An Affiliate of the American Orchid Society FORT LAUDERDALE ORCHID SOCIETY

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To Speak on Fakahatchee Preserve After being involved with the Ft. Lauderdale Society for about 8 years, I got my first blue ribbon at the July Mike graduated from the University of South Florida meeting and, I was thrilled. The planets must have in 1991 with a degree in zoology. He has been a park been aligned. The had just bloomed that ranger ever since. After a year at the Koreshan in weekend, the blooms were fresh , and best of all I Estero, Florida he became the park biologist at the remembered to bring it with me. We have such l'akahatchee StTand and State Park in Copeland, incredible growers in our society and you are probably Florida. Mike has held this position since 1993. one of them. Show your off. His duties include hydrological monitoring, surveys We have an average of over 100 members at each meeting. You would think there would be at least SO for listed plant species, herbarium collection, wildlife observation including road-kill data, vertebrate species plants on display. 1 hear members say:" Mine had 10 blooms, 1 should have brought it in". Don' t second list, plant species list, non-native plant removal and he guess yourself, bring the plant in and don 't be afraid to participates in prescribed burns. let it be judged. We can learn so much from each Mike also conducts interpretive programs involving other. Our society is fortunate to have several people swamp walks, and powerpoint programs. Of course who can expertly judge plants. You will want to take hi s program for us will be one of these powerpoint hOllle those blues and strive for a cultural ribbon such programs, and the next article will tell you about our as you read about in our last newsletter. society's bus tour for a Fakahatchee guided walk. When we have a photographer available the plants Program chair, Allen Cogar has arranged two events are photographed and put on Facebook. Let the orchid not to be missed. community see that we surely can grow. Sincerely, Joan October 16th Bus Tour For Guided Bus Ramble to Dade, December 4th Fakahatchee Tour

By now you know the drill, we leave the student Write your check for $75, and plan to pack your parking lot at 8:00 AM and get back at 5:00 PM. The lunch, bottles of water, insect repellant, and a change cost is $25, you will need to bring a bagged lunch, an of clothes. Plan also to wear water and mud ability to li e about what you spent, and the conviction appropriate long pants, and closed shoes. You will be that you owe yourself this trip as a holiday present. in for a once in a life-time adventure, and you shouldn' t A couple of the planned stops will be new to most of be scared off by insect repellant. Mosquitoes seldom you, and you can pay Bob at a meeting or mail the bite in the day time and their numbers should be check into the post office box to reserve your seat. dwindling in the fall. The tour will take about two hours and there will be another two hours to wonder on the boardwalk at your Florida Native Orchids own pace. The number of paid-up members has already filled much of the bus, so you need to mail your Before you hear Mike Owens or tour the Preserve, check into our post office box today. The bus will you' ll want to refresh your memory on o ur native 1h leave the Cardinal Gibbons student parking lot, on 47 orchids. This website will he lp: Street off Bayview Drive, at 8:00 AM and return at www.flnativeorchids.com about 5 :00 PM. August progr(l11J review: 'Simple', Common, Crosses Dr. Martin Motes Spoke

