BUCKS COUNTY ORCHID SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

March, 2018

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BCOS Meeting and Program

March 15, 2018 Churchville Nature Center

501 Churchville Lane

Churchville, PA 18966

Show Table Setup-7:00 p.m.

Meeting 7:30 p.m.

Program: BCOS AT THE FLOWER SHOW Our program this month will be highlights of the PHS Flower Show, and will focus on the 2 displays that BCOS sponsored. Sandy & Frank Kern will have a slide show presentation and will answer questions. Their presentation will deal with the various com-ponents of the Flower Show and will detail the two displays that they created with the help of Alan Block, and Wayne and Dar-ia Braddock. Sandy's sister Sue Helfand also helped with setup, and their cousin Tom Hillman painted the lettering and orchids on the door. Both displays re-ceived Honorable Mention from 2 separate judging panels. Yel-low Sweet Sugar oncidiums that were in the show will be for sale at our meeting. Bert Fields (mostly red) and Renee Komoda 'Pacific Alabaster' (mostly white) will also be for sale. All are in great condition and will be $10-15.

“See what you can do with this!” Article and photos by Andy Braun, unless otherwise noted.

In August, 2012, I was visiting the greenhouse of a relative

of my daughter-in-law. He had a large multi-level green-

house and in it grew many kinds of plants, including or-

chids. One of those orchids he had never bloomed, and he

had said he acquired it in 1974 as part of a collection he

purchased in Norristown Pa. The plant was a very strong

grower and he had divided it many times. He gave me one

of those divisions and said, “See what you can do with

this!” The plant, Vanda brunnea ‘Genette’ CCE/AOS, is

shown below when he had given it to me. It was potted in

a 10” garden pot with what looked like ProMix. I pulled it

out of the pot, and placed it in an eight inch basket.

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SEPOS SHOW REMINDER Prepare your plants now for the SEPOS Interna-tional Orchid Show to be held at the Greater Phila-delphia Expo Center, Oaks, PA., Hall E, April 6-8, 2018. Clean up and stake any plant that you in-tend to submit for the Society’s exhibit. The Show Committee would like an idea as to which bloom-ing plants will be available for the show. Please send the names of the plants you will lend for the show to Andy Braun BonesBraun@msn.com who will register the orchids for the Show. The Com-mittee will contact you with instructions for getting your plants to the committee or the show.

Plant when It was given to me

Plant after repot into basket, Sept. 2012

The plant grew well over the next two years. I was giving

the plant full sun except for the hottest part of the day and

the plant responded well with no burning of leaves. There

was robust growth and nice fat roots. In 2014 we moved

to Huntingdon Valley, and I no longer had a greenhouse.

What to do?? All of my plants including this one were

moved into the basement and grown under lights during

the winter. Prior to bringing the plant inside I allowed it to

stay outside along with the cymbidiums to be chilled. I

figured if the original grower had not been able to bloom it

doing the normal things like more light, it was time to try

something else.

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BCOS SHOWTABLE FEBRUARY, 2018 (Note: BG = Best Grown)

Phal Hybrid Phal Denver Diva ‘Sun Kissed’ Phal

Cy

Windowsill Growers

Species/Grex Cultivar Grower

Cattleya Alliance

1st Guarianthe skinneri Heiti Jacobs Stuart Hughes

2nd Rhyncatleanthe Momilani Rainbow Mitch Paroly

3rd Cattlianthe Naranja en Flor David Carrick

Classic Cattleya

1st Rhyncholaeliocattleya Nacouchee Mission Valley David Carrick

Cymbidium

1st Cym Rincon Fairy Raspberry Jean Norton

Miniatures

1st Bulbophyllum retusiusculum Stuart Hughes

2nd Tolumnia Popoki Mitei Carl Gustafson

Oncidium Alliance

1st Oncidium maculatum Stuart Hughes

Open

2nd Lycaste macrophylla Sandy Kern

Paph & Phrag Alliance

1st Paph Rio Vista x Winston Churchill Stuart Hughes

2nd Paphiopedilum Hawaiian Illusion Jean Norton

2nd Paph Hsinying Alien (Supersuk x Raisin Pie) Deborah Shull

2nd Paphiopedilum insigne Carl Gustafson

Phal & Dtps Alliance

1st + BG Phalaenopsis Hybrid Thora Williams

2nd Phal Yu Pin Fireworks x Yu Pin Polar Star Mitch Paroly

2nd Phalaenopsis Hybrid Deborah Shull

3rd Phalaenopsis Hybrid Sandy Kern

Pleurothallid Alliance

1st Masdevallia scabrilingus Stuart Hughes

Species

1st + BG Coelogyne flaccida Stuart Hughes

1st Prosthechea chimborazoensis Stuart Hughes

2nd Cattleya percivaliana Summit Carl Gustafson

Vanda Alliance

1st Vandachostylis Pinky Laurie Gill

Guarianthe skinneri ‘Heiti Jacobs’

Rlc. Nacouchee ‘Misson Valley’

Cym Rincon Fairy ‘Raspberry’

Oncidium maculatum

Phalaenopsis Hybrid

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BCOS SHOWTABLE FEBRUARY, 2018 (Note: BG = Best Grown)

