I have this phal sitting in the living room with an eastern window exposure.
It gets a whopping 5000fc of morning light for 2 hours and then 500-1000fc for the rest of the day.
It has been there for a few months already and no signs of burning yet (crosses fingers). I do see some light purple tinting around the edges and leaves are growing like crazy - perhaps because it is just the growing season and not due to the sunlight.

Have any of you phal veterans experienced any problems with their plants with short bursts of bright light like this over the long term?

Here is the photo showing its distance from the eastern window. My digital camera sucks at scaling the light so it looks like there are baseball stadium lights right outside my window lol.


Here is a close up. It is sitting inside my homemade "humidity pot". It is a sealed ceramic pot with no holes and filled with water up to a few inches.
The orchid pot is then sitting on top of another inverted pot so that it does not touch the water.
With A/C running, our indoor air gets dry really quick so I needed something that provides better humidity for the phal.


~John