SOUTHERN ONTARIO ORCHID SOCIETY NEWS October 2011, Volume 46, Issue 9

Web site: www.soos.ca ; Member of the Canadian Orchid Congress; Affiliated with the American Orchid Society, the Orchid Digest and the International Phalaenopsis Alliance. Membership: Annual Dues $30 per calendar year (January 1 to December 31 ). Surcharge $15 for newsletter by postal service. Membership secretary: Hesse Pommells 416-245-0369, #503-370 Dixon Road, Weston, Ontario, M9R 1T2 Executive: President, Yvonne Schreiber, 905-473-3405; Vice- president, Elizabeth McAlpine, 416-487-7832; Secretary, Sue Loftus 905-839-8281; Treasurer, John Vermeer, 905 823-2516 Other Positions of Responsibility: Program, Mario Ferrusi; Doctor, Doug Kennedy; Meeting Set up, Tom Atkinson; Vendor and Sales table coordinator, Diane Ryley; Web Master, Max Wilson; Heinz Ernstberger with his plant of the month Newsletter, Peter and Inge Poot; Annual Show, Peter Poot; Paphiopedilum Jogjae photo pp Refreshments, Joe O’Regan. Conservation Committee, Tom Atkinson; Show table, Iryna Bonya. SOOS Annual Valentine Honorary Life Members: Terry Kennedy, Doug Kennedy, Inge Orchid Show, February 11 Poot, Peter Poot, Joe O’Regan, Diane Ryley, Wayne Hingston. and 12, 2012. We need you Annual Show: February 11 – 12, 2012 to volunteer!

Meeting Program Sunday, October 2, Sales at noon, program at 1 pm. Our speaker on October 2 will be Jose Esposito of Soroa Orchids (http://www.soroaorchids.com/). He is President of Soroa Orchids, Inc, located in the heart of the Redland, Florida orchid-growing area. He is an accredited judge of the American Orchid Society and travels around the world selling and lecturing about orchid breeding and culture, including lectures at the World Orchid Conferences in Rio, Brazil and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Jose is a founder member of the International Orchid Alliance, past president of the East Everglades Orchid Club, past president of The Coalition for Orchid Species, past member of the Education Committee of the American Orchid Society, Vice President of the Redland Orchid Growers Association and Redland Orchid Festival, Inc., as well as a past board member of the South Florida Orchid Society, where he served for several years. Soroa Orchids expanded it‟s business to Canada in 2005, opening Soroa Orchids Canada in Toronto. Jose was born in Cuba, and emigrated to the United States in 1980. In Cuba, he was an accomplished writer, considered to this day the youngest published writer in Cuba, winning National prizes of Literature when he was a mere stripling of 16 years. Jose is also the new chairman of judging for the Florida Caribbean Region.

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SOOS President’s Remarks  SOOS – TBG library membership liaison – send name and SOOS number Fellow orchid aficionados: Thank you goes out of new members to the TBG and to those of you who brought in treats to share th receive TBG number for access to TBG for our September 4 meeting. The letters of library the month for October will be S and last names  Hearts and flowers – send cards that start with the letters Ta. We are asking and/or flowers to SOOS members who anyone whose last name starts with these are ill or have passed away letters to bring in a treat to share. These treats  Monthly Social Break co-ordinator – should be finger foods only i.e. something that putting out treats and napkins at the can be picked up with your fingers and does not monthly meetings require a plate or fork.  Orchidfest and Christmas Party The C.O.O.S. show will be held on September kitchen organizer – solicit volunteers 24rd and 25th. For those of you who will be to help, direct and organize the food reading your newsletter prior to this date, for these two special occasions. This please contact Don Wyatt at job could be split into two. [email protected] if you have any  Librarian – receive, process and put that he can use in the SOOS display. The magazines into SOOS collection at the E.C.O.S. show in Montreal will take place on TBG library. Select and purchase new October 22nd and 23rd and Laura Liebgott has books, etc. about orchids. Record and volunteered to enter the SOOS display. The prepare these items for inclusion in R.B.G. society has moved its show to the fall the SOOS collection. (Please note that from the spring and it will take place on TBG volunteers do all cataloguing). October 29th and 30th. We will be looking for flowering plants to exhibit at these shows as A new director would not be obliged to well. Is there anyone who would like to help assume one of these jobs. Perhaps you have put together one of the displays? Please let me another idea about how you could contribute know. to our Society. Or you can become a director and take some time to pick out an area in

