Orchid View November 2015

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1 Orchid View November 2015 OUR NEXT MONTHLY MEETING November 2, 2015 MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS Great Room by the Bay, The Activities Center, 811 S. Palm Avenue, Sarasota, FL 6:00 pm Doors Open 6:15 pm Culture Study with Roy Krueger 7:00 pm Business Meeting 7:15 pm Speaker: John F. Salventi, Ph.D. Topic: Roots, It s All about Roots: A complete discussion about the very special nature of orchid roots and how caring for them properly will dramatically improve your orchid culture. 8:00 pm Members Only Silent Auction 8:30 pm Members Plant Table Discussion & Ribbon Awards A Plant Raffle completes our Meeting! Guests are always welcome! Club address; PO Box 19895, Sarasota, FL Page1 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.

2 ORCHID VIEW TABLE OF CONTENTS Front cover. 1 Table of Contents, Welcome new members Our Speaker, John F. Salventi, Ph.D Minutes October 5th SOS meeting...4 October Members plant table Winners. 5,6 Annual Orchid Show Committees and Information.. 7 Orchids We Should All Grow by Roy Krueger Holiday Party information..9 Selby Gardens Lights in Bloom Announcements..10 Silent auction guidelines Welcome New Members: Sandra Overton, Pam Baker, Mary McDuffie, Margaret Haas, Leslie Austin, Maura Casario, Thomas Haukaas, Jean Ruff Members who joined in August: Randy Brodsky, Craig Dibler 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. Page2

3 BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY John F. Salventi, Ph. D. Prior to involvement in the orchid industry John Salventi was a health-care professional with more than 20 years of hospital management experience including 17 years at the Lehigh Valley Hospital. John and Tom Purviance opened Parkside Orchid Nursery in Parkside grew to be one of the largest multi-genera orchid nurseries in the northeastern United States with five greenhouses, spanning over 14,000 square feet of growing space. After 20 years of operating Parkside, it was sold in 2012 During the 20 years that they operated Parkside, both John and Tom traveled extensively to maintain an interesting inventory for the serious hobbyist and secured plants directly from the growers. These include frequent trips to South America, Central America, Hawaii and Asia. John has led Eco-Tours in Peru and Ecuador. In Peru these trips have included The Manu Cloud Forest, the Wayqechas Biological Research Center, Cusco, and Machu Picchu. He has traveled extensively in Ecuador on several occasions and to Costa Rica twice. John served on the conservation committee of the American Orchid Society and the president s advisory council for the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research. He has spoken both nationally and internationally at Orchid Societies and Symposia on orchid and conservation topics. John continues to speak and lead workshops, on a variety of orchid topics. Most recently he presented two Webinars for the American Orchid Society. See Page3

4 October 5 th Meeting Minutes Dennis Pavlock called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. Jo Davis introduced new members and guests. Can I get someone to help Mecky with the Plant Raffle Table today? Old Business: Questions on the Treasurer s Report? I put one plant on the Silent Auction Table o Remember each month, you can bring in a couple of plants, just me ahead of time with the Plant s Name Big Earth has a table with supplies for sale Any follow up to items from previous month s new business? New Business: Page4 o Announcements: This is a night of Sign Up Sheets. Karen Bird-Lister Is the new SOS Orchid View Newsletter Editor o If you have articles you would like published in the Newsletter, Karen s is broncograndy@verizon.net We all would like to personally thank Carolyn Langdon for all she does for the SOS, but especially thank you for jumping in and doing such a wonderful job with the Orchid View Newsletter that last several years!!! o There will be an Annual Holiday Party at the Sarasota Garden Club on Dec 7 th. Sign up starts tonight This year again the SOS as agreed to support the Selby Light in Bloom Program. We ve signed up for Monday, Dec 21 st from 5:00 till 9:00. We are passing a Sign up sheet tonight I have spoken in the past about starting a mentor program for our newer members o We will be asking the seasoned growers to get together with the newer members to To meet at the newer member home to see how they grow their orchids and offer suggestions Invite the new member over to their home to see how the seasoned grower grows their orchids Depending on how many seasoned growers volunteer, we ll ask them to take on two new members near where they live. o I m passing out a sign-up sheet to see how much interest there is for this program One other thing On the form I m passing out, there is a Year Joined column. If it s filled in, please check that the year is correct? If it s blank, please fill it in with your best guess at what year you joined? Please vote for the best species, hybrid, and novice plants on the display table. Please purchase raffle tickets. Plants provided by our speaker this month, Ron Midgett Ron has brought some wonderful plants to sell to our members. 15 minute break After break: Introduce Roy to introduce Ron Midgett New Earth Orchids, Santa Fe, N.M. o Ron gave a wonderful presentation on Cattleya Beaufort, a primary hybrid of (Cattleya coccinea x Cattleya luteola). Ron traced the history of how this particular hybrid has been used in a very large number hybridizations. He also showed pics of many of his hybrids (crosses) and how one cross can produce many color variations in the plants from the cross. Ron chose a Speaker s Choice Award Roy and Jim Robert will go through the display table Mecky Kreissle ran raffle Meeting adjourned at 9:15 p.m.

