March 2010 - South Bay Orchid Society

South Bay Orchid Society, Inc.
“Orchids for Amateurs”
Founded in July 1957
The
INFLORESCENCE
March 2010
www.SouthBayOrchidSociety.com
Den. Nagasaki
(Den moniliforme X Den. Sagimusume)
Grower: Dave and Judy Smith, Mission Viejo
Our March 19, 2010
Guest Speaker is
Loren Batchman
“Orchid Pest Control”
Cym. Peter Dawson (Cym. Lunagrad x
Cym. Solana Beach)
Grower: Dave and Judy Smith
Loren has been growing orchids for 42 years and hybridizing
for nearly 40 years. He has made more than
1,800 hybrids to date, and makes about 70 hybrids
each year; mostly Cymbidiums with a few Zygopetalums.
He has been an AOS and CSA Judge for 25 years
and is the current chair for the AOS Encinitas judging
center. Loren has received the Cymbidium Society
Hudlow medal for Cymbidium hybridizing and the
AOS Award for Excellence in Hybridizing for his high
color hybridizing. Loren along with his wife,
Nancy, started Casa de las Orquideas in 1976 and are
now the leading hybridizers for spotted and high color
cymbidiums in the US. They have about half an acre
of orchids grown outdoors under shade cloth, and
bloom out about 5,000 plants a year. The Batchmans
have more than 200 seedling crosses and about 50
different cymbidium clones available from 3" pots to
blooming size.
Susan Amini
Orchid Care Session 7:00 pm
Culture Session: This month’s culture session will be presented by Loren Batchman.
This month’s raffle table will also be provided by Loren Batchman. Don’t forget to buy your raffle tickets,
Loren’s plants are high quality and beautiful as well!!
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President’s Message
Spring Show Review
This year “The Art of Orchids” show received
the “Best Show” award as judged by those
who attended. Our shows have a reputation
that generates enthusiasm for orchids, draws
excellent attendance with superb sales. It is
an occasion when volunteers work as a team
and enjoy visiting with guests and society
members. Our annual shows foster the future
activities and health of our society.
Later this month, Saturday the 13 th , Kayo is
traveling with a bus full of orchid enthusiasts
to Santa Barbara orchid show. Do give Kayo a
call soon @310-374-7353 as the seats are filling
up fast. I can predict that everyone will
enjoy (as in the past) the trip to the Santa
Barbara Orchid Show and visits to two large
orchid growers, Santa Barbara Orchid Estates
and Cal-Orchid.
In May we will vote for officers to guide us
through the 2010-2011 year. This year’s
board has lead our society in a very pleasant,
positive direction for the future. If you want
to consider being a possible candidate, or an
alternate, do contact Arthur Hazboun or
any board member. We always want new talents
that are needed for success and growth.
Thank you, Don Smith, for donating more of
Dorothy’s books to our Society. We appreciate
your thoughtfulness.
If you have SBOS ribbon awards cluttering
the bottom of your drawer, do bring them in
for free opportunity table raffle tickets—one
for each ribbon.
Tom Renger
What a great Spring Show we had! The
weather was great, the orchids were beautiful,
and the show was well attended. Everything
ran smoothly thanks to the hard work of our
committee chairs and everyone who came to
help.
Oe. centradenia
Grower: Steve Moeschler
Marilyn Hill and Sue Estes recruited and
organized the hosts and hostesses. They did a
great job of keeping an eye on the showroom
and answering questions the public might have
about our plants and our society, as well as
staffing the plant hotel and the front lobby.
Ron Henry and Larry Bergen organized
the set-up of the show, which involved bringing
all of our show supplies from storage and returning
them. Thank you to everyone who
showed up to help with this labor-intensive job.
Bob Streeter was able to get excellent
judges for our ribbon judging and for CSA and
AOS judging. Bob and his assistants organized
our plants for judging and public display.
Sharon Gage and Ann Rogers worked
hard to get everyone’s plants registered Friday
night.
Eeva Renger was at the Membership and
Information table to welcome our guests, answer
questions about our meetings, and to sign
up new members. Thanks to her efforts we
now have 15 new family memberships, or 19
members.
