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COVER and INSIDE COVER PHOTO: Mokara Salaya Red, grown by Jim Wheeler.

Orange County Orchid Society, Inc.

September 2019 Meeting Date Volume 73, Issue 9 September 18, 2019 (3rd Wednesday each month)

Speaker: Tim Culbertson Yorba Linda Public Library Topic: Laelia purpurata, the Queen of the Cattleyas Community Room (Lower Level) 18181 Imperial Highway Yorba Linda CA 92886

Doors Open & Set-Up ...... 6:00 PM Plant Judging Set-Up ...... 6:30 PM Plant Judging ...... 7:00 PM Speaker ...... 7:30 PM Opportunity Table ...... 9:00 PM

Officers President ...... Fred Anderson First Vice President ...... Jeff Young Second Vice President ...... Sharon Tanner Corporate Secretary ...... Open Membership Secretary ...... Candy Jester Treasurer ...... Susan Scheffler Past-President ...... Anne-Line Anderson, Nohline L’Ecuyer, & Dana Seelig Directors Class of 2020 ...... Peggie Berry & Scott MacIntyre Class of 2021 ...... Leroy Lance & Kathy MacIntyre Class of 2022 ...... Jan Anderson & Tim Roby Chairpersons Although I teach middle school AOS Rep ...... Anne-Line Anderson Table of Contents kids for a living, one of my passions Auction ...... Anne-Line Anderson, Front Cover – Mokara Salaya Red ...... FC has always been plants. I began Janet Roberson, Susan Scheffler, Inside Cover – Mokara Salaya Red ...... IC growing orchids as an offshoot from & Janet Wilson Beginners’ Table ...... MaryAnn Burns Speaker: Tim Culbertson ...... 1 working at Longwood Gardens in New Member ...... 2 & Jim Wheeler Visitors ...... 2 Philadephia just after college. From Facebook ...... Sharon Tanner Supporters ...... 2 the very beginning it was all about Field Trips ...... Rosa Laursen Meeting Activities ...... 2 Paphs, particularly awarded and Historian ...... Jan Hennessey Ribbon Judging Results ...... 3 Judging ...... Anne-Line Anderson Cym. Goldmine in July ...... 3 select clones of historic importance, & Tim Roby August Meeting Highlights ...... 4 of which my collection numbers Librarian ...... Rosa Laursen Edema: What Are Those Strange Blisters? .. 5 nearly 3000. While I love finding old, Meeting Facilitator ...... Jeff Young New Light, New Flower ...... 6 Member Plant Sales ...... Rosa Laursen Outdoor Orchids for LA ...... 6 rare stepping stones in paph Opportunity Table ...... Sharon Tanner No Blooms? It’s Probably the Light ...... 7 breeding, I also do a little Orchid Digest Rep...... Brenda Ward Judging Results ...... 9-13 hybridizing of my own, and growing Programs ...... Jan Hennessey Flyers and Information ...... 14-15 Publicity ...... Jan Hennessey up my own babies is a blast. I am an Ranger Editor ...... Janet Wilson accredited judge with the American [email protected] Orchid Society, and have served in Refreshments ...... Malcolm Geffon Shows ...... Rosa Laursen All pages before Page 1, or after Page 8, are various capacities with various Sunshine ...... Candy Jester in the e-edition only orchid societies in California and on Website & Graphics ...... Rosa Laursen If you are still getting the printed version, Workshop ...... Peggie Berry & Dan Warren switch to the e-edition today, and see all the the East Coast. I love meeting OCOS Website - www.ocos.net pages of beautiful flowers in full color. people who like orchids too, and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ continued on p. 2 groups/723079571117930/ An Affiliate of American Orchid Society, Orchid Digest, National Garden Clubs, Inc. and California Garden Clubs, Inc

