Hi Wayne,
Being an ex-big time orchid guy this is what I can tell you, just feed the phalaenopsis like crazy both growth and flower inducing fert. Most serious players here foliar feed the plts at least twice a week. You have the advantage of the cold season where you are. Here, unless they are put into a cool room to induce them to bloom, they will only do it once every 2 yrs or so. I am talking about the big flowered Taiwan hybrids. I still have a couple of them like the Ph Everspring clones. These are the medium sized flowers with a very dark big maroon patch on the pure white petals. One of them just bloomed after a 5 yr hiatus.
They are now so cheap here like about usd$6 to $10 for a big blooming plt that people just buy them to see the flower and then dump them in the garden when its done. Then they go and buy another bloomer!
Basically, I keep many of the tropical species especially those that can take a lot of sun like the Ph cornu-cervi. Small flowered but very free year round blooms and many at a time.
Just be patient and.... feed...feed...feed...
