[OGD] bagasse
Paul Mitchell wrote: Stepping aside from the largely lamented lumping of Laeliinae of late, I am curious to know what happened to Servo, the bagasse based mix for potting orchids that had a brief, popular run some years ago. It was compounded of sugarcane bagasse, hardwood charcoal and styrofoam pearls, as i recall. I found it useful for growing certain types of orchid, although not all types of orchids. Certain types of orchids that I had in it grew like gangbusters. I did an online search and cannot seem to find more than a single reference to using Google. Maybe someone in the southeast US or elsewhere might know something about this mix that they can share with us. Regards, Paul Mitchell Tampa, FL / Alajuela, CR I don't know what search you did on Google but I got literally hundreds of hits for bagasse, bagasse orchid mix, bagasse orchid mix retail and do not have the time to search through all of them. I'm sure you could spend the better part of a day reading all you'd like to about bagasse. I didn't quickly find any retailers for bagasse orchid mix only for paper plates etc made from bagasse. I personally don't see much difference between growing in bagasse and growing in horse manure except from the septic standpoint. Apparently neither one has an extremely large following as commercial mixes of neither one are advertised or dispersed widely. Anyway, have fun. Gary ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] RHS
If nothing else comes of all this, let's at least hope the RHS registrar has gotten his long-deserved come-uppance! Tennis Maynard Here!! Here!! I have been scratching my head for the last year or two. What happened to the constantly noted 'conservativeness' of the RHS? Even the authors of this Sophronitis debacle stated at the time something to the effect that this would likely not be the final change. Somebody at the RHS needs their head examed. Cynthia, Prescott, AZ ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
Re: [OGD] illegal importation
There's more to this story. He and his brother-in-law faked documents and switched plants after inspection. Governments don't like that. http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls/PressReleases/080812-01.html K Barrett N Calif, USA A... Fort Lauderdale orchid seller pleaded guilty... to illegally importing more than 1,400 plants from the Philippines in 2005. Mac Rivenbark... owner of Mac's Orchids and president of the Fort Lauderdale Orchid Society, admitted he lied to authorities at Miami International Airport, claiming the plants were artificially grown. The orchids... had been collected from the wild, in violation of environmental protection laws. Orchids have been protected by international treaty since 1975. Rivenbark is to be sentenced Oct. 21. He faces up to five years in prison and a potential fine of $250,000. URL : http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flb3bdig08131sbaug13,0,3698937.story Regards, VB _ Get Windows Live and get whatever you need, wherever you are. Start here. http://www.windowslive.com/default.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Home_082008 ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] smuggling in Florida (US)
When Mac Rivenbark was busted at Miami International Airport in 2005 with 1,403 contraband orchids, he told arresting officers, ``I am probably the first flower smuggler you have ever taken to jail.'' Rivenbark pleaded guilty... in U.S. District Court... Wagner Vendrame of the University of Florida's Tropical Research and Education Center near Homestead recalls that in 2002... Michael Kovach smuggled three rare orchids from Peru and brought them to the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, where it was officially verified that he had discovered a new species. ... The feds fined Kovach and placed him on probation, but Vendrame noted that Phragmipedium kovachii was named for the orchid smuggler... Vendrame counted a dozen different orchid societies just in South Florida... Vendrame said that in 2002... the University of Florida drafted him to teach a class on orchids... In 1975, the United States, in conjunction with an international treaty, passed a law barring unauthorized importation of endangered species, including orchids. Mac Rivenbark, former president of the Fort Lauderdale Orchid Society and a well-known lecturer on orchid cultivation, also runs a small commercial enterprise, Mac's Orchids, out of his home... Rivenbark, whose cache of illegal orchids came from the jungles of the Philippines, probably faces a hefty fine and probation URL : http://www.miamiherald.com/431/story/641305.html *** Regards, VB ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
Re: [OGD] name changes
My frustration with name changes is that I help discuss the 'Show and Tell' plants that society members bring in each month. They know these name changes occur and ask me questions, which I feel responsible to know how to answer. I suppose I could stand there like a dumb bunny and shrug. But that's not the answer members deserve. K Barrett N Calif, USA _ Get Windows Live and get whatever you need, wherever you are. Start here. http://www.windowslive.com/default.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Home_082008 ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] species in Switzerland
quelque 70 espèces dorchidées poussent en Suisse et aussi en Valais... LASPO/BirdLife Suisse (Association suisse pour la protection des oiseaux) a édité une brochure fort complète à lintention des amateurs dorchidées sauvages. Y sont répertoriées les orchidées «helvétiques» de manière exhaustive... Renseignements auprès de lASPO/BirdLife Suisse URL : http://www.lenouvelliste.ch/fr/news/culture/la-communaute-de-l-orchidee_14-99648 Regards, VB ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] meetings in Alaska (US)
Alaska Orchid Society: Meet the fourth Tuesday of the month URL: http://www.adn.com/life/story/493246.html ** Regards, VB ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
Re: [OGD] illegal importation
Does anyone know what is happening on the Philippine side of the
story? Are they prosecuting Rivenbark's brother-in-law? Who is his
brother-in-law?