grexes being bred in the US, New Member these stately Stephanie Kleinerman and magnificent Stella Son plants have seen Welcome to OCOS! a resurgence in popularity of late, and with good Visitors reason! Kunj Bhatt By the end of this presentation, Kelly Kermode you will have a Thanks for coming; hope to see new appreciation you again soon! of the range of color forms of Laelia purpurata January 2019 Auction and its hybrids, Commercial Supporters as well as an appreciation of (Complete listing to be in Directory) their beautiful flowers and ease of growth. Andy’s Orchids Speaker’s Laelia purpurata var. carnea × sibling, August 2019 Outstanding Andy Phillips Orchid of the Month, grown by Una Yeh. Dinner: Anyone 734 Ocean View Avenue continued from p. 1. interested in a pre-meeting dinner Encinitas CA 92024 doing so often finds me traveling to with Tim, please call or email Jeff 888.514.2639 shows, vendors, and peoples’ Young ASAP for location and time. [email protected] greenhouses to see the latest and Check your directory for contact info. www.andysorchids.com greatest in new hybrids, and to get the best orchid gossip. I like to be involved in plants as much as possible: In addition to Longwood, I’ve worked at the Smithsonian Institution tending to its orchids, and Cal-Orchid for years for the United States James & Lauris Rose National Arboretum, collecting rare 1251 Orchid Drive plants and documenting cultivated Santa Barbara CA 93111 species and hybrids for their 805.967.1312 herbarium. In short, I really like September [email protected] plants. Meeting Activities www.calorchid.com For your meeting, I’ll be sharing a This month all our regular presentation on Laelia purpurata, activities and tables will be in action: the Queen of the Cattleyas. Although large, these spectacular cattleyas Speaker grow well outside in Southern Membership Table California, and with their myriad Plant Judging colors and a relatively unique Refreshment Table blooming time, these are great Beginners’ Table Ching Hua Orchids plants for every collection, extending Library No.192, Dongshan 3rd Rd., the blooming times in the Cattleya Member Plant Sales Table Xinying Dist. alliance through July. Opportunity Table Tainan City 730, Taiwan With more and more Laelia www.chinghuaorchids.com.tw purpurata clones and seedlings See you there! coming in from Brazil, and large September 2019 Orange County Orchid Society Page 2

Ribbon Judging Results Cym. Goldmine ‘Osos Sunset’ Blooms in July August 21, 2019 Meeting Candy Jester Anne-Line Anderson and Tim Roby Vandacious 1st Place...... Jim Wheeler 2nd Place ...... Jim Wheeler 3rd Place ...... Una Yeh Standard Cymbidium No entries Laelia Tribe (Large) 1st Place...... Y.S. Farn 2nd Place ...... Candy & Walt Jester 3rd Place ...... Jim Wheeler Culture ...... Y.S. Farn Culture ...... Y.S. Farn Oncidium 1st Place...... Una Yeh 2nd Place ...... Candy & Walt Jester 3rd Place ...... Tim Roby Culture ...... Jim Wheeler Paphiopedilum 1st Place...... Darrell Lovell 2nd Place ...... Richard Hess 3rd Place ...... Darrell Lovell Culture ...... Jan & Fred Anderson Laelia Tribe (Small) 1st Place...... Stella Son 2nd Place ...... Dan Warren 3rd Place ...... Jim Wheeler Botanical 1st Place...... Dan Warren 2nd Place ...... Candy & Walt Jester 3rd Place ...... Darrell Lovell Phalaenopsis 1st Place...... Jan & Fred Anderson 2nd Place ...... Jeff & Nicole Young 3rd Place ...... Anne‐Line Anderson Dendrobium 1st Place...... Jim Wheeler 2nd Place ...... Stella Son 3rd Place ...... Candy & Walt Jester Culture ...... Jim Wheeler Novelty Cymbidium I originally purchased this cymbidium blooms last until the No entries cymbidium from Santa Barbara Fourth of July but never bloom in Species Orchid Estate somewhere after that month. With orchids you never 1st Place...... Y.S. Farn 2006. Its official name is Cym. know what surprises you are going 2nd Place ...... Y.S. Farn Goldmine ‘Osos Sunset’ GA/CSA to get. AM/AOS. It is described as lemon [Editor’s note: Candy wrote that yellow with rose suffusion and this plant missed blooming for the Outstanding Orchid obviously is not easy to rebloom in July meeting by one day. When she of the Month Anaheim. sent the photo, I had just printed Mokara Salaya Red I love the brilliant yellow color. I the August newsletter. Grown by Jim Wheeler repotted in 2012 and 2016, and So that’s why this article is showing