which you would feel comfortable helping out. HELP!! The election for the 2012-2013 th The election will take place at the beginning of executive will take place at the December 4 th the December 4 meeting. We need a slate of meeting. We, that is SOOS, are in desperate candidates to present to the membership on need of new people to form the next executive. which they can vote. If you are not able to The positions that need to be filled include that stand for one of the positions, but you know of president, vice president and directors. Any someone that you think would be willing and of us on the current or past executive would be able to do so, please let me know. We need more than willing to act as a mentor for any of names prior to the December meeting i.e. these positions. There are roles for more than November or preferably October. Talk to me at one new director. What could you be doing as a a meeting; e-mail me at director to help your society? Here are a few of [email protected], or phone me at the jobs that are looking to be adopted: 905-473-3405.  Membership – record and collect Yvonne Schreiber membership fees from new and renewing members 2

As our SOOS president, Yvonne Schreiber, has Please note that the first session is mentioned, the present 2-year term of the SOOS board of directors, or "executive" as we tend to on September 13, not 27 as call this team, will end on December 31, 2011. I originally reported. want to add my voice to Yvonne's, and make the case for why each of our members should give serious consideration to becoming a director.

As many of you know, but the newer members may not, I joined SOOS in April 2004, after Coming Events 2011 being blown away by the 2004 SOOS show that SEPTEMBER February. At the end of 2005, Jay Norris approached me to ask if I would consider 24-25, Central Ontario Orchid Society allowing my name to stand in nomination as a Show, Toronto Centre, October Toronto society director. This was a very welcome AOS judging, Cambridge, Hespeler Arena. surprise, and it did not take much arm twisting www.coos.ca for me to accept. Did I know what a director was supposed to do? Yes, and no. The yes part is October from experience on another society's board. The 1-2 , Central New York Orchid Society Show, no part is that I was green as grass to the world Baldwinsville, NY. of tropical orchids, and wondered if I would be able to help much. As it turned out, the decision 2, SOOS meeting Toronto Botanical Garden, to accept Jay's offer was the right one. sales 12 noon, program 1 pm 15, 2011 Niagara Frontier Orchid Society, When you become a director, mentoring is Buffalo, NY. available to you, from any of the directors, past or present. Your first assignment is a simple 22,23, Montreal Centre - ECOS Orchidfête one: attend the executive meetings, get to know 2011 - Days Inn Hotel, Montreal+ Montréal your fellow directors, understand how the Centre society works, and listen. As time progresses, 29, 30 RBG Orchid Society show, Royal and as you feel more comfortable, see if there is Botanical Gardens, Burlington. a simple task that you could take on. The rest will flow naturally. 27-30 AOS meetings, San Antonio, Texas. November Please do not be bashful. We need new faces and new ideas on the executive. Approach 5, Toronto Centre, TBG, Semi annual meeting. Yvonne in her role as president, or me in my role as immediate past president, and talk to us. 6, SOOS meeting Toronto Botanical Garden, sales 12 noon, program 1 pm Tom Atkinson, Immediate Past president. 12, The Essex County Orchid Society is hosting an Orchid Show & Sale on November 12, 2011. This is the first time an Orchid Show of this caliber is taking place in the Fall New Comers’ Meetings Essex County/Windsor area. This is a one day event where you will see many beautiful Wayne Hingston will once (905-686-5697) orchids artistically arranged in creative again present his excellent series on the culture displays by vendors and members. There is of the most popular types of hobby orchids. no admission fee for the public and the event These sessions are for members who have just is taking place at Colasanti's Tropical started in orchids and will be presented at the Gardens in Ruthven on Saturday Nov. 12th Toronto Botanical Garden Board Room on the from 10 to 4 pm. This will be a great following Tuesday evenings at 7 pm: opportunity for all orchid lovers and Sept. 13, Oct. 18, Nov. 22, Dec. 13, and Jan. 17 admirers alike to view an elaborate (2012). assortment of orchids and Orchid Art. A vast array of orchids will be available for

