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NEWS LETTER vol. 2 no. 8

August 2017

Meetings held at the Ermington Community Hall, River Road, Ermington, NSW 2115 on the 3rd Wednesday of the Month. No Meeting for Dec. All Visitors Welcomed

Editor : See Ting Ho email :stho@optusnet.com.au

Minutes from the July 2017 Meeting. Meeting as opened by President Dr SeongTay at 8.04pm with a warm welcome to all present. Apologies:- Craig Scott-Harden, Garrie & Lesley Bromley, Alan Cushway, Dora Law, David Brooks, Nola Brisco-Hough, Warleiti Jap, Jan Robinson, Sylvia Lee-Joe, Alison Viatos. Visitors: Boglar Gertner, Michael Luu. President Seong then proceeded to Outline to members: - Details of our annual show to be held at Dural in conjunction with the Cymbidium Club.

Seong encouraged members to supply plants for the show bench and assist with security and support to the general public. Members were asked to sponsor a class in the show.

- Tonight is a Mini Show for Standard Paphiopedilums with prizes for the winners. - - Tonight we will also be judging the growing competition number 2, our Phragmipediums.

- We are again putting on a table top display at St Ives Fair. This is to be set up the day

after our August meeting, so if you can supply plants for the display please do so. See Rod or Gary if you can help out.

- The Dept. of Fair Trading has brought in new

constitutional rules for Societies. The changes to our constitution will be circulated to members before the next meeting so it can be voted on at the August meeting.

- Seong described tonights Raffle plants which

are all species including plants of:-Paph. supardi, rothschildianum, lawrencianum etc….

- Introduced Gary Hart as tonight’s guest

President : Seong Tay V. President : Rod Nurthen Secretary : Gary Hart Correspondence : 16 Flide St. Caringbah NSW 2226 Email : GazH@bigpond.com Treasurer : John McAuley Committee: Craig Scott Harden Ken Siew Marie Bartlett John Bartlett Jane D’Olier Peter D’Olier Patron : Wal Rhodes

speaker on Judging and show Preparation of Standard Paphiopedilums. Meeting recessed for Supper. (Many thanks to the ladies that organise our supper) Gary was again introduced and proceeded to present an analysis of the points looked for when judging standard paphiopedilums. The AOC standard was discussed, Shape, Colour, Size, Habit & Arrangement, Substance and Texture were all examined. Problems that can be encountered with these flowers, and the gentle art of show preparation. Gary received a round of applause when his presentation was concluded. Committee member Ken Siew then announced the winners for the night. Champion species :- Paph venustum ‘TOM’ …. SeongTay Huge , stunningly coloured, excellent shaped example of the species. Champion Hybrid : Paph Global Harmony “RSN” AM/AOC …. Gary Hart Mini Show Champion:- Paph Global Harmony “RSN” Gary Hart Excellent shape ,colour and habit. Growing Competition winner for the night …… John McAuley Raffle was then drawn, with our hard working Vice President Rod Nurthen winning 1st and 2nd prize…..! Well done Rod. Next Meeting (August) will be Ian Chalmers talking on” Paphiopedilums at the 2017 Tokyo Dome Show.” Seong wished everyone a safe trip home and thanked those who helped set up the hall and organise supper. Meeting closed at 9.35pm

10th August 2017 - Set-Up -National Orchid Extravaganza –Dural .... Major show for the year.

16th August 2017 – Ian Chalmers - his presentation on Paphiopedilum at the Tokyo Dome. Growing competition judging for Paph insigne var sanderae ( 3rd judging) .Those who have this plant, please bring them for measurement. A New Growing Competition starts in September, we will be asking for expressions of interest at the August meeting.

17th August 2017 - St Ives Orchid Fair – Bench Top display.

20th September 2017 – Growing species Paphs - Seong Tay

18th October 2017 – Meeting Night. Auction Night

5 Plants per Vendor, 15% Commission. More details later. 15th November 2017 – Last Meeting for the year, Christmas Social Night/Presentations etc.

