This one from Costco got here around last christmas with two large spikes covered with cheerful yellow blooms.

This is its first re-bloom and the flowers should be here probably around christmas again, so it is in a normal cycle.
Spike close up:

The other is dark pink one, I got it as a mother's day gift last May and it was in bloom through June. Then it grew new leaf and decided to bloom again not waiting for it's proper time - next May:

I am sure that it happened because when we moved here in September I placed them in the basement where now I have quite bright spot for plants too, but temps a bit cooler than those phals used to. Cooler temps trigger spikes.
I should try to put there my phal cornucervi that has old spike forever and doesn't do anything with it.
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