Aeridovanda = x Vanda As you probably know flake 1I0ies on Ihe speaker alld Aranda = x Vanda rush hallie 10 Iype up my noles while f remember whal Ascocenda = Ascocenlrum x Vanda Ihey mean. 11 finally happened. Marlin 's program Mokara = Arachnis x Ascocenlrum x Vanda moved jasler Ihan my ability 10 wrile, so I boughl his Renanlanda = x Vanda book ill an efforl to 'wing it '. That turned out 10 be a Rhynchovanda = x Vanda good deal jar me. These briej notes relale some oj Ihe Vascostylis = Ascocentrum x Rhynchostylis x Vanda tidbils oj his lalk, and then the space will be devoled 10 a book to own whether or nol you own even one Vanda. Note: This short list was scattered in my notes on • Rellantheras will cross with everything in its group Martin's program. If you want to see how many ways from to . Ren. sloriei is a Vandas have been used in hybridizati ons go to: frequent parent. http://zipcodezoo.comlkey/plantae/vanda~e nu s . asp • Neofin etia falcata, the' small moth pollinated beauty, causes all but the lip color to rade from its hybrids. • Vanda (Euanlhe) sandriana has produced more The Appreciated August hybrids than anything we ca ll vandaceous, because it has been used as a parent the most. It's cold sensitive Refreshments Came From: gene seems to dominate in offspring. • Martin showed us a number of primary crosses Nina Anton, Carri e Ackennan, Barbara Blauschild between two genera and then he showed the back-cross Bonnie Bonneau, Joan Connors, Lisa Davis, of th at plant with one of the parents. This is when my Nora Dyke, Paul Gartn er, Vicki I-Iall ock, notes got really behind, but many are pictured in the Tony Millet, Ginny Salus, Petra Thomas, Vicki Trank, following: Luana Trin ali, and Dasha Urosevic Florida Vatula Growillg MOlllit bv MOlllit. Martin's new book was published in 20 I 0 so it's up to date. The first section deals with general culture and August Ribbon Judging Results cold watch. This is fo ll owed by a month by month what to do. The 3'd and 41h sections are the ones we can all use. They deal with diseases and their control culture: and pests and their control. "Control" is obviously an Diane Jones Coranthese macanlhra important word! The illustrations are helpful. Or. Virginia Salus - Platystelle umbellate Sections 5 · and 6 go into hybridizin g and this is where you can again see examples of hybrids Martin Shari Wcidcnbaum !blue! Enc. Orchid Jungle Virginia Weinstein !b lue! C. Faceli s x Le. Christopher showed us in hi s presentati on. Sections 7 and 9 cover Gerber 'Orchid Jungle' Ascocentrlllll. Aercocenda. and related genera from Elaine Welch Ired! Pot. Love Avenue 'Serenade' Aerides to Rhynchostylis wh ile secti on 8 describes Donna Struthers Ired! Otaara Hidden Gold Vandas for Florida. Tony Millet fb lues! C. Tropical Pointer, Laeliafidelensis, The appendix has a trouble shooting guide, wa ter Laelia anceps var. cocru lca titrati on with Phosphoric acid and a li st of sources for Diane & Rubbcll Howe Ired! Den. secundllm supp li es and materials as we ll as a list or books to own Vicki Hallock fb lue! Ene. gracilis that are helpful to growing orchids here. (Thank you T. Allen Cogar fb lu es! Paph Mike Roccoforte, Cycl10ches Martill jor producing a program Ihal moved jasler chlorochilol1 than I could write. this book is a great source oj Brian Boyle! hm/ Slellm . Kelly Lea information. D.J-1.) Thank you fo r sharing your plants during this ' lean' blooming time . It's mid-winter and/or dry Looking Ahead season where most of our orchids ori ginated.

October: Annual auction on the J I lh , Bus trip to the Meeting Thoughtfulness Fakahatachee on the 161h November: Fall orchid show at the AOS, Nov. 19-21 December: Party at Galuppi 's at the golf course in We are lucky to be able to meet in such a sa fe place Pompano on the 121h, Bus ramble to Dade on the 41h and a place where we can keep our library. The carpet January: Our SHOW, Jan.14-16. has just been cleaned. Please pick up any spilled alillor or trash around your chair before you leave the February: Picnic at Allison's Orchids L-:";;';;;';=~;"';;=;;';;':"':":==:""::'=== ______----' ill meeting. Think Our Orchid Show NOW AOS Members Only on Website

