SASKATCHEWAN ORCHID SOCIETY NOVEMBER 2016 VOLUME 34, ISSUE #3 NEWSLETTER SOS Executive President: Bob Lucas Vice-President: Sherida Gregoire Past President: Cal Carter Secretary: Donna Carlson- O’Keefe Treasurer: Cheryl Grummett Social: Shirley Keith Lori Pozniak Plant Orders: Heather Anderson Cheryl Adamson Resources: Yvette Lyster Pat Randall Librarians: Debbie Huculiak Don Keith Newsletter: Tracey Thue COC/AOS Rep: Tom Kondra Speakers: Heather Anderson Editor’s Note: The newsletter will be distributed electronically to Webmaster: Calvin Lo all members for whom we have an email address. If you wish to switch from paper to electronic delivery, please notify me at Mail Address: SOS, Box 411 [email protected]. Saskatoon, SK S7K 3L3 Future Meeting Dates: Web Address: www.saskorchids.com Jan 22, 2017 Feb 26, 2017 Mar 19, 2017 facebook: https:// Apr 23, 2017 May 28, 2017 Sept 2017 www.facebook.com/saskorchidsociety? November Meeting The general meeting of the Society will be held on Sunday, Nov 20, 2016 at John Dolan School, commencing at 1:30 p.m. The Presentation portion of our meeting will be an informal Panel Discussion on favourite internet sources of orchid information and orchid forums. PAGE 1! SASKATCHEWAN ORCHID SOCIETY NOVEMBER 2016 VOLUME 34, ISSUE #3 ANNOUNCEMENTS Meeting Agenda: Fundraiser for the 2023 World Orchid Congress (WOC) Presentation - Orchid Forums and Announcements A 2023 WOC Bid Committee was formed other Internet Information Sources A Problem Corner earlier this year. The Committee’s goal is to panel discussion will take place this Show and Tell bring the World Orchid Congress to Edmonton month, with Don Keith, Pat Randall, and Coffee/ and for it to be as inclusive as possible to all Tracey Thue leading the discussion. Supplies/Library Canadian orchid societies and to ensure that Calvin Lo is unable to attend the any lasting legacy of the conference is shared Presentation meeting, but has provided an across the Canadian orchid community. informative summary of how to Plant Sale Charlotte Cummings has given us a number participate in a forum and a description Plant Raffle of her handmade glazed clay orchid pots of his favourite orchid forums. The panel Adjournment that we’ll be selling at SOS meetings with will share this at the meeting, and the proceeds going toward the 2023 WOC Bid Committee. Knowing Charlotte we think mention other forums to look for. she would appreciate the fact that the sale of her pots Members in attendance are welcome to share sites that will be supporting the 2023 bid to bring the WOC to they’ve discovered. Canada. Newsletters November is the cutoff for receiving Cheryl Adamson and Heather Anderson newsletters if you haven’t yet renewed your membership for the 2016-2017 season! Tribute to Charlotte Cummings Plant sale Members are encouraged to bring Charlotte was known to a number of SOS members plants to sell to other members attending the meeting. for her pottery, painting and printmaking, sold Plant raffle There under the name of One Twisted Sister Artwork. will be plants for Charlotte was always looking for ideas to make the raffle, the ultimate orchid pot or mount for orchids. Her donated by pots had many creative and innovative designs. Saskatoon Co-op. Charlotte was also an avid orchid grower and was Tickets can be President of the Foothills Orchid Society for 2 purchased at the years. She passed away in Calgary on Nov 2, library table, 1 2016. Charlotte was devoted to young people ticket for $1 or 3 through her art and drama teaching career at for $2. Thanks to Strathmore Hight School. She was an active Sherida for member of her community, involved with the making this Strathmore Theatre Players, the Lions Club and possible! planning for the Strathmore 2015 Alberta 55 Plus Summer Games. Charlotte was an accomplished artist, sculptor, and potter as well as gardener, and animal lover. She had an outgoing personality, a great smile and was a real ‘character’. We first got to know Charlotte on our 2010 trip to Trisetella hoeijeri Ecuador. After the trip Charlotte visited Purchased from Ecuagenera in 2015, potted in Saskatoon a number of times and sold her pottery sphagnum and growing in a humid tank with at the 2015 COC. temperatures between 15-18C. A small fan in the tank She’ll be missed by all who knew her. provides air movement. Every second day it’s sprayed with rain water; fertilized monthly. Sara & Tracey Thue. Heather Adamson PAGE 2! SASKATCHEWAN ORCHID SOCIETY NOVEMBER 2016 VOLUME 34, ISSUE #3 OCTOBER 23 MEETING MINUTES spider mites or thrips, and she should try Neem oil and Recorded by Donna Carlson-O’Keefe horticultural oil spray, repeating in 2 weeks. The spray Announcements should not be allowed to remain in the crown of the plant. Another member suggested that if Paphs are Bob Lucas welcomed members and guests to the meeting. There was one new member in attendance turning brown it may be due