finally got three spikes this July. It up in September. Consider this seems crazy to me, a cymbidium cymbidium a case of “twice late but blooming in July? I have had other worth the wait,” at least this year.] September 2019 Orange County Orchid Society Page 3

August Meeting Highlights The Japan Grand Prix International Orchid Festival attracts 1200 entries and hundreds of thousands of visitor each year. Peter Lin gave us his impressions as both Peter Lin gave us a flavor for the Japan a visitor and judge. International Orchid Show.

Phal. Zheng Min Muscad × gigantea, Zygonisia Cynosure 'Blue Birds', and Phragmipedium schlimii 'Wilcox' came to the meeting. September 2019 Orange County Orchid Society Page 4

Edema: What Are Those transpired by the leaves. Typically, with hard water, salts that Strange Blisters? this happens during the cooler accumulate in the medium, pots and Sue Bottom months in late winter and early roots will become soluble overnight, Photos by Terry Bottom spring, especially during extended allowing them to be flushed out the periods of cool, cloudy weather. If next morning while fertilizing. Once Originally published in Orchids 2015; reprinted by permission. you water on a gray day when the the humidity rises or nighttime plant is not actively growing or you temperatures drop below the 65–70 F water late in the day on a day when (18–21 C) range, you should resume the nighttime temperatures turn cool, the more conventional morning edema blisters may form. The excess watering regime. water absorbed by the plant causes a Watering during the cooler months swelling of plant cells that produces a is quite different than during the blister on the leaf. main growing season. Many orchids Proper watering is the key to go through a winter resting period preventing edema blisters from and some an outright dormancy, so forming. During the warm growing the orchid’s need for water and season when plants are in active fertilizer is at a minimum. Your This bifoliate cattleya has just developed growth and the nighttime frequency of watering will be perhaps edema. The blisters are always raised. temperatures are warm, you can a quarter or a half of your Sunken spots would be suggestive of a bacterial infection causing a collapse of the water your plants with wild abandon. summertime watering frequency. cells. Sometimes edema is mistaken for You can water in the morning, the Water early in the morning, finishing scale, though scale can easily be rubbed afternoon or at night. In fact, when before noon or so. Do not water on off with alcohol and a cotton swab. the humidity is very low, many orchid gray or rainy days, even if it is your growers find it difficult to properly “scheduled” watering day. When I first noticed those corky hydrate their orchids because they Orchid growers spend a lot of time blisters on the leaves of my orchids, I dry out so quickly. worrying about different pests and thought it was some kind of aberrant Some selectively water in the diseases that might be afflicting their scale. I tried scratching them off and evenings after the sun has set so plants. I have come to believe that even tried excising them with an X- their plants will stay wet overnight there are more physiological and Acto knife, though of course it wasn’t and soak up water. Fertilizer cultural issues that cause problems scale at all. The culprit was edema, shouldn’t be applied in the evening with your orchids than those caused also known as oedema; swelling hours. Darkness, plus water, plus by pests and diseases. If you have caused by excess fluids. nutrients is a formula for fungal and access to the AOS Guide on Orchid In orchids, this swelling is caused bacterial growth. Most orchids grow Pests and Diseases, read or reread by improper watering, when the roots in a nutrient-poor environment so Tom Sheehan’s discussion on absorb more water than can be even though the plants may be wet physiological disorders caused by at night from heavy dews and rain, improper watering, light, nutrition, there is insufficient food to fuel roots potting faults and other conditions and the like in nature. If you decide a (Sheehan 2002). His comments are nighttime watering regime is right for as true today as the day they were you, water at dusk and then apply written. your fertilizer in the early morning. Additional Reading: My go-to guy, Courtney Hackney, Cating, R.A., Palmateer, A.J., Stiles, recommends nighttime watering C.M., Harmon, P.F. and Davison, D.A. during periods of low humidity and 2014. “Physiological Disorders of warm nighttime temperatures and Orchids: Oedema.” University of notes some of the additional benefits Florida, IFAS Extension, Plant from this approach. Your plants will Pathology Department, PP244, be well hydrated so you will not have Revised April 2014. http://edis. to worry about fertilizer toxicity. The ifas.ufl.edu/pp164. Accessed July 16, The raised blisters are clearly displayed on roots will be ready to take up 2015. this phalaenopsis leaf. Some of them are translucent, and some have taken on a fertilizer as their surface condition Sheehan, T.J. 2002. “Physiological corky appearance (image sent to www. has changed from hard and stiff to Disorders of Orchids.” p. 4-21. In: staugorchidsociety.org for diagnosis). soft and pliable. If you live in an area continued on p. 6

