"W.J.O.S. NEWS"
November 2021
Wanneroo/Joondalup Orchid Society (Inc)
WJOS
Rules Approved 14 September 2018
Website: http://members.iinet.net.au/~emntee/
Please Note:
Meetings of the Wanneroo/Joondalup Orchid Society will be held
in the 3rd WEDNESDAY of each month throughout 2021 - 2022
The next meeting will be held on Wednesday,
November 17th @ 7.30pm, at the Warrandyte Park Clubroom,
89 Warrandyte Drive, Craigie
Topic of the evening
A
look at the World Orchid Conference in Ecuador 2017, with a visit
to Ecuagenera Orchid Nursery
Visitors
and New Members always welcome
Membership
Fees- Couple/family $40. Single $27. (Includes Badge)
Renewal - Couple/family $25. Single $20. Junior $7
From the 5th December the 2020 WA Gov and the
Joondalup City, (from whom we hire the meeting hall) require all
of us to maintain contact registers for WA Health Department COVID-19
contact tracing. We are all requires to either Download the SafeWA
app for scanning the QR code or fill in the mandatory contact
register when we enter the hall. Both of which have been supplied
by the Joondalup City Council. The Contact register must be returned
to the JCC withing 24 hours.
We will also.....
. Undertake a general clean of chairs/tables
and door knobs/switches on
entry and during setup for the meeting.
. Provide hand sanitiser for all members/attendees
to the meeting
. All attendees to sign/write their names into
our attendance book
. The Chair will remind all attendees to social
distance and use sanitisers provided or their own.
. Ask any attendee not feeling 100% to go home.
This point will be made in the newsletter sent to all members,
ie; do not attend if not feeling well.
. Kitchen helpers to wear gloves etc
. Polystyrene cups will be used for tea/coffee.
Not very environmentally friendly but at least will keep us safe.
. Members may still bring a plate to share.
. Equipment, chairs etc to be cleaned on close
of the meeting when being stored away.
Please assist in this as we all need to be
safe.
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Meeting Results for October
Popular Vote Open
Guaricyclia Kyoguchi owned by Gill M
Popular Vote Novice.
Dendrobium Felicity Fortescue X Hinamatsuri Owned by Lynne Greenham
Geoge Webber Memorial Trophy;
Cym Black Fire Magic Owned by Phil Taylor
Floral Art Gill M
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And don't Forget……
The Society will be joining with the NDOS to
attend the GARDEN CLUBS AND SOCIETIES PLANT FAIR on the 19th &
20th February 2022.
Always a good opportunity to get our show dates
out to the public early in the year. Keep a lookout for the roster
and join in wherever you can.
South Perth Community Centre
Cnr South Terrace and Sandgate Street, South Perth
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Floral Art
For November - Gun Powder, Treason & Plot
For December - Well, A Xmas Gift of course
For January - A New Year Party
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CLUB
NEWS
Pots - If you require
orchid pots from the society, please ring John on 0418 854 732
and he will bring them to the next meeting
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President
- Tony; Phone; 0481 867 471 EMAIL
Secretary
- Lynne; Phone; 9448 5840 EMAIL
Treasurer
- Charly; Phone; 0409 005 606 EMAIL
Registrar
- Val Gray EMAIL
Editor
- Tony; Phone; 0481 867 471 EMAIL
P.O.
Box 236, Kingsway, WA 6065.
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WJOS CALENDAR 2021 - 2022
All events are correct covid willing!!
30th
January - Xmas in January @ Lynne's
19 & 20 February 2022
GARDEN CLUBS AND SOCIETIES PLANT FAIR
South Perth Community Centre, Cnr South Terrace and Sandgate Street,
South Perth
May 1st, NDOS Show Bruce Douglas Hall, Swan
View
Sunday
July 3rd - Northern Orchid & Garden Fair
August - 6th & 7th Inter Society Orchid
Display & Workshop, Churchill Park Hall, Busselton
August 20th & 21st Perth Orchid Fair, Aranmore
College Gym, Oxford St & Franklin St Leederville
September 1 to 4 - AOC Conference, Queensland
Now postponed to 2022
September 16th & 17th North Beach Display
(TBC)
Sunday
October 2nd - Northern Orchid & Garden Fair
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Bruce's Potting Mix
These are the ingredients in Bruce's mix;
One bag of large Perlite
Three quarters of a cup of Blood & Bone
Three quarters of a cup of Dolomite Lime
Charcoal (some)
A small amount of seedling bark
Two buckets of Polystyrene beads
One and a half bags of gravel
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As
many of us get older, we eventually get to the point of being
unable to care for our orchid collections the way they deserve
to be cared for. Should this happen to you or someone that you
know, please let a committee member know about it and we will
see what we, as a society can do to assist. In the past, society
members have helped other members in this kind of situation to
auction off or otherwise look after their orchids, thereby saving
the orchids from a slow death. Often these orchids get to be divided
amongs other orchid growers to the benefit of all.
