Encyclia "Cindy"

Encyclia Cindy we got from someone at Steven's work in a 4" clay orchid po,t potted in bark with moss over the top to keep a bit more humidity. We were amazed when it started putting on a flowering spike and flowered for us right away! It seemed so small (just a few pseudobulbs) to flower, but I guess not! It also got cooties in the wave of scale outbreak that we had. Many of the plants that got scale sulked for a while. One of the pseudobulbs had the whole leaf part break off. We ended up repotting it back into it's same pot with just bark mix a few months after we got it. It came back slowly but surely putting on a lot of new roots and a new pseudobulb which is now putting on a flowering spike! Maybe it only flowers in May? We aren't sure yet about that. We had to water it a bit more often than the other orchids because it was drying out a lot faster. I put a bit of moss at the top where there were new roots coming out to keep them moist, and I would mist it every other day or so if it was hot and dry. We have found that it's ok to put moss on top of bark to keep new roots happy until they can get further into the medium, but it is NOT ok to put bark on top of moss. "Bark over moss, major root loss" is the mnemonic device we made up. It makes the bark rot really fast and then the roots get sad.