September 2019 Orange County Orchid Society Page 5 continued from p. 5 Outdoor Orchids for the Orchid Pests and Diseases, Revised Greater Los Angeles Area Edition, T.J. Watson editor. Janet Wilson American Orchid Society, Delray Beach, Florida. Working in downtown Los Angeles is difficult; the commute can be a Sue Bottom started growing orchids nightmare. But one of the few perks in Houston in the mid-1990s after is the Central Library, a vast trove of her husband Terry built her first books on any topic you can think greenhouse. They settled into St. of—including orchids. Augustine, Florida, Sue with her Where else can you find a copy of a orchids and Terry with his camera Outdoor Growing Orchids for the are active in the St. Augustine Greater Los Angeles Area, published in Orchid Society, maintaining the 1997 by the Southern California Horticultural Society. This slim booklet society’s website and publishing its For example, in the name Lc. Santa lists several orchids or their crosses monthly newsletter. Sue is also a Barbara Sunset 'Showtime' HCC/AOS recommended for this area. Here is a member of the AOS Editorial Board. (upper right), the hybrid name is Santa list of those marked “grows Barbara Sunset, but the awarded plant everywhere with reasonable care, is the cultivar Showtime. New Light, New Flower water, frost protection, etc.” How

Janet Wilson many of these are in your collection?

 Brassavola nodosa, cultivars and hybrids  Cymbidium hybrids  Cymbidium madidum and hybrids  Cymbidium sinense  Dendrobium × delicatum and cultivars  Dendrobium falconeri  Dendrobium kingianum, cultivars and hybrids  Dendrobium nobile, cultivars and

hybrids I do a bit of indoor growing,  Dendrobium speciosum, cultivars having accumulated a plant stand and hybrids Species plants (those found in and old lights over several years. But  Encyclia cochleata nature) like Zygo. mackayi, generally inadequate light has always been an  Encyclia mariae and hybrids require cool conditions, so I’m issue, so in the past two years I’ve  Encyclia tampensis, cultivars and surprised to see that genus on this list. added new LED lights. The prices hybrids have come down on them due to the  Epicattleya ‘Nebo’ demand of a active group of users:  × Epicattleya ‘Orpetii’ marijuana growers.  Epidendrum ibaguense (E. I have a small stand, so use 24 radicans) and hybrids inch long lights from Feit Electrics, a  Laelia anceps, cultivars and local company in Pico Rivera. In the hybrids two years, they’ve gotten more  Laelia autumnalis (L. gouldiana) sophisticated, having, it appears,  Sobralia decora find tuned their LED lights to the  Sobralia fragrans red-blue color spectrum conducive to  Sobralia macrantha and cultivars photosynthesis.  Sobralia ruckeri (S. rosea) Imagine my surprise when a non-  Zygopetalum crinitum blooming phrag I’ve had for a while  Zygopetalum hybrids responded after 5 months of the new  Zygopetalum intermedium But Den. nobile often graces our light.  Zygopetalum mackayi Judging Table. September 2019 Orange County Orchid Society Page 6

