S O S O V Orchid View · SARASOTA ORCHID SOCIETY ORCHID VIEW AUGUST 2015 PO Box 19895, Sarasota, FL 34276-2895 Page 5 BEST NOVICE OF THE MONTH Cattleya Maui Plum (Cattleya guttata

SARASOTA ORCHID SOCIETY ORCHID VIEW AUGUST 2015

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MONTHLY MEETING AUGUST 3rd, 2015

MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS Great Room by the Bay, The Activities Center, 811 S. Palm Avenue, Sarasota, FL

6:00 pm Doors Open 6:15 pm Culture Study with Roy Krueger

7:00 pm Business Meeting

7:15 pm Speaker: Louis del Favro “Collecting in the Bahamas

in the Old Days of Wild Collecting” 8:00 pm ‘Members Only’ Silent Auction

8:30 pm Members’ Plant Table Discussion & Ribbon Awards

A Plant Raffle completes our Meeting! Guests are always welcome!

Sarasota Orchid Society Monthly Meeting will NOT be held in September. See you next on Monday evening, October 5th, our next Monthly Meeting.

Please note:Should you arrive to our Monthly SOS Meeting after 7:00 pm, when the Gate to the Selby Activities Center is locked, please call the cell phone of one of our members in the meeting, as listed on the Gate. Someone will come down to let you in. Selby’s Rules are such that the Gate must be locked once our meeting has started, at which time no one is available to continue to sit by the gate.

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Guidelines for our Silent Auctions during our Monthly Meetings

♦We will limit the total number of plants to 5 or 6 per month.

♦By the 20th of the month (for this first Auction, you will have till July 27th) prior to the upcoming meeting, a member will email a request to Denny Pavlock ([email protected]) with the number of plants they wish to bring.

♦Include the name of the plant, the approximate number of pseudo bulbs, size of the pot, basket or mount or that it is a bare root.

♦If you have a jpeg picture of the flower, please include with your form.

♦Plants must be clean with no scale, thrips, etc. ♦If desired, specify the minimum price you will

accept for each plant. ♦If desired, specify an “eBay type Buy-It-Now”

amount for each plant so that a member may instantly purchase the plant.

♦Note: The plant will then immediately be removed from the Silent Auction Table.

♦The seller will receive 75% and the SOS will receive 25% of the sale’s price.

To confirm your inclusion in the Silent Auction, Denny will send you, the member, a Silent Auction Form for each plant. Denny Pavlock

HOSPITALITY The Hospitality Committee,

led by Judy Robertson, will provide coffee, ice tea, water and soft drinks.

ORCHID VIEW TABLE OF CONTENTS

Front Cover…………………………………1

Table of Contents, Guidelines for our Silent Auction, Hospitality……………2

Minutes of July 6th SOS Meeting….3

July Members’ Plant Table……..4, 5, 6

Our August Speaker, Louis Del Favero.……………………………………………..7

Orchids We Should All Grow by Roy Krueger Toshie Aokie…………..….. .8

About Us……………………………………….. 9

Calendar August 2015 …………………….10


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During every other Monthly Meeting, Big Earth Landscape Supply, on Bee Ridge Road in Sarasota, will be

selling Orchid Products for potting and spraying, including some items

which Roy Krueger discusses during his monthly “Learn to Grow Orchids” sessions at 6:15 pm, prior to the Sarasota Orchid Society Monthly Meetings.

July 2015 SOS Meeting Minutes

Dennis Pavlock called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m.• Jo Davis introduced new members and guests.

Old Business: • Questions on the Treasurer’s Report?• Any follow up to items from previous month’s new business?

New Business: • Announcements:

o I just wanted to let everyone know that we will be having our annual Holiday Party at the Sarasota Garden Club again this year instead of our monthly meeting here at Selby Gardens.

o We are planning our Annual Show again this year at the Sarasota Municipal Auditorium the first weekend in January. The 2016 Show will be the weekend of Jan 2nd and 3rd .

• Starting in August, members can bring their plants on the Silent Auction table; We are going to start with 5 total plants from all members.

o Members will contact Denny Pavlock ahead of time so we can “control” how many orchids come in for the Silent Auction.

o If you want to bring in a plant for the Silent Auction Table, there will be a special form that Denny will send you to use. If you need a picture of the flower, please let Denny know on your request to him.

♣ The form will include a minimum price and the eBay equivalent of a “buy It Now” price.

• Big Earth has a table with supplies for sale.• Please vote for the best species, hybrid, and novice plants on the display table.• Please purchase raffle tickets.

o Plants provided by our speaker this month, Keith Emig (Winter Haven Orchids)o Keith brought some wonderful plants to sell to our members.

