Topic: Growing Orchids from Seed (at home)

Speaker: Glen S.

Description: The presentation will show the items necessary to flask your own hybrid or species orchid seeds.

• Creating a 'glove-box'.

• Prepping the media and flasks.

• Seeding and deflasking.

The meeting will be held at the North Oyster Community Centre, 13467 Cedar Road, Nanaimo. Doors open at 11:00 a.m. with a brief business meeting starting at 12:00 p.m. Following is a display of plants brought in by members, a coffee break, and a featured presentation.

Whether you're a beginner or expert orchid grower, bring your questions. You will find our members very friendly and knowledgeable.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Glen’s Bio:

I became interested in orchids in December 2018 by accident with the question "I wonder what the most expensive plant was"... that question opened a window into the world of orchids. Then a few weeks later, again by chance, I wandered into a CVIOS show at the local mall. Who knew that there was such a thing as orchidists and orchid societies! I bought a couple of "pretty" flowering plants and joined CVIOS.

Through trial, and some egregious and lesser errors the window opened into a fascinating world of science, economics, history, art, leisure, frustration, disappointment and success!

I ask myself a lot of questions like, "I wonder what the oldest orchid is?"... and that question has made me stumble over phylogenetic trees and the evolutionary development of orchids, DNA barcoding, geologic-disjunctions, and orchid pollen on a fungus-gnat encased in 45 million year old Baltic amber... You orchidists know the tale.