No Orchid Blooms? looking spots; and you’ve checked article Light and Orchids, posted by It’s Probably the Light that what it’s potted in (the media) the St. Augustine Orchid Society, Janet Wilson still looks good—consider giving it gives an excellent summary. more light. This article says to estimate full sun By all means, check the web or on a cloudless day as 10000 foot- books for the foot-candles for your candles. Your hand will cast a dark particular orchid. But then, how do shadow with a razor-sharp border. you tell how many foot-candles you A fuzzy border and light-gray get, for example, on you balcony? color to your hand shadow indicates I actually bought an inexpensive the best overall light for many light meter; but the reading from it outside orchids; see the photos in varied by thousands of foot-candles, the article for examples. depending on how I tilted the sensor. Two other things to remember So I returned that device. are as follows: An old Sunset magazine book  Increase light gradually. If you’re I remember watching a gives instructions on how to use a making a big change, take it in presentation where the speaker single-lens reflex (SLR) camera to steps, give the plant a few days likened real estate to orchids. He estimate light—that is if you are old to adjust, and be vigilant for said, “When you want to buy a enough (ahem) to actually own a signs of distress, like suddenly house, what three things should you manual SLR. (If you want these yellow or dry leaves, or look for? It’s location, location, instructions, email me and I’ll send (shudder) brown/black sunburn. location. When you want to rebloom you a scan of the book page.)  Check the light throughout the an orchid, what three things should But the easiest good rule of day; it will vary as buildings or you look at? It’s light, light, light.” thumb is to use the shadow cast by whatever block the light. So, if you plant looks otherwise your hand as an healthy—leaves are an even green approximation to or light green; no odd, rotted- foot-candles. The

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c/o Janet Wilson PO Box 872 La Habra CA 90633-0872 [email protected] 562.694.5341

Meeting Date – Wednesday, September 18

Upcoming Events Calendar September 14 – 15 South Bay Orchid Society Show and Sale. Saturday: Sale 9 AM – 5 PM, Show 11 AM – 5 PM. Sunday: Show and Sale 9 AM – 4 PM. South Coast Botanic Garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos Verdes Peninsula. See website for admission fees; parking is free. Info: southbayorchidsociety.com/Show/index.html. September 18 Orange County Orchid Society - Monthly Meeting September 20 Orchid Odyssey – San Diego Zoo’s orchid greenhouse is open to the public – 10 AM – 2 PM. September 28 – 29 Fascination of Orchids International Show and Sale, South Coast Plaza Village, 1621 W. Sunflower St., Santa Ana, 10 AM – 5 PM. Info: www.fascinationoforchids.com. October 07 Orange County Orchid Society Board Meeting, members welcome! October 16 Orange County Orchid Society - Monthly Meeting October 18 Orchid Odyssey – San Diego Zoo’s orchid greenhouse is open to the public – 10 AM – 2 PM October 27 San Diego County Orchid Society Show and Sale – "Orchids in the Park", Balboa Park, Casa Del Prado, Room 101, San Diego. Saturday Noon – 6 PM and Sunday 10 AM – 4 PM . Info: www.sdorchids.com. November 03 – 04 Santa Barbara Orchid Estate Fall Open House, Saturday, 8 AM – 5 PM; Sunday, 9 AM – 4 PM. Mexican laelias and cymbidiums in bloom and bud, $7.50 specials. Info: www.sborchid.com

