Brassavola nodosa

We got this orchid from the Sarasota Orchid Show. We had been on the look out for one of these because we thought it was really cool that they are moth pollinated and smell good at night. We only had a couple of orchids with any scent at all. It was in flower when we got it, and has been more or less continuously in bloom since then. It's going to be in strong contention with the little red and yellow mini catt pretty soon for most ridiculously prolific flowering. It was in a tiny little 2inch pot when we bought it with half the plant hanging over the edge of the pot. We repotted it into a 6" wooden basket after it finished flowering the first time. We had to sort of lay it on it's side to get the roots in the basket because it had been climbing vertically. We potted it into the standard bark mix with a bit of moss on top to keep new roots more moist. It has been doing really well. It made a few new growths (I think it is focusing too much on flowering rather than on growing). I mist it when it's hot and dry just to dampen the top layer a bit. We have been growing it with our large single leaved cattleyas, and it seems to like that just fine. It doesn't seem as susceptible to too much sun as much as some of the others, probably because the leaves are so narrow and thick skinned.