San Diego County Orchid Society

Greetings members and POS members. We have a great meeting coming up on Tuesday, Feb 02 on Zoom. We start at 7:30pm, but you can log in a bit earlier. Please be on time, as our speaker is in Florida and he will be starting as close to 7:30 as possible. He is Courtney Hackney talking about American Cattleyas, a hybridizer’s view of popular Cattleya’s in the US. On Wednesday, Feb 03 at 7:30, we will have a culture talk from Kay Klausing, past president of the SDCOS, abo...ut Thrips Management. These are the tiny nasty creatures that attack your orchid flowers and damage the blooms you’ve waited so long to see. Don’t miss it! We are also having a Plant Forum directly after the main speaker on Tuesday, so please send me your pictures. You can feature up to 4 plants. Please include the full name, species or hybrid, country of origin for species and parentage for hybrids, where you grow it, and any comments. Let’s put together another great plant show! See you Tuesday. If you want to attend as a guest, please email me at [email protected] and I’ll send you the Zoom link. Better still, visit sdorchids.com and become a member!

Nice to see many orchids in bloom from Debby's greenhouse.

It’s bringing a happy new year!

Happy New Year! Boy can we use one! We hope to see you at our next Zoom meeting on Jan 5 at 7:30pm. Our speaker will be Ron Parsons discussing "Orchid Rarities & Oddities". It should be fun. On Wednesday Jan 6 we will have a culture class, also at 7:30pm. Alex Nadzan, president of Palomar OS will talk about "Orchid Roots" a free online database for orchids. We will have a plant forum, so please send me your pictures by Sunday, Jan 3. Up to 4 plants, include full name, species or hybrid, country of origin or parentage, and where you grow it. If you are not yet a member, you should join! But guests are welcome. Send me an email at [email protected] and I'll send you the link. Members get a reminder automatically. The newsletter is up on the website - sdorchids.com. Check it out for more details. See you Tuesday!

Happy Holidays to my Orchid friends!

Ceratostylis retisquama

Super explanation of mRNA vaccine. Should make us all calmer. Now when can i get in line???

Happy almost election day! We are having a Zoom meeting tomorrow night at 7:30 as usual. You can consider it a break from watching the returns trickle in! Our speaker will be Ken Jacobsen from the SF Bay area. His topic is "Oncidium crispum group: History, Membership, and Culture". I expect it to be a very interesting talk. If you have photos for the plant forum and get them to me tonight (Monday), I'll try to include them. I look forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday. If you are not yet a member, but would like to visit, send me a note at [email protected] and I'll send you the link.

The OrquidaRio show is up and available for viewing! 23 members contributed photos for the show. Here is the link to view it: www.orquidario.org/EXPO_VIRTUAL_SET2020/index.htm Just follow the black arrows in the site. If you want to see the pictures, select Expositores, then Associacoes, then click on the logo of the society you want to visit. Click on the thumbnail to see a larger picture of each orchid. This is a beautiful show! I hope you enjoy it.

Have a nice weekend!

Bought this beautiful fragrant cattleya hybrid Blc. Bold Step from Alex Nadzan at the fall show last year! Thanks for sharing Alex! Plant grown and photograph by Angelic Nguyen @ Orchid Design

Thanks for sharing!

Acampe rigida, species appeared in SouthEast Asia.

Vanda Pachara Delight ‘Pachara’ FCC/JOGA is blooming again!

Lc. Miss Wonderful

Den. bigibbum Australian species

It's almost time to see each other again! I hope you have had a good September with lots of orchids in bloom. Our next Zoom meeting will be Tuesday, Oct 06 at 7:30pm. Our speaker will be Lou Jost, Director of the EcoMinga Foundation in Ecuador. He will be discussing their efforts to discover and protect new species in Ecuador. On Wednesday, Oct 07, we will have Culture Class at 7:30pm. Peter Tobias will give instruction on mounting orchids. As usual, we count on our mem...bers for another popular feature - the plant forum. Participation has been excellent and it is so nice to see all the beautiful flowers everyone has grown during the past month. If you want to be included, here is what I need. Send images of up to 4 orchids to [email protected] by this Sunday latest. Include the Name, Hybrid or Species, Parents if a hybrid, Country of Origin if a species, Where you grow it, and any Other Comments you'd like us to mention. We'll share your orchids at the meeting! To get you in the mood, here are few beauties I've been enjoying this month! It's purple Cattleya time. See you in October.

Grammatophyllum Borga Tiger opens nicely!

Coelogyne usitana The "Bird in Flight" Orchid Rare Species, a lovely sequential bloomer. Available at: https://orchidesign.myshopify.com//coelogyne-usitana-the-b

Renanstylis Bangkok Beauty is growing strong and a non stop bloomer!