Miltassia Shelob "Tolkein"

We also got this at the Highlands County Orchid Show in March 2013. We bought it bare root because it seemed cool looking in the pictures they had of it, and it was inexpensive. We looked it up and found out that it should be grown pretty much exactly like an Oncidium. It wants medium light levels between a cattleya and a Phal and to dry out completely between waterings. We potted it in a 6" clay pot with the standard orchid bark mix. We put a little bit of moss at the bases of the new growths to keep any new roots moist until they got further down into the medium. It had two mostly mature new growths when we bought it that hadn't made any roots yet. It started making roots fairly quickly so that was really encouraging. We are always holding our breath whenever we change and repot things to see how they will do. Until it starts showing signs of good success we are nervous. Then a couple of months later, to our amazement, it started putting out two flowering spikes!! We were not expecting that at all, especially since it had just been potted. Once it started making spikes I of course started Bloom boosting it! The spikes survived the moves for the most part. I think we may not have watered it enough when the spikes were growing and forming buds because a few of the buds turned yellow and fell off. Three flowers did form and open though, and they are really cool looking.