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South Bay Orchid Society Board
President: Tom Renger .............................310-316-0707
TOMSBOS AT VERIZON DOT NET
1st Vice President: Susan Amini ................310-541-6363
SUSAN_AMINI AT YAHOO DOT COM
2nd Vice President: Kayo Libiano .............. 310-897-8085
LILKYKY AT MAC DOT COM
Treasurer: Christine Hough ....................... 310-316-4817
CHOUGH.SBOS AT GMAIL DOT COM
Secretary: Saul Miller…………… ............... .310-558-1545
CCORCHID AT ATT DOT NET
Membership: Eeva Renger ....................... 310-316-0707
EEVASBOS AT VERIZON DOT NET
Newsletter Editor: Eeva Renger ............... 310-316-0707
EEVASBOS AT VERIZON DOT NET
Show Chair: Marla Corey .......................... 310-833-1918
MARLACOREY AT SBCGLOBAL DOT NET
Webmaster: Arthur Hazboun
SPECIALORCHIDS AT SOUTHBAYORCHIDSOCIETY DOT COM
Directors:
Nick Braemer ............................................. 310-560-4384
ORCHIDNICK AT YAHOO DOT COM
Don Goss .................................................. 310-316-3595
ORCHIDS AT SOUTHBAYORCHIDSOCIETY DOT COM
Director Emeritus: Bob Streeter ............... 310-541-6692
RJS.GES AT GTE DOT NET
SBOS Committee Chairs
Librarian: Kayo Libiano ............................. 310-897-8085
Raffle Tickets: Burt Dobratz ..................... 310-375-2693
Refreshments: June Brooks ..................... 310-549-4266
Joann Green ....................................... 310-830-1585
Ribbon Judging: Saul Miller ..................... 310-558-1545
Property Manager: Ron Henry ................. 310-374-9699
Meeting Set-up: David Okihara ................ 310-324-3211
AOS Liaison: Robert Streeter .................... 310-541-6692
Southland Representative: Marilyn Hill ..... 310-675-0604
Sunshine: Kathy West .............................. 310-643-8740
Publicity: Don Goss .................................. 310-316-3595
ORCHIDS AT SOUTHBAYORCHIDSOCIETY DOT COM
Spring Show continued from p. 2...
Don Goss, our publicity chair, designed
the wonderful color poster that was the centerpiece
of his publicity campaign. Don also
designed the color ads placed in the local
newspapers which is our #1 way of advertising
our show.
Art Hazboun, our webmaster, was busy
sending out emails to our “friends” list and to
other societies. Our website and emails are
becoming an increasingly important part of
our advertising campaign. Art was also busy
at the show calling out the winning numbers
for our hourly raffle.
Nick Braemer scheduled the speakers
who did an excellent job of preparing and
giving talks on orchid culture. The talks were
well attended and appreciated by the show
attendees who were eager to learn how
to successfully grow orchids. I also want to
thank our members who volunteered to give
the talks.
Bobbie Davison organized the art exhibit
in the show room. She and her friends
are students of George Lin and we are
pleased they displayed their beautiful artwork
as part of our show.
As always, the kitchen was a popular
gathering place for eating and socializing.
Thanks to Marci Bergen, Kayo Libiano,
June Brooks and Joann Green for doing
an excellent job of keeping the kitchen organized
and to everyone who brought in
food to feed our hungry volunteers and vendors.
Our show has become famous among
the vendors for our warm hospitality and
good food.
Thank you to everyone who cleaned up
their plants and brought them in for judging.
This was a beautiful and successful show due
to the efforts of our members.
Marla Corey
Show Chair
C. Lynn Spencer (C. Bob Bets
x c.. white blossom)
Grower: Bob Streeter
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Australian Terrestrial Culture
By Les Nesbitt
Deciduous terrestrials thrive in a shadehouse of
50-70% shadecloth. In very cold areas, or where
summer rain is heavy, a plastic roof is usually
added. Light frost to -2°C does not worry the majority
of species. All terrestrials like good air movement
and will not thrive in a stuffy humid atmosphere, especially
if temperatures are high. Some species prefer
heavy shade, others full sunlight, but most will
adapt to a wide range of light intensity. The spring
flowering species prefer higher light values at flowering
time. It is essential to keep pots up off the
ground on benches to deter slugs and snails. I like
to use plastic pots because they are easier to clean
and sterilize. Pot size should be neither too big nor
too small. I recommend 125mm standard pots up to
175mm squat pots for specimen groupings of 20
plants
The potting soil must be kept uniformly moist
during active growth. If the pots are allowed to dry
out during the growing season, the plants may become
dormant. Fertilizers are not necessary, although
Pterostylis species are very hardy and will
benefit from weak applications of foliar feed applied
whilst the leaves are developing. New tubers are
produced in winter-spring. The colony types form
several tubers per plant and within a few years the
pots would become overcrowded if not repotted. I
recommend annual repotting for these. Some of the
showier species produce only one new tuber each
year and have to be propagated from seed. Some of
these can be made to produce a second tuber by
carefully twisting off the new season's tuber in September/October
and replanting the plant with the old
tuber still attached for another month or two. This
method works well with Diuris and the rufa group
greenhoods.
