Show Table October 2009
Monthly meetings include a show table of members’ plants. Six ribbons are awarded each month: four awards are selected by an alternating team of VAOS members. These awards are: one for Best Species, and a First, Second and Third place award to any plant, a Speaker’s Choice award and the VAOS members vote on the plant for Members’ Choice. The following section describes each of these awards for October. In October there was no speaker and there was a tie for Members’ Choice. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.
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First Place: Colmanara Wildcat
Grower: Helene Gabry Colmanara Wildcat is the most awarded Oncidiniae orchid. Over fifty different clones have won AOS qualilty awards. The plant shown had two staked, upright infloresences and held it flowers very well. |
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Second Place : Dendrobium (Anucha Flare x Thongchai Gold ‘Kanokporn’)
Grower: Richard Amos This uniquely colored hybrid inherited the color pattern from the Anucha Flare parent, and the color of the flares from the Thongchai Gold. |
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Third Place: Cattleya Queen Sirikhit ‘Summer Stars’
Grower: Helene Gabry A nice white with three inflorescences. This is a hybrid of C. Bow Bells and C. Obrieniana registered originally in 1958. It has been in use as a parent ever since, the most recent progeny registered was in 2008. |
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Species of the month: Cattleya deckeri
Grower: John Masters An intensely colored clone of this species that apparently does not self fertilize when the flowers open. John indicated the flowers had been open about two weeks and all were in good shape. The plant was purchased at Venice Orchids. |
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Members’ Choice (tie): Rlc.Ryan Kowalczyk
Grower: Dale Richter This hybrid of Rlc. Steve Stevenson and Rlc. Goldenzelle was registered by Krull Smith orchids in 2007. The bright yellow color made it a Members’ favorite. |
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Members’ Choice (tie): Dendrobium unknown
Grower: Harold Buckwater A very nice dark red purple dendrobium hybrid with five inflorescences. For photographic purposes, only the short inflorescence is shown. |
Judges were Jerry Manegold, Marty Kellogg, Ted Kellogg.
15 plants from 9 exhibitors were shown.