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March OrchidView

OUR NEXT MONTHLY MEETING March 6, 2017

MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS

Great Room by the Bay, The Activities Center,

811 S. Palm Avenue, Sarasota, FL

6:00 Door Opens

6:15 Culture class with Roy Krueger

7:00 Business Meeting

Speaker: Steve Arthur: Collecting in Belize Central and South

America

‘Members Only’ Silent Auction

Members’ Plant Table (Bring in your Blooming Plants)

A Plant Raffle completes our Meeting!

Guests are always welcome to one or two meetings!

Society mailing address: PO Box 19895, Sarasota, FL 34276-2895

Please Note: Should you arrive to our Monthly SOS Meeting after 7:00 pm, when the Gate to

the Selby Activities Center is locked, please call the cell phone of one of our members in the

meeting, as listed on the gate. Someone will come down to let you in. Selby’s Rules are such

that the Gate must be locked once our meeting has started, at which time no one is available to

continue to sit by the gate.

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Welcome New Members:

First Name Last Name

Don Silvey & Tony Ronga

Veronica Foster

Helen Hammerman

Belle Barnack-Guzman

Jill Lopez

Barbara Wetzel

Dave Clark & Robin Bennett

Marie McKee

Linda Leparulo & Bruce Mickelson

Vincent & Diana Giunta

John Masters

SOS March Speaker:

Steve Arthur bio

Steve is a scientist who worked for the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and with the Dept. of Veteran’s Affairs for thirteen years doing research on animal tissue culture. For eight years, he taught middle school science in a private Catholic school in Augusta. He has two grown daughters.

Steve began growing orchids over thirty years ago. His current greenhouse in Graniteville, SC, where he and his wife now live, covers about 5,000 square feet of growing area. He grows a “mish-mash” of things but tends to focus on Cattleyas and has been making crosses for years. In his greenhouse lab, he also does contract work (such as sowing and harvesting seeds) for other nurseries. Steve is affiliated with Carter & Holmes, frequently selling plants for them at the big Florida shows, and is currently their Lab Manager.

He is also an accredited AOS Judge, and once a month, Steve drives to and from Graniteville to Greensboro to attend judging. If you visit Steve’s business, you enter his greenhouse via a large meeting room where his local orchid society meets and where he conducts classes on growing orchids. This meeting room is also home to sixteen birds— mostly Macaws but also Yellow Winged Parrots and Quaker Parrots. He purchased each of the birds while at orchid shows.

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Venice Area Orchid Society Show 2017 Sarasota Ribbon Winners

Class 2 Society Exhibit - 100 Square ft Second Place Society Exhibit 3, Sarasota Orchid Society

Class 80 Encyclia and Prosthechea species Third Place E. cordigera 'Venezuela', Dennis Pavlock

Class 90 Epidendrum, Encyclia and Prosthechea intrageneric hybrids. First Place Epi.Wedding Valley 'Sakura Kamachi' (Epi. Princess Valley x Pearl Valley), Susan Gerhardt

Class 100 Epidendrum Encyclia and Prosthechea intergeneric hybrids. First Place Epc. René Marqués 'Tyler' 1st/CAOB (Epi. pseudepidendrum x C. Claesiana), Cathy Lewis Second Place Eny. SunCoast Sunflares (Ctt. Selsal's Supernova x Enc. cordigera), Jack Knuese

Class 110 Brassavola species and intrageneric hybrids, (B x B): other than above, excl. Cattleya. First Place B. Little Stars (B. nodosa x subulifolia), Jack Knuese

Class 120 Brassavola intergeneric hybrids, flower predominately B. nodosa in form. INCLUDES Cattleya hybrids. First Place Bc.Morning Glory (B.nodosa x c.purpurata), Dennis Pavlock Third Place Bc. Yellow Bird 'In Flight' (B. nodosa x Bc. Richard Mueller), Jack Knuese

Class 130 Rhyncholaelia intrageneric and intergeneric hybrids, excluding Cattleya. First Place Ryn. Daffodil 'Equilab' (Rl. glauca x Gur. aurantiaca), Dennis Pavlock

Class 140 Broughtonia species, intrageneric and intergeneric hybrids: other than above. First Place Grt. Why Not 'Orchidglade' BM/SFOS (Gur. aurantiaca x Bro. sanguinea), Susan Gerhardt

Class 200 Cattleya species (small flower, less than 5 inches) includes Guarianthe Second Place C. loddigesii, Dennis Pavlock

Class 201 Cattleya hybrids (small flower, less than 5 inches): lavender/mauve/pink First Place Lcr. Winter Fantasy 'Sunbulb' AM/AOS (Cll. Snowflake x Lc. Angel Heart), Susan Gerhardt