3 purchase from our four vendors. There will Programme Notes by Inge Poot be speakers both in the AM & the PM on orchid growing with an opportunity to ask The September 4, 2011 meeting featured Doug questions on growing orchids successfully. Kennedy as our speaker on the topic “You For more info kindly check our website: Can’t Grow That” www.essexcountyorchidsociety.webs.com Doug made two points. One point was that this 14-23, 20th WOC, Singapore is a most unhelpful comment and really only means that the plant in question has some 19, Montréal Centre – Jardin botanique de cultural quirk that must be met to have success. Montréal In other words you must know what it is and December then you certainly CAN grow it. He then proceeded to go through a number of plants that 3, Toronto Centre, TBG have the reputation of being difficult and telling us what to do to make them grow miraculously 4. SOOS meeting Toronto Botanical Garden, well! The other point was that (negative) sales 12 noon, program 1 pm generalizations are misleading, since there are 17, Montréal Centre – Jardin botanique de always exceptions. Montréal

AOS Judging Results Please note, all of these awards are provisional until published by the American Orchid Society Toronto Centre September 3 , 2011: Paphiopedilum Fumimasa Sugiyama, AM- AOS 81 points, Wendy Hoffman Omoea phillipinense, CCM-AOS 82 points, Dwaine Levy

Bulbophyllum Wilmot Candy Stripes x echinolabium HCC-AOS 76 points, Cloud’s Angraecum Crestwood photo pp Orchids One such generalization is that Angraecums Aerangis mooreana, are huge, warm and humid growers and if your growing space and heating budget is limited, CHM-AOS 82 points, Cloud’s Orchids then you can‟t grow them! But granted that Coelogyne usitane x lawrenceana, HCC-AOS Angraecum sesquipedale and Angraecum 77 points, Doug and Terry Kennedy eburneum plus the odd other species are huge, most species in the genus are small, most Sudamerlycaste [Sud.] dyeriana, AM-AOS 84 require intermediate temperatures, but they may points, CCE-AOS 90 points, Al Salzman need lots of light. So grow A. compactum (cool to hot, dappled light), A, magdalenae (intermediate temp and light, but winters quite The next judging session is Saturday September dry, full sun and cooler) or A. perrieri (grow hot, 24 at the Central Ontario Orchid Society Show in but shady). Cambridge. AOS Judging starts at approximately And then there are the genera related to 11 am. Judging is a service of the American Angraecum: of Aerangis (intermediate Orchid Society and is open to all! Bring us your temperatures and light and with lots of snowy flowering orchids. We need the practice. white flowers) and Aeranthes (same culture as Aerangis) with the long thin on

the end of which dangle 3-4” (7.5 -10cm) flowers in shades of cream or green. They give life to a

