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October 2008 San Diego County Orchid Society

www.sdorchids.com

Volume 117 Purpose: To promote interest in orchids and their

cultivation, to educate by exchanging information and

experiences related to successful orchid culture, and to

support the conservation of orchids in the wild.

NOVICE MEETING

October 7, 6:30 PM–Casa Del Prado—Room 104

By: Dave Hoffmaster, 2nd Vice President

I would like to thank Marilyn Levy for her informative talk about Paphiopedi-lum culture. Marilyn has been growing orchids for 35 years and has obviously acquired considerable knowledge on the subject. I know I picked up a few point-ers and I hope you did as well.

Based upon her recommendation, I picked up some Thats-It for slug control. It comes in granular form in a shaker dis-penser that makes it very easy to use on potted plants. I found it for $9.99 at my local Armstrong’s nursery for a one pound container. I have used it on a few select plants and will let you know how it works.

Our speaker for next month will be Loren Batchman, back by popular demand. The

subject this time will be detecting viruses in orchids. This may not be the most pleasant subject but it is something we all need to know about. Loren will talk about how vi-ruses spread and what symptoms to look for in your plants. He will also bring the neces-sary equipment to test plants for viruses. I encourage you to bring in a suspect plant, as he will be able to test a few of them. Since the test materials are expensive, we will need to charge $5 for each plant tested but that is well worth the cost for peace of mind. Please understand that testing takes time, so we may not be able to test each and every plant brought in. I am looking forward to Loren’s presentation and hope all the tests come back negative. I will see you at the next meeting.

GENERAL MEETING

October 7, 7:30 PM–Casa Del Prado—Room 101

By Ron Kaufmann, 1st Vice President

Our speaker for October will be Steve Champlin. Steve and his wife Sandra man-age Floralia Orquidarios, near Rio de Ja-neiro, Brazil. The topic of his talk will be "An Overview of Brazilian Species." Brazil-ian orchids are very popular and grow well in coastal Southern California, many with-out the need for a greenhouse. The talk will cover a wide variety of species from Brazil, with some habitat information as well as cultural recommendations.

Steve Champlin worked at Stewart Orchids in Carpinteria from 1983-1991, ending as Sales and Wholesale Manager. He left Stewart in 1991 to work for Floralia. Steve is a senior AOS Judge and served along with his wife as the co-chair of the 15th World Orchid Confer-ence in Rio de Janeiro. The plant table will be provided by Floralia and should include a very nice selection of Brazilian orchids.

Board of Directors

President: David Brown

First VP: Ron Kaufmann

Second VP: Dave Hoffmaster

Treasurer: Lynn Ford

Secretary: Pam Peters

Directors: Steve Mallory

Christopher Croom

Kevin Rynearson

Past President: Genie Hammond

San Diego County Orchid Society


Newsletter Entries If you have monthly meetings, classifieds, submis-sions of interest, photos, or announcements related to orchids, please contact Christopher Croom at

(619) 583-3804 or [email protected].

Advertisers Please contact Lynn Ford at (619) 283-4172 or

[email protected].

Information for the November newsletter must be submitted October 15th.

Meetings

San Diego Orchid Society meetings are held the first

Tuesday of each month at the Casa Del Prado in Bal-

boa Park.

Novice Class: 6:30 p.m., Room 104

General Meeting: 7:30 p.m., Room 101

October 2008

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Receive your SDCOS Newsletter

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Contact Bob Clark at [email protected]

We're Seeing Spots! The Casa de las Orquideas Open House is coming up!

We have new meristems of many of our spotted cymbi-diums, including several cultivars of Cym. Pepper-

puss! Also, we have our usual selection of new seedlings and plenty of new blooming size cyms and zygopetalums.

Come join us December 6th and 7th from 9 AM to 4 PM!

We will be joined once again by The Rowland Collection, Andy's Orchids, and Islander Delights.

www.orquideas.com • [email protected] • 858-755-7572

Parking is limited - please consider carpooling.

