Well I meant FL is humid most of the year, NY is humid 2 - 3 months. I go visit the BBG conservatory often and they have a ton of Vandas hanging with no media, but when I walk in there my camera lens fogs all the time except in the summer/ late spring.

I try to water them daily with a pump sprayer. sometimes I forget, sometimes I do it 2ice daytime and evening.

The larger one I got it from a nursery in FL, came with really long thin roots, but here it developed shorter thick roots and the old roots basically got replaced.
That one is in a 7 inch slotted orchid pot [like azalea pot[ I put a thin coco liner in it with, the Vanda is sitting on half of a coconut husk I got from a rasta juice bar here, then filled the gaps with hydroton and some coco chips. it has been hanging the whole summer / warm spring outside my fire escape railing / southern window. No blooms though. Maybe need to fertilize more. Has bloomed before I got it. A dedrobium hard cane type is spiking next to it and has one or 2 leaves with some sun burn mark. So should be enough light for the Vanda... But who knows?
I killed a couple of small ones and a small one is thriving. They sent me 2 of the same [I think Vanda Pakchong blue] and the one in the wood basket is growing a lot faster and bigger than the one ins the 2" net pot.

I wonder if larger pot makes a Vanda grow faster. Also I think some plants are healthier than others as some in the same spot grow healthy and fast others do not.

Anyway notice even at the Botanic Garden Vandas trhiving next to a few losing leaves/ dessicating/ leggy / dying/