As the days get hotter and drier in late spring,
the leaves of terrestrials go yellow and then brown
and dry. After the leaves have turned brown, the
pots are allowed to dry out completely to dry up the
old roots and tubers. Terrestrials must be given their
own growing area, well away from evergreen plants
which are watered regularly in summer. The tubers
may rot if kept wet in hot weather. Seed pods ripen
before the plants become dormant. Pods are
checked daily and picked as they start to split open.
Seed is stored in paper envelopes until autumn.
In summer the plants are knocked out of the
pots and the new plump, firm tubers are repotted
into fresh soil mix. My mix is 45% loam, 50% sand
and 5% peat moss with a small amount of blood and
bone fertilizer added. It has a pH of 5.5. Growers in
other states use coarser mixes containing fine
gravel and with leaf-litter or buzzer chips in place of
peat moss. The new tubers are replanted with the
tops 20-40mm below the soil surface. A thin surface
mulch of Casuarina or Pinus radiata needles,
chopped to lengths of 20-50mm, prevents erosion
and keeps the leaves clean and healthy, as well as
improving the appearance of the pot. Repotting is
normally done in November, December or January.
Each tuber sends up a shoot to the surface in autumn.
The leaves grow rapidly in late autumn and
early winter as the rains set in. Seed can be sprinkled
on top of the pots around mature plants in autumn.
Protocorms develop in the cool, wet winter
conditions and seedling leaves appear in spring.
Seedlings produce tiny tubers by summer. Only the
largest usually survive the long dry dormancy period
of 4-6 months.
Some species set seed unaided but most require
hand pollination. I use a piece of pine needle
to transfer pollen from one flower to another of the
same species. The flower collapses within a few
days if pollination is successful. Seed pods develop
rapidly and in springtime can ripen in 4-6 weeks.
The four commercially important deciduous terrestrial
genera in cultivation are Caladenia, Diuris,
Pterostylis and Thelymitra. Each genus has a large
number of species, although not many Caladenia
are in general cultivation. I am growing more than
50 terrestrial hybrids in pots and have a number of
others in flask.
We have been very successful with the sun orchids
or Thelymitra. All the colour of the rainbow,
including the most beautiful blues, are found in the
sun orchids. For exhibition work Thelymitra are poor
subjects because the flowers close at night and will
not open unless the temperature rises above 22°C.
They can be made to open on cool sunny days if the
pot is placed inside a closed car. Thelymitra are all
spring/summer flowering orchids in southern Australia.
They are very striking plants, some growing
more than 50cm tall with up to 20 flowers. The
smaller species are the easiest to cultivate.
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Ribbon Judging Results February 2010
Judged by Saul Miller
Amateur
Cattleya 1 BLC Pamela Finney ‘All Victory’ Lorena Cruz
Cattleya
2 BLC Prada Green x BLC Erin Kobayashi
‘Lake View Green’
Art Hazboun
Cattleya 3 SLC Jewel Box ‘Scheherazade’ Kayo Libiano
Cymbidium 1 Cym (Via Ireland ‘Delightful’ x Cym LaCosta Elf
‘White Princess’) ‘Wintergreen’
Art Hazboun
Cymbidium 2 Cym Ruby Eyes Lorena Cruz
Paph./Phrag 1 Phal. Sogo Little Angel Kayo Libiano
Paph./Phrag 2 Paph. Spicerianum Susan Amini
Other 1 Den. Unknown (Nobile) Danee Petrich
Advanced Amateur
Other 2 Oncidium Tsuku Marguerite Susan Amini
Other 3 Den. Atrioviolaceum Kayo Libiano
Cymbidium 1 Cym Unknown Cathy Martinez
Cymbidium 2 Cym Vienetta Blues x Cym Hot Pot Nick Braemer
Cymbidium 3 Cym Mighty Sunset Cathy Martinez
Dendrobium 1 Den Golden Arch Nick Braemer
Dendrobium 2 Den Sea Mary Cathy Martinez
February 12-14 The Newport Harbor Orchid
Society hosted an exciting show with vendors
showcasing their wares on two floors of the
Westminster Mall and it provided a great opportunity
for us to advertise for our spring show in
Torrance. I encourage everyone to volunteer
their time and plants to help represent SBOS by
setting up a show table at least once. You may
be surprised; it just might be your new calling.
Our display at “Oceans of Orchids” was amazing!
In just three hours, Dr. Bob Streeter, Marla
Corey, Bob Fisher, Don Goss, Marla’s sculptor
friend Debbie, and I whipped together this tabletop
display for the ‘Oceans of Orchids’ show for
Valentine’s Day Weekend. I could not have had
more fun participating in the set-up, and as the
picture shows, we have some serious talent -
do we not?
