{"id":272,"date":"2014-08-18T19:56:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T23:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctorchids.org\/?p=272"},"modified":"2014-08-29T10:21:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T14:21:06","slug":"cos-september-10th-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"COS September 10th Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 2014\u00a0COS monthly meeting:<br \/>\n<strong>Wednesday September 10, 2014 &#8211; doors open 7:00 pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Cheshire Senior Center<\/strong><br \/>\n240 Maple Ave, Cheshire, CT 06410<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Joanna K. Eckstrom<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Orchid Grower, Judge, Speaker<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Wilton, New Hampshire<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>September topic<\/b>:\u00a0 Preparing plants for a show. What are judges looking for&#8211;the difference between Ribbon Judging and AOS Judging.<\/p>\n<p>My husband Bob bought our first orchid plant in 1988. Cymbidium Peter Pan \u2018Greensleeves\u2019 HCC\/AOS.\u00a0 The flowers lasted nearly four months, convincing us that we could grow orchids. We\u2019ve experimented with many genera and, today, have about 75 Vandas and a few other genera for variety. Twenty-five years later, Peter Pan is still in the collection &#8211; it is such a vigorous grower that it breaks out of its pot every two-three years. And it never stops blooming, making it hard to find a good time to divide and repot.<\/p>\n<p>Besides AOS membership (and mandatory attendance at monthly judging sessions), we belong to so many orchid societies that there aren\u2019t enough weekends in a month to go to every one\u2019s meeting. When we get to attend, Bob is named as \u2018grower\u2019 of any plants that we exhibit. After seven years training, I became an AOS Accredited Judge (Northeast Region) in 2012. I\u2019ve chaired at least one show a year for various societies for twenty+ years and in 2013, Massachusetts Orchid Society honored me with the Orchid Digest Diamond Award of Excellence for doing something that I love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 2014\u00a0COS monthly meeting: Wednesday September 10, 2014 &#8211; doors open 7:00 pm Cheshire Senior Center 240 Maple Ave, Cheshire, CT 06410 Joanna K. Eckstrom Orchid Grower, Judge, Speaker Wilton, New Hampshire September topic:\u00a0 Preparing plants for a show. What are judges looking for&#8211;the difference between Ribbon Judging and AOS Judging. My husband Bob bought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctorchids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}