It's not enough to rest on our past! We do have th e 2-3 biggest display show in the United States, and we I've always thought A OS membership was a great KNOW it is the bes t. To keep it that way we all need idea j ust f or the magazine. In recent years we've to do more than in the past, since we are up against gotten into great botanical gardens free or at a hard economic times. Now is the time to make yo ur reduced rate with Ollr membership cards, and I've plans: bought books and other things from the gift shop at I. Can you do a hobbyist display? You and a fri end or discollnt prices. No w I've discovered perhaps the best two could put in a 10' x 10 ' fl oor di splay. I-low about reaSOn of all. The reason is the members ollly section a 2' x 2' show case display? The latter is open onl y to of the website www. aas. arg. hobbyists and would be perfect for those of you who Orchids A-Z shows pictures and gives cultural raise miniature orchids. The truth is it costs money for information on many, many, genera. Great ideas, gives growing help from the past, there is a section the vendors to ship in or truck in the materials for a bioo display and they have been cutting down on the sizes containing Susan Jones' articles on general pest control they used to request. We need to fill that empty space, and culture. book reviews, and more. or we need to let a favorite ve ndor kn ow that you can The website is also a great place to get culture sheets, lend plants for his large di splay. find out about upcoming orchid shows, and there is a 2. Presale tickets will be avail able shortl y. Don' t just monthly check li st for what orchids need. buy yours, put them in a drawer, and come to the Norman "s Orchids has given me orchids to give to prev iew party. Get th e tickets out to the public. new members who join at a FLOS meeting, and there is Acti ve ly sell or di stribute tickets and try for extras. an orchid waiting for a member who renews for 2 Since our costs have gone up, entry at the door is $ 10 years. You need to bring $60 to the raffl e table for one so it will be easier to se ll our barga in ($5) presale membership, or $75 for a dual membership. You can tickets. save more by joining for two years. It's a good 3. Barbara Gatterman 's clever 'Orchids Night and Day' investment for the beginning or experienced grower. show poster has been printed. When they are ava il able Added to all of that, you get a chance to win an AOS at a meeting take a few and put them up in public member orchid at each of our meetinos. D. H. places. Your house is not a public place. 4. Be ni ce to Chris Crepage and John Wrench, th ey ha ve taken on a big job as co-show chairs. Pl an now to Tid-bit Time support th em and then vo lunteer with the people who will be in charge of show com onents. "Misting your orchids may make you feel better, but th e benefits to th e plants are near zero since th e effect American Orchid Society News onl y las ts half an hour. If you are gro wing orchids indoors it would be better to install pebble trays and a room humidifier to try to maintain the 70% humidity Chris Rehman, the AOS Pres ident, sent a lett er to all that yo ur plants wo uld 'enj oy'. members. Since we are an affiliated society of the AOS, I thought our non AOS members would want to * Fertilizer: The pneumonic ' naughty (N itrogen) be awa re of what is known at this tim e. plant (Phosphoru s) killer (Potassium), will help you On July 24 the Trustees voted to establish a task force remember the sequence of maj or chemicals found in to investigate the sale of the headquarters building and fertili zer. For instance 30-5-JO is 30 parts NitTogen property in Delray. The sale of a fac ility of that size (N ), 5 parts Phosphorus (1'), and 10 parts Potass ium will probably take time, and the fa cility will not be (K). given away. T he Nitrogen promotes strong green leaves and new The AOS headquarters will still continue with a full cells. Phosphorus is essential for root growth and schedule of events. We ca n look forward to th e fall fl ower producti on. Newer research shows that excess show in November, to the win e and jazz evenings in Phosphorus does not dissipate in the soil or potting February, March, and April. The ga rd ens and gift shop medium and that Phosphorus buildup over time can will be open, classes will go on as scheduled, the actually be harmful. The bottom line is to choose a orchid doctor will be in the lobby on schedule. lower Phosph ate fertili ze r. Potassium enhances the New locations are being in vesti gated for the ori ginal plant's ability to resist di sease and cold temperatures. and non-garden related mi ss ions of the society, which It also improves leaf and flo wer color and acts as a are th e magazin e, the award s registrati on, education, gro wth stabilize r. It is also in volved in hydrati on and and conservation. other cellular functions. L-______~------~~~~~--- Joan Connors (~ 3 ) More on Orchid Fragrance

