| Your plant sounds like it is very healty. The first thing you should do is enjoy it with less worrying.
Air roots on a phal are common and not a sign of needing to be repotted. I try to repot as seldom as possible. You need to repot when the potting medium is going bad (about every 3-4 years with a phal, 1-2 years with bark based cats etc) and you can repot a large plant when you just do not like how the plant looks. If the potting is attractive and the medium good, just let it grow.
One thing I want to mentioned is that, several phals can have long blooming periods, but flowers take a lot of strength out of the plant. Fertilize regular. A teaspoon of balanced fertilizer (20-20-20 or 10-10-10) in a gallon of water used to water the plant once a week. It is litterally possible to bloom a plant to death if kept flowering for long periods without supplimental fertilizer. Many people cut the stem when the flowers get to be fewer and smaller to give the plant a rest before the next flowering season.
Anyway congradulations, you are doing very well for ;your first orchid
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jerry |