Kayo Libiano
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Spring Show Awards
The Best of Sections
Cattleya Alliance:
C. Lynn Spencer
Bob Streeter
Standard Cymbidium:
Cym. Peter Dawson
Dave and Judy Smith
Novelty Cymbidium:
Cym. Ben Singer
Joe Santy
AOS and CSA Awards
HCC/AOS and Bronze/CSA
Nov. Cym. un-registered:
Cross Sydney Harbor x devonianum
Joe Santy
HCC/AOS and CCM/AOS and Best of Show
Dend. Nagasaki:
Dave and Judy Smith
Vanda and Allied Genera:
Angraecum veitchii
Ha Bui
Paphiopedilums :
Paph. Michael Koopowitz
Bob Streeter
Dendrobiums:
Den. Nagasaki
Dave and Judy Smith
Oncidium:
Ham. Golden Harry
Robert Higa
Other Genera:
Oerstedella centradenia
Steve Moeschler
Best Soc. Display:
Gardena Cymbidium Club
Best Amature Display:
Joe Santy and Ha BuiFirst:
Best Commercial Display
1st place: Lico Orchids
Paph. Michael Koopowitz (Pahp. philippinense
x Paph. sanderianum)
Grower: Bob Streeter
2nd place: Aroma Orchids
3rd place:Zuma Canyon Orchids
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Orchid Calendar
Our future membership meetings are
♦ March 19, (3rd Friday)
♦ April 30, (5th Friday)
♦ May 28, (4th Friday) General
Elections
♦ Culture sessions start 7 pm
♦ General meetings start 8 pm
at South Coast Botanic Garden
Next board meeting will be
♦ March 23, 2010
Call 310-316-0707 for more info
South Coast Botanic Garden Foundation
Upcoming Events 2010
♦ 3/13, African Violet Show & Sale, 11am-4pm
♦ 3/28, Dahlia Lecture, 2-4pm
♦ 4/4, Orchid Lecture, 2-4pm
♦ 4/10-11, Cactus & Succulent Show/Sale, 9am-4pm
♦ 4/17 50th Anniversary & Spring Plant Sale, 9am-4pm
Please support our host, the South Coast Botanic Garden
Foundation for any of these educational and fun
filled events. For more information log-on to:
http://www.southcoastbotanicgarden.org/
People, Places and Things
RON CARPOL
JESSE DYKES
JACK GLAUSER
ANA MACKENZIE
BOB MACKENZIE
ROSARIO RUBIO
GRACE KUNITAKE
Welcome New Members
DIANNE MOLLOY
REGINA BOLL
SERGIO AGUILAR
LILIA AGUILAR
BETTY MONROE
BECKY CUTTS
CHERI BAILIFF
SALLY KINSEY
ROBERT DAY
KEITH TUNISON
SRIKANTH LANKALAPALLI
BEVERLY FONCANNON
All pictures in this issue of Inflorescence are photographed by Don Goss.
Onc. Jiuhbao Gold 'Tainan' AM/AOS
A very pretty Oncidium with exceptionally large flowers was offered by 'Aroma Orchids of Rowland
Heights'. When I bought mine on Saturday there were no tags on the plant but I was given a name. Don
Goss did the same and tried to look up the name that evening only to find out that the name was incorrect.
By Sunday evening, the vendor had secured the correct name which is the one in the heading. Google it in
and plenty of info about the plant comes up. I saw several of our members walk out with this attractive plant,
now you can give it the correct name. Ahnuld would have bought one too but he did not make the show,
could not find a large enough parking place for his Hummer.http://www.pbase.com/image/98368014/original
Nick
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“The Inflorescence”
South Bay Orchid Society
c/o Eeva Renger
438 Avenue E
Redondo Beach, CA 90277-5141
Mariposa Garden
Show Day Specials & New Releases
March 20, April 17, 2010
6664 South Street, Lakewood , CA 90713
Mariposa Garden
Santa Barbara International Orchid Show,
Nature in Harmony, March 12-14, 2010
Highway 101 and Las Positas Road,
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Santa Barbara International Orchid Show
San Diego County Orchid Society Show & Sale
A Rainbow Of Orchids
March 26-28, 2010, Scottish Rite Center
1895 Camino Del Rio South, San Diego, CA
San Diego County Orchid Society
NEXT MEETING DATE IS MARCH 19; 3RD FRIDAY
Upcoming Events
South Bay Orchid Society Orchid Lecture
April 4, 2010, 2-4pm
South Coast Botanic Garden
http://www.southbayorchidsociety.com/
Orchids at the Flower Fields
April 23-25, 2010
5704 Paseo Del Norte, Carlsbad, CA
Orchids at the Flower Fields
Santa Barbara International Orchid Fair
July 9-11, 2010
Earl Warren Fairgrounds, Santa Barbara
Free Admission
Santa Barbara International Orchid Fair
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