to rust, in which case the who received a warm applause in welcome. plant should be sprayed with cinnamon/alcohol weekly. One member indicated that cinnamon/alcohol can Memberships are on sale, $25 for an individual, stain the leaves, and some Paphs seem to be sensitive $30 for a family membership; this year’s tags are pale orange. to the alcohol due to the chilling as it evaporates from the leaves. Plants donated by the Saskatoon Co-op will be raffled today. Tickets can be purchased at the Library Show and Tell table, 1 for $1 or 3 for $2. Fifteen plants were shown by Cheryl Adamson, Cody Today’s presentation is a Canadian Orchid Congress Hamilton, Colleen Hobday, Merle Ward, Sherida (COC) webinar, “What Does Blue Mean in the World of Gregoire, Heather Anderson, Tracey Thue and Bob Phalaenopsis?” Lucas. Next month’s presentation will be a panel Break discussion on internet sources of information about Presentation: David Lafarge presented “What Does orchid culture. Members who would like to participate Blue Mean in the World of Phalaenopsis? - Fifty Shades should talk to Heather during the break. of Blue”, a webinar produced by the COC. Lovely There are plants on the plant sale table. Those photography supported his tale of the search for true wishing to purchase plants should put their numbers in blue in nature, and efforts achieved to date in breeding at the front desk. When a number is drawn, that for blue Phalaenopsis. member can choose one plant; after each person has There was a brief discussion at the end of the webinar had a chance to select a plant, anyone can go back and for feedback and some members had difficulty hearing purchase more. the sound. The next time a similar format is used for Members were reminded presentation there will be better that one of their membership sound set up. privileges is a 10% discount on Plant Raffle There were orchid-related supplies at thirteen plants donated by the Early’s. Saskatoon Co-op; all were Treats volunteers for future claimed by those purchasing meetings should sign up with raffle tickets. Shirley. Today treats were provided by Calvin Lo, Maxine Plant Sale Tasky, Gwen Erickson and Lynn There was a great selection of Campbell. plants provided by members for sale, of a wide variety of genera. Problem Corner All but three went to new A member has several homes. One plant that was re- Phalaenopsis and homed included the lovely Paphiopedilum plants with Masdevallia Bella Donna leaves that are dimpling and then turning brown. pictured here, which was purchased in bud and is now Should she treat them with cinnamon/alcohol spray? It in full bloom - thank you Don! was suggested that this sounded like damage from Adjournment Approx. 3:30 pm. PAGE 3! SASKATCHEWAN ORCHID SOCIETY NOVEMBER 2016 VOLUME 34, ISSUE #3 SOS OCTOBER SHOW & TELL TABLE Photos by Tracey Thue, edited by Sara Thue Vanda Leopardi yellow Dendrobium Oriental Smile Grower: Sherida Gregoire Cycnodes (Cycd.) Wine Delight ‘Fantasy’ (Cycnoches (Cyc.) lehmannii x Mormodes (Morm.) sinuata) Grower: Merle Ward Grower: Colleen Hobday Dendrobium Hibiki Paphiopedilum henryanum (Dend. bracteosum x Dend. laevifolium) ‘Bear’ SM/TPS x ‘Bear-6’ Cattleya Chocolate Blue Grower: Heather Anderson Grower: Tracey Thue Grower: Cheryl Adamson PAGE 4! SASKATCHEWAN ORCHID SOCIETY NOVEMBER 2016 VOLUME 34, ISSUE #3 Phragmipedium Don Wimber 4N Oncidium Twinkle ‘Red Fantasy’ Paphiopedilum Wossner China Moon Grower: Cheryl Adamson (Paph hangianum x armeniacum) Grower: Tracey Thue Grower: Bob Lucas Paphiopedilum Frank Smith Grower: Bob Lucas Oncidium Twinkle (yellow & red) Paphiopedilum Toni Semple Grower: Cody Hamilton (haynaldianum ‘SVO7’ x lowii ‘SVO’ AM/AOS) Grower: Cheryl Adamson Dendrobium cuthbertsonii Oncidium Heaven Scent ‘Sweet Baby’ Rhyncholaeliocattleya Ports of Paradise ‘Green Ching Hua’ AM/AOS Grower: Sara Thue Grower: Colleen Hobday Grower: Cheryl Adamson PAGE 5! SASKATCHEWAN ORCHID SOCIETY NOVEMBER 2016 VOLUME 34, ISSUE #3 AOS Pacific Northwest Judging Centre-Richmond’s Outreach Judging at Foothills Orchid Society Oct 22, 2016 Photography by Doug Savage Paphiopedilum x aspersum ‘BB8’ CHM/AOS 82pts Exhibitor: David Truong (award provisional pending species identification) Cattleya maxima ‘Barbara’s Big Catt’ HCC/AOS 77pts Exhibitor: Barbara Podmore PAGE 6! SASKATCHEWAN ORCHID SOCIETY NOVEMBER 2016 VOLUME 34, ISSUE #3 What’s in Bloom at the Muttart? October 2016 Orchid Species Preservation Foundation Compiled by Dave Nixon, photographs by Doug Bovee/Dave Nixon Information sourced from Orchidwiz, Charles Baker, Orchid Photographic Encyclopedia, The Plant List, Wikipedia Cattleya [C.] labiata This species is found in Venezuela and NE Brazil. It was originally described from a plant said to have originated in the Organ Mountains, just north of Rio de Janeiro. It has never again been found in that area, and it is quite probable that the habitat location given to Dr.