Den. Mini Snowflake

Greenhouse Growers

Species/Grex Cultivar Grower

Cattleya Alliance

1st + BG Laelia anceps Christobal Andy Braun

2nd Rhyncattleanthe Bouton D'Or Lewis Heidi WelchHelmich

3rd Brassocattleya Green Bird Andy Braun

Classic Cattleya

1st Cattleya Drumbeat Bob Gore

Cymbidium

1st Cym. Jim Duffin Mt. Airy Andy Braun

1st Cym. Hybrid Heidi WelchHelmich

Dendrobium

1st Den. gracilicaule Bob Gore

2nd Den. Andre Millar Andy Braun

Open

1st + BG Dendrochillum tenellum Mt. Airy Andy Braun

1st Cycnodes Hybrid Bob Gore

2nd Lycaste fragrens Andy Braun

3rd Cologyne Unchained Melody Bob Gore

Paph & Phrag Alliance

1st Paphiopedilum Invincible Spread Eagle Bob Gore

2nd Paphiopedilum Ocean of Spots Bob Gore

2nd Paphiopedilum delinatii Andy Braun

Species

1st Dendrochilum wenzilii Bob Gore

2nd Vanda christiansoniana Andy Braun

3rd Prosthechea cochleata #904 Andy Braun

Vanda Alliance

1st Vanda Pachara Delight Jehoshua Andy Braun

2nd Renantherea Brookie Chandler Andy Braun

3rd Vanda Lou Sneary Blue Bird Bob Gore

Laelia anceps ‘Christobal’

Cattleya Drumbeat

Den. gracilicaule

Paph Invincible ‘Spread Eagle’

Cym. Hybrid

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Paph Rio Vista x Winston Churchill

Coelogyne flaccida

Bulbophyllum retusiusculum

Prosthechea chimborazoensis

Vandachostylis Pinky

Masdevallia scabrilingus

Vanda Pachara Delight ‘Jehoshua’

Dendrochilum wenzilii Dendrochillum tenellum ‘Mt. Airy’

More February, 2018 Showtable

winners.

Membership Dues Reminder. If you haven't paid your dues for 2018, please do so now. Dues are

now $25 and the Society’s Treasurer, Chuck Keiser, is waiting to receive your dues either at a meeting, or you

may mail your dues to him at 163 North Forsythia Dr., Levittown, PA 19506. (Please include name, address,

E-mail and phone number with your remittance.)

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EDITOR’S NOTE – Contributions to the newsletter will be greatly appreci-ated. Please submit relevant news, photos, awards or information relating to the Society, its members, the care

and culture of orchids to the Editor at kaplsr@comcast.net. I am also looking for your favorite tip on growing orchids, for the feature, Orchid Tip of the Month. Please submit your copy by the first day of the month.

UPCOMING EVENTS Apr 6-8 2018 SEPOS Annual Show and Sale Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaks, PA Apr. 19. 2018 7:30 pm BCOS Meeting. Program: Tony Silva from Silva Orchids Topic: Silva Select Catleya Breeding Churchville Nature Center, Churchville, PA May 17. 2018 7:30 pm BCOS Meeting - Program:

Luan Elkins - Embracing Orchids at Duke Farms Churchville Nature Center, Churchville, PA

SOCIETY NOTES

Hospitality Table

The Society is in need of 2 or 3 people to assume

coordination of refreshments for the Hospitality

Table.. Please contact Sandy Kern to volunteer.

Plant Clinic:

You are encouraged to bring in that sick plant for

evaluation by the expert orchid growers in our So-

ciety. Please, bring the needy plant in a closed

plastic bag and we will try to advise you on bring-

ing it back to good health.

Show Table Judging Rules:

See the website for information on submitting

plants for the show table,

www.buckscountyorchidsociety.org/showtables/

STRules.htm BCOS recognizes and awards the

growing and flowering of plants. Keeping this in

mind, members are asked to please remember that

anything brought to the show table for judging,

should have been in their care for at least 90 days. .

Officers, Other Societies and Vendors:

The list of officers, other societies and vendors is

now exclusively available on the BCOS website.

www.buckscountyorchidsociety.org/About.htm for

officers and www.buckscountyorchidsociety.org/

Links.htm for other societies and vendors.

Library:

Contact Allen Applebaum at sirapples@aol.com to

borrow any item in the BCOS Library (See the So-

ciety’s website for a list of books, equipment and

videos.)

www.buckscountyorchidsociety.org/Library.htm

“See what you can do with this!” Continued from page 1 As September moved into October, I backed off on the

watering. The plant now only received what little rain

there was for those two months. Finally, I moved the

plant inside under lights in the basement and withheld

watering through November. In December, I started to

water again and at the end of the month, I started to see

spikes. The plant threw 8 spikes on the three growths.

Not bad for a first blooming. The plant continued to

winter in the basement under lights through the Spring of

2017. This past winter was the first in a greenhouse

since 2013.

The plant continued to grow and get stronger. In January 2017, there were 10 spikes on the plant and multiple kei-kis along the base of the plant. This year, the plant spiked a little later but there were a lot of them. There was a total of 21 spikes this year. The three main growths had 5, 6 and 5 spikes respectively. The remain-ing 5 spikes were on the keikis. Vanda brunnea ‘Genette’ was awarded a 92 point CCE on 21 February, 2018 at the Mid-Atlantic AOS Judging Center. The description: One hundred twenty flowers and 23 buds on 22 inflorescences pleasingly arranged on an 8 fan plant 106cm high and 84 cm wide with prolific roots grown in a 19 cm square teak basket; foliage evenly grown along the entire length of each fan in good condition; sepals and pedals cream, heavily overlaid bronze with rust barring; lips white circular side lobes, central isthmus olive green; prominent white column with light yellow anther cap; substance hard texture waxy.

Plant in Base-ment, Dec 2014

Andy Braun at judging, photo by Ed Weber

The Flower

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