This section is for you – the members. If you are looking for a particular plant (Paphs of course), have some growing issue and need advice or you just want to share some pictures or ideas you have, just email the information to the Editor. GROWING COMPETITION Growing Competition Judging for Paph insigne var sanderae .( 3rd judging) Please bring your plant along. A New Growing Competition starts in September, we will be asking for expressions of interest at the August meeting. SALES BENCH – We now stock Peters Finisher and Sel Grit(Limestone Chips) on the Sales Table.

THIS MONTH WITH MY SLIPPERS August 2017

By July most of the standard Paphiopedilums will have flowered. It is time to start thinking about next month’s repotting. I look forward to this time of year nearly as much as I look forward to flowering. It is a time to realize that there has been significant growth in last year’s deflasked plants. It is a time when you can see the root growth on a seedling that you repotted with a couple of stakes supporting the plant because it had no roots. The results are usually a pleasant surprise. It is a time to see plants that were near flowering size being forced into larger flowering size pots with a promise of flowers for next winter.

Growing Tips for the Month

I repot my entire collection in September each year and there is nothing worse than to be in the middle of a run and then running out of potting mix ingredients or appropriate size pots. Now is the time to make sure your supplies are complete so that there are no interruptions. My mix is made up of two thirds Orchiata bark with the remaining third being equal parts of perlite and Bob Bishop’s superb charcoal. For community pots, seedling tubes and up to 40mm forestry tubes I use Orchiata Classic 6-9mm and 5mm charcoal. Above those size pots I use Orchiata Power 9-12mm and 10 mm charcoal. Everybody has their own special mix. Some use Kiwi bark and some use coconut chips. What mix you use is entirely up to you. The important thing to remember is to get the watering frequency correctly matched to whatever mix you use. When I knock out a plant I remove any dead roots and then repot into the smallest size pot that will comfortably hold the root ball. Most of the time this means the plant goes back into the same pot. If you are repotting regularly there is no benefit to planting into a larger pot than is necessary. All you do is waste potting mix and bench space. While potting each plant I add a good pinch of sel grit when the pot is half full of mix and then another around the top at completion. This hopefully balances any drop in pH as the bark breaks down over time. When I have finished repotting I like to give the entire collection a feed of sea weed based product as a tonic to get the plants growing. Rod Species of the Evening Paph. venustum‘T. O. M. #2’ SeongTay Hybrid of the Evening (also Champion Complex Hybrid) Paph. Global Harmony ‘RSN’ Gary Hart

CLASS 5. Paphiopedilum/Sigmatopetelum Species 1.Paph. venustum ‘T.O.M. #2’ SeongTay 2.Paph. fairreanum R. Bishop 3.Paph. sukhakulii SeongTay

CLASS 7. Species Seedling 1.Paph. fairrieanum S. T. Ho 2.Paph. venustum fma. album R. Bishop

BENCHING RESULT FOR July 2017

CLASS 8. Complex Hybrids Red 1.Paph. Orchilla ‘Chilton’ S. T. Ho 2.Paph. Cape York S. T. Ho 3.Paph. Amandahill Gary Hart

CLASS 9. Complex Hybrids Yellow/Green 1.Paph. New Globe ‘Simply Gold’ Gary Hart 2.Paph. Clifford Peter Gary Hart 3.Paph. Gaymaid ‘The Princess’ Gary Hart

CLASS 10. Complex Hybrids Pastel, White/Pink/Cream 1.Paph. Freckles ‘Corkey’ Gary Hart

CLASS 11. Complex Hybrids Spotted 1.Paph. Global Harmony ‘RSN’ Gary Hart 2.Paph.Neridah ‘Rudak’ J. & M. Bartlett 3.Paph. Highland Fair ‘Marie’ Gary Hart

CLASS 12. Complex Hybrids Other Colour 1.Paph. Danella ‘Chilton’ Gary Hart 2.Paph. Global Passport ‘Simplicity’ Gary Hart 3.Paph. Neridah S. T. Ho

CLASS 16. Parvisepalum Hybrids 1.Paph. Good Gold S. T. Ho 2.Paph. Norito Hasegawa S. T. Ho

