1/15/2018 April 2004 April 2004 News President’s Message I can hardly believe it’s time to write yet another President’s Message. Where did February go? Monthly Meeting I hope everyone is carefully preparing their plants for the rest of the April 4 , 2004 show season. Remember to call Joe O’Regan if you have plants Toronto Botanical Garden available for use in the society’s display. Remember, you can’t win Sales 12:30 pm ribbons if you don’t enter your plants. Joe is looking after most of Meeting 2 pm the upcoming shows and will gladly take your plants to the show. Executive As everyone knows, the Toronto Botanic Garden is not going to be President available next year. We are looking at new venues for both our Jay Norris meetings and our show. We will let you know as soon as we have a 416­463­741 1 contract confirming the details for next year. Vice­president Stanley Luk I would like to congratulate again our "Grower of the Year" for the 416­602­2888 past season. Congratulations are owed to Erika Lorincz. Erika is a tremendous grower, who grows mostly on windowsills and under Secretary Sue Loftus lights, and always manages to impress us with her efforts. Thank you Erika for sharing your results with us. 905­839­8281 Treasurer Happy growing! Jay Joe O’Regan 416­759­2538 Membership Program Annual Dues $20.00/Calendar Y ear April 4: Five local experts will conduct simultaneous work shops. Membership Secretary Come and learn from the local pros.Wayne Hingston will continue Hess Pommells his talk on Growing on your windowsill and greenhouses. 416­245­0369 Apt. 503, 370 Dix on Bob Floyd will do a talk on repotting and culture in general. Joe Road, Weston, Ontario , DiCiommo will conduct a workshop on Cattleya covering M9R 1T2 Website deflasking to the community pot, lighting, fertilizers and culture and hybridizing of cattleya www.soos.ca Doug Kennedy will demonstrate deflasking a lycaste, repotting and dividing miltonias and brassias. SOCIAL Gary Schreiber’s workshop will focus on Paphs his title is ' Not all With social information call Paphs are created equal.' Wayne Eyles at 905­ 629­1799 Annual Orchid Summerfest August 7: Our speakers are getting or e­mail at ready and you should start thinking about what they might bring for [email protected] you. They sent a very limited number of catalogues; so if you want to be sure to get one of your own, contact them as soon as you can. file:///Users/ericymtai/Desktop/Clean%20Screen/SOOS_site/Newsletters/2004/april_2004.htm 1/10 1/15/2018 April 2004 Gene Crocker will teach us what is involved in Breeding Great Question Box Cattleyas. In addition to Cattleyas, Gene grows many other genera. Both hybrids and species fill the numerous greenhouses at Carter Remember, this is your and Holmes. Carter and Holmes Orchids www.carterandholmes.com newsletter. If you have a burning orchidaceous Leon Glicenstein will speak on those orchids that are beautiful even question, need, or opinion, when they are out of bloom. He will speak about the Variegated send it in to Box 241, Leafed Orchids. Ludisia discolor is only the beginning, there are Goodwood, ON, L0C 1A0, or many beyond the Jewel Orchid. Hoosier is known for a vast array of fax it to 905­640­0696, or unusual seed grown species. Hoosier Orchid Company e.mail it to www.hoosierorchid.com [email protected] or phone 905­640­5643. We Your program committee seeks to please the membership. If you will print it if it is suitable have ideas for useful programs or perhaps know of subjects or and if there is space. speakers that we could all benefit from, don’t hesitate to tell Marion Williams (416 489­1991) about it. Advertising Adspace in this horizontal rule newsletter is available at $15 per business card size insertion or $100 per full Newcomers Meeting, Summer Care page insertion. All material must be submitted camera There is a Newcomers' Meeting scheduled for 7 PM on Monday May ready. 10, 2004 in the Boardroom of the Toronto Botanic Gardens. The meeting is intended to meet the needs of newcomers for growing Editor their plants over the summer. horizontal rule Peter Poot Welcome New Members PLANT OF THE MONTH David Chou, Sunbo Kang, Congratulations to our winner this month, Jocelyn Bertrand of Aaron Milrad, Wayne and Beaver Valley Orchids, for his beautifully grown Laelia anceps. He Cheryl Smith grows it in a mix of equal parts of well­washed coconut husk, perlite and vermiculite. He grows the plant in high light, with good air movement and in high humidity. At night the humidity is almost 100%. He waters every 4 to 5 days in summer and once a week in winter. He fertilizes with 30­10­10 in summer and 10­30­10 in fall and winter. His temperatures are a maximum of 30 to 33 degrees Celsius in summer and a minimum of 10 to 13 degrees in winter. Coming Events horizontal rule