Paul
On Aug 14, 2008, at 10:23 AM, K Barrett wrote:
There's more to this story. He and his brother-in-law faked
documents and switched plants after inspection. Governments don't
like that.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls/PressReleases/080812-01.html
K Barrett
N Calif, USA A... Fort Lauderdale orchid seller pleaded
guilty... to illegally importing more than 1,400 plants from the
Philippines in 2005. Mac Rivenbark... owner of Mac's Orchids and
president of the Fort Lauderdale Orchid Society, admitted he lied
to authorities at Miami International Airport, claiming the plants
were artificially grown. The orchids... had been collected from
the wild, in violation of environmental protection laws.
Orchids have been protected by international treaty since 1975.
Rivenbark is to be sentenced Oct. 21. He faces up to five years in
prison and a potential fine of $250,000. URL :
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flb3bdig08131sbaug13,0,3698937.story
Regards, VB
_
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[OGD] Tipularia discolor vs English ivy / North Carolina (US)
cranefly orchid, Tipularia discolor... once-a-year flowering recurrence... search for them now while theyre in peak bloom. This... native terrestrial orchid is common in both piney woods and deciduous forests... single two-to-four-inch leaf green above, burgundy below grows close to the ground from September through March. It captures the winter sunlight. Without that leaf showing, the 12-to-18-inch-tall stem of 20 to 40 tiny greenish-brown orchid flowers are... difficult to spot... Last week, I was thrilled to discover 37 plants in a shady front yard under my care. They were emerging from a dense cover of poison ivy and English ivy. ...The English ivy... is an evergreen, non-native plant that eventually smothers all vegetation beneath it, even covering and breaking tree limbs and shrubs. Several years ago, in this yard now full of cranefly orchids, I made a deliberate effort to eliminate the English ivy. English ivy only bears flowers and fruit when it is allowed to climb high in trees. Otherwise, it spreads along the ground smothering every plant in its forward crawl. I stopped the production of seed by severing all the high-climbing vines on the trees. I thought I had effectively smothered most of the ivy on the ground by laying down cardboard and covering it with several inches of wood chips. I deliberately left a few openings, hand pulling the ivy in those spots, where there were a couple of winter leaves of the cranefly orchid. The decaying cardboard and wood chip mulch must have been good for the orchids. I have enjoyed watching the orchid population increase during the past couple of years. I was only casually aware that the evergreen ivy was slowly creeping back from the edges where it had not been covered. Accompanying my delight with this seasons abundance of orchids was a realization that last years sparse covering of ivy had, just within the current growing season, reclaimed the entire ground with a thick layer of foliage ready to smother all those orchid leaves that will emerge at summers end to search in vain for winter sunlight. Never turn your back on English ivy. I have already renewed my assault on that ivy patch. This time, I will persist, knowing that my reward will be the rescuing of a robust population of that beautiful little orchid. URL : http://www.carrborocitizen.com/main/2008/08/14/rescuing-cranefly-orchids-from-english-ivy/ photos : 1) [caption : Stem of native, terrestrial cranefly orchid penetrating a layer of poison and English ivies.] http://www.carrborocitizen.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/cranefly-orchid-dave-ottos.jpg 2) [caption : lie on the ground with a hand lens to get a closer look at a single cranefly orchid flower] http://www.carrborocitizen.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/orchid-in-the-ivies.jpg *** Regards, VB ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] growing in New Zealand
New Plymouth's George Fuller... six decades ago... George... sailed for England on a cargo ship, working during the voyage to pay for his passage. He'd wanted to learn about growing orchids and there was not much available in New Zealand at the time. In England, he took a job at a well-known orchid nursery... returned to New Zealand in 1964, after stints in Sweden and Malta... joined the staff at Pukekura Park in 1965 after being appointed to help care for the Fred Parker orchid collection. A year on, he was promoted to the curator's position... George retired in 1990 from his official role, but remains a dedicated plantsman and is still passionate about orchids. He has a collection of 1500 orchids at... New Plymouth home. ... Dracula robeldrum [robledorum], has spiky hairs over its petals and deep, dark blotches, while Dracula vampira Midnight Moonlight is almost black, also hairy and has stripes. ... Dracula's gorgon [gorgona] and gorgonella, from Colombia. ... Some of George's favourites are pleione orchids, which grow in quite cool conditions in the Himalayas from India to Taiwan, high enough up so they sometimes have a covering of snow in winter. As the snow melts... they start to flower. They are also known as crocus orchids, as their flowers look quite like crocuses. These emerge from dormant corms at the end of winter, before the plant grows its leaves. Some of them grow on the ground, others perch partway up trees. There are some growing in trees in Pukekura Park, incidentally, George adds. In 2007, a pleione orchid he bred was named orchid of the year by the Orchid Council of New Zealand. It goes by the name of Pleione Veli Wackernagel Wow ['Wow']... bright magenta colour and lavish lacy frill around the edge of its trumpet. Another of the pleiones George has bred is named after Doris. It has a flower that is a rosy pink with reddish mottling on the trumpet and the same lacy edge to it. These orchids are quite easy for beginners to grow, particularly as they need no care other than a dry storage space for three months each year. ... ... When the shoot is 30 millimetres long, they are three weeks away from flowering... Australian orchids grow well here as the climate is similar enough to some parts of Australia for them to flourish URL : http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dailynews/4656293a6551.html *** Regards, VB ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
Re: [OGD] Bagasse / Servo availability . . .
