Flamingo Gardens Orchid Society BOGO – Two Speakers for the Price of One! Sandi Jones, Is it a Climber or a Crawler? & Bill Hodnett, Mounting in Coconuts By Sandi Block-Brezner, 1st VP Programming Sandy Jones of Broward Orchid Supply — Is it a Climber or a Crawler?? Sandi Jones, owner of Broward Orchid Supply, will be our speaker on Monday night, June 11 th . Sandi is giving a new talk on growth patterns of orchids. We’ve all experienced orchids that continue to grow outside their pot…some go down the pot and others go up! She will show us how you determine if your orchid plant is a climber or a crawler and if it should be mounted or re-potted! And if you should be mounting it, do you put it on a vertical mount, or a horizontal mount? Or maybe it belongs in a basket or on a tree? And if you have to divide your plant, which part do you use... and is the remaining part viable to be used in another pot or on another mount? These and many more questions will be covered in her presentation! At one time, Sandi had worked as a paralegal and was also an orchid hobbyist grower. She was (and still is) a member of Ft. Lauderdale Orchid Society (FLOS). In June of 2006, Sandi started Broward Orchid Supply (BOS) because she found that there was no place in Broward County for the home hobbyist like herself to buy orchid supplies! By December 2006, she organized the first Bonnet House Orchid Show with 12 vendors and herself. Gradually Sandi grew her business by giving lectures at local orchid societies and doing demonstrations and classes at various venues. Most of her lectures are about the basics of orchid growing and deal with potting, fertilizing, pests, and diseases. At her home in Hollywood (2411 Garfield Street), she has set up a storefront and a lovely covered patio area where she continues to give orchid classes. You can also find her at many of the orchid shows from Palm Beach County down to Miami-Dade. She is a big supporter of FGOS and always donates orchid supplies so we can make the raffle baskets for our show! She has also begun to donate many of her orchid plants or divisions to the Flamingo Gardens Orchidteers! Continued on page 2 AFFILIATED WITH AMERICAN ORCHID SOCIETY AND FLAMINGO GARDENS June 2018
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Page 1 Flamingo Gardens Orchid Society
BOGO – Two Speakers for the Price of One!
Sandi Jones, Is it a Climber or a Crawler?
& Bill Hodnett, Mounting in Coconuts
By Sandi Block-Brezner, 1st VP Programming
Sandy Jones of Broward Orchid Supply — Is it a Climber or a Crawler??
Sandi Jones, owner of Broward Orchid Supply, will be our speaker on Monday night, June 11th. Sandi is giving a new talk on growth patterns of orchids. We’ve all experienced orchids that continue to grow outside their pot…some go down the pot and others go up!
She will show us how you determine if your orchid plant is a climber or a crawler and if it should be mounted or re-potted! And if you should be mounting it, do you put it on a vertical mount, or a horizontal mount? Or maybe it belongs in a basket or on a tree? And
if you have to divide your plant, which part do you use... and is the remaining part viable to be used in another pot or on another mount? These and many more questions will be
covered in her presentation!
At one time, Sandi had worked as a paralegal and was also an orchid hobbyist grower. She was (and still is) a member of Ft. Lauderdale Orchid Society (FLOS). In June of 2006,
Sandi started Broward Orchid Supply (BOS) because she found that there was no place in Broward County for the home hobbyist like herself to buy orchid supplies! By December 2006, she organized the first Bonnet House Orchid Show with 12 vendors and herself.
Gradually Sandi grew her business by giving lectures at local orchid societies and doing demonstrations and classes at various venues. Most of her lectures are about the basics
of orchid growing and deal with potting, fertilizing, pests, and diseases. At her home in Hollywood (2411 Garfield Street), she has set up a storefront and a lovely covered patio area where she continues to give orchid classes. You can also find her at many of the
orchid shows from Palm Beach County down to Miami-Dade. She is a big supporter of FGOS and always donates orchid supplies so we can make the raffle baskets for our show!
She has also begun to donate many of her orchid plants or divisions to the Flamingo Gardens Orchidteers!
Continued on page 2
AFFILIATED WITH
AMERICAN ORCHID
SOCIETY AND
FLAMINGO GARDENS
June 2018
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Flamingo Gardens Orchid Society
Continued from page 1 BOGO
Besides her presentation, Sandi will be providing items for our raffle table and have lots of supplies for sale. She will not be bringing everything she has, however; if there
is something special that you want, be sure to call her at 954-925-2021 or email her at [email protected] and order it. If you pre-order, she will bring it
to the meeting and you can pay for it then.. No delivery charge! You can also go on her website, http://www.browardorchidsupply.com/ to see her price list. Sandi’s storefront hours do vary, so be sure to check the website and call ahead if you ever
plan to visit!
