Okika No Ka Oi
MAUI ORCHID
SOCIETY
October 2010
Upcoming Events:
OCTOBER MEETING
Date: Tuesday, October 18th • Time: Orchid 101 @ 6:30 • Meeting @ 7
Place: Wailuku Community Center 395 Waena St. •
Guest Speaker: Leonard Gines
NOVEMBER MEETING
Date: Tuesday, November 15th • Time: 7 pm
Place: Wailuku Community Center 395 Waena St. •
General Meetings are
Scheduled the
Third Tuesday Each Month
SPEAKER BIO
Leonard Gines, of Paradise Park in Puna on the island of Hawaii, will share his passion for Cattleya and Bulbophyllum species.
A successful Orchidist, he started his commercial nursery in 1979, specializing in dendrobiums and Arachnis orchids (cut flowers). Later he switched to dendrobiums and Oncidinae (potted plants) and finally establishing “Gine’s Orchids in Puna. A well traveled Orchidist, most recently to Ecuador, he will share with us his experiences collecting orchids from around the globe, including some photos of orchids in their natural habitat. Leonard is a Senior American Orchid Society Judge, as well as past chair of the Hilo region. Senior AOS Judge - founding member of Big Island Dendrobium Growers & Orchid Growers Of Hawaii
| 'CLOSE OUT SALE ON ALL WIRE PRODUCTS SMALL PLASTIC pots and CLIPS. I WILL HAVE FERTILIZER AND, CLEAR PLASTIC POTS ,VANDA BASKETS AT REGULAR PRICES. Thanks Dot |
Mahalo from Braydon Leleo
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who took the time out of your busy schedules to help me prepare for the fair especially those of you who helped me pick bamboo and set up the bamboo rails because those projects were time consuming as well as impossible to do alone. Carol Best, you were there with me every step gathering bamboo and making sure I had what I thought would be enough and your concern was much appreciated. Cassidy, Robyn, and her husband (Cassidy's son) you three were the only ones who signed up to volunteer to pick bamboo and you came ready and willing to get the job done. Danielle and Gregg, and Robin, thank you for allowing us to pick your bamboo and I hope we can get more next time, and last but not least my mom who stayed up with me cutting bamboo and pvc piping, pouring cement, and cleaning off lanterns and everything else that needed to be done and prepped. Also, thank you to the ladies at the gym who helped me put the rails up such as Jaime, and Jocelyn, and I know I am forgetting people so please forgive me I am not doing it intentionally. Once again, mahalo to all of you for your time, patience, assistance, and all of your support in making my first fair experience a memorable one and be ready next year!-
Mahalo Nui Loa,
Brayden Leleo
BYO Orchid For Show & Tell Tables
Bring your orchids in for our monthly members judging. Please remember to put your name on the back of the registration slip and include the orchid name on the front.
You not only get to show off your green thumb, the winners get a free plant!
MEMBERS SALES TABLES
Members sales tables will be available before the meeting and during session breaks.
20% of all sales go to the MOS Scholarship fund.
Dot will be selling her new line of orchid supplies, 100% of the proceeds to benefit the MOS
Come early and learn from the Pros! We will start the class at 6:15pm with whomever is there. Usually, people will join in as they arrive. Members may bring in their plants for discussion. If you bring in a problem plant with insects present, the plant should be brought to the meeting in a plastic bag so as not to "share the wealth".
Orchids July 101 SESSION
Fire Ant, a destructive alien ant is poised to invade Hawaii. MISC believes the orchid growing community of Maui are the best folks to be on the early detection team, ready to prevent Maui island from becoming Fire (ant) Island.
Lissa Fox of Maui Invasive Species Committee will help you detect and correctly report damaging fire ants.
Links: Maui County Fair
Photos BY JARRET
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