[OGD] Phal in cracked pot
At the risk of having Iris roll her eyes, could you please tell my why one should not grow a Phal in a slotted clay pot? sharon ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Professional speaker bait
Iris spoke of one of the problems for getting good speakers, i.e., money. Here's another suggestion which seems to be doing us, and our fellow societies a LOT of good. Here in Louisiana we have a relatively large number of Orchid Societies. Each Society itself isn't all that big, but a relatively large number of societies, nonetheless. In the past, if a speaker came, he/she would come for our society alone, or, he'd have to pack up all his materials and plants to travel to another society in his circuit. One of the largest determinants of which particular cities were on that circuit would be which city would be having the next meeting, i.e., the next day, or couple of days. Usually that didn't happen to work out to happen to be another local society, but a society many states away. In our experience, one of the most often cited reasons for joining and attending local orchid society meeting is the availability of good speakers. Well, one way to ensure that that happens, is for the local socities to synchronize, i.e., co-ordinate monthly meeeting schedules. If a speaker comes to our society, but has to wait for 2 weeks to speak to the next local society, it ain't gonna happen. Now that the local societies have co-ordinated their monthly meeting schedules--i.e., Francisco Miranda speaks to us, the New Orleans Orchid Society on Tuesday night, and then goes up to Baton Rouge for their meeting onWednesday night-- a lot of hassle and expense is avoided on many fronts. Plus, sometimes, if speaker and house-host are willing, the speaker will often not even have to repack his own personal suitcase if all are agreeable to the speaker coming back to the same accomodations each night--all the speaker has to do is pack and unpack his plants for each meeting in each city. In many ways, it's more like a crusie for the speaker, in that his hotel doesn't have to change every night. So, the speaker is happy, the societies that get better speakers are happy since they can share expenses, and it seems to be a win/win situation all around! When all the societies had monthly meetings weeks away from eachother, this win/win situation wasn't an option. Hope this helps someone's society get better speakers! Dan S. ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Who will take care of your orchids ?
Interesting new story about a collection donated to a college : A collector sends his plants to college, so others may study them ... Alan and Joan Brout... Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Brout, 73... seven years ago, ...rented a U-Haul truck to drop off his collection of about 900 orchid plants representing a 30-year hobby. ... Brout's gift is known as The Brout Orchid Collection, and is widely considered the most extensive orchid collection in New England. The greenhouse is open five days a week to visitors ... Brout checks in on his collection several times a year... The greenhouse's manager and curator, Lisa Palmer, sends the couple pictures of blooming orchids and regularly consults with Brout about how best to care for the plants. ... In the mid-1990s, as the Brouts prepared to sell their Larchmont home, they pondered what to do with the orchids. Alan Brout found his answer at Dartmouth's greenhouse, which then held only a few orchids. He made his unique donation in October 1996, a few months before the couple moved to White Plains. In addition, Brout gave an endowment to pay for the collection's continual maintenance. source and full news story : http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050224/LIFESTYLE01/502240353/1031 Regards, Viateur ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Vanda Manuvadee Question
I hope someone can untwist this for me. I recently purchased one of these plants at an orchid show/sale. The name on the tag was Vanda Manuvadee FCC. According to a friend who has access to Wildcat, Manuvadee has never been awardednot in the US anyway. BUT, if you dig around on the web it appears that it was awarded possibly by the Orchid Society of Thailand or OST. Found a website, in their language, that has Vanda Manuvadee FCC/OST My first question is, does anyone here know whether or not this hybrid was awarded anywhere that they know of for sure? Secondly, with the AOS, an awarded plant needs to have a cultivar name which, on the sites I've seen the above designation (FCC/OST), there is no cultivar name. Do they, OST, not require one? Any input would be GREATLY appreciated! Sharon Ohio ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Re:Angcm. sesquipedale
My one plant flowers every January. It conspires to prevent me from taking it to the Association show table by coming into bloom the day after the January meeting, and fading out the day before the February meeting. This happens every year without fail. Any suggestions for a suitable punishment? June Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:33:15 -0800 From: Robert Bedard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OGD] Angcm. sesquipedale flowering season To: Orchids@orchidguide.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed I have usually had at least one plant of Angcm. sesquipedale in my collection for most of the twenty years that I have been growing orchids. I have grown plants that flowered both in late winter and around Easter, and eventually, they end up flowering together in my collection, sometime in late winter. I am located very near Santa Cruz, CA, roughly between Santa Barbara and San Francisco. ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] RE:Chysis bractescens (nancy)
Nancy; My experience with this species is that the flowers will last a lot longer if you start watering again when the flowers begin to open. If all the leafs has not fallen off yet, the flowers will wilt rather fast if watering is not resumed. A beautiful species, you should not have a problem taking and showing it for a couple of weeks. Happy Growing, Ed Nazzave ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Cost sharing
Concerningsmall Orchid Societies being unable to afford good speakers, Dan talks about a group of local orchid societies sharing "speaker expenses" so they can afford good speakers and stimulate interest. Dan: is for the local socities to "synchronize", i.e., co-ordinate monthly meeting schedules. Good point. It is done already in several places.I know from personal experience. Last year I was guest speaker, forone weekin eachofseverallocations across the USA and Canada. During a single week I would present my lecturesto 3, 4 or 5 OrchidSocieties, who had their meetingson different days of, for example, the first week ofeverymonth. These societies would cover and sharemy 'travel and accommodation' expenses. Guest speakers can help too!!! When Orchid Societies are small, and/or travel expenses are high, and the lecture is important for them to hear,waive the speakers fee!! . ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] new CEO at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Roger Birkel, who spent more than 30 years in senior positions at the Baltimore Zoo and St. Louis Zoological Park, will start as CEO and president at Selby on March 7. source : http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050224/NEWS/50224016 Regards, Viateur ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Re: cracked pots
on 2/24/05 11:45 PM, sharon wrote: At the risk of having Iris roll her eyes, could you please tell my why one should not grow a Phal in a slotted clay pot? sharon I think the point was that pots really shouldn't be set right on top of the wet gravel. Any disease could very easily migrate from the standing water up the gravel and into one of the holes in the bottom of the pot. Also, a clay pot would be more likely to, if set right on top of the gravel, to wick the moisture up through the clay and into the media, or possibly prevent the moisture in the clay pot from drying out effectively. Setting a grill or some such device directly on top of the gravel, and plant pots right on top of that, would work very nicely and culturewise help a great deal to keep things cleaner. If i'm wrong, my apologies... charles stuck phal taenialis underneath other plants in hopes of keeping humidity in microclimate high enough to prevent bud blast. some buds still holding though others dried out. phal parishii buds also trying to blast, stuck it underneath plants also; phal philippinense spikes/buds growing so fast they got too close to lights and several of those buds blasted before I was even able to see the buds forming (took one day to happen) (*sigh*) -- Charles Ufford Calen the Border Collie CGC - now in Heaven Oriskany, NY USA IPA, Central NY and Southern Tier Orchid Societies [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.paphiopedilum.net Http://www.geocities.com/charlesufford ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