The 200 plus species of Euglossine bees are probably one of the most often pollinators of orchids. You know that only male bees collect pollen and thus , pollinate, and you know that often a given orchid species attracts just one species ofEuglossine. Another fact is that fragrant orchids have genes that dictate that they make a given scent for a given bee or bees. Have you noticeq that hybrid orchids often have no fragrance? The fragrance genes from the unlike parents cancel each other out, and the hybrid orch id, as the hybrid rose, has no fragrance. Of course there are exceptions, and sometimes the genes are compatible. Then the hybrid produces an odor that may be even better than that produced by either parent. No surprise that once a fl ower is pollinated it stops wasting energy to produce a fragrance, and no surprise that many/most orchid flowers have fragrance during the hours their pollinator is out. B. nodosa and Rhyncolaelia digbyana are night moth pollinated and will stop smelling if they are brought into the light, but will resume their fTagrance production when returned to the dark. Fragrance is also variable in intensity with temperatures. Dendrobium spectabile Orchid Tool Cleaning Option Google listed a grower who would sell this weird plant for $100. I paid about $20 for mine but it hasn' t bloomed since I got it. I was growing it with Call1eyas. Some swear by a torch, some swear by old formula I found that it should be grown in high light with tsp ( tri-sodium-phosphate), and you might like to use Vandas. This New Guinea plant with ' designer' this method suggested by the University of California. fl owers that sme ll like honey should bloom in late I. Make a solution of I part household bleach and 5 winter or ea rly spring. The alien flowers emerge from parts water. Dip your potting tools into this for 2 little black nibs on the canes near the top of the canes. seconds. Canes need to be about three feet ta II to get the most 2. Immediately plunge the tools into I part vineaar'" , 5 blooms, and clay pots are best to hold the hefty adults. parts water, and a teaspoon of salad oil. Then dry off The growin g season is from April to October. While th e tools. The salad oil acts as a rust inhibitor and it does not need a dry rest, it needs reduced fertilizer in lubricant. You can clean plastic pots with this quick winter. (Multiple Googlc sources.) dip as well, but leave out the salad oil.