Class 202 Cattleya hybrids (small flower, less than 5 inches): white First Place Cll. Mizoguchi (Cll. Snowflake x L. anceps), Monroe Kokin

Class 209 Cattleya hybrids (small flower, less than 5 inches): spotted First Place C. (Adelaide Waltman x Landate), Jo Davis Third Place C. Tropical Pointer 'Cheetah' (C. Tropic Glow x intermedia), Jack Knuese

Class 220 Cattleya species (large flower, 5 inches & over): other than the above First Place C. lueddemanniana ('Fred's Dark' x sib), Cathy Lewis Second Place C. lueddemanniana, Dennis Pavlock

Class 221 Cattleya hybrids (large flower, 5 inches & over): lavender/mauve/pink First Place Rlc. Pamela Hetherington 'Coronation' FCC/AOS (C. Paradisio x Rlc. Mount Anderson), Dennis Pavlock

Class 222 Cattleya hybrids (large flower, 5 inches & over): white First Place Rlc. Pastoral 'Innocence' FCC/AOS (C. Mademoiselle Louise Pauwels x Rlc. Déesse), Dennis Pavlock

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Second Place Rlc. Turandot (C. Bob Betts x Rlc. Pastoral), Susan Gerhardt

Class 253 Paphiopedilum species, Section Barbata (callosum, barbatum, lawrenceanum, sukhakulii, venustum, etc.) First Place Paph. venustum, Robert Scully

Class 281 Paphiopedilum hybrids. Sequential blooming. Second Place Paph. Pinocchio (Paph. glaucophyllum x Paph. primulinum), Robert Scully

Class 282 Paphiopedilum hybrids - Multiflora types: all colors. Second Place Paph. Gary Romagna (Paph. rothschildianum x Saint Swithin), Monroe Kokin

Class 350 Angraecum species and intrageneric hybrids. First Place Angem.Crestwood (vetchii x sesquipedale), Jane Shapiro Second Place Angrcm. Crestwood ( Angrcm. Veitchii x sesquipedale), Monroe Kokin

Class 371 Rhynchostylis intergeneric hybrids: other than above. Second Place Van. Lou Sneary 'Blue Bird' (V. falcata x Rhy. coelestis), Jack Knuese

Class 496 Phalaenopsis hybrids (small flower, less than 2 inches) – pink with spots/bars. First Place Phal. Cassandra (Phal. equestris 'Orange' x stuartiana var. nobilis), Charlie Rogg

Class 502 Phalaenopsis hybrids (small flower, less than 2 inches) – other colors (no spots, bars or stripes). First Place Phal. Hsu's Mambonosa ( Phal. Mambo x venosa), Susan Gerhardt

Class 570 Oncidium Species and hybrids, large flowered over one (1) inch Natural Spread. Second Place Onc. Irish Mist (Onc. multistellare x Onc. fuscatum), Jack Knuese

Class 571 Oncidium Species and hybrids, small flowered one (1) inch or less Natural Spread. Second Place Onc. Twinkle 'Pink Profusion' (Onc. cheirophorum x sotoanum), Jane Shapiro

Class 590 Psychopsis Species and hybrids (kramerianum, papilio, sanderae, etc.) First Place Pyp. Papilio ('Yellow Bird' x 'Yellow Butterfly'), Cathy Lewis Second Place Pyp. Mendenhall 'Hildos' FCC/AOS Pyp. (Butterfly x papilio), Jo Davis

Class 601 Tolumnia intrageneric hybrids (Oncidium Equitant hybrids) First Place Tolu. Popoki 'Mitzi' (Tolu. Puff x Phyllis Hetfield), Jack Knuese Second Place Tolu. Alameda Magic, Susan Gerhardt Third Place Tolu. Hybrid, Susan Gerhardt Class 703 Dendrobium species: Latouria type (aberrans, alexandrae, atroviolaceum, johnsoniae, macrophyllum, spectabile). Third Place Den. spectabile , Susan Gerhardt

Class 712 Dendrobium hybrids: Nobile type - yellow. First Place Den. Fancy Yellow (Den. Okayama Gold x Santana), Jack Knuese

Class 724 Dendrobium hybrids: Phalaenopsis type - red/red-purple. First Place Den. (Blue Violetta x Red Maroon), Susan Gerhardt

Class 736 Dendrobium hybrids: Antelope type - any other color First Place Den. (mirbelianum x strebloceras), Cathy Lewis

Class 742 Dendrobium hybrids: intermediate form (Antelope x Phalaenopsis) type - green. First Place Den. Caesar (Den. phalaenopsis x stratiotes), Charlie Rogg

Class 760 Dendrobium hybrids: Latouria type.

