Hi, and welcome to the Orchid Board! My own interests also lean strongly to Phals, and especially the minis, though I have a pretty good number of genera in among them.
I applaud your decision to mount them! When I use pots, it is almost a basket pot in which the sphagnum I use dried out in about 2 days. There are some important keys to success with mounts, though. Not knowing where you live I can't say how difficult it will be to give them what they want. My mounteds are in a place to receive relatively low light but long days. Some are under T5s. It's about impossible to overwater a mounted orchid - mine are watered at least twice each day. The most important need, though, is in the humidity level. Under 50% is too low, while about 60% approached ideal. Here in Georgia the typical day is nasty humid and so through 8 or 9 months of the years, with windows open, they're most happy. When I do have to break down and run my furnace, the humidity is sucked from the air, dropping to under 20%, a level at which mounted Phals begin to beg and pray for death. I have several cool-air humidifiers to compensate.
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My Mini Orchids.....
I watched your video on your mini phals, and the roots of them all look really good. I grow my phals, mini and reg. size in bark and Orchiata bark, in clear plastic pots with added ventilation holes that I put in with a soldering iron. In my mind, it's closer to a mounted phal than in the pots that they were in. Anyway, I think once your phals are adjusted to being mounted, they'll bloom again for you if you have met their requirements. Good luck
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