when it starts indicating that it is going to flower. Because it has such little bark, I mist it probably once or twice a week to keep it humid. I also put a bit of moss around the new growths and new roots.
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