Hello everyone, I'm a new member here :)

I have a bunch of other orchids, but since this is a paph/phrag forum I wanted to ask some things about my only paph :)

I have one paph. raisin pie x laser that was given to me by the store owner when I bought other orchids from her. This plant was in a sorry state originally.
At the time, it had one healthy growth and two growths attached to it were half rotten and one fat root. The vendor said that it did bloom before when on display so I'm asumming the plant is mature enough to rebloom eventually.

I have been able to coax it back to health and has plenty of good roots and growths now as shown in the photo:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v400/tamarawffxi/Orchids/DSC00605.jpg

I have transferred it to a s/h culture to see if it likes it better that way.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v400/tamarawffxi/Orchids/DSC00612.jpg

Now, on to my questions :)
1. How many healthy growths does the plant usually need before it can start spiking?
2. What are the real light requirements of paphs? I read so many differing opinions on the proper light for paphs, I keep this paph under 50% shade and the leaves look a bit too dark so I was wondering if it needed more light.

Thanks everyone.

Such kind of Paph is called Mottled leaf slippers as well as "Maudiae Type" slippers which are easy to grow and flowre.

In my point of view, you got a pretty healthy plants and should be free to flower as soon as the new growths mature. Those root system is not that bad and it should resume its vigour very soon when spring comes. There is no extra attention required except normal watering and fertilization with diluted liquid fertilizers in growing season. Requirement of light for that lind of paph is not that important since it can tolerate quire dim growing condition and can still flower normally. However, sufficient light does promote more vigorous growth and flowering. If its growing condition is temperate weather, you can give it a bit more light since plants can receive more light in cooler weather than in hot weather.

Do remember to post its flowers when it blooms !!! :o

That one had the capability to bloom on the first mature growth. Great job on getting it back to being healthy!!

It looks like you did a great job in saving this plant. I have do this before with a few plants from Lowe's or TJ's and I also put them in s/h.