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First Place Den. Andreé Millar (Den. atroviolaceum x convolutum), Dennis Pavlock Third Place Den. Bruce Gordon (Den. alexandrae x eximium), Jo Davis

Class 770 Dendrobium hybrids: other than above. Third Place Den. White Grace 'Sato' (Den. Fiftieth State x speciosum), Jack Knuese

Class 930 Jewel Orchids - (recognized for colorful foliage & flower) i.e. Anoectochilus, Dossinia, Goodyera, Ludisia, etc. (may be flowering) Need not be in bloom. Second Place Lus. discolor, Jack Knuese

Class 950 Species not covered elsewhere. First Place Lip. condylobulbon, Charlie Rogg

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2017 Venice Show Display and Winners

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February 2017 SOS Meeting Minutes – Final

Meeting started at 7:00

Marta Hudson came up to introduce any new members and guest from tonight

We would like to welcome all of the new members who joined in the last couple of months!! o Could you all stand up?

Three other things about membership I wanted to mentioned tonight … o We want to remind people that 2017 membership dues and are now payable tonight or soon.

The cutoff for 2017 dues is the end of March. o We really, really need to have everyone (members and guests) sign in each month

We need to report attendance to Selby each month o I wanted to remind everyone of our guests’ policy … Guests will also be welcome, at no charge,

for no more than 2 meetings As we mentioned last year, we would ask you to either join the society or pay a

$5/meeting charge. Guests will be on the honor system after their second meeting to pay or join

We would like to thank all the volunteers who helped out during the Annual Show We had a very successful Show and we could not have done it without all your help!

Thank you again!

Speaking of the SOS Newsletter OrchidView … Can I see a show of hands on how many people got the Feb Newsletter?

We had a couple of our members donate plants this month for the re-potting demonstration. The other set of plants are on the back table. I’d like to thank Cathy Lewis and Susan Gerhart for their plant donations and Kay Weber for some driftwood that she will use to demonstrate mounting orchids.

o All the plants that get repotted will be part of tonight’s plant raffle o Discuss repotting session and why this time of year

We did very well at the 2016 VAOS Show!!! o I do not have the final ribbon and Show award details, but when we get them, we will publish

them in the March newsletter.

I wanted to let everyone know that April will be our annual members’ meeting and anyone interested in joining the board should contact me. We are always looking to new board members. You usually start off on the board doing a well-defined project

o This year, we are specifically looking for someone to work with and then replace Norm Hillstrom manage our storage shed.

o It’s a ways off, but I’m looking for someone with good Excel skills and knowledge of MS Access to learn how to create the AOS Judges’ reports used for the SOS Annual Show

We need some other short-term help. o Recently we received a donation of all of Selby’s duplicate “old” AOS Bulletins back into the

1930s. Looking for 2 people to help me sort and catalog these old bulletins.

Diane Cirksena asked me to share the following with the members …. o Solar is coming big-time to Sarasota. If you have thought about adding solar to your home, you

can now experience about 20% savings on a solar system through an independent solar cooperative. Diane Cirksena could you stand up? See her at the break and she can answer your questions and has information about how to access more detailed solar information."

Before we take our break … I wanted to let everyone know that given we are meeting at the Garden Club, we are able to hold our regular dividing and repotting session. We try and do this every year for our members, especially our many new members o There will be 3 dividing and reporting station … Please move your chairs around and get in close so

you can see what is going on. We encourage you to volunteer to help the leaders divide an orchid. Raise your hand and offer to help. Also, offer to pot one of the divided orchids.

Mention Plant Raffle

Mention the Plant Show Table

Make a plea for everyone to stay and help clean up!!!

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Next Orchid Show Reminder – Englewood Orchid Society:

The Englewood Area Orchid Society is having their annual Show & Sale on Friday, April 7 &

Saturday, April 8, at the Englewood United Methodist Church. 700 East Dearborn St.,

Englewood, Fl. The church is just 8 miles past the Rt. 41 & Rt. 776 intersection. Directions:

Travel south on 776/Englewood Rd for 7 miles,. Turn left on E. Dearborn St, then 1 mile to

the Church on the left. This will be the last Show of the 2017 season.

Our Society's Display team need your flowering orchids to create our display.

Set-up for this Show is Thursday, April 6 from 10am to 5 pm. Plants must be registered in

advance by email with Jo Davis jodavis38@gmail.com by Tuesday, Apr. 4 @ 6PM. NO

EXCEPTIONS!!! Email your plant name along with color photo (preferred) or color

description along with size (smaller or larger than 5 inches) for categorization. Obviously,

plants should be cleaned, staked, free of pests & disease & in prime condition. Please water

your plants thoroughly before bringing them as the flowers need to last through to the end

of the Show. Include your last name on the pot.

Bring your plants to the EAOS Show by 10AM Thursday, Apr. 6. If you are unable to bring

your plants to the Show site, please contact Jack Knuese @ 941-349-1255. by Tuesday @

6PM. to make alternative arrangements.

