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SOOS February 2017 SOUTHERN ONTARIO ORCHID SOCIETY NEWS February 2017, Volume 52, Issue 2 Meeting since 1965 Next Meeting Sunday, January 29, Floral Hall of the Toronto Botanical Garden, Cultural snapshots on the stage at 12:15 pm. The topic Grooming Your Plants will be presented by Alexsi Antanaitis Member and Vendor sales noon to 1pm Program at 1 pm ; This is our annual pre-show meeting where we give you advice on how to enter your plants into competition. Terry Kennedy and Jay Norris will tell us how to prepare our plants for the upcoming SOOS Annual AOS judged orchid show that will take place here at the Toronto Botanical Gardens Saturday and Sunday, February 11 and 12. Show setup is Friday, February 10. Terry is in charge of judging the show and has a wealth of experience entering plants and exhibits. Jay looks after clerks for the show. Member plant table review. Show your plants, win points. 1. Raffle Don’t Forget to renew your membership for 2017 Plant table Awards 2016 Grower of the year Saleem Baksh photo pp Most Ribbons Won Jocelyn Webber photo pp President’s Remarks Welcome Orchid The program for the next few meetings will be as follows: Lovers. Is our weather ever unpredictable! One January 29th Terry Kennedy and Jay Norris Topic: minute we have snow then ice then freezing rain then Getting plants ready for the show mild temperatures but our orchids are very dependable. March 12th Terry Kennedy Topic: Dendrobiums If we treat them nicely and water them then they will April 2nd Inge Poot Topic: Brassia reward us with wonderful flowers. Right? May 14th Round table Topic: to be announced. If you would like to see a specific topic covered at one of our th Please remember, our next meeting is January 29 . round tables, please let me know. There will be no meeting in February, since that is when June 4th Leslie Ee Topic: TBA our own show takes place. As many of you know, for as long as I can remember, we Happy Orchiding, have had plenty of tea and coffee ready before the Laura Liebgott meetings begin. This is all due to the early arrival, Questions or comments: Please contact diligent work and thoughtfulness of our own Joe O'Regan. Joe has always been there for us through all me at: kinds of weather. Joe is also responsible for calling out [email protected] or 905 883 5290 the numbers at our raffle. Thank you so very much, Joe. The last of our early membership draws took place at Plant of the Month for January 8, 2017 our last meeting. The winner was J. Kieswatter. Congratulations. Congratulations also to all the other lucky membership draw winners and to our 2016 plant table and show ribbon winners Saleem Baksh and Jocelyn Webber, Our show is at the beginning of the Spring shows. Don will be crafting our display. He will be ready to accept plants at noon on Friday February 10th. Please be mindful that it takes a good 5 to 6 hours to put together a display. Therefore, the earlier the better after 12:00 noon. This will give Don ample time to create his masterpiece. It would also be very helpful to Don if you could register your plant at the same time, as well. There are members around who can help you through this process. Wilson Ng brought in his prolifically flowered Dendrobium Purple Cluster ‘Wilson’s Choice’ AM/AOS If you have not placed your name on the volunteer list, and CCM/AOS both with 81 points that had gotten please see Marion Currie or Sue Loftus, at the next awarded the day before at the meeting of the Toronto meeting. There are many positions requiring filling. Judging Centre. No wonder he walked off with the top Many hands help in lightening the task. The best part, honours! Congratulations Wilson! He grows it in Eric there is a treat in it for you since admission to the show Lee’s mix of cork bark chunks, chopped sphagnum then becomes free. moss, Hydroton (ceramic clay pellets), hard peat moss chunks and hazelnut shell pieces. Since he has not Once our show is over, the following shows come fast enough room at home for all his giant plants, he keeps a and furiously: lot of them, including this plant, over the winter in Eric RBG Show: February 25 — 26 Don will be doing the Lee’s greenhouse and in a shade house at his home display. over the summer. The plant is obviously very happy! London Show: March 18—19 I will be doing the display Montreal Show: March 25—26 I will be doing the display Ottawa Show: April 22—23 I will be doing this display TAOA Show: April 29—30 Once again, Don will be Coming Events 2017 working on this display. Please be generous with your .January precious little ones as it