Dendrobium spectabile

This orchid might have the most interesting method of acquisition since we got it for only $18 at the company Christmas party silent auction! I knew we got a good deal, but I didn't realize how good a deal until I saw one's smaller than ours in bud for sale at an orchid show for $100! We didn't get ours to flower this year, although it has made several nice new growths and is presently making more. It came in an 8" clay pot with bark and moss mixed up together. We asked the people at the show that were selling these for so much money about getting it to flower. They told us it wants higher light like a vanda. We put it in higher light hoping it would still flower this winter, but no luck. We are worried about the moss mixed in with the bark, because we usually don't like to do that since it seems to make the bark rot faster and just make everything stay wet for too long. We are going to undertake repotting it probably back into the same pot tomorrow. We have been trying to let it dry out between waterings, but that has been a challenge with the current potting situation- thus the repotting.