Loren and Nancy Batchman

Casa de las Orquideas

October 1 Palomar Orchid Society Meeting Culture class at 6:30. Meeting at 7:30 p.m. First Wednesday of the month The Carlsbad Woman’s Club 3320 Monroe Street, Carlsbad Melana Walding (760) 295-7228 October 3-5 San Diego County International Orchid Fair Quail Botanical Gardens www.qbgardens.org October 4, 9 a.m. SDCOS Species Group Meeting First Saturday of the month Paul or Ann Tuskes (858) 274-5829 October 7, 6:30 p.m SDCOS Novice Meeting First Tuesday of the month Casa Del Prado, Balboa Park, Room 104 October 7, 7:30 p.m SDCOS General Meeting First Tuesday of the month Casa Del Prado, Balboa Park, Room 101 October 9, 7:00 p.m. SDCOS Board Meeting Normally, the Thursday following the General Meeting (usually the first Thursday of the month; second Friday of the month in rare cases) Balboa Park, Rm. 104 Pam Peters (858) 481-9020 October 15 Cymbidium Society Meeting Regular meeting, third Wednesday of month Culture class at 6:30, Meeting at 7:00 p.m. The Carlsbad Woman's Club 3320 Monroe Street, Carlsbad (858) 748-8355 October 17 San Diego Zoo's Orchid Odyssey Third Friday of the month 10 AM-2 PM (orchid greenhouse is open) Janette Gerrity (619) 231-1515 ext. 4306

Orchid Dates to Remember

October 2008 www.sdorchids.com

October 25-26 San Diego County Orchid Society Fall Show Balboa Park If you have any announcements that you would like included in the “Dates to Remember” section of the newsletter, please e-mail [email protected].

SDCOS Newsletter

We look forward to seeing you at the San

Diego International Orchid Fair

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NET NUGGETS

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Perhaps the first orchid I ever saw was Cypripedium reginae, the official flower of my home state of Minnesota. I’ve always had a soft spot for Cypripedi-ums, and this affection is shared (and perhaps exceeded!) by Ger-man orchid fancier Werner Frosch, who has developed a

very nice web site dedicated to this genus of showy terrestrials.

Written in both English and Ger-man, this site covers each spe-cies with detailed descriptions, an extensive set of photographs, and maps showing their natural distribution. There’s also an ex-tensive and very well illustrated list of Cypripedium hybrids that includes numerous pictures of

hybrid flowers as well as photos of the parents. For those who have seen Cypripediums but aren’t sure which species they were lucky enough to ob-serve, the site contains a handy visual key for identifying species based on flower and plant char-acteristics. No taxonomic training or extensive flo-

ral dissection is required. Growers who are interested in trying some of these terrestrial beauties for themselves should study the extensive section on Cypripedium culture. This site is a wonderful resource for any-one who appreciates the ele-gance and grace of Cypripedi-ums and wants to learn more

about these fascinating plants.

The SDCOS offers this service to members who seek cultural information about their orchids. Here are some friendly hobbyists with a great deal of experience about certain types of orchids, and they have kindly volunteered to answer your questions.

Cattleyas, Oncidium/Odonts, Vandaceous

Greenhouse grown, West SD County

Forrest Robinson (858) 270-6105

Species, all types

Indoor and outdoor

Ann & Paul Tuskes (858) 274-5829

Paphiopedilums

Ann Tuskes (858) 274-5829

Phalaenopsis, Cattleyas, Dendrobiums

Bob Swanson (619) 465-2297

Vandas, Ascocendas

Edith and Leno Galvan (619) 441-7503

Encyclias, Epidendrums, Laelias

Christopher Croom (619) 583-3804

Pleurothallids

Christopher Croom (619) 583-3804

Cymbidiums

Loren Batchman— [email protected]

Sam DeMaria (619) 295-2951

Northeast County, all types

Dave Reid (7 60) 728-7996

San Diego Central

Outdoor, all types

Jim Wright (619) 276-5295

Fred Tomaschke (619) 276-3235

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Ed Marty (619) 470-7175

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Cash Awards at the San Diego

International Orchid Fair

By: Pam Peters, Ribbon Judging Coordinator

Cash awards of $50 will be given for each Best of Section orchid: Cymbidium Hybrids, Cattleya Hy-brids, Phalaenopsis Hybrids, Paphiopedilum and Phragmipedium Hybrids, Vanda Alliance Hybrids, Dendrobium Hybrids, Oncidium Alliance Hybrids, Other Genera Hybrids, Species, and Specimen Plant. $150 will be awarded to the Best of Show orchid.

