SOUTHERN ONTARIO ORCHID SOCIETY NEWS June 2016, Volume 51, Issue 6 Meeting Since 1965
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SOUTHERN ONTARIO ORCHID SOCIETY NEWS June 2016, Volume 51, Issue 6 Meeting since 1965 Next Meeting Sunday, June 5, Floral Hall of the Toronto Botanical Garden, Plant Sales 12 noon, Cultural snapshots by Alexsi Antanaitis 12:15 on the stage, topic: Summering your plants out of doors. Program at 1 pm , Claudio Rossi will speak to us about Easy Oddballs. Claudio is the founder and proprietor of Cloud’s Orchids. He is a former member of SOOS, an American Orchid Society judge and orchid hybridizer. His company sells many interesting orchid plants. Members Show table: bring your flowering orchids, we can all learn from each-other and you can win points toward our annual plant table awards. Raffle. Rhyncholaelia Love Passion’ Orange Bird’ ( Rhynchlaeliocattleya William Farrel Cattlianthe Trick or Treat) CCM 88 points, Wilson Ng photo pp 1 President’s Remarks Welcome Orchid Lovers. Plant of the month: Paphiopedilum [Paph.] What is the weatherperson doing to us? Here it is well Lebaudyanum (haynaldianum x into May and one day it is hot, the next day we have philippinense) grown by An- Li Sheng. snow. Will it ever be warm enough for us to put our plants outside? Even though our spring shows are over, I must make an adjustment to our ribbon standings for the TAOA show. Our apologies go out to Christine Williams for giving recognition to someone else for her first place ribbon. Please note that Christine's Paph. henryanum received a first place ribbon. She is a first time contributor to the SOOS display. Congratulations Christine on your fine growing and we are sorry for the mix-up. The treats for the June 5th meeting falls to the members with the last names letter beginning with M. Thank you members with last names beginning with L, who supplied the delicious treats this past meeting. The cultural snapshots will take place on the stage at 12:15 pm, before the meeting. Alexsi Antanaitis will be running these. All are welcome to participate in the sessions. The next session will be: Summering out of What a well-flowered, beautifully clean plant An-Li doors. Remember, if there is a topic you would like us to brought for all of us to enjoy! It had two inflorescences of cover, please let me know. 5 and 6 flowers and buds respectively and two developing inflorescences coming along to extend the We are beginning to put together our fall growing tour. flowering period. An-Li has had the plant for about 15 Please keep September 10th and 11th open. John years and lately has been growing it in ”Chinese stone” a Vermeer has been gathering members who enjoy pumice-like expanded clay product. She admitted freely sharing their optimum growing ideas. If you are willing to that she does not always remember to water the plant show the membership your growing techniques, we when needed, but it seems to be very forgiving. She would appreciate you letting us know so we can include grows it with a night temperature of 10 to 15C. She uses you. At this time, we have two of our vendors willing to a solution of 20-20-20 at almost all times for watering it share ideas. This will be a great opportunity for you to since the pumice does not supply any nutrients. see all the different orchids they have and perhaps Congratulations on a job well done! purchase ones that catch your eye. Three other members have offered their growing areas as well. Coming Events 2016 Again, please let us know if you would like to participate. May Toronto Native Plant Sale Our future speakers are as follows: Sunday May 29, 2016, 12 to 4 pm Christie Pits, 750 Bloor St. W. South end of Park, Toronto th June 5 Claudio Rossi Topic: Easy Oddballs (Christie subway station) th August 7 Orchidfest with Holger Penner th September 4 Alan Koch – to be announced All plants come from NANPS-approved ethical growers and nd October 2 Graham Wood Topic: Maudiae. Why has it are grown without neonicotinoids. changed so much The North American Native Plant Society is a volunteer- th June 5 will be our final meeting before we begin again based non-profit registered charitable organization in August with Orchidfest and our presenter Holger dedicated to the study, conservation, cultivation and Penner. So after this meeting, take a nice break, enjoy restoration of native plants. your summer, work joyously in your gardens, party hard, take the break you need and enjoy your flowers. June Remember they will love you for the attention. 