Cattleya aurantiaca

We bought this lovely species orchid at the Venice Orchid Show in February 2013. We got it because it was a species and because we didn't have anything orange. It was flowering when we got it, and another spike opened up on another growth shortly thereafter as well. It came to us in a 4" square plastic pot. It's not growing out of the pot at all, so we haven't repotted it. It has made a lot of nice new roots, and is presently making 2 nice new growths. It's potted in standard bark mix, and it gets watered when it dries out all the way. Normally that is once a week. When it's really hot and it has been a couple of days since I last watered, I often spray the top a bit to keep the new roots happy. Normally the misting dries up within a few hours. We do this to most of the plants when it's hot and they aren't ready to be watered yet. We use spray with Grow or Bloom booster depending on what the plant is up to. It gets a good amount of light, but not quite as much as the single leaved cattleyas. THe double leaved types seem to prefer slightly less sun. It probably gets a couple of hours of direct sun and at least a couple hours of indirect light. When we got it the oldest two pseudobulbs had a little bit of brown spotting on them and the leaves were slightly yellowish. It seemed to stay the same for a long time, so we left them alone. A few weeks ago though the leaves started to get more yellow, so we cut off those two pseudobulbs at their base. Probably we will be looking at repotting the aurantiaca next year due to size and also because the plastic pot tips over all the time and is annoying. It appears that there may be a flower sheath in one of the new growths! Hopefully we can re-bloom it. That is always the challenge!