Killer Bat Infection Awesome Ants . J-Iere we go again, a single bat can eat its weight in msects every ni ght, and bats are frequently the "All the ants on the planet, taken together, ha ve a pollmators of plants with white flowers. Since 2006 biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been seven species of bats have been infected with a fun gal incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their di sease called white nose syndrome. It has killed porductiveness nourishes plants, animals, and soil. millions of bats and has spread as far south as Georgia. Human industry has been in full swing for a little over Common brown bats are predicted to become extinct. a century, yet it has brought about a decline in almost 'They' think that the fungus was brought over from every ecosystem on the planet. Nature doesn' t have a Europe by people, and in time the loss of bats will design problem. People do." William McDonough affect our whole ecosystem. www.scicnccdail v.com/rcl cascS/20 10/08/I0085 142954.hlml The Case of the Missing Africanized Bees ScllOmburgkia Lasl monlh I ran a plea Jar reports on non-native , Any Schomburgkia is the same old plant but with a orchids Jar Dr. RobeI'I Pemberlon, alld Iwo oj you new name. If tbe pseudobulbs are hollow w ith a tiny responded. (Thank you.) In lalking 10 Dr. Pemberloll entry hole for its mutualistic ants it is now a aboul pollinalors he .Haled Ihal ill lime all Broward Myrmecophilas. Look for these species names: honey bees would be AJi-icanized. II seems like a good exaulla, galeolliana, humboldliii (the one w ith the lime 10 prinl Ihe Florida Deparlmenl oj Agriculture largest fl owers) tibicinis (our common one), b,ysiana and Consumer Services lisl oj Ihings 10 do 10 slay saJe and two relatively small species, albopupurea and /rom A/ricanized Bees. Ihomsoniana. • Li sten for buzzin g which can indicate a swarm or (Bonnie Belevance jllSI bloomed an albopupurea wilh nest. Check the area and call pest control to handle and 8 spikes which makes il go all a 'wanled ' lisl.) remove the bees. I'lants with solid pseudobulbs are now Laelias. • Bee nesting sites include buckets, cans, empty boxes, Three species that go here are: lIndlilala, splendida, and trash piles, electric meters, cavities in trees, fences or superbiens. the ground. So you need to change your name tags and you need • Avoid wearing perfumes, hair spray, and scented to read the c ited article below. products when outdoors. Mirenda, Thomas. 'Myrm ecophilas Holl ow-Hea rted Orchids • Keep soda cans and foods covered while outdoors. Fu ll of Unconditi onal Love for Ants'. Ju ly 20 I 0 . Orchids. • If bees attack you don't swat! Run as fast as you can AOS. Pp, 370-373 into a building or car keeping your face covered. Do not try to hide in water. • www.doacs.state.n.us/pi /plantin sp/apiary/apiary.htm I has more in formation. The Non-evil Grass Lawn Va nilla Company Tropical Info Whether your lawn grass is a good thing or a bad thing probably depends on you. An organ ically made and maintained lawn cleans the air, captures rainwater, " Only 2% of products and foods labeled vanilla stores carbon and is a biologically act ive landscape that contain the real orchi d seed pod product. does not require in tensive chemical and labor inputs. To have a 'good' lawn top dress with compost and • Tea is second to water as the most consumed human leave your lawn clippin gs in place. Chemical fert ilizer beverage. People drink more tea than all other should be needed only in hi gh traffic areas or fo ll owing beverages COMBINED. a searing summer. Weeds should be hand pu ll ed or spot sprayed with a vinegar-l ike herbic ide. T he gra ss • Pepper ori gi nal ed from India. A peppercorn is th e should be mowed high with a hand powered real seed and fTuit from a 15' woody vine. Pepper contains mower, and waterin g should be infrequent. As little as piperine which he lps the body absorb selenium, B Y, inch of water every 3 weeks may be enough to keep vitamins, and beta carotene. It can be a digestive the grass ali ve. Drought stress may make the grass system irrit ant when food is cooked with it. It is plants grow stronger and deeper roots. For more sometimes used to preserve meat. in formation go to www.the lawn institue.org Avant Gardner. Ma , 2010. Pp.53-54 • Coffee is the second most traded commodity after petroleum. T he average American drinks 3 cups of it a day. It arri ved in our country in the 1690s. At th at time it was a drink for the wealthy who boiled it for GREEN BARN ORCHID SUPPLIES halfand hour to make a bitter acidic beverage. Everythin g you need to grow beautiful orchids • Seventy fi ve percent of the world 's population li ves in the tropics. While there are 600 tropical fruits, most 5185 Conklin Drive are consumed locally and only 5% are sold Delray Beach, FL 33484 commercially. (561) 499-2810

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Over the years, and always with th e help of a fri end or three, I' ve done di splays for our show. We've won 8 .. By mid-December stalt watching your buds. They some first and second places, and sometimes we didn' t wlil want to open toward the direction of the most li ght. win anything, but we had fun and you can too. Here Don't keep rotating the plant around, you' ll cause the are some things I learn ed, often the hard way! fl owers to open all tw isted and discombobulated.

