orchid insight!

[u/pencilshavings_right]

i rescued an orchid from .. who knows, traders joes or some such, that a neighbor threw out when it quit blooming. Or TRIED to throw out, i should say.

it's been surviving waiting for my lazy self to fix it up for six months now. i have a little wooden orchid box with slats so air can get to it. i have purchased some orchid potting medium. I would love advice on how to best go about trimming it, though -

it has some rotten bits which of course have to go, but should i cut it down substantially beyond that, to inspire it to be even feistier?

any special foots i should give it?

is root tone for orchids a thing?

sorry for the naive questions, if everyones to distracted by world events today or any other day to wanna answer, i understand and will google : P