4 display because the flowers move in the Phalaenopsis gigantea or violacea for sure! It slightest breeze. will overwhelm even the scent of Oncidium Sharry Baby on the fragrance competition table! Brassia is another genus with an undeserved bad reputation, because the plants need a jolt to That said, there are many Bulbophyllums that do flower! So if you have a huge plant that won‟t not stink and some are quite pleasantly fragrant. bloom, stress it by keeping it cooler, cut the Just remember that all (or almost all) bulbos like nitrogen out of its fertilizer, mist but do not water, to be kept warm and wet, but must have good give it more light. One or more of those tricks will drainage, good air movement and most like get out the flowers! Most of the species have a Cattleya light. The perfect plant for the nice strong fragrance but tend to be in yellow- compulsive waterer! A medium bark mix works brown tones. To get more colour try the well for them.Try B. sumatrana (flowers close at intergenerics made with Brassia and Ada night), B. dearei and any of the pin-wheel bulbos keiliana. The latter is a cuppy, orange flowered –formerly put into the genus Cirrhopetalum. Of species with a sweet scent. The resulting the latter the B. rothschildianum hybrid B. Brassadas have delightful open flowers with Elisabeth Ann ‟Buckleberry‟ is a most lots of red in them. rewardingly easy grower. Another lovely intergeneric combination is a Coelogynes also have a tarnished reputation. Brassia with a Brazilian (true) Miltonia the hybrid They are said to be hard to bloom, hate genus Miltassia. Some need more light to repotting and have nothing but white, off-white flower, but the wonderful lurid colour or almost white flowers. And their white flowers combinations are worth the extra care. do not have that majestic mien you get from Angraecums. They tend to be crinkly...Well that The combination of Brassia with reputation is probably all due to Coelogyne , the Odontobrassias also have cristata which grows at intermediate the most wonderful colour patterns and they temperatures and forms huge plants (that is why seem to need strong light to bloom. Grow them so many people end up having it!) that will not where your Vandas bloom well. flower unless they are given a quite cool, dry The genus Brassavola the way it was defined in mid-winter rest.The so-called Coel. cristata alba the past gave all its species a bad name is almost always really the hybrid Coelogyne because the species Brassavola digbyana and Unchained Melody (Coel. cristata X Coel. B. glauca require very high light to bloom. flaccida). It is easy to bloom. Luckily these two species are now given their To counter the “white flower” reputation one can own genus Rhyncholaelia and all the remaining grow Coel. Burfordiense (Coel. aspirata X Coel. species in Brassavola flower in ordinary Cattleya pandurata) which freely produces hanging light, but like to grow on the warm side. The inflorescences of ice green flowers with black most famous of these species is Brassavola marked lips. But there are charming species with nodosa, the Lady of the Night, with graceful colourful easily produced flowers too. Coel. white and chartreuse flowers that emit a lovely usitana has dangling 5cm(2”) chartreuse flowers scent at night. The foliage is very round- like with black to brown lips and an orange column. soda straws.The intergeneric hybrids with this Coel. lawrenciana has large pale peach flowers species often produce flowers with boldly with a white lip that has a central lemon yellow speckled lips. If you like out of the ordinary wide keel and bright gold and orange markings growth habits, try Brassavola cucullata which will in the throat of the lip. This species grows best if charm you with its dangling leaves and kept in a saucer of low-solute (rain/ distilled) gracefully arching white and pink or cream water. edged flowers that sport a fringed lip. The genus Dendrochilum or the necklace Next we come to the genus Bulbophyllum. The orchid has a bad reputation because people first thing people will tell you is that their flowers tend to overwater the plants (they are so dainty!) stink! That is certainly true of many of them – and then they rot away! Most species are dainty with the prize going to the huge Bulbophyllum little plants with slender spindle-shaped phalaenopsis! The leaves may look like huge pseudobulbs topped by two slender, but fairly satiny dangling Phalaenopsis leaves, but the leathery leaves. The small flowers dangle in promising flower spike develops into a huge, profusion from gracefully arching stems. Grow scaly, furry cone that absolutely reeks!! No them with cattleyas and let them dry out