• 15 minute break. (Give time to resume.)• After break:

• Introduced Roy to introduce Keith Emig (Winter Haven Orchids)o Keith gave a wonderful, practical presentation on habeniara orchids.

o He had a tray of seedlings and all members of the audience were given one to take home.

o Keith chose a Speaker’s Choice Award.• Roy and Jim Robert went through the display table.• Al ran Plant Raffle as announcer.• Meeting adjourned at 8:55 p.m.




July 2015MEMBERS’ PLANT TABLE “SHOW & TELL”

Photography by Karen Bird-Lister

SPECIES OF THE MONTH

Grammatophyllum

Grown byVirginia Shroyer




BEST NOVICE

OF THE MONTH

Cattleya Maui Plum (Cattleya guttata

x Cattleya Summerland Girl)

Grown by Cora Sanders

SPEAKER’S CHOICE

Vanda Sumon Spot (Vanda Pimsai xVanda Satta)

x Vanda Kultana Gems (Vanda Betty May Steel x Vanda Bitz’s Heartthrob

Grown by Donna Peters




BEST HYBRID

OF THE MONTH

Brassidiocentrum Lillian Oka

(Brassidium Pagan Lovesong

x Trichentrum stacyi)

Grown by Roy Krueger




Our Speaker for August

LOUIS DEL FAVERO

Louis del Favero began collecting orchids when he was 12 years old. He went to work in Miami at Orchid Jungle in 1968.

For years he collected orchids in the Caribbean, British Honduras (now Belize), and Central America with Fred Fuchs.In 1981 Louis and his wife moved to Tampa

where he opened his orchid business, Louis Del Favero Orchids Inc., 6601 Gant Rd in Tampa, FL 33625 (813) 961-8277. Louis specializes in unusual species and hard to find orchids.

He will speak to us on Collecting in the Bahamas in the Old Days of Wild Collecting.

Louis Del Favero received a V. Rothchildiana from a family friend for his 12th birthday. In 1968 he began working for Jungle Orchids after school, weekends and summers. They imported tree fern and orchids from Guatemala. A year later he established Louis Del Favero Orchids in Miami. It was also during this time that he took a collecting trip with Fred Fuchs to British Honduras (now Belize) and Honduras. After that trip, Louis was consumed by a desire to view orchids in their native habitat. This started 20 years of traveling to Mexico, Central, South America and the Caribbean.

In 1981 Louis moved to his current location in rural Tampa where he used his extensive contacts to continue importing specie orchids from their native countries.

He and his wife Bonnie have more than 13,000 s.f. of greenhouses open to the public of which approximately 50% are warm tolerant species, and the other half is comprised largely of Encyclias, Dendrobiums, Oncidiums, and compact to large flowered Cattleyas with an emphasis on fragrant orchids.

Louis will be bringing Orchid Plants with him to sell to our Members on August 3rd.


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ORCHIDS WE SHOULD ALL GROW by ROY KRUEGER

Over the course of years that I have been growing orchids seriously, I have always considered the Cattleya alliance the “Real Orchid” family. Yes, I grow other genera, some well and some not so well. Cattleyas, however, have always been at the heart of my collection.

Sometimes it was species Catts that attracted my attention. Sometimes, bifoliates. Occasionally, splash petal and flares were what caught my eye. BLC TOSHIE AOKIE

One though that always caused me to look twice was BLC Toshie Aokie. Registered in 1960, Toshie is a complex Cattleya, a cross of many generations of cattleya hybrids. Sifting through the generations, one finds that over 60% of the plant is made up of C. dowiana. Hence the predominantly yellow color.

While have long admired the plant, it wasn't until several years ago at Redland's that I finally purchased one. It was the one pictured above, variety “Starburst” AM/AOS. It is one I like because of the richly colored sepals, darker red than many of the flared varieties.

Toshie also is found in a pure yellow variety with a dark red lip. All varieties sport the yellow “eyes”.

The plant has received some 24 awards from various orchid societies world wide.

It is an easy plant to grow, often blooming several times a year. Searching its history, I found evidence of blooms every month of the year.

All of the principal parents of BLC Toshie Aokie thrive on bright light and warm temperatures. Light ranges are from bright shade to dappled sunlight to intermediate sun. Temperature ranges are from warm to hot with relatively high humidity. Not surprisingly, the plant adapts well and thrives in our warm humid Florida climate.

It can be grown in a pot or a basket. Use an open medium to coarse mix. Water and fertilize year around because new growth and flowering seem to occur during all seasons. I use a 13-2-13 water soluble fertilizer with Cal-Mag as a base fertilizer and add a bit of bloom booster twice a year, once in spring and again in fall.