You MUST pick up your plants between 5:00 and 5:15 Saturday afternoon at tear-

down of the display OR make alternative arrangements to have your plant(s) picked

up by a friend. (Unclaimed plants will be raffled off to the highest bidder!)

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Orchids we should all grow by Roy Krueger

CATTLEYA MARJORIE HAUSERMANN “YORK”

Is there an orchid lover among us who can resist the allure of a crystalline white Cattleya? I am certainly not the exception as I have never met the big white Cattleya that I didn't want to add to my collection. Was there any question why Marjorie Hausermann, shown above, had to be added to my collection several years ago? Buried in her background are seven stellar members of the Cattleya family, six species and one naturally occurring hybrid, blended in various combinations over six generations. They are; loddigesii, mossiae, warneri, gaskilliana, labiata, and the naturally occurring hybrid x dolosa which is a cross of loddigesii x walkeriana. All are intermediate to warm growers and all like dappled to bright light. This combination leads to a plant that is easy to grow and which flowers several times a year. I grow this specimen in the pool cage in a pot with a coarse bark mix. It gets treated like most uni-foliate Cattleyas, heavy water and fertilizer while in active growth with a hard dry out between watering. George Hausermann of Hausermann Nurseries, Elmhurst, Illinois registered this cross in 1964. It is a cross of C. Henrietta Japet X C. Ethel Leder. One of the things that I find most interesting about this cross is that all of the species in its background are primarily pink or pink forms. While most have Alba forms, it is unusual that the combination of them would lead to a form that is always white. Marjorie Hausermann is either solid white or white with a yellow center in its lip. Flowers are about 5” in natural spread with a full well formed petal that is slightly ruffled and a full ovate lateral sepal. The dorsal sepal is erect and the lip is ruffled. Up to six flowers can emerge from an inflorescence. Bloom cycles typically are in late

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summer and mid winter. Growing Tips: The plant is not normally affected by disease. I treat it with systemic fungicide monthly from April through October and topically for pests if they appear. Most common irritants are thrips in the dry days of spring and botrytis during the winter bloom cycle. I control thrips with Orthene or Conserve applied in approximately ten day cycles for three applications in early spring. Botrytis is easier prevented than cured. It is a leaf spotting fungus that appears as tiny black spots on the petals and sepals. Once present, the flower is disfigured, though no lasting damage is done to the plant. Prevent it with good air movement to prevent moisture from remaining on the flower and spray preventatively with a solution of 1 tbs./gallon of bicarbonate of soda (common baking soda) or with a spray of a disinfectant like Physan before the buds open. The mature plant is of modest size, with narrow pseudo bulbs approximately 6” long and one or two 5” leaves arising from the top of each pseudo bulb. When mature, it will send up three or more pseudo bulbs twice a year. Growth will mature, sheaths will form and with little or no rest, the buds will fill and flowers appear. Do not over pot the plant. The roots must dry between watering. A mature plant of 20 or more pseudo bulbs will fit nicely in a 6” pot. Plants are still available today, but may require a little searching since the cross is 50 years old. Look for one. It is well worth the effort and will reward you with a profusion of award worthy blooms.

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Our Sponsors

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Big Earth Landscape Supply, on Bee Ridge

Road in Sarasota, will be selling Orchid

Products for potting and spraying,

including some items which Roy Krueger

discusses during his monthly “Learn to

Grow Orchids” sessions at 6:15 pm, prior to

the Sarasota Orchid Monthly Meetings.

You can call Adam at 941-379-2440 or fax 941-379-0634 a request for special items to be

brought to the meeting a week before so he can have them ready. Or just go visit them on Bee

Ridge just east of I-75 on the north side of the street.

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Silent Auction Guidelines: No more Silent Auction Plants for the March meeting

We will limit the total number of plants to 4 or 5 per month

By the 20th of the month, prior to the upcoming meeting, a member will email a request to Denny Pavlock (dpavlock@gmail.com) with the number of plants they wish to bring.

Include the name of the plant, the approximate number of pseudo bulbs, size of the pot, basket or mount or that it is a bare root.

If you have a jpeg picture of the flower, please include with your request. o If you do not have pic, SOS will provide one, if plant is not blooming

Plants must be clean with no scale, thrips, etc.

If desired, specify the minimum price you will accept for each plant.

If desired, specify an “eBay type Buy-It-Now” amount for each plant so that a member may instantly purchase the plant.

o Note: The plant will then immediately be removed from the Silent Auction Table

To confirm your inclusion in the Silent Auction, Denny will send you, the member, a

Silent Auction Form.

The seller will receive 75% and the SOS will receive 25% of the sale’s price.

o Member will receive the total amount of the sale and is responsible for

returning 25% (cash or check) plus the Silent Auction Form to the SOS

Treasurer at the conclusion of the meeting.