I bought an unidentified orchid on markdown October 13 of last year. It was languishing on a table at the local Grocery Outlet Store and I rescued it without realizing not only that the blooms would stay on for months at a time, but that the plant would flower again before spring. I did, however, put this dated photo of the plant in my Jorte smart phone's calendar diary:
Here are new buds which first became noticeable on March 4, 2016.
They are about the same diameter as the stem. A few weeks later, however, they have grown into boxy shaped buds about the diameter of a quarter.
UPDATE: Finally, on April 2 the first bud started to open early in the morning and by 9 pm the inside of its face was showing: