SFL guy-great to see you here, it's a small world! Suppose the Sarracenia Forum has me really spoiled when it comes to posting pictures....
Thanks for all the positive feedback everyone! Regarding some of the text that got erased, I wanted to discuss flower timing: here in Northern California, Disas tend to bloom from June thru end of July. However, this year I have one pot that just started blooming right now! Clones of this exact plant growing in the exact same environment (watering, light, everything) are on target to bloom in June. So why is this plant flowering now?
Still not positive, but I think it has something to do with when the new growth emerged from the tuber. Last spring, I suspect the plant in bloom died because the growth had a terminal leaf and then senesced. There was a large tuber, so a new growth emerged and had an incredible boost in growth and development since that tuber was loaded with nutrients and was only focused on the new plantlet. Normally, new plantlets pop up in the spring, but these little babies won't have accelerated growth because the mother plant typically is eating up most of the nutrients.
Long story short, if you can figure out how to make disa plants with tubers die off naturally in the spring and get replaced by new growth, this might be one way to get them to bloom earlier! Normally, growth dies off naturally in the late summer to early fall and is replaced by one or several new plantlets.
Here's Disa 'Glasgow Orchid Conference', it's maybe 3-4" tall (very short for this clone, which is usually much taller), and it has 5 flower buds in it! Photo taken 3/17/17:
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