Orchid won’t flower

no idea what type of orchid. Now about 3 - 4 years old. Quite healthy but won’t flower. Any recommendations?

 

Judging by the colour and the lean I reckon that it is either lacking light, or getting too much and trying to get some shade. I also reckon that the humidity may be a little lacking.

Looks like a Dendrobium of some sort, probably a noid hybrid. Each cane only flowers once, so the wrinkly ones will not flower (they are just "food stores").

How warm is the room. The commonly sold noid Dendrobiums are fairy tolerant - take more heat than the species Dens, but not strong sunlight. Here's a good example of a noid Dendrobium......................


It's a hybrid that has no name (hence noid - no i.d.), but as with most of the ones commonly sold in Europe it is basically a Dendrobium phalaenopsis hybrid.

Dendrobium nobile forms the flowers on the canes like this...........................


Generally a good way to bloom this species is to give them a cool spell.

 

I know nothing about orchids, but saw a tv programme once that said they do better in clear containers so the roots get light, the one I have is in the bathroom, gets watered sometimes, but has just finished flowering.

 

For epiphytic orchids that is certainly true! Most Dendrobium species are indeed epiphytic, but the reason that D.phalaenopsis and D.nobile have been so heavily hybridised and are so widely sold is that they are so tolerant that they also grow as terrestrial plants in the wild.