Toshie is not a particularly difficult plant to keep disease free. I do use some systemic fungicide on it. The biggest problem that I face is thrips. It can be thrip free until the bright yellow flowers open when it attracts the little pests from every corner of my yard. A preventative spray of liquid Orthene or Conserve sprayed just before the buds break sheath seems to keep the thrips under control.

The plant stays a relatively compact size for a large flowered Cattleya, not more than 15-18” tall. It is a uni foliate Catt, so can be split or repotted without too much caution or concern,

If you're looking for a Cattleya that will bloom regularly and give you something other than the usual pink, lavender, or white that is so common, try a variety or two of BLC Toshie Aokie.




Sarasota Orchid Society, Inc.

SOS meets on the first Monday of each month at Selby Gardens. The SOS, an affiliate of the American Orchid Society, is a non-profit association with the aims of promoting the development, improvement and preservation of orchids through the dissemination of information concerning the culture, hybridization or development of orchids, and generally to extend the knowledge of orchids.

Our membership dues, at $20. for individuals and $25. for families, are a great value. These dues help us acquire quality speakers for our monthly meetings and pay for special events such as picnics and repotting demonstrations. Our fund raisers, Orchid Auction, Orchid Show and Raffles raise additional funds to educate the general public about orchids and their conservation, provide scholarships to local students who will study horticulture, and support orchid research programs.

“Orchid View” our Orchid Society newsletter, is published monthly by the Sarasota Orchid Society. It is included via e-mail at no charge for members.

Deadline for articles, photos and information for the newsletter is the 15th of the previous month.

Contributors to “Orchid View” give reprint rights to their work to newsletters and other affiliates of the American Orchid Society.

2015 Sarasota Orchid Society Board of Directors

President Dennis Pavlock 941.966.8753, [email protected] President Roy Krueger 941 776-507, [email protected] Past President Laurie Stoner 941.358.8537, [email protected] Secretary Jo Davis 941.228.5501, [email protected] Laurie Stoner 941.358.8537, [email protected]

Members-at-LargeLory Boyce 941.812.2447, [email protected] Hagerstrom 941.359.9980, [email protected] Hillstrom 941.926.0166, [email protected] Kokin 941.586.7795, [email protected] Langdon 941.907.4161, [email protected] Quinnelly 678.361.4440, [email protected] Robertson 941.926.1819, [email protected]

Committee Leaders 59th ANNUAL ORCHID SHOW

January 2nd & 3rd, 2016 Co-Chairs: Jo Davis, Laurie Stoner, Dennis Pavlock

AOS Representative Laurie Stoner, [email protected] Counsel Robert M. Johnson, Esq., [email protected] Culture Study Leader Roy Krueger, [email protected] Members’ Display Table Jack Knuese, [email protected] Susan Gerhardt, [email protected] Judy Robertson, [email protected] Membership Co-Chairs Jo Davis, Lory BoyceNewsletter Editor Carolyn Langdon,[email protected] Research Stig Dalstrom, [email protected] Monroe Kokin, [email protected]

Karen Bird-Lister, [email protected] Jane Hagerstrom, [email protected] Hosts Mecky Kreissle, Al Langdon, [email protected] Manager Norm Hillstrom, [email protected] Dennis Pavlock, [email protected]






































SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

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2 3 August

SOS MEETING 7 PM Louis del Favro Speaker & a Members Only Silent Auction

4 5 6 7 8 August

AOS JUDGING Florida North Central 1:30 pm Mid- Florida Research & Education Center, 2725 S. Binion Rd, Apopka, FL ArthurKatz 407-870-3407 [email protected]

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 August AOS JUDGING Florida Caribbean Judging Center 1:00 pm Fairchild Tropical Gardens, Corbin Bldg. Rm A, 10901 Old Cutler Rd. Coral Gables, FL 786-293-6924Wojciech Klikunas [email protected]

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 August

AOS JUDGING West Palm Beach Judging Center 2 pmFlamingo Gardens, 3750 S. Flamingo Rd, Davie, Fl Bonnie Riley, Miami, [email protected]

23 24 25 26 August

AOS JUDGING

Florida North Central 7 pm Christ the King Church, 821 S. Dale Mabry Hwy McLaughlin Center-Rm C Tampa, FL 813- 989-9357Patricia Cartwright [email protected]

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30IMPORTANT REMINDER !!!

There will NOT be a SOS Monthly Meeting in September!

See you next on Monday evening, October 5th.

! AUGUST 2015 !

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