Matt, it's really hard to gage how much water and fertilizer to give a plant when it's in the process of budding to keep the pseudobulb from shriveling. You try to give just enough to compensate for the loss of water and nutrients into the spike, but give too much, and you start to rot the roots. PBs are storage organs, so yours did exactly what it was supposed to do. As long as it didn't shrivel too drastically (and it didn't), the way you did it there is totally fine.

Glad you like the plant!


PS: that bird of paradise leaf is gorgeous--wish the leaves on our orange one here looked as full and good.

Tanya, your clone may just be a fall bloomer. Just because it's a Brassia doesn't mean they all bloom in the same season, and if it's an intergeneric, the blooming season can be any time. We have Odontobrassias with very similar-looking flowers that only bloom in the fall.