September 2019 Orange County Orchid Society Page 8 Orange County Orchid Society Plant Judging for August 21, 2019 Photography by Janet Roberson

Vanda – First Place Vanda – Second Place and V. Ladda Gold 'Linda Jean' – Jim Wheeler Outstanding Orchid of the Month Mokara Salaya Red – Jim Wheeler

Vanda – Third Place Large Laelia – First Place and Culture Neostylus Lou Sneary 'Blue Horizon' – Una Yeh Blc. Mem. Vida Lee 'Lime Light' – Y.S. Farn

Large Laelia – Second Place Large Laelia – Third Place C. White Hybrid - fragrant – Candy & Walt Jester Blc. Jeremy Island 'Carmela' × Blc. Chia Lin 'New City' Jim Wheeler

September 2019 Orange County Orchid Society Page 9 Orange County Orchid Society Plant Judging for August 21, 2019 Photography by Janet Roberson

Large Laelia – Culture Oncidium – First Place Pot. Chief Sweet Orange – Y.S. Farn Onc. Dancing Lady – Una Yeh

Oncidium – Second Place Oncidium – Third Place Odcdm. Mesmeric Melody 'Mauna Loa' Oncidium Guess – Tim Roby Candy & Walt Jester

Oncidium – Culture Paphiopedilum – First Place Miltassia Shelob 'Tolkien' – Jim Wheeler Phragmipedium Mt. Tero – Darrell Lovell

September 2019 Orange County Orchid Society Page 10 Orange County Orchid Society Plant Judging for August 21, 2019 Photography by Janet Roberson

Paphiopedilum – Second Place Paphiopedilum – Third Place Paphiopedilum Lawless Sandchild – Richard Hess Phragmipedium Eric Young – Darrell Lovell

Paphiopedilum – Culture Small Laelia – First Place Phragmipedium schlimii 'Wilcox' – Jan & Fred Anderson Dial. Snowflake × B. nodosa – Stella Son

Small Laelia – Second Place Small Laelia – Third Place Enc. tampensis Alba – Dan Warren Bc. Carnival Kids 'Canaimas Verde' – Jim Wheeler

September 2019 Orange County Orchid Society Page 11 Orange County Orchid Society Plant Judging for August 21, 2019 Photography by Janet Roberson

Botanical – First Place Botanical – Second Place Eulophia petersii – Dan Warren Zygonisia Cynosure 'Blue Birds' – Candy & Walt Jester

Botanical – Third Place Phalaenopsis – First Place Bulbophyllum hernpallan – Darrell Lovell Phal. Unknown Purple – Jan & Fred Anderson

Phalaenopsis – Second Place Phalaenopsis – Third Place Phal. Zheng Min Muscad × gigantea – Jeff & Nicole Young Phal. No Name Pink Type – Anne-Line Anderson

September 2019 Orange County Orchid Society Page 12 Orange County Orchid Society Plant Judging for August 21, 2019 Photography by Janet Roberson

Dendrobium – First Place Dendrobium – Second Place Den. compactum 'Pink' – Jim Wheeler Den. Christy Dawn – Stella Son

Dendrobium – Third Place Dendrobium – Culture Den. wassellii – Candy & Walt Jester Den. smilliae 'Lea' – Jim Wheeler

Species – First Place Species – Second Place Sedirea japonica 'Daruma Nagoran' – Y.S. Farn Neofinetia falcata – Y.S. Farn

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Flyers and Information for Upcoming Events

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Orange County Orchid Society

Everyone Welcome!

Meetings are the Member Ribbon Judging Third Wednesday 7:00 PM of Every Month General Meeting 7:30 PM

Meeting Location: Yorba Linda Public Library Community Room (Lower Level) 18181 Imperial Highway Yorba Linda CA 92886

Information: www.OCOS.net

Laelia purpurata ‘Sanbar Misty’