Please, Bloom!

 I have written many times about my orchid plant.  Although it looks very healthy and has sprouted new leaves and air roots, after well over a year it has not rebloomed.  For some time I have been giving it a special orchid fertilizer that I bought that is supposed to promote flowering... a few drops in its water each week.  But nothing.

Now, I have been taking further measures.  I read that in order to keep the air around the plant more humid, the orchid should be set on a tray filled with pebbles and water.  So, I have put pebbles and water in the plate under the plant.  However, I didn't want it to be sitting in water... root rot the articles on the internet warn!  I set the pot in the plastic bottom from a package of cherry tomatoes.  It fits perfectly.

One fellow at the orchid show that we attended a couple weeks ago said that orchids like cooler temperatures at night.  So, I have been setting the plant out on the enclosed balcony at night.  I open one of the windows, but not the window by the orchid.  They don't like drafts.  Even during the hot months of spring, the nighttime temperatures in Mexico City get down into the upper 50s F.  I figure that the balcony is probably getting down to about 60 degrees, which, according to several articles, is a temperature that they like at night.  Then, in the morning I take it back to the living room by the window with the southeastern exposure.  With the sheer drapes, there it gets plenty of bright but indirect sunlight.

I don't know what else I can do... perhaps talk to it.  "Please, bloom.  Pretty please."