Bill Hodnett, an Orchid Master, Mounting in Coconuts
Bill Hodnett, one of our very own favorite people, will also be presenting at our meeting. I know you have seen Bill’s beautiful Vandas, large Dendrobiums, and gorgeous Cattleyas that he grows in coconut husks! Whenever a Cattleya outgrows its
coconut husk, Bill just adds another husk and it keeps on going! I have asked Bill to show us how he first attaches an orchid to the husk, and what he does to prepare the orchid and the husk and keep it growing!
Bill said he got the orchid bug and started growing orchids after attending the 1998 South Florida Orchid Society Show at the University of Miami. His favorite orchid is
the large flower Cattleya. Bill has been known to make the ladies in his church lovely Cattleya corsages for their birthday and he has even cut the blooms off of some of the plants he brings in to Member’s Choice and gives them out to our ladies! Bill has also
become one of the Flamingo Garden’s Orchidteers! Besides donating his time, he has also donated a battery operated fertilizing & watering tank and orchid plants to the gardens that he willingly gets up on a ladder to mount!! Bill other big love is
Photography. He is a gifted photographer and has won 1st place in the Photo Challenge both years since we’ve held it!!
Bill has about 1,000 orchids in his collection, though he’s starting to reduce it! He said he started using coconuts because they are cheap and he is lazy! Coconuts are free, no pots, no potting mix, and repotting is easy! Come to the meeting and see
Last month our speaker was Daryl Venables, of Telezulaplants.com.
Though we had a nice turn out, it was a pretty wet and rainy night so I thought I’d give a brief recap of his
program in case anyone is interested in giving these small, interesting orchids a try! I learned a few new
things too!
There are two types of Tolumnias—those with long rhizomes (he calls them ramblers!) and those with
short rhizomes. The ramblers, or those with long rhizomes, Daryl says you should mount—on anything
from twigs to a little bit bigger size mount. He likes cedar though warns not to use treated cedar.
Tolumnias like rough surfaces. He suggests getting scraps from lumber mills or wherever lumber is cut.
You can also use cork or wire one to an S-hook. They must be fastened securely. He uses
pantyhose…cheap ones! He cuts off the toes & tops, rolls each leg separately, like a donut, cuts all
around, unwraps, and has long thin strips to use. It’s a great idea that can be used with any orchid you
mount!
A Tolumnia with a short rhizome, he prefers to pot in net pots so they get air at the roots.
The media he prefers:
Charcoal (small pieces)-he boils for 30 minutes, and then lets it dry for 24 hrs.
Coir or coconut husks, though he warns to be careful; it can have sea water in it. He soaks it for a
week changing the water daily!
Tolumnias need morning sun only, not midday full sun!
Most Important!! Keep Dry in Winter!
They only get morning dew in the Caribbean in the wintertime. In winter, he waters in his greenhouse only
one minute (Like dew in the Caribbean!) There is one greenhouse he does very early in the morning for 10
minutes but it is bone dry by midday or within 2 hrs. (I assume these are on mounts!) Pots must be
watered very, very early and be dry by midday.
Very important—Tolumnias need air at their roots!! In nature Tolumnias grow where there is wind! He
uses fans 24/7.
They also need high humidity.
Once they finish blooming—Don’t cut the flower spike until it’s completely dry! It can still produce side
branches and flowers!
Fertilizer—Daryl uses 13-3-15 MSU formula (Michigan State Formula) for Tap water which is low in
phosphorus because our water has enough phosphorus all ready. (The three numbers represent the
content of primary nutrients in the fertilizer formulation: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.) He is
experimenting with MSU K-lite version (12-1-1).
Pests and Problems—watch for brown rot—aka Erwinia! Actually it’s a bacteria and won’t respond to a
fungicide; you will need a bactericide… (let’s hope you don’t need it!)
Daryl uses Physan. (½ tsp/gal for normal root plants; ¼ tsp/gal for thin root plants… of any kind!)
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Tolumnia Program Recap continued from page 7
BTW…Although Federal regulations say you should not, many growers substitute the cheap and
readily available pool algaecide which contain the same active ingredient. Per Martin Motes in his
book ‘Florida Orchid Growing’, Home Depot sells a brand called ''Pool Time'' which could be
purchased legally to disinfect walks and pathways at the rate of 1 to 2 tsps. per gallon and would
certainly do no harm at that rate, if it came into contact with the orchids no more frequently than
every 7-10 days." Physan/Pool Time are products that you can spray on wet orchids during rainy
season at the above rate to help prevent fungus. Some also say there is some effectiveness on scale
crawlers and other delicate insects too. Physan/Pool Time also seems to mix well with most
insecticides and fertilizers, functioning as a surfactant. I am careful however, about using them on
Dendrobiums, though others say you can. Perhaps not on species, (or test one first!)
Happy Growing!
June Beach Babies
Yeni Logan June 1
Jan Amador June 11
Pilar Schreidell June 14
Christine Viscovich June 20
Christine Oliver June 20
Andree Siracusa June 21
Stephanie DiBella June 29
If we missed your birthday, we wish you a very Happy Birthday! Please let us know so we can update our
information.
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear FGOS member
Happy Birthday to YOU!
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