I. Don' t be afraid you won' t have enough in bloom to 9. By late December start spraying buds about every 3 fill the space. Even if you don' t when the time comes, days with Orthene, about y" tsp. in a pint of water, to friends will gladly lend their plants to you sin ce they kill thrips which will ruin your show blooms. hope they mi ght get an award. Both John Allison and Janett McMillan have gotten awards on plants th ey lent 10. Stake and groom if you kn ow how. Some clean to our displays. their leaves with a little milk in water. If you don't know how to stake, don' t worry, a fern will hide th at 2. Save yourself some money by potting up some fill er wandering fl ower spi ke. greens now. You can pop fe rns and droopin g vines in alm ost anything. You' ll cover the pots with bl ack cloth II . It is a good idea to go to War Memorial on T uesday if th ey show, so a cottage cheese tub will work as a aftern oon to group the palms and bushes that th e holder. If you need baby fern s, see me. Parsley makes society provides for exhibitors, and to actually see your a ni ce filler and the seeds arc cheap plus you can cat it space to refin e the rough plan you've made on paper or later. with some o f the actual plants at home.

3. You will need black cloth pot covers, black fa bric 12. Of course there is no fee for member hobbyists to goes on sale before Halloween for costume making. exhibit. . The preview party will be even more fun for Buy several yards more than you think you' ll need. you if you can show eo Ie our work! D.H.

4. Plan your hardscape carefully. A weath ered log or bench can take up a good bit of space. A rusty trunk, wagon, or wheel barrow make good fill ers. Avoid What To Do With new, bright, pl asti c lookin g thin gs. YOLI will be Orchid Losers showing off your blooms, not your hard scape.

5. You can get heavy black cardboard at Pearl e Arts Ifyou've had an orchid for and Crafts and silvcr pens to make name tags for th e several years and it hasn't bloomed plants. Some of the tags can be made ahead of time, move it to more or less Ught and but you will need to take tag supplies to Wa r Memori al. give it another year. You will be using some last minute loaner pl ants or If there are still no blooms you blooms of your own. You will also need masking tape have 3 choices. I. Tie it to a tree. and thin wire to put th e tags by the plants in your 2. Give it to a friend but confess that display. you can't get it to hloom. 3. Prc,balbly the best solution is to trash it 6. Start a display box LONG before the show. In th at Other trash plants include plants that are puny or box put your ex tra tag materi als, sc issors, straight pin s, ugly, plants that are very heavily infested with scale or and a knife. Add clippers and a j ar with TSP, you may mites and plants that show signs of a vira1 infection. want to cut so mething off an orchid w ithout giving it a Be sure that you trash the pot as well as the plant when disease. the plant shows signs of virus. It's not a bad. idea to toss the pot of any puny orchid. Often puny orchids are 7. You can go to our website and see shots of di splays puny because they do have a virus even though there are no streaks or color breaks to show it. I'To m former shows. Noti ce the color Il ow. The red, After the plant is gone it will no longer infect other orange, yellows go on one side with whites in the plants, consume precious water, precious space and middle to draw your eye to the back o rthe d isplay. The whites will flow to the new side into blues, lavenders, and purples. , FORT LAUDERDALE ORCHID SOCIETY

P.O. Box 4677 PI. Lauderdale, FL 33338

Regular meetings: Second Monday or each month T ime: 7:30 P.M. Workshop, 8:20 P.M. Program Place; Christ Luth eran Church Social Hall 1955 East Oakland Park Blvd.

Directions: Usc Oakland Park Blvd. from 1-95. Go East for 2.4 mi\cs, go to the rear of the church which i ~ on the North side of Oakland Park Blvd. Or take US-I (Federnl Hwy.) to Oakland Park Blvd. And go WeSI fo r 2 blocks.

President...... Joan Connors 1st Vice Presidenl... ' ...... Allen Cogar 2nd Vice Prcsident...... Michael Schaberl Recording Secretary ...... Gigi Granger Corresponding Secretary .. Zoe Bejar Treasurer ...... ' Bob Hcnl ey Newsletter Editor...... Dot Henley

Call these numbers: Sunshine (954) 49 1-1267 Newsletter (954) 772-4836

Web Site: www_nos.org

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