5 between watering, just like cattleyas. You may 15cm/6”cream and dark purple flowers) are the need to water more frequently than the adjacent most common species in cultivation. Doug cattleya pots, because they will be in smaller mentioned his Stanhopea stevensonii with its pots -until they reach specimen size. orange flowers. The latter species needs warmth Dendrochilum magnum may have the largest and high humidity to hold its flowers. flowers in the genus and it comes in orange, A related genus is the genus Gongora. cream and white varieties.(The Kennedys grow Unfortunately many species have brown flowers. this species to perfection!) The rather small Their inflorescences go up and then down, so species, Dendrochilum wenzelii, is even more can be grown in a pot. Their flowers look like variable than the magnum since it comes in trailing birds in flight. There are many species deep orange, yellow and white varieties. Peter with colours other than brown so pick yellow, red Decyk is another expert Dendrochilum grower or chartreuse species! and his specimen sized plants are a joy to see. It is amazing what specimen dendrochilums he Lycaste is a genus of plants that usually have can produce in his small greenhouse. root hairs on their roots-just like Paphiopedilums –and must never dry out. If they dry out, the root hairs die off and the plant quickly starves to death. So the white and pink/red flowered plants that are descendants of Lycaste skinneri must be kept moist at all times. This chore would be willingly done for a beauty like the Lyc. Jack Pot „Dandy‟ with a georgeous large, red, flat flower. However if you must have the notoriously difficult or unforgiving Lycaste skinneri, pick a third(F3) or fourth(F4) generation line-bred clone, since these line-bred specimens are selected for ease of culture as well as for beauty. The other group of Lycastes are the yellow, deciduous species, such as Lyc. aromatica. They should be misted with rain water daily in the winter but not watered. The deciduous species were illustrated with a superbly flowered Stanhopea panamensis photo pp specimen of Lyc. deppeii – a mass of yellow and Stanhopea is the next genus whose reputation brown flowers on short stems, with no new needs to be salvaged. Most people agree that leaves visible yet. their bizarre flowers have the most wonderful For continuous bloom Doug recommended fragrances, but most last only 4 days. However Lycaste schilleriana and Lycaste dowiana alba. anyone who had seen Robert Johnstone‟s Stanhopea oculata ‟Jane‟ CCM-AOS You should also try the related genus, Anguloa. understands that when grown properly there are Anguloa uniflora has pink very fragrant flowers a succession of inflorescences that more than and when you see how well Glen Alm grew it - make up for the short duration of any one with 235 flowers- you make room for the large . Most species have downward leaves that are there for the growing season, but growing inflorescences and should be grown in fall off in the winter. Grow it warm. wire baskets. All but Stanhopea insignis (keep it Maxillarias have a bad name because so many moist but not sopping wet) like to be kept very species are rangy growers and have tiny moist and only a handful of species of the about insignificant flowers. (Your transcriber must 70 described so far need a more or less dry admit that she threw some out after rescuing winter rest to flower. Stanhopea jenischiana is them from a fallen tree in a burnt over South an extreme example of such a species- most American Jungle –the flowers were just too clones of it need a decided dry rest in winter to insignificant, and I don‟t mean just bloom. Stanhopea wardii (cream to yellow small...)Howeverr the genus also contains such flowers with two big eye-spots) and the large- gems as miniature black orchids eg Maxillaria flowered Stanhopea tigrina (pairs of schunkiana. Then there is the stunning

