Rhynchostylis gigantea in bloom and this is how! 

You have a nice collection of Rhynchostylis. I love the leaves on the gigantea Spots.

Congratulations, beautiful blooms!I bought 4-different colors a couple years ago that haven’t bloomed yet. I bought them because they were supposed to have a good scent. 😮. Darn

I got a rhynchostylis gigantea red as a seedling. I heard it as slow growing. I have it in Bark and Charcoal under grow lights. I water it once a week.

congrats mate. I lost my gigantea in the end unfortunately. By the time I realize why it was too late sadly. Like you not wanting to try lecca again I will also not try my luck with the gigantea again. They get too big anyway. I don't know if you are interested in my theory on why lecca did not work out for you as for lots of others that have tried lecca over the years. Many peopl end up complaining about lecca and ironically it has nothing to do with the lecca at all. At least that is my theory if you are interested in hearing it. I am sure you will dismiss it but I want to tell you anyway, then you can ignore it at your choice. So theer is absoutely nothing wrong with lecca, it is practically as good as bark but so why does it not work for people. Well the answer is the roots. More specifically the root color. Now the reason I am fairly sure you say that they did not like lecca is because the roots struggled. They probably developed black tips and brown salt damage in places right? This led you to conclude the lecca was damaging the orchids which would not happen as much in an organic media like bark and especially moss. Now many just conclude lecca is no good and to never use it again. My theory will sound far fetched to you but I swear it isn't It's what I discovered trying lecca on orchids myself. I also experienced problems and it made no sense to me as I have 30 years experience using lecca and I'd never experienced the problems some orchids were giving me. I obviously wasn't just going to give up, I had to figure out a way to make it work. For that to happen I had to figure out what was going wrong. Why did some orchids love lecca and others did not. Many growers at this point conclude some species are more sensitive than others and can only be grown in moss or bark. But it has nothing to do with that. I haven't found a single sepcies yet that could not be adapted to lecca. Even my mexicoa ghiesbreghtiana grows in lecca. My cattleya walkeriana and schilleriana love lecca. Literally all my orchids are in lecca. Ok so get to the point. Why did the lecca fail? Ok so again just my theory and what I discovered. But it seems it has to do with the orchid, not the lecca! What I discovered was that orchids grown in moss very often have moss mites living on them. If moss mites have moss to feed on they will leave thick leaved orchids alone, they'd prefer a softer plant material to eat. But when we repot an orchid that has moss mites into an inorganic media like lecca the moss mites go crazy. They are so tiny you don't see them unless you really go looking for them and even then sometimes they are only noticeable in the middle of the night. So anyway, one repots the orchid, the moss mites haven't got anything to eat anymore. They have two options. Go hungry and die or eat the orchid instead. You might think moss mites can;t damage orchids. You;d be wrong. Take away their food source and they will feed off the orchid instead. They won't like it but they won;t just drop dead. Within half a year the orchid will become dehydrated. The roots will look terrible, some might even start rotting. You repot back into moss. The moss mites rejoice and leave the orchid alone again. The end... I know it won;t convince you to try lecca again, no harm there even though lecca is alot cheaper than bark but it's worth being aware of why our plants do what they do. Many times the best we can do is form theories. Like you did, lecca is no good for orchids and like I did, the orchids that don;t like lecca have moss mites living on them. So that's my theory for what it's worth. But like I said I did end up killing my gigantea. Yours do look in much better shape than mine did. Who knows maybe it was the lecca and the gigantea is the one species I found that doesn;t like it. Mine did end up dying and it was in lecca lol. But it did have moss mites too. I know because I saw them on the giantea too.