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August 7th at 7:00 p.m.
Speaker: Roy Tokunaga
Topic: “Orchid culture and strategies for more flowers”
Roy Tokunaga earned a Bachelors in Education degree from the University of Hawaii in 1973, with a major in high school biology. He never used that teaching certificate as he was immediately recruited by Ernest Iwanaga to set up an orchid lab, where he spent the next seven years primarily honing his skills at cloning and germinating orchids. At about the same the time, Harry Akagi was growing bromeliads, and in 1981, Harry and Roy established an orchid lab in Waimanalo, giving birth to H&R Nurseries. Today, Roy is credited with 30-plus years of experience in hybridization with several thousand hybrids delivered. Most of his work has been in the Dendrobium and Cattleya alliances. He is a long time member of the Honolulu Orchid Society and an accredited American Orchid Society judge since 1990. Roy confesses to having one vice, the game of golf.
His presentation will focus on orchid culture and strategies for more flowers and he will have orchids for sale as well as bringing pre-orders.