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Next Meeting: Thursday 12th Feb. 7:30pm
Rob Terry - 'Warmth
Tolerant Miltoniopsis, Care and Culture'
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The Pansy
Orchid.
Usually people err by growing these
too cool, which is good news for us out here on the western
edge of the Great Sonoran Desert, aka the Great Central Valley
of California. Forget all that noise about us being part
of the San Francisco Bay Area. Balderdash! We have as
much in common with their climate zones as fish do to
bicycles. These newer ‘warmth-tolerant’ Miltoniopsis
are grown intermediate to the cooler side of intermediate, well
within the range for many indoor growers here in Contra Costa
County.
Rob Terry last spoke to Diablo View on his
first love, Phragmipediums. This time he’ll show a few
slides for an idea on what to expect of the color range and
shapes of any Miltoniopsis species commonly used in breeding
and their hybrids. Then he will give a cultural
demonstration showing us how to repot these beauties. Additionally, he will take us the further step and show ways to
plant out of flask into seedling cubes, then cubes to common
pot sizes. He promises to divulge the secrets of
transplanting techniques on how to get great specimen plants
along with growing tips. Perhaps some of you have seen
how truly magnificent these can be when grown to specimen size.
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December Winners
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Rob will provide several warmth-tolerant plants
for our raffle table. Please feel free to familiarize yourself
with the web page so you can know what’s on the raffle
table.
Many of these are from breeding done by the Hawaiian nursery of
Ivan N. Komoda. Komoda Orchids commonly sells plants by the
compot, so Rob’s presentation will help you if you’ve ever
wanted to try your hand at growing a smattering of them,
ferreting out the special orchid flowers and choosing amongst
them for your own collection. And pay for your habit by selling
off the others! (That’s the idea anyway, but I can never part
with any of the ones I own! LOL!!)
Rob Terry, an AOS judge, is the owner of Sherwood
Orchids in Willits, California.
My secret source for paphs, phrags,
and now Miltoniopsis.
- Kathy
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January Winners |
Another senile Santa gift picture from our holiday party,
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I've updated the upcoming events, you can
now see what Kathy has booked for us for the next few months
and see the local (and not so local) orchid events.
Please email me with any additional events or changes (click
on the "Contact Us" button on the left).
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Websites of the Month
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www.phals.net
Kathy found this one: " It has pictures of phal
species and their primary hybrids, showing each parent and
the resultant cross."
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