Ok....I'll admit I'm very impatient! Last October I bought a Masd. Redwing.
This is the first and only Masdevallia I've tried to grow. Even though the
vendor had some smaller ones in bloom I took the largest plant he had.
(First clue the siblings were blooming in October last year)

When I got it home I moved it from the 2 1/2 inch pot to a 4 inch clay pot
(the evaporation cools the roots). In May-June it sent up one spike that
dried up before it bloomed. I attributed this to the warm weather.

The plant resides about 2 feet from the swamp cooler and when it gets warm
the leaves have lots of cool damp air movement.

In 10 months the plant has more than doubled in size with about 6-8 new
leaves. Not a mark on any leaf!

So...when do these bloom? Should I expect blooms on mature growths? new
growths? last year's growth?

Good Growing,
Gene