Well these are my last pics. The other day, I noticed the leaves were not doing so well, so I unpotted it (it was in sphag, and discovered almost all of the roots were rotted. One had 4 semi good roots, and the other only had 1. So I'm cutting off the spikes, in the hope that they can recover

My boyfriend is heart broken, and has left the room because he can't watch me cut off the spikes. I tried to explain that it is to try to keep the plant alive, so it can concentrate on getting better, instead of trying to bloom.