Plant registration hours are Thurs, Oct 2 from 3:00PM – 7:00PM, and Friday Oct 3 from 7:00AM – 9:00AM in the Ecke Building at Quail Botanical Gardens. If you have orchids that you wish to enter, bring them during registration hours. The show opens at 1:00 on Friday and will be open Saturday and Sunday. The SDCOS Con-servation Committee will be selling plants at this show and if you have any plants to donate, please contact Ron Kaufmann or any Conservation Com-mittee or Board member.

PLANT DONATIONS NEEDED TO

SUPPORT ORCHID CONSERVATION

By: Ron Kaufmann

The SDCOS Conservation Committee will be rais-ing funds to support orchid conservation by selling donated orchid plants during the San Diego Inter-national Orchid Fair on October 3-5 at Quail Bo-tanical Gardens. We are soliciting donations of plants from members for this sale. Donated plants may be extra divisions, seedlings, or any plant in good health and in need of a new home. Besides contributing to orchid conservation, donating plants also is a great way to make space for new acquisitions! Since the SDCOS is a non-profit or-ganization, donors may receive a tax deduction for the fair value of their donated plants. SO...you can support orchid conservation, free up some space in your growing area for new orchids AND receive a tax deduction, all at the same time!! It's pretty tough to beat a combination like that.

We’re not asking for large donations from each person: one or two plants apiece would be great! Member donations are vital to the success of this endeavor, so please contribute, if you can. Plants may be brought to the SDCOS booth at the show. If you would like to donate plants and prefer to have someone pick them up before the sale, please contact: Ron Kaufmann (619-994-7584; [email protected]) to make arrangements.

Volunteer Needed to Coordinate Carpooling!

Many SDCOS members have requested a

need to carpool to our monthly meetings, so we need a volunteer to organize our Society according to region, and set up the necessary

phone tree.

Please call David Brown at

(619) 294-5925 if you are interested!


ON JUDGING ORCHID FLOWERS

Part II

By Helmut Rohrl

Part III...continued from the September 2008 is-sue of the SDCOS newsletter

Next is a brief discussion of a cultivar’s expected values of traits identified by numbers such as natural spread or flower count. The Handbook states that for an awardable cultivar these two traits should be at least equal to the square root of the product of the corresponding numbers for the parents of the cross. For example, if the natural spread of the pod parent is 3.0 cm and the natural spread of the pollen parent is 12.0 cm, then the expected natural spread for the cultivar is at least the square root of 3 x 12 = 36, which is 6. How-ever, these numerical values are strongly tied to the metabolism of the cultivar measured. Hence a strongly growing plant tends to produce more and larger flowers. But the metabolism of a cultivar of a cross is heavily influenced by its mitochrondria—and mitochondria in any offspring come exclu-sively from the maternal parent. In other words, the maternal parent exercises considerably more control over the metabolism of the offspring than the paternal parent does. Therefore this fact has to be built into any formula for the expected values of trait dependent on the metabolism of a plant. One way of doing this is to replace the above square-root formula (x times y)1/2 by (x times y2)1/3, which is the cube root of the measured value x of the first parent times the measured value y squared of the other parent. In the above example this would ren-der the cube root of 3 x 3 x 12 = 108, which is about 4.9. However, if in this example the role of the parents is interchanged (and hence the reverse cross is considered) then one would obtain the cube root of 3 x 12 x 12 = 432, which is about 7.5. Obviously there is a difference in the expected val-ues for the natural spread between the cross and its reverse cross. To emphasize that point, con-sider the flower count x = 1 for one parent and the flower count y = 100 for the second parent. The expected value when x comes form the pod parent and y from the pollen parent is the cube root of 1 x 1 x 100 = 100, which is about 4.8, while the re-verse cross would yield an expected flower count equal the cube root of 1 x 100 x 100, which is about 21. Hence the frequently observed discrep-ancy of numerically stated traits between a cross and its reverse cross is reflected by the cube-root

formula. Unfortunately, very little to almost no research along these lines has been carried out. Firm statistical information of this type would aid our assessment of dominance versus recessiveness of numerically described traits of hybrids and has to be done relative to expected values of these traits.