4, TJC Monthly AOS Judging at TBG 5, SOOS meeting, Toronto Botanical Garden, sales 12 Happy Orchiding, noon, program 1 pm. Claudio Rossi. Laura Liebgott Questions or comments: Please contact 18, Montreal judging, Jardin botanique de Montreal me at: [email protected] or 905 883 5290 July 2, TJC Monthly AOS Judging at TBG 16, Montreal judging, Jardin botanique de Montreal August The inside 7, SOOS Orchid fest at TBG. TJC monthly AOS of the pouch judging 10 am, potluck lunch noon, after lunch Holger is really Penner from China pretty since the white 20, Montreal judging, Jardin botanique de Montreal surface is September spotted with 3, , TJC Monthly AOS Judging at TBG red polka 4, SOOS meeting, Toronto Botanical Garden, sales dots! 12 noon, program 1 pm, Alan Koch. Jason 10, 11. Fall growers tour. Fischer Orchids have 24,25, Central Ontario Orchid Society Show, come a long Cambridge, Ontario. way in improving the species by line-breeding. They have earned AM’s for their clones ‘Moyabamba’, ‘Purple Cow’ and a lovely AOS Judging Results deep magenta clone ‘Tesoro Marado’ with rounded Please note, all of these awards are provisional until petals that were held flat by a strong flat ventral sepal. published by the American Orchid Society. Not to be outdone they can also count some FCC’s Toronto Judging Centre, May 7, 2016: among their Phrag. kovachii awards. The clone ‘Ray Encyclia cordigera ‘Chrystal Star’ CCM-AOS 82 points Raab’ with a FCC of 90 points had only slightly turned Crystal Star Orchids under lower petal edges. Ryyncholaelia Love Passion ’Orange Bird’ ( Rhynco laeliocattleya William Farrel x Cattlianthe Trick or Treat) CCM-AOS 88 points, Wilson Ng. Paphiniopea (Stanhopea embreii x Paphinia herrerae) AM-AOS 80 points Doug & Terry Kennedy Guaricattphila Red Star (Cattlianthe Rojo x Myrmeccophila wendiandii) HCC-AOS 78 points, Jeanne Keading Note! The next judging will be held at the Toronto Botanical Gardens, Saturday June 4, judges education at 10 am, judging at 1 pm. AOS Judging is a service of the American Orchid Society and is open to all! Phragmipediums and Their Culture, by Jason Fischer, transcribed and adapted for an article by Inge The widest petals were achieved by a clone called Poot continued from the previous newsletter ‘Terminator’ , the result of sibbing the clones ‘Maximus’ Jason Fischer’s generous permission to use his photos and ‘Goliath’ to illustrate this transcription is very gratefully : acknowledged. What a parent the Part 2: Phragmipedium kovachii Breeding: clone This species will self-pollinate. The huge flowers keep ‘Terminator’ growing while open, but are best on day three since after will make! that the bottom edges of the petals start to curl under One of the and the petal edges start to undulate creating a messy problems of looking, somewhat floppy flower. Flowers that do not curl the species under at the lower petal edges have a large ventral sepal Phrag. that stops the curling. The dorsal sepal usually has a kovachii is strong cup in it near the tip, but Jerry Fischer’s clone ‘Big that as a Island Dreams’ AM-AOS seems to be only slightly seedling the cupped and may be a step in the right direction for plants grow eliminating this defect. 3 very slowly until they are 20 cm (8”) across and think Another interesting point was made by our speaker. To nothing of dying suddenly! Luckily after reaching that overcome the kovachii petal problems, the other parent size, the survivors grow much faster. This is probably as in a cross should be 4n. Even a 3n other parent is better a result of the species’ propensity for self-pollinating. It than a 2n. Also, 3n may even be bigger than the 4n would have produced a rather inbred population and version of the grex. only the plants lucky enough to have some genetic Phragmipedium Suzanne Decker (Phrag. kovachii x diversity survive. So it is no wonder that any hybrid with Phrag. Cape Sunset), where Cape Sunset contains this species would miraculously grow rather well! schlimii, longifolium and besseae, is a nice example of However since all other Phrag species are much smaller the merit of a polyploid crossed onto kovachii. The flowered and usually have narrow petals it is a long road flowers tend to be light pink with a white halo near the back to large round hybrids! base of the segments and the whole given oomph by the The hybrid of the small but full-flowered white and pink dark pink pouch. The odd plant will even produce tall, schlimii with kovachii, Eumelia Arias produced branched inflorescences! disappointing progeny of surprisingly narrow-petalled Phrag. Graeme Jones (kovachii X Barbara LeAnn) dull purple flowered progeny with a natural spread of up where Barbara LeAnn is besseae X fischeri, was to 10cm. illustrated with a lovely candy pink bloom with wide flat The cross of the red besseae with kovachii, Fritz petals. Barbara LeAnn is a cross similar to Hanne Schomburg again had a lot of progeny similar to the Popow but using fischeri instead of schlimii as one of the above, but there were some red progeny and they were parents.