CLASS 17A. Maudiae Type Hybrids, Coloratum 1.Paph. Hsinying Malone S. T. Ho

CLASS 17B. Maudiae Type Hybrids, Albinistic 1.Paph. Hsinying Emma x Hsinying Dragon SeongTay Registered as Hsinying Dragon Emma 2.Paph. Alma Gaveart P. Murn

CLASS 18B. Heritage Hybrids 1.Paph. Nitens S. T. Ho 2.Paph. Invincible J. & M. Bartlett 3.Paph. Leeanum ‘Werri’ Gary Hart

CLASS 19. Other Cypripedioideae Hybrids 1.Phrag. Hanne Popow S. T. Ho

CLASS 20. Hybrid Seedling 1.Paph. Chui Mae Wong S. T. Ho 2.Paph. Chui Mae Wong S. T. Ho 3.Paph. Macabre Station x wardii J. & M. Bartlett

CLASS 21. Novice Species 1.Paph. villosum var. Annamense Alexander Kallis

49plants benched Growing Competition No2 – Phrags – J McAuley

PARENTS: Paph Memoria Barbara Francis By Gary Hart It is an interesting exercise to look at the breeding makeup of some of our paphiopedilums to get a better understanding of how they developed as they did. In 1998 Castle Creek Orchids in Victoria registered the Paphiopedilum Memoria Barbara Francis which was a cross originally made by Jim McCubbin in Queensland. The cross has parents of Jim Mackinney “Spectacular” x Copperware “Linda”. Jim Mackinney is bred from Margaret Brands x Hellas. Copperware is bred from Sharon x Hellas. The double dose of Hellas, which is a brown flower, produced the same in its offspring with both Jim Mackinney and Copperware being in those brown/autumn tones. So with this as a background Paph Memoria Barbara Francis was almost always going to be a brown flower. It also appears that by concentrating the gene pool in this way the flowers produced from the cross are remarkably uniform. That is, many of the seedlings flowered are of uniform good quality. To this end Castle Creek Orchids received, in 1998, and AQ/OSCOV for 12 plants of Paph Memoria Barbara Francis, quite an achievement. They also received Victorian Paphiopedilum of the year in 2000 (“Castle Creek”) and 2002 (“John”). Jim McCubbin up in Queensland was not to be left out of the party, he received quality awards and champion orchid of show with his Paph Memoria Barbara Francis.

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Paph. Copperware ‘Linda’ Paph. Jim MacKinney ‘Spectacular’

It is fascinating to contemplate that this cross started out with a species cross of Paph. insigne and Paph spicerianum so many generations ago. Paph villosum and Paph boxalli are also to be found in its origins. From a breeding point of view it is an almost certain quality brown standard paphiopedilum cross. With the colour and huge size of Paph Copperware crossed with the intense brown well shaped, but smaller flower of Paph Jim Mackinney a quality brown tone flower was “almost” a certainty....if in Paph breeding there is such a thing ! With both of these parents having Paphiopedilum Hellas as a parent the brown genes were intensified. Paph Copperware’s other parent , Ratcliffe’s Paphiopedilum Sharon, again intensifies the red/brown gene. Personally I fine Paphiopedilum Memoria Barbara Francis to be a stunning standard Paphiopedilum worthy of any collection. It only takes a little research to realise how it came about and why it is the quality flower we see today. When you are making paphiopedilum crosses it is always important to consider the parentage of the plants you are crossing. As you can see from Paph. Mem. Barbara Francis careful consideration was given to the outcomes of colour, size, shape and even inflorescence length. Haphazard breeding of any flowers in bloom might result in a good one but the chances are greatly reduced. In breeding look for the characteristics you want in the offspring. Colour, size, shape, inflorescence length, vigor.....are all considerations. Try to intensify the gene pool by having the characteristics you are after on at least one but preferably on both sides of the parentage. If this is not possible complimentary breed your plants with at least what you are after on one side of the parentage. Never cross two plants that have the same undesirable trait, it will just be intensified. Paphiopedilum Memoria Barbara Francis is just one of the many successful standard paphiopedilums bred by Jim McCubbin which will stand the test of time. A top flower from a master hybridiser.

4 Different Clone of Paph. Memoria Barbara Francis.

Paph. Memoria Barbara Francis Paph. Memoria Barbara Francis