A final word on slogans used in the discussion about the quality of flowers. Remember, slogans are often catchy and eloquent but can be hollow and misleading.

One of my favorites is “I can see the maternal great-grandparent in this flower’s lip” or similar references to the ancestry beyond the actual par-ents. When you study Mendelian genetics it be-comes clear that an individual’s genome may not contain any genetic material coming from one of the grandparents. That means that in a complex hybrid cultivar the genetic units of a fairly distant progenitor may be more or less obliterated, while in another cultivar of the same grex they may be quite prominent. Traits that resemble a character-istics of some ancestor may well come from the combination of traits of other progenitor of that grex. CAVEAT EMPTOR!

Another is “I have seen much better cultivars of this grex.” This term makes for fine conversations and often enough is a figment of imagination. When we judge a flower we must assess what we see and not what we are told—unless the assertion can be backed up by reference material. Hence regards of this type should be discarded when as-sessing a flower.

A final slogan I want to quote is one with more credibility than the previous ones—if properly un-derstood. It is that judging should be based on “type and breeding.” This slogan goes back a long way—to the beginning of orchid judging. In these bygone days “type” meant, in essence, the name of the nothogenus (that is the artificially produced genus) of a grex as the phenotypes of the members of a grex were quite similar. For instance, Sophrol-aeliocattleya—type meant small plants with rela-tively large, round, few-flowered flowers often in the red to orange color range. With advanced breeding this changed, and today we have So-phrolaeliocattleyas that are stately plants with multiple flowers on fairly long stems and color


schemes other than red. Moreover, recent taxo-nomical and nomenclatural changes lead to con-siderable changes of names of nothogenera. So today, “type” really should refer to the phenotype, or perhaps expected phenotype of a cultivar; or perhaps even more so to the genetic background of the grex. But when it comes to the latter, the previously stated CAVEAT applies. To sum it up: When judging a flower we must take into account the characteristics, including dominance and re-cessiveness of traits, of the actual parents and its ancestry. This can be learned by an intensive case study of the progeny of various cultivars, and not only grexes, of hybrids and species.

Part IV

It’s time to work.

Get up and put

your shoulder to the wagon.

In case you are interested in the AOS training pro-gram for AOS judges, here are some of the details.

The hierarchy of the AOS judging system for active judges is: Student Judge, Probationary Judge, Ac-credited Judge. In addition to these types of judges there are: Senior Judge, Emeritus Judge and Retired Judge.

The judging system also involved a non-judicial class of assistants: Clerk. If clerks are not available during the judging session, student judges or other judges will have to take over their job.

If you want to become a clerk you’ll have to talk to the head judge or her/his deputy and informally apply to become a clerk. As clerk you are expected to show up at the judging facility about 30 minutes prior to the opening of the event. As individuals or groups come in to present their plants for judging you are expected to help them arrange the plants on the tables and to assist them in filling out the necessary entry forms. This requires knowledge of or access to the current nomenclature (to obtained either via computer programs or from informed judges) and taxonomy, as well as other informa-tion that you will acquire as you continue to serve as clerk. When the judging begins the plants will be examined and possibly nominated to be judged. This can either be done by the judges passing by the table or by individual judging teams posted at judging tables. In the latter case your supervisor—

the head judge or her/his deputy or the head clerk— will ask you to bring plants to the judging tables. Upon reaching the judging table you will have to report the correct name of the cultivar and state whether or not it was already nominated for judging. When asked by the judging team captain you will have to retrieve more information, like computer print-outs, books, slides or other im-ages, to the table. After the team is done with the plant, the plant will go to the next judging table. As soon as this process is finished, the judging of the nominated cultivars will begin and it will pro-ceed as before: generally the person running the judging session will tell each clerk which plant to bring to which judging table. Time permitting, the judging teams may invite you to participate in the judging and point-score the plant, although your vote will not be counted in computing the average point score.