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Maxillaria sanderiana with downward growing cloud forests. Mario Ferrusi grows them to inflorescences bearing large white flowers with perfection and their wild colourful markings wow dark red markings near the base of the flower us when he brings them to shows and judgings. parts. It must have excellent drainage and be But Odontoglossum crispum and its hybrids are humid and wet. It comes from cool to warm not the only “” that you can cloud forests. Grow in a basket near a mister. grow. Try Rossioglossum grande an Less demanding is Maxillaria tenuifolia with intermediate to almost warm growing species masses of 1”(2cm) dark red flowers that smell that just has to have a cool winter rest to grow like coconut. The plant is a bit rangy but will form and flower well. a ball of curving growths with lots of flowers if left alone. The other route to easier to grow Odontoglossum is to cross them with warm Miltonias, the pansy orchids have a bad rap growing species of such genera as Oncidium. because just like in Brassavola two genera were Crossing the cool red Odontiodas with Oncidium lumped and they just don‟t grow the same way. gives an intermediate temperature Wilsonara. The Brazilian Miltonias are grown like Oncidium leucochilum crossed with Ots Summit Cattleyas,(high light, dry out between waterings) (Rhynchostele bictoniense-may be a synonym but the Colombian section of the genus is now for Odontoglossum brevifolium- X transferred into the genus Miltoniopsis and it is Odontoglossum brevifolium) gives the wonderful grown quite differently. Keep them evenly moist Odontocidium Cherry Fudge with tall sprays of with low-solute water- never dry out. Minimum smaller shiny brown flowers with deep red lips. night temperature should be as close to Doug and Terry registered this very lovely cross. 60F(15C) as possible and day maximums should be as close to 70F(20C) as possible. Psychopsis formerly in Oncidium is a genus of They also like air to move upward rather than intermediate growing plants that do not like downward for best results. Repot once a year, to repotting. So be very sure to repot only when avoid stale compost and root death.Keep the pot new roots are coming. They like high humidity as small as possible and pot in a bark-New and good air movement, since they grow on Zealand moss mix. These plants are good under branches hanging over rivers. The hybrids are light subjects because of the more even and much easier. So get one of the mericlones cooler day temperatures found in many available and enjoy a succession of “butterflies” basement growing areas. on tall stems. The modern red Miltoniopsis hybrids were bred Phragmipedium a genus of South-American from Miltiopsis roezlii. This species has two lady-slippers is only hard(for most species) if large deep red spots on the petals and by you do not know this fact: The long-petalled breeding it to species that lack the confining species caudatum, wallisii and the hybrid gene of the roezlii it allows the colour to spread Grande like to be grown on the dry side. All the all over the flowers of the progeny. Miltoniopsis other species like to sit on a saucer of rain/pure Bert Field „Ono‟ was the lovely example of a water to do well. For instance Phragmipedium solid red pansy flower chosen by Doug. To show hirtzii may be two weeks under water in its the wonderful lip “waterfall” markings found in native habitat. progeny of Miltoniopsis phalaenopsis Doug The most recently discovered species Phrag. chose a picture of Miltoniopsis Echo Bay kovachii has enormous violet flowers, but it is „MidnightTears‟ a fragrant, red flower with white contributing to the “hard-to grow “ reputation of “drops” edged in black cascading down the lip. the genus, since it grows very slowly as a Odontoglossum is reputed to be hard to grow. seedling. However it is being line-bred and that The genus may not exist in the future because it will undoubtedly result in plants that grow well in has been combined into Oncidium. In future we cultivation. Hybrids with it already grow well, so will have to talk about the hybrids of grow those for now. Odontoglossum crispum ( I don‟t know the new The same history played itself out with Phrag. Oncidium name, just that the new name cannot bessiae the brilliantly red species found growing be Oncidium crispum, because this name is already another valid species) Anyway Odm. on cliffs in Ecuador. The Peruvian form of the crispum has to be grown cold to cool and cannot species is usually considered as a separate species Phrag.dalessandroi. There are now also tolerate heat. It is at home in high elevation yellow and white varieties of Phrag bessiae

