Jason works and helps manage
Orchids Limited in Plymouth, Minnesota USA with his father
Jerry Fischer. Orchids Limited opened in 1978 in Minnetonka in a
small retail greenhouse off of Highway
12. In 1983, Orchids Limited moved to Plymouth where they have
grown into a mid-sized operation of 4
greenhouses with 15,000 square feet of growing space,
a shade house, and laboratory.
Jason has had a life-long
education in orchids mainly from the opportunity to be raised in
a family orchid business. Jason’s
educational interests were strongly influenced by Japan. He
studied the Japanese language and culture for
6 years in high school and at the University of
Minnesota. Jason lived in Japan from 2001 to 2003, and upon
return decided to import Japanese
orchid species and add a new niche to the business. Having
worked for his father since the age of 5, Jason has learned the
orchid world from the business and
hobbyists perspective. He took interest in orchid hybridization
and lab work around 14 years of age,
and first started breeding with phalaenopsis, which later on
lead to paphs, phrags and
miscellaneous hybrids.
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Speaker’s Dinner will be at 5:30 at the Sichuan Fortune
House, 41 Woodsworth Ln in Pleasant Hill. Everyone is welcome
to attend and meet our speaker before the meeting. If you can
join us, please call George McRae at (510) 233-7374 to be
included in the reservation.
Plant
table will be provided by Jason Fischer
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