Clerks have no duties beyond the ones explained above. A person may be a clerk for an undefined span of time, and her/his presence at judging ses-sions is optional. The benefits of serving as clerk are manifold: you will meet numerous wonderful people—and some that are not that wonderful; you will get to know some superb orchid growers and hybridizers; you will learn a lot about orchids, their culture, their history, their nomenclature, their taxonomy, their use, and last but not least the correct pronunciation of orchid names; you will become an advisor and helper to your orchid-growing friend; and, if you choose so, you could become an AOS judge.

However, to become an AOS judge you’ll have pass through two stages, the first one being a Student Judge. In order to become a candidate for Student Judge you’ll have to file a formal application with the Judging Center of your choice, and to pass the color-perception screening test and the species test both administered by the Training Coordina-tor of the Center. The Handbook cites numerous general qualifications, such as experience and in-terest in orchids, to become a candidate for Stu-dent Judge. It also states the goals of the Student/Probationary Judges’ Training Program. After be-ing accepted as Student Judge by the AOS, the Training Coordinator student will assign two ac-

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credited judges as mentors to the student judge. They will serve as advisors throughout the training period. The Training Coordinator will conduct the training of both Student Judges and Probationary Judges, including tests, homework assignments, lectures, visits to nurseries and other activities.

Suggested topics for the training program are:

Plant nomination, point-scoring, award catego-ries, assessment of color, form, substance and tex-ture, writing flower descriptions, ethics and objec-tivity in judging, ribbon and show judging, valua-tion of artistic arrangements, orchid literature, use of reference material.

Some Judging Centers have elaborate and inten-sive requirements, others are much less demand-ing. Occasionally a center may have an excellent training program only to see it degenerate under the next Training Coordinator. The reason for this disparity is the lack of a centrally administered, structured training program that is prescribed by the AOS.

After serving a minimum of three years as a Stu-dent Judge, the student becomes a candidate for Probationary Judge. He must be recommended by at least one accredited judge for consideration by the judging center committee. If the candidate for Probationary Judge fails to be advanced at the end of five years of service, he/she will be terminated as a judge.

The requirements for Probationary Judges are the same as for Student Judges. The main difference lies in the voting rights at judging sessions: Only certified (including probationary) judges are per-mitted to vote; student judges are allow to point-score but their point score is disregarded when the average point score is computed.

The composition of judging teams is restricted in the sense that not more than 1/3 of the partici-pants may be probationary judges. The teams can, and often do, invite clerks, student judges and visitors to joins them at the judging tables and fill out the score cards.

More information on the judging process can be found in the Handbook and written material dis-tributed by some of the Judging Centers.

Joining the AOS judging community, be it as in-terested observer, as clerk, or as judge, will get you in touch with some highly knowledgeable and very successful growers and hybridizers. It will greatly expand your information about nomenclature and taxonomy of orchids and the history of orchidol-ogy. It will give you a better understanding of the goals and techniques of flower evaluation and judging and the genetics of orchid breeding. You will learn that orchid growing is a life-long com-mitment that requires dedication, enthusiasm and continuing education. And last but not least, you will be able to spend a few hours in a relaxed at-mosphere surrounded by friends and a sea of or-chids.

Helmut Rohrl

9322 La Jolla Farms Rd.

La Jolla CA 92037

[email protected]

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SDCOS Fall

Show in the Park

Saturday, October 25, 11:30 am-5 pm

Sunday, October 26, 9 am-4:30 pm

Bring Plants in on Friday between 6-8

pm or Saturday between 8-10 am

See Page 11 for judging categories

All SDCOS members are highly encouraged to at-

tend !! Don’t miss out on a great opportunity to vol-

unteer and get to know other members!!

Volunteers needed!

Contact: [email protected]


Class A White, Buff, Cream, Ivory Class A White, Buff, Cream, Ivory

B Red, Maroon B Red, Maroon

C Pink C Pink

D Green D Green

E Yellow E Yellow

F Brown, Bronze F Brown, Bronze

G Novelty (spots, splashes) G Novelty (spots, splashes)

Class A White, White with colored lip Class A White, White with colored lip

B Lavender, Pink B Lavender, Pink

C Yellow C Yellow

D Orange D Orange

E Red E Red

F Green F Green

G Blue G Blue

H Novelty (spots, splashes) H Novelty (spots, splashes)

