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The Atlanta Orchid Society Bulletin The Atlanta Orchid Society is affiliated with the American Orchid Society, the Orchid Digest Corporation and the Mid-America Orchid Congress Newsletter Editors: Mark Reinke & Valorie Boyer www.AtlantaOrchidSociety.org January, 2017 Volume 63: Number 1 JANUARY MONTHLY MEETING Monday, January 9, 2017 Atlanta Botanical Garden Day Hall - 8pm Speaker: Jason Ligon Atlanta Botanical Garden Orchid Center Assistant Horticulturist (864)378-5792 cell [email protected] “Baby Steps For The Orchid Seedling Program” Jason Ligon has a background in eld research and horticulture. The annual swearing in of oces at the December 2016 meeting. While earning his B.S. in conservation biology from Clemson University, he mapped him the privilege to serve such In This Issue invasive plants for the National clients as the Loews Hotel, Ted Park Service at Fire Island Turner, and Tyler Perry Studios. 2 ATLOS Volunteer Listing National Seashore. He also 3 Events Calendar & studied abroad and worked on Jason volunteered at ABG for 3 President’s Message the island of Bioko in Equatorial years in outdoor horticulture and Guinea. While there he the tissue culture lab before 4 Minutes from the previous contributed to research making the jump to assistant Meeting concerning indigenous primates horticulturist for the orchid 4 Monthly Ribbon and orchids. center in 2014. Now he has the Winners opportunity to oversee the Before coming on board as the Madagascan orchid collection 10 Orchid Highlights assistant horticulturist for the and maturing seedlings from the orchid center, Jason worked in tissue culture lab among other 11 Recent AOS Awards from the Atlanta Judging Center interior scaping with Avant responsibilities. Gardener, a Midtown based 12 Upcoming Orchid Shows landscaping company. This gave Minutes of the December Atlanta Orchid Society opportunities. more sparing water from temperatures are fairly cool for 2016 Meeting of the Monthly Ribbon Winners Like many large owered November to April. During the the tropics and where summer Atlanta Orchid Society December 2016 Cattleyas in this color range, a growing season from May to brings copious rainfall. While bright and somewhat drier October, they should have rainfall in winter is low, the high Annual holiday potluck social Notes by Mark Reinke period during winter is required frequent water and regular humidity and dense vegetation began at 6:00PM at Rock Springs Photos by Jody Gomez to encourage the plants to grow fertilizer. They do best in small results in plenty of residual Methodist Church; regular new sets of roots which will be pots for the size of the plant with moisture, with dew and mists meeting followed at 7:00PM and Correction: In the November 2016 needed to support their next a quick draining medium. common. The ower color can was presided by Barbara Barnett, ribbon winners the correct owner owering cycle. range from pale purple to President. of Catasetum Marsh Hallow is Red – Dendrobium phalaenopsis intense violet-blue, usually Danny Lentz. Red – Laeliocattleya Canariensis type hybrid – No ID – Larry fading to white toward the The 2017 Board Ocers and ‘Golden Glow,’ HCC/AOS – Kikkart ower center and often overlaid Trustees were installed. Class I – Carson Barnes with deeper veining. Flowers Cattleya Group large owered yellow hybrid as White – Dendrobium occur in smallish clusters from Mark Reinke was recognized for one parent and the lavender White – Cattleya Beaufort semi-antelope type hybrid – No side nodes almost anywhere his many contributions to the Amateur Winners colored C. Horace ‘Maxima,’ ‘Hartford’s Elmwood,’ AM/AOS – ID – Larry Kikkart along mature, mostly leaess Society in a number of roles, and AM/AOS as the other. By then it Mark Reinke & Gary Collier stems, though an initial Barbara Barnett was thanked and Blue – Rhyncattleanthe Coral had been discovered that this Commercial Winners owering can take place close to received a gift from the society particular parent would the apex of a stem just as it has Gold ‘Pacic Rainbow’ – Larry will bring dew and occasional for her work as 2016 Board accomplish two important goals Commercial Winners Blue - Dendrobium fully matured and still carries all Kikkart Class II – mist. President. in many of its pairings, imparting victoriae-reginae – Mark Reinke its leaves. That growth will then Cymbibum Group The best pronunciation guide I much better form to the owers of Blue – Cattleya Newberry & Gary Collier continue to ower for years to This compact beauty has a can nd for the species name is There was a silent plant auction its ospring while at the same Firehouse x Rhyncattleanthe come. There can be several remarkable 28 species in its No Entries “bye-JIB-bum” which refers to the as well as plants for sale, both time being at least partially color Paxton Brooks – Mark Reinke & While you will see