P.bulb recovery

[wahaj]

Hiya,

I have an oncidium NOID I believe that I bought about a year ago from the eden project. As I didn't know much about watering, and I knew I have a habit of over watering things, I repotted it into a thin, tall clay pot with orchid compost i bought from the garden centre.

I watered it about once a week or fortnight all of last year but the p.bulbs dried up slowly over time. It's new growth on the leaves also started to become pleated. So I assumed from this that it was being under watered.

So last week i took it out of the clay pot to find dry but wonderfully clean happy looking roots, however they didn't take into the new compost at all. The compost seemed pretty bone dry, even though i used to soak the pot into water for about 10 minutes and then let the water drain off.

So i've repotted into a much smaller, glazed pot to keep the moisture in.

My question is that if i keep it well watered this time, do you think the p.bulbs will re hydrate or have i now lost them? they're still green, and hold their leaves, they're just shrivelled up and almost flat.