I Bronze I Bronze

J Wine, Purple J Wine, Purple

Class A White A White

B Yellow B Pink

C Red, Maroon C Yellow

D Green D Rust, Orange

E Brown, Tan E Red, Lavender

F Pink F Green

G Primary hybrids G Novelty (stripes, spots, splashes)

Class A Oncidium Class A Vandaceous alliance

B Odontoglossum B Dendrobium

C Miltonia C Epidendrum, Encyclia

D Multi-generic D Masdevallia

E All other single-generic hybrids E Pleurothallid alliance

F Angraecoid alliance

G Lycaste

H All other hybrids

Class A Cattleya, Laelia, Brassavola H Cymbidium

B Phalaenopsis I Masdevallia

C Paphiopedilum, Phragmipedium J Pleurothallid alliance

D Dendrobium K Sophronitis

E Oncidium, Odontoglossum, Miltonia, Brassia L Lycaste

F Epidendrum, Encyclia M Angraecoid alliance

G Vandaceous alliance N All other species

(Plant height under 8 inches)

SAN DIEGO COUNTY ORCHID SOCIETY

MINI SHOW RIBBON JUDGING REGISTRATION SCHEDULE

SECTIONS AND CLASSES

Section 5 PAPHIOPEDILUM, PHRAGMIPEDIUM HYBRIDS Section 6 PHALAENOPSIS, DORITAENOPSIS HYBRIDS

Section 1 CYMBIDIUM STANDARD HYBRIDS

Section 3 CATTLEYA ALLIANCE STANDARD HYBRIDS

(Plant height 8 inches or more)

Section 4 CATTLEYA ALLIANCE MINIATURE HYBRIDS

(Plant height under 8 inches)

Section 2 CYMBIDIUM MINIATURE HYBRIDS

(Plant height 8 inches or more)

Section 10 ALL SPECIMEN PLANTS

Section 7 ONCIDIUM ALLIANCE HYBRIDS Section 8 HYBRIDS OF OTHER GENERA

Section 9 SPECIES


San Diego County Orchid Society Board Meeting Minutes September 2, 2008

Attendees: Loren Batchman, Bruce Berg, Carol Berg, David Brown, Bob Clark, Christopher Croom, Genie Hammond, Dave Hoffmaster, Ron Kaufmann, Betty Kelepecz, Steve Mallory, Pam Peters, and Kevin Rynearson.

President David Brown called the meeting to order at 7:15. Minutes for the July meeting were distrib-uted and approved as amended.

Old Business:

Use of the Senior Citizens Room must be approved by the San Diego Botanical Garden Foundation (SDBGF). David Brown will check with them on September 4.

The new microphone batteries worked perfectly at the general meeting September 2.

David Brown has not contacted St. Madeleine Sophie’s Center regarding solicitations to SDCOS members.

David Brown will submit an article for each news-letter on the progress of cataloguing orchid books at SDSU Library.

David Brown will provide a copy of the new Balboa Park Resource Directory at the October Board meeting.

The patio outside Room 101 may be open for SDCOS and vendor sales at the January Winter (Mini) Show Jan 24 and 25. We will ask to use the space that week-end. All sales would be outdoors; no sales in the display room. We will ask what the rules for vendor signage are. Ron Kaufmann is investigating how the Cactus & Succulent Society uses bar coding for their sales as we would like to do the same. As a fallback, plants will be double tagged. The patio will be covered by a canopy.

New Business:

Show Committee Report (Show dates: March 13 – 15, 2009)

• The Show Committee will meet at 6:00 pm in Room 104 on Oct 9 prior to the Board Meeting.

• Recommended show hours were approved by the Board as follows:

Fri, Mar 13: 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Saturday, March 14: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm

Sunday, March 15: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm.

• Elimination of the Saturday night banquet was approved by the Board.

• A motion of having a social event from 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Friday night was not approved by the Board.

• A motion that vendor booth fees of $600 for a small booth and $800 for a large booth remain the same as last year was approved by the Board.

• A proposed budget for the 2009 Show of $42,050 was approved by the Board. (See de-tailed show budget on page 15)

• Two designs for a show poster were discussed. The Board asked to see additional designs.