7 available and it it getting easier to grow with Dendrobium unicum is a plant a lot of people every generation. Doug recommended the have killed. Rosanna Li did a lovely job with her hybrid Phrag. Jason Fischer as it is a plant. She gives it cattleya light and dries it out a spectacular deep red full-flowered hybrid. bit. She keeps it over the winter in a greenhouse in an aquarium where it gets about 60% Tolumneas used to be included in the genus humidity but no water. During November to Oncidium and were known as equitant January it loses its leaves. The potting medium Oncidiums.They are not easy unless you meet consists of big chunks of coconut husks and their specific requirements. They are twig rocks. Alternatively you could grow it on a slab epiphytes from the Carribean and like to get and give it a dry rest for 2-3 months, but with wetted once a day with low solute water and about 60% humidity. then quickly dry off. In the home this can be done by mounting them on cedar Zelenkoa onusta, formerly Oncidium onustum shingles/shakes (do not use aromatic cedar), grows in humid, but dry coastal areas in slabs, but not evergreens. Put your mounted Ecuador and Peru, sometimes on cacti. This plant into a clay pot, add a bit of moss loosely to plant was grown by Synea Tan in high light in a keep up the humidity and water once a day. Use north exposure out of doors and was brought a fan, but do not blow onto the plants directly. indoors in October, again into full sun, when the night temperatures go down to 2 C. It was grown The last genus with a bad rap in our latitude is wet out of doors and cooler and drier in winter. the genus Vanda. The plants are often sold bare-root because that is how they grow best in Clowesia russelliana grown by Joe O‟Regan their hot, humid, high light native habitats. They was given a 2-3 month winter rest. do better with their roots enclosed somewhat in Catasetum fimbriatum also by Joe got a winter our less than tropical climate. Soak the plants in rest and on starting to grow again in the early warm water then spiral the roots into a clay pot. spring was set unto a saucer of water, but not Add some loose medium. Water whenever the watered from above. roots turn white and keep watering them until the roots turn green. Some people had success with Plant of the Month was the handsome a glass case for the roots. It keeps up the Paphiopedilum Jogjae (Paph. glaucophyllum X humidity and you can see when the roots turn Paph. glanduliferum) grown by Heinz white and need watering. The crosses with Ernstberger. Ascocentrum need less light and the crosses Heinz grows his plant on a windowsill in the with Vanda coerulea often can do with less heat. summer and in the basement under lights in the Doug recommended Ascocenda Princess winter. This year it was in a greenhouse. Mikasa as the easiest blue Vanda hybrid. Using Vanda coerulea we eventually get to another The potting medium is a mix of fine bark, spectacular hybrid, Vanda Robert‟s Delight. charcoal and perlite. Mericlones of a blue and black clone‟Big Black‟ and one of a raspberry red clone ‟Garnet The plant is fertilized once per week for 3 Beauty‟ are available from Doug and Terry. weeks, then watered with plain rainwater for the fourth week. He varies his fertilizers using MSU, high Nitrogen (26%) etc. Show table Notes In hot weather he sprays it with plain rain water. The show table was ably handled by Wayne Congratulations on a job well-done with a lovely Hingston and Henry Glowka. Below are cultural hybrid. comments for some of the more difficult species supplied by the successful growers: Paphiopedilum niveum was grown by Erika Maxillaria uncata, a tale by Erika Lorincz. The plant had 4 flowers on three Lorincz inflorescences. She told us that she grows the I had this orchid growing for many years on a plant a little drier than a standard Paphiopedilum light stand in my basement. It had come to me and pots it high in the pot, in a coarser dryer as a gift from the late John Kafka, when he was mix, all to avoid rot. The plant gets extra still collecting orchids in the American Tropics. calcium.

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It looked like a porcupine with bright green bristly leaves, and sporting intermittent modest creamy flowers with red stripes on the lip. In the past six months the plant seemed to be going downhill. When I lifted the pot off the shelf, I said to the Maxillaria: “Did you know that you have a new name now? You are to be known henceforth as : ‘Christensenella uncata’. The Columbian lady said so”. (Editor‟s note: Our August speaker Andrea Niessen) The maxillaria looked at me with sad droopy leaves that seemed to say: “I don‟t care, just put me into the green bin and get it over with will ya!” Thank you for this Erika.

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September 2011 Show Table

Class First Second Third Class 1 Cattleya (Lc) Hawaiian Cattleya (Lc.) Mini Purple Cattleya Seagull’s Apricot Easter ‘Ocean Blue’ Cattleya Alliance Ingrid Wauro Alex Antenaitis Rosanna Li

Paphiopedilum Jogjae Paphiopedilum niveum Paphiopedilum Prince Edward of York Class 2 Plant of the Month Erika Lorincz Ingrid Wauro Paphiopedilum Heinz Ernstberger

Vanda insignis x Vanda Golden Doubloon Class 3 Cathy Tacoma Phalaenopsis and Vanda Alliance Zelenkoa onusta Aliceara Hilo Ablaze ‘Firestorm’ Class 4 Synea Tan Henry Glowka Oncidium

Dendrobium unicum Class 6 Rosanna Li Dendrobium Catasetum fimbriatum Stanhopea wardii Clowesia russelliana Class 7 Joe O’Regan Joe O’Regan Joe O’Regan All Others

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