Library News I hope that you enjoyed the recent shows in Toronto and London and had the time to browse at the book vendor (Pantoute) as well as checking out all the temptations in plant form. March This month’s Library News will mention some of the "bibles" of orchid growing. These are books that you go back to again and again for pictures and/or cultural information about that "different" orchid 20­21, RBG Orchid Society Show. file:///Users/ericymtai/Desktop/Clean%20Screen/SOOS_site/Newsletters/2004/april_2004.htm 2/10 1/15/2018 April 2004 that is just calling to you from a sales table or display, saying "You 27­28, Genesee Orchid know you want me. We’ll be happy together." Society Show, Rochester, NY. Home Orchid Growing by Rebecca Tyson Northern, now in its fourth edition, has long been recognized as one of the greats in orchid April growing. It gives a good general introduction to the intricacies of orchid culture. Although it does concentrate on cattleyas, from the 3, Toronto Centre, care and growing of adult plants to creating and growing your own Judging, 1 pm, Toronto seedlings, this book does cover many other orchid tribes. Chapters Botanical Garden (Civic on Aerides, Cymbidium, Cypripedium, Dendrobium, and Garden Centre ). Odontoglossum tribes among others provide basic culture such as potting, temperature, watering, fertilizer, light, etc. Also included are 4, SOOS meeting, 12:30 chapters on pests and diseases, greenhouse and windowsill culture, pm, Toronto Botanical and the care and use of cut flowers. This is a good book for general Garden (Civic Garden information but it is light on pictures. Centre). One book that I find myself referring to on a regular basis for both 10­12, Toronto Artistic information and pictures is The Manual of Cultivated Orchid Species Orchid Society Show, by Helmut Bechtel, Phillip Cribb and Edmund Launert. Part I of this Chinese Cultural Centre, book introduces the morphology of orchids (what makes an orchid Toronto. and orchid), life cycle, ecology, history of orchids in cultivation, and orchid nomenclature. But it is Part II, the A to Z, to which I most 17­18, Orchidexpo, frequently refer. From Accallis to Zygopetalum, you are provided Montreal. with a detailed analysis of 217 genera including distinguishing features, native location, and requirements for cultivation. Under 24­25, Ottawa Orchid each genus a list of species most suitable for greenhouse culture is Society Show, Ottawa. given and a detailed description is provided for each. Over 1200 species are described. The third edition of this book includes 864 April 21­25, AOS colour photographs and 62 line drawings. Members Meetings, Wichita, Kansas. The third book I would recommend is The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids by Alec Pridgeon. This volume includes almost 300 genera, April 29­May 2, over 1100 species and 1000 colour photographs. The alphabetical Canadian Orchid section includes descriptions, names and synonyms, geographic Congress, Vancouver distribution, and brief notes on culture. There is also general Orchid Society, British information on hybridization, cultivation, pests and diseases, Columbia conservation, and pollination but these are very brief. The main Venue : Richm ond attraction of this book is the photographs and accompanying Curling Club, Richmond, descriptions. B.C. horizontal rule Program: Friday evening ORCHID CULTURE: LIGHTS, WINDOWSILL or GREENHOUSE preview party and plant sales. (a summary of a talk by Wayne Hingston) Saturday lectures: Global Following the very good talk by Peter Decyk "Growing Under Lights", climate Change and this talk compared lights to windowsills and greenhouses for Orchids, Kees Groot Ph.D. implications related to orchid culture. It seems to be a common belief that greenhouses are the paramount growing situation for How to Mobilize to Protect hobby orchidists. Good orchid culture results from extensive Native Species, Denise C. knowledge, keen observation and effective routines much more than Wilson, President Boulder your growing area. O. S. Knowledge centres on the requirements of the plants, the behaviour Saturday evening banquet of various growing media and fertilizers, plus the factors concerning and silent auction. file:///Users/ericymtai/Desktop/Clean%20Screen/SOOS_site/Newsletters/2004/april_2004.htm 3/10 1/15/2018 April 2004 light. Keen observation of your plants indicates the level of success Sunday COC General in growing the plants. These observations must be interpreted in meeting after noon speaker respect to your knowledge to determine actions that will improve tba. your cultural practices. Effective routines include watering habits and schedules, altering conditions as the season progresses, pest 1,Toronto Centre, Judging, control and appropriate repotting.