February Meeting - Virtual
Fred will discuss "Becoming an 80 percent grower". This will be a "can't miss" presentation. Be sure to tune in. Fred has also offered a 10% discount to all. Just put Mass Orchid Society in the note box at checkout.
Show Table:
All members are encouraged to participate in the show table! Please use the following form. Details of how to send images can be found in the form: This Form
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Online: https://meet.google.com/suu-oabp-kqt or Link
Or by phone: +1 505-596-1495 PIN: 487 471 002#
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"Becoming an 80 Percentile Grower"
Ever wonder what the most important requirements are for growing the best orchids?
Learn about the underlying reasons of how and why orchids grow as they do. Then explore the fundamentals and advanced growing techniques to best grow them. Orchid plant culture is explained as you have never heard it before. Learn how to become an 80 percentile grower, expect to be wowed by this talk!
About Fred
Fred has been growing orchids for 42 years and has been hybridizing for 38 of those years. With over 34 years as a professional grower and manager in the horticultural industry, Fred applies these skills at his orchid nursery; Sunset Valley Orchids, located in San Diego, California.
He is a passionate orchid grower whose curiosity in orchids is broad and varied. Although developing Cattleya hybrids has been his sustaining interest, he is also actively creating new Paphiopedilum and Aussie Dendrobium hybrids plus some others to be named if they work out!
His pioneering work in Catasetum intergeneric hybrids led to the development of several notable hybrids, most recently the grex, Fredclarkeara After Dark, which produced “the blackest flower ever witnessed”. This grex has received over 100 awards worldwide with nine FCC’s and thirty AM’s from the AOS judges!
Fred is an Accredited Judge in the Pacific South Judging Region. His plants have received hundreds of quality awards from the American Orchid Society.