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Your Committee has bought 10
bags of Orchiata bark for future use. They are the 12 to 18 size
and are be housed in our storage facility at Padbury.
They are available to members at the cost price of around $26
per bag.
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And don’t Forget……
We are looking for donations from members for a free Xmas Hamper
raffle. Do please check the use by dates on any donations
Please see Mavis about this.
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At the March meeting, we will
revisit our mounted orchids from March last year and do some orchid
mounting once more.
Do check on last years efforts and bring them in so we can all
see how well they are growing.
You might give some thought to mounting material and an orchid
you would like to mount
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PAPHIOPEDILUM CULTURE
NOTES
October/November
by Trevor
This month is about getting our newly potted plants into full
growth, the growths will need to mature in order to produce flowers
next year. With the warmer weather, the fertiliser program can
be increased to weekly or fortnightly at ¼ to ½
strength with a high nitrogen - based fertiliser to promote good
development of the new growths.
In our repotting process we usually end up with plants being repotted
into larger pots or divided into several pieces, so be very mindful
not to cram your plants together like sardines. They still need
space between plants with good air movement. If we cram plants
together, this provides a wonderful place for all sorts of bugs
to hide and restricts the air flow around plants. Good air movement
around the plants is essential for good healthy plants and greatly
reduces the problems of diseases.
In respect to watering, we must ensure that our plants do not
become completely dry, as we have a nice new mix which for the
first couple of months will tend to dry out more quickly than
the old mix we have just replaced. At this time of year, I would
water at-7-day intervals unless the temperature goes above 32
degrees for three consecutive days then I would increase my watering
to each 4 days.
It also an ideal time to see if that plant you admired from one
of your fellow growers has been divided and a piece may be available
to purchase.
Remember, this is the ideal time of the year to reflect on your
cultural success and sharing your growing success with friends
and club members. Good luck and good growing for the summer months
ahead.
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How to Get Rid of Scale
From Lyn B
Lyn offered this remedy for killing of all unwanted Scale and
Mealy Bugs from your orchid. (And let's face it, all Scale and
Mealy Bugs are unwanted)
Scale and Mealy Bugs are an absolute disaster for orchids. If
left to their own devises, they will kill your orchid slowly but
surely.
Mix some Domestos Disinfectant into a bucket of warm water and
froth it up.
Remove the plant from it's pot
and shake off any loose media into the bin. Immerse the top half
of the orchid into the bucket and leave for 15 minutes.
Remove the orchid and turn it
around so that you can immerse the other half of it. Leave for
another 15 minutes. Remove and repot.
This should kill off all the nasties, but give
the plant a good wash down within half an hour to get rid
of any lingering Demestos from the leaves etc.
This tip came from Eds Orchids, a YouTube channel
on the internet.
Domestos Disinfectant contains bleach and is
an English product which is available from Big W and Bunnings
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Boisduval Scale
- possibly the world's worst orchid pest
See all the pictures
HERE
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Reed
Stem Epidendrums
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A
message from The Water Corporation
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What’s in a name - Species?
by TW
Some orchid names can be quite complex and confusing. Understanding
these names is well worth your while, as your enjoyment of orchids
is always enhanced with more knowledge. So here goes.
Species orchids, (that is, those that are found growing in nature)
are always written in italics or underlined.
Such as Dendrobium speciosum or
Dendrobium
speciosum
The term Dendrobium is the family name for all of a related
group of orchids and the first letter of it is always spelled
with a capital D. (And it is spelled Dendrobium not
Dendrodium)
The second name, speciosum is always written in italics
(or underlined) and with all letters in lower case. It is the
name of that particular species of the Dendrobium family.