• Loren Batchman will print quarter-sheet flyers with the time and date for distribution at the San Diego International Orchid Fair (Oct 3 – 5 at Quail Botanical Gardens), to other orchid societies and vendors.

• Most effective form of advertising last year was the “$2.00-off” coupon from the SDCOS web-site. Articles in newspapers are also an effec-tive form of advertising.

• Loren Batchman will mail the AOS Show Judg-ing form and check ($110).

• Loren Batchman reported that SDCOS will get a 1/3 page Show ad free in the Cymbidium Soci-ety of America Journal.


Lynn Dornfeld has taken over distribution of the newsletter. Thank you, Lynn!!! A motion was made to pay the printing company, for a trial pe-riod, an extra $51 a month for a double fold. Mo-tion carried.

The speaker for the October meeting will be Steve Champlin from Floralia (Brazil). He will provide the plant table.

The speaker for the novice meeting will be Loren Batchman discussing Virus Testing of Your Or-chids.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:45 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Pam Peters, Secretary

Advertising, Printing, Signs 6,000

Awards, Judging & Photography 3,850

Facility (Scot Rite, Fire Ins, Custodian) 19,000

Food 7,400

Materials/supplies 3,000

Misc 500

Sales & Merchandise (t-shirts) 2,300

TOTAL $42,050

2009 Show Budget

MONTHLY REPORT ON AOS JUDGING AT QUAIL GARDENS

By: Helmut Rohrl

Judging at the Encinitas site (Quail Gardens, Ad-ministration (Ecke) Building) begins at 7:00 pm on the first Monday of each month. The facility opens at 6:30 pm. Anyone interested in orchids is encouraged and welcome at the sessions. Visitors may join the judging teams at their tables, but cannot participate in the judging process. Anyone who wants to exhibit plants for judging but is un-able to bring the plants to Quail Gardens, please contact one the local judges or have others bring the plants to the facility.

At the September 1, 2008 Encinitas session seven cultivars were shown and five were awarded.

Harold Koopowitz presented Paphiopedilum (Doll’s Kobold x Coconut Candy)

Fred Clarke brought in Catasetum Frilly Doris, Brassolaeliocattleya Suncoast Sunspots AM, Cat-tleya Chocolate Drop AM, Dendrobium Mickey Parker AM, Paphiopedilum Gerd Rollke AM, Cycnoches (herrenhusianum x haagii) AM.

San Diego County Orchid

Society Membership

We invite you to join the San Diego County Orchid Society! Receive this newsletter and many other benefits, including a holiday party and a free orchid at the end of the year!

To join, please send your check for $15 for an individual membership or $20 for a dual membership, payable to SDCOS , to:


P.O. Box 161020

San Diego, CA 92176

For further details, e-mail Bob Clark at

[email protected].

Dear SDCOS,

Summer is lingering on and refusing to let Autumn break through, and therefore you might notice that some of your plants are being “tricked” by the high temperatures into behaving like it’s still the growing season. I’ve had the second blooming cycle on my Miltonia moreliana so far this year, and all of my plants seem to continue to put out new growths, although some of these late growths tend to shrivel and die when temperatures finally do drop to normal autumnal nighttime minimums.

Our minimum daily temperature is so far the only sign that the season is changing. Your plants are experi-encing about a 15-20 degree spread if you’re living near the coast, and up to a 25 degree spread if you live inland. It’s probably too cold at night to water your plants in the evenings anymore, no matter how hot it gets during the day. You should probably continue fertilizing, so that those new growths that your plants are putting out have the best possible chance for surviving the winter.

I’m getting stinkeye from my neighbors right now for watering my collection. They’re the soulless kinds of folks that think that any chlorophyll-laden life forms are “just plants.” Nothing has ever been “just a plant” since I started growing orchids, although your ex-periences may vary. It also stinks that our voluntary water cuts came at the exact same time of the summer heatwave, but there’s no way I’m letting my collection die due to poor water management in our region. The neighbors, landlord and City Council will have to pry the rain wand from my dead fingers if they want me to neglect my collection on their terms. Happy Growing,

Christopher

Letter From the Editor

San Diego County Orchid Society P.O. Box 161020 San Diego, CA 92176

Contact Information:

Christopher Croom

(619) 583-3804

[email protected]

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