5 Monthly Meeting Awards Best Hybrid for October 2015 Virginia Shoyer---Vandachostylis Ladda Gold (Vanda miniata x Rhynchostylis coelestis) Best Novice October 2015 Elizabeth Ourille-----Vanda Pachara Delight (Vanda Karules x Vanda Gordon Dillon) Page5

6 Best Species and Speaker s Choice Bob Scully------Bulbophyllum medusae Page6

7 As most of you know, our annual Orchid Show is approaching the very first weekend of 2016! The dates are Saturday, Jan 2, and Sunday Jan. 3 from 9 to 5 PM, with set-up on Friday, Jan 2. We cannot have a successful Show without your participation! We expect each & every one of our members to do their part by working on at least one of the committees. The committees are as follows: Show Set-up Chairman: Norm Hillstrom-12:00 Noon Friday, Jan 1st Assist putting tables up in Auditorium, lay plastic on the floor, setting up pipe & drape, and putting on table skirts. Hospitality- Chairman: Patti Quinnelly-For our volunteers and vendors arrange donated food in the SRQ Auditorium stage behind the curtains. Keep area clean. 4 hour shifts Front Door- Chairman Roy Krueger-1 person for each: Welcome people to the show, & collect $5 fee. 2 hour shifts Survey & Security Chairman Jane Hagerstrom-Survey attendees how they heard about our show and monitor exit doors on Saturday & Sunday. 2 hour shifts Plant Hotel Chairman-(needed) Holding area for guests orchids they have purchaseduse matching ticket numbers for plants & owners. 4 hour shifts Information and Membership Table Chairman: Lori Boyce-Welcome & Inform guests of the value of membership in the Sarasota Orchid Society, sell Culture Books -$1.00, Motes Books $ hour shift. Sell Raffle Tickets-Chairman Chairman: Steve Haber-Sell raffle tickets for blooming orchids and orchid related items which are raffled off every hour of the show. Announce winners over loud speaker. 4 hour shifts Show Tear-down Chairman Norm Hillstrom-Sunday, Jan 5PM. Assist to dismantle SOS display, put away tables & supplies, help sweep floors, general hall clean-up. Generally takes approximately 1 ½ to 2 hours. Remember, if you the Show, you will get in the Show free of charge. Otherwise members are expected to pay at the door. Page7

8 ORCHIDS WE SHOULD ALL GROW BLC. LAKE MURRAY 'MENDENHALL' Those of you who regularly follow my ramblings know that there does not exist a big red Cattleya that I do not absolutely need in my collection. When one is lucky enough to find such a plant just two generations removed from the great big Catt breeder, Norman's Bay, there is no question-buy IT! Such a plant is BLC. Lake Murray, a cross of C. Oconee x C. Catawba. C. Oconee, of course, is a first generation offspring of Norman's Bay. Lake Murray was made by Carter & Holmes and registered in It was awarded just one time by AOS, an AM/AOS in 1991 when it was shown with just two flowers, each 15.5 cm (approximately 5 ) across. The variety was named Mendenhall, the variety shown above. I acquired this plant about 5 years ago with about 10 pseudobulbs. Today it has over 40 pseudobulbs. When it last bloomed, it had 24 flowers on 8 inflorescence. Each flower measured 6-61/2 across. The color is deep red/purple with gold veins in a garnet lip that radiate out into gold overcasts on the inner petal. The flowers are long lasting, remaining in bloom over 3 weeks during the heat of summer. Grow Lake Murray in bright indirect light in warm to hot conditions. I grow the one shown on the west screen of my pool cage, high up on the side. Ideal humidity is 50-60% year around. Water thoroughly, but be sure to allow mature plants to dry thoroughly before watering again. I fertilize weekly with with Cal Mag spring until fall. In fall, I switch to Potassium Nitrate ( ) and Magnesium Sulfate (Epsom salts) alternated with every other week. In about November, I cut the rate from 1 TBS/gallon to 1 TSP/gallon. Lake Murray is fairly disease resistant. I use a systemic fungicide program as well as a systemic insecticide program just as I do on most other uni foliate Catts. Page8

9 Don t forget our Holiday Potluck Supper at Sarasota Garden Club, 1131Boulevard of the Arts on MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, :00 pm (note time change). This event is free for our Members & their Guests who make reservations by Nov. 2nd. All members should bring a dish as follows: Members whose last names begin with A through F Bring Salads G through R Bring Casseroles S through Z Bring Desserts Please mark your Serving Dish - if it is sugar-free, vegetarian, gluten-free, etc. Feel free to bring your favorite bottle of wine and wine glasses. We will have a Show & Tell Plant Table as well as a Plant Raffle. Note: If you were unable to come to the meeting you can contact Jane Hagerstrom janehagerstrom@gmail.com by November 15 th and if you signed up and for some unforeseen reason you can t make the Holiday Party contact Jane to let her know that also Selby Gardens Lights in Bloom December 21 st from 5-9 is the date set for Sarasota Orchid Society to help Selby Gardens with their annual Holiday Open House. Please get there by 4:45 or earlier as there is a short presentation by Shelby. If interested; there will be a sign-up sheet at the meeting. Check out their web site for information and join the club for a beautiful night at Shelby Gardens: Page9

10 Announcements HUGE PLANT SALE ORCHIDS AND OTHER PLANTS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, A.M. - 2 P.M. at CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH 701 N. INDIANA AVE. ENGLEWOOD, FL PRESENTED BY ENGLEWOOD AREA ORCHID SOCIETY Orchid Sale November 6 and 7, am to 4pm Plantio La Orquidea, 3480 Tallevast Rd., Sarasota (same driveway as Tropiflora) Phone: info@plantiolaorquidea.com web: Page10

11 Silent Auction Guidelines We will limit the total number of plants to 5 or 6 per month. By the 20th of the month, prior to the upcoming meeting, a member will 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. form. If you have a jpeg picture of the flower, please include with your 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. Note: The plant will then immediately be removed from the Silent Auction Table The seller will receive 75% and the SOS will receive 25% of the sale s price. To confirm your inclusion in the Silent Auction, Denny will send you, the member, a Silent Auction Form. Page11