Some species orchids will have a third name which is called a
varietal name, such as Dendrobium speciosum var hillii
As hillii is part of the species name, it is also written
in italics but the abbreviation var is not. So the full
name of this plant should be written like this;
Dendrobium speciosum var hillii or
Dendrobium
speciosum var hillii
Please note that the term 'variety', is a botanical one that is
given to a species by taxonomists. It is not a clonal name. (See
‘clonal’ below)
Dendrobium speciosum var hillii is a particular
form of Dendrobium speciosum that is found growing in it’s
natural state from the NSW central coast to eastern Queensland,
and has tall canes that can be up to a meter in height with small
pale cream flowers.
Because it is so different to other forms of Dendrobium speciosum
it has been given the varietal name of hillii to delineate
it from those other forms.
Now should you have a plant of Dendrobium speciosum var
hillii but it differs in that it has small pale cream flowers
with a red lip (let’s say). You could give it a clonal name
of your choice. Let’s say you will call this particular clone,
Red Lip. Thus ‘Red Lip” becomes the clonal name for
the particular clone of Dendrobium speciosum var hillii
that you have.
The correct name of the orchid, including the varietal and clonal
names will now be;
Dendrobium speciosum var hillii ‘Red Lip’
Please note that Red Lip is enclosed by single quotes and is not
written in italics (‘Red Lip’)
Also note that varietal names are only for species, not hybrids.
What’s in a name? – Hybrids
The International Orchid Commission on Classification, Nomenclature
& Registration was established at the 2nd World Orchid Conference
in Hawaii in 1957.
This is the world authority that decides on orchid nomenclature
and any changes to them or the way their names are written.
Species orchids are those that occur naturally in the wild, whereas,
hybrid orchids are mostly man made. (There are some ‘natural’
hybrids that occur in nature and we will come to them shortly)
When two orchids are crosses by people, the names are written
thusly...
Laelia Happy X Laelia Red
This is quite acceptable, but when the resulting plant is then
crossed with more orchids the names will start to mount up.
(Laelia Happy X Laelia Red) X Laelia Sad.
Note the brackets around the first two names to indicate that
they are a separate crossing.
Neither Laelia Happy or Laelia Red have been crossed
with Laelia Sad. But it is the combined crossing of (Laelia
Happy X Laelia Red) that has been crossed with Laelia
Sad.
The more that crossings are made, the longer the name would have
to be. A short circuit is needed to solve the problem of having
to write out the whole pedigree of a hybrid orchid. The short
circuit is to register the cross with it’s own personal name.
So let us assume that you have registered (Laelia Happy X Laelia
Red) as Laelia Hap Red.
This would make the above cross of..
(Laelia Happy X Laelia Red) X Laelia Sad
become .....
Laelia Hap Red X Laelia Sad
All hybrid orchid crossings are registered with the Royal Horticultural
Society in London. It is essential that this is done to avoid
huge confusion.
Just to recap, species orchid names are always written in italics
or underlined,
Such as Dendrobium speciosum or Dendrobium
speciosum
In hybrid names, the first term is still written in italics
or underlined just as in writing species orchid names, but
the second term is quite different. The first letter of all hybrid
second names will always start with a capital letter thusly…
Dendrobium Sonia or Dendrobium
Sonia
This capitol letter at the start of the second name is most important
in writing orchid hybrid names, as it is this, that is going to
indicate to anyone who reads the tag that this orchid is not a
species but a hybrid.
One rather strange hybrid that I touched on earlier, is the ‘natural
hybrid’. This is when species are hybridised in the wild
without any interference from humans, an event that surprisingly
happens quite often. These ‘natural hybrids’ are written
thusly….
Miltonia X Bluntii.
This is a cross between Miltonia clowesii and Miltonia
spectabilis that has happened naturally, to two species that
were growing reasonably close to each other and have been cross
pollinated.
Natural hybrids occur quite often amongst many Western Australian
orchid species, particularly Caladenia species, and also
a number of other WA species. These often produce quite spectacular
hybrid orchids, and one would think that human hybridizers would
have exploited long before now to produce such natural hybrids
for the market.
Please note that there should not be any varietal (var.) names
in hybrids. These are only used for species.
Clonal names are quite commonly attached to hybrid names and should
also have their first letter capitalized and single quote marks
at both ends.
Thus …
Dendrobium x Delicatum ‘Lovely’
tells you that the genus is Dendrobium, x Delicatum says
that is a natural hybrid and ‘Lovely’ is a clonal name
given to the plant by its’ owner.
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