| Are you sure your Den needs cooling? If the flower spike is coming off the top of a cane, your plant is probaby a warm growing phalaenopsis type and one does not cool these off. Also, it is time for the warm types to bloom now. Keep watering and fertilizing like you have been just so long as the plant is growing. The new canes coming from the base are a sure indication the plant is no where near ready for a slow down. phal types also have fairly stiff leaves.
Now, for the ones that need cooling off, the nobile types. They bloom in spring after being cooled off, they have flowers along the length of the cane, and they have floppy leaves.
Is there a name tag on your plant? It doesn't happen often, but it does sometimes happen that one of the more unusual species shows up in home centers and the like, and these could have a very different culture than the phal types and the nobile types.
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