Tony,
Most of my Phals are doing very well in the same room by the same window,
and are growing leaves without any trouble whatsoever. It's definitely not
the temperature difference. The Dtps that is not reflowering is a
summer-flowering one that is close to Doritis in heritage, but I have
another that is actually a sibling of this one that is reflowering like
clockwork every summer. So how would environment account for one plant in
the same room flowering every year and producing only a moderate number of
leaves, whereas it's sister plant being this very leafy non-reflowering
plant? Unless it's a matter of micro-climates close to the individual
plants, but I tend to move plants that don't do well over a period of time
to another location eventually, and these particular orchids have been
pretty constant in their behavior no matter where I put them.
Joanna

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Hi

It seem there is a contradiction here. It seems to me that if one plant
is not growing any further leaves, then the others shouldn't be growing
new leaves either. 20 leaves on a Phal is great, but I would be
inclined to look further into how you are trying to grow them. There
must be some cultural problem here that we cannot see. I would suspect
that you do not have enough of a temperature variation, but without
further info, this is just a guess.

I live in Western Australia and last year at an orchid show, an
American lady asked me for some advice. She said "My Phailianopsis
refuses to rebloom" I asked her where she was growing it and she said
"Pennsylvania". Which wasn't quite what I meant.

It turned out that she was attempting to grow her 'Phailianopsis' in an
apartment with central heating. Constant teperature = no flowers.

Tony