Paul Mitchell wrote: I am curious to know what happened to Servo, the bagasse based mix for potting orchids that had a brief, popular run some years ago. And Gary replied: I don't know what search you did on Google but I got literally hundreds of hits for bagasse, bagasse orchid mix, bagasse orchid mix retail I searched for 'Servo' and got one mention. I also searched for 'bagasse' and got a whole lot of hits, same as you report, tho none of those seemed to refer to using it as an orchid potting mix... Apparently neither one has an extremely large following as commercial mixes of neither one are advertised or dispersed widely. Anyway, have fun. As I said, it came and went . . . I'll try your keywords and hope that there something shows up with someone still selling Servo -or similar- as a potting mix. And if any other OGDer happens to be aware of any place selling Servo, I would appreciate knowing. Cheers! Paul M. == ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Servo potting mix
Servo used to be made by Idle Hour Orchids in Ft Lauderdale. I do not know if they still make it in their backyard nursery or not - I have not heard of the product for at least 10 years. Terry A. Glancy Pine Ridge Orchids, Inc. 21100 SW 300 Street Homestead, FL 33030 ph (305) 247-4839 (305) 247-3086 fx (786) 347-9080 Email = [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Email = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website = http://www.PineRidgeOrchids.com ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Name changes
Right on, David!! I agree with you. Peter Taxonomy is an arena for scientific debate. snip My personal observations of the game ... plants can't read, and knowing the latest score does not make you a better grower. David Janvrin ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
Re: [OGD] Hybrid Names
In a message dated 8/14/08 3:50:52 PM, Cynthia writes: I have been scratching my head for the last year or two. What happened to the constantly noted 'conservativeness' of the RHS? I have been trying to explain this situation, but I don't seem to be very good at it. 1. The various major orchid entities, including OrchidWiz, the IRS, AOS, and its judging system, have all agreed to accept the Kew Checklist of Monocotyledons as the final authority on orchid species taxonomy. If a species is moved to another genus and the move is accepted by most taxonomists, this will be noted in the Kew Checklist. If you search in the Checklist under the old name, you will be directed to the new name. 2. The naming of flowering plant species must follow the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. The naming of registered hybrids must follow the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. Since the two sets of rules are not identical, there are occasional discrepancies, especially in the names of natural hybrids. 3. As you mentioned, the IRS Orchid Committee used to be very conservative. In actuality, for many years they refused to obey the ICNCP and followed their own rules. The situation just got worse worse. More recently, the IRS Orchid Committee (I forget their exact name) decided to follow international rules for hybrids as well as the Kew Checklist (which is another branch of RHS). Their suddenly playing catch-up has led to a lot of confusion for the layman. Hopefully this is temporary, just as the upheaval in the Cattleya alliance will eventually settle down. 4. Don't blame Julian Shaw for all this. He does make some decisions, but usually he is following orders from the Orchid Committee or obeying international rules. If there is something you don't like or don't understand, don't hesitate to ask him. If there is something in the Kew Checklist you don't like, ask Rafael Govaerts. By the way, those Sophronitis are still Sophronitis. Many of the new names being bandied about are not official. Iris ** Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-Volkswagen-Jetta-2009/expert-review?ncid=aolaut000307 ) ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] servo
I think Servo went the same way as cork bark chipsseemed like a great idea at the timeuntil it was put into use. I never used servo myself, although I did try bagasse once as an additive. I think that the feeling was that Servo was great for a few weeks, but then broke down too quickly...I also recall hearing that it was good for seedlings (which would get more frequent repotting anyway). At any rate, the stuff appeared on the market...then sank like a stone. I remember trying cork chips...stayed too dry at first, then rotted too fast (yet wine corks remain undecomposed in my compost forever.). Take care, Eric Muehlbauer in stormy Queens NYpaphs primulinum and wardii in bud ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