is the only way we can create 21, Monthly Montreal AOS judging, Jardin botanique de the vast variety of displays. Montreal 29, SOOS meeting, Toronto Botanical Garden, sales The treats for the January meeting fall to the members 12 noon, program 1 pm with the last names begin with C through to D. The treats for the January meeting were very good and thanks to Tara, our last speaker, we had some delicious February tasting vanilla cookies as well. Thanks all. 11-12, SOOS Annual Orchid November 8-12, 22nd World Orchid Show and Sale at TBG., TJC Monthly AOS Judging at show. Conference, Guayaquil, Ecuador 18 , Monthly Montreal AOS judging, Jardin botanique de Montreal. AOS Judging Results 25-26, Orchid Society of the RBG Show, Burlington. Toronto Judging Center, January 7, 2017 Dendrobium Purple Cluster ‘Wilson’s Choice’ AM/AOS March and CCM/AOS both with 81 points, Wilson Ng. 4, TJC Monthly AOS Judging at TBG. Paphiopedilum Cocoa Yard Festival ‘Wilson’s Choice’ 12, SOOS meeting, Toronto Botanical Garden, sales AM/AOS 88points, Wilson Ng. 12 noon, program 1 pm, Floral Hall Paphiopedilum (Tristar Mabo ‘HOF’x Hsinying Web ‘#7’) 18-19, London Orchid Show, London, Ontario. AM/AOS 81 points, Eric Lee. 24-26, Manitoba Orchid Show, Winnipeg. Mormodes ephippilabia ‘Lucia Arrieche d’Empaire’ 24-26, Mid America Congress and show, Omaha CHM/AOS 83 points, Gilberto Arrieche Nebraska. Please note, all of these awards are provisional until 25-26, Orchidexpo and Monthly Montreal AOS judging, published by the American Orchid Society. April The next judging will be held at our show at the Toronto 31- 2, Genesee Region Show, Rochester, NY. Botanical Gardens, Saturday February 11, 2017. AOS 1, TJC Monthly AOS Judging at TBG. Judging is a service of the American Orchid Society and 2 , SOOS meeting, Toronto Botanical Garden, sales is open to all! Bring us your flowering orchids, 12 noon, program 1 pm, Garden Hall 7-9, Alberta Show and Canadian Orchid Congress, Edmonton, Alberta. 8-9, Quebec show. 22-23, Ottawa Show and, Monthly Montreal AOS Vanilla: Anything But ‘Plain’, by Tara judging. Seucharan, transcribed and rearranged by Inge Poot 29-30, TAOA Show, Toronto, ON. May 1, TJC Monthly AOS Judging at TBG. 14, SOOS meeting, Toronto Botanical Garden, sales 12 noon, program 1 pm, Floral Hall 20, Monthly Montreal AOS judging, Jardin botanique de Montreal. 17-21, AOS Members meeting, Redlands orchid sale, South Florida. June 3, TJC Monthly AOS Judging and business meeting at TBG. 4 ,SOOS meeting, Toronto Botanical Garden, sales 12 noon, program 1 pm, Floral Hall 17, Monthly Montreal AOS judging, Jardin botanique de Montreal July 8, TJC Monthly AOS Judging at TBG. Even though the orchid family is the largest plant family on earth the species Vanilla planifolia is the only orchid 15, Monthly Montreal AOS judging, Jardin botanique de with significant agricultural value. Montreal The genus Vanilla contains more than a hundred August species, with more being discovered and described all the time. For instance Columbia at present boasts 11 6, Orchidfest Floral Hall, Toronto Vanilla species, but two of them were only described in Judging centre judging and talks by 2010. Yet with all these species 95% of the plants Andrea Niessen grown for commercial use are Vanilla planifolia. It is 19, , Monthly Montreal AOS judging, Jardin botanique de actually only the fruits or “beans” of this plant that Montreal develop a vanilla flavour when cured, while the rest of the plant and even the flowers do not. 20 degree band on both sides of the equator, all around the world. It needs it warm and wet. Ice cream is the All Vanilla species grow at temperatures of 21 to 32 most common degrees Celsius and need 250 cm or more of rainfall per product flavoured year. Vanilla planifolia is one of a few species that by the extract of requires an annual dry season. In the dry season in late the cured fruits. winter to early spring watering is reduced, but plants Vanilla ice cream are never allowed to dry out completely. is a 20 billion Light can be full sun to light shade. When moving a dollar market in plant into brighter light, do it gradually to avoid burning. the USA alone. Vanilla planifolia requires shade and is often grown on Also, 90% of ice “tutor” trees or on wooden supports under shade cloth. cream sales to Britons were of In the wild vines can grow to 60 feet or more, but in the vanilla plantations they are kept under three meters. The vines flavour! are considered hemi-epiphytes because they start out The characteristic as terrestrials and later become epiphytic.
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