tags with ushes of bloom each year with genetic background. However, two small proturberances on the with proceeds going toward the recessive. When it comes to Gary Collier various interpretations of the no distinct owering season and as all of the former Sophronitis Class III – back of the lip under the nectar Atlanta Society. cattleyas, achieving well shaped spelling of this beautiful species the individual owers last as long have been merged into Cattleya, Dendrobium Group spur. It, and its larger growing owers in the yellow shades has We purchased a at of one from the Philippines, the as two months, especially in it is no longer a Potinara as sister species, are the foundation With no speaker scheduled for been much more challenging hundred seedlings of this cross currently accepted version is as cooler conditions. The plants are originally registered. The plant Amateur Winners of a large breeding line of the holiday meeting, the than it has for lavenders, whites from Carter and Holmes some listed above. It is found on a usually in growth year round exhibited has a nice cluster of hybrids, which as a result of their meeting closed at 9:05PM and semi-albas. This is because years ago, and while they have number of the islands that make with each stem taking more than beautifully formed and Blue – Dendrobium bigibbum – mass production and worldwide following a gift exchange. the yellow color is inherited from been slow to reach owering up that nation, but always in the one year to mature. New growths presented owers, but less Lynne Gollob marketing, are what comes to species with less than ideal form, size, some beautiful results have mountains from 4000 to over initiate both from the base of the yellow that is often seen in the mind to most novice growers The January meeting will be held and even after many generations, occurred. Several have been 8000 feet above sea level, in plant and partially up mature segments, which can exhibit This species, and the similar, but when someone refers to a on January 9th in Day Hall at the these traits can be dicult to orange and coral blends such as dense mossy forests, where growths, creating a rambling broad yellow bands down the generally larger growing Den. Dendrobium. Atlanta Botanical Gardens. See overcome. But C. Horace ‘Maxima,’ this example, but we have also habit over time best center of both petals. I have phalaenopsis both come from the Given that the genus has a vast you there! AM/AOS has been a signicant seen solid yellows and reds. accommodated in a hanging grown this orchid myself and Cape York Peninsula region of range across tropical and stepping stone in moving these Given the mix of species in their basket. found that light and temperature Northeast Australia with Den. sub-tropical eastern Asia, breeding lines forward. However, backgrounds, there are likely While this orchid does not like variations during the budding bigibbum concentrated more Indonesia, the Philippines, New both Rlc. Goldernell and Rlc. other color combinations still heat, it can be successfully grown stage can produce these toward the northernmost tip of Guinea and Australia, as well as Goldenzelle, despite their names, waiting to be revealed among indoors under lights or in a dierences from one owering to the peninsula and also on the many of the smaller island chains produced a range of color the large number of plants that greenhouse with evaporative the next. The blossoms are long islands of the Torres Straight and of the western Pacic, it is outcomes. In addition to some are yet to ower. The originator cooling even in our hot summer lasting for a Cattleya and it is a just into the southernmost important to understand that the ne yellows, there are oranges, of the cross will likely wait for one climates provided it is given fairly easy growing plant that can region of Papua New Guinea. cultural requirements for peachy blends and even some of these plants to receive a shaded conditions and watered bloom twice per year. This is an area of fairly low Dendrobium are as varied as the regular lavender bloomers provisional award from the frequently, especially during hot, elevation and year round range. In the case of Den. amongst their siblings. American Orchid Society before bright weather, when daily water Blue – Rhycolaeliocattleya warmth, with even the record bigibbum and its related species registering it. For us, they have may be required. Goldernell ‘Burdekin’ – Roy lowest temperatures staying in and hybrids, warmth, as Red – Laelianthe Bowri-Albida tended to ower this time of year Harrow the mid-60’s. There is a very indicated by its habitat is a key ‘Pink Lady’ – Sondra Nierenberg when there are few if any shows Red – Dendrobium lawesii forma rainy summer followed by low factor in successful culture. This where they might be noticed, bicolor – Mark Reinke & Gary Rhyncolaeliocattleya Goldernell rainfall for six months of the year.