Susan Erickson wrote:
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:23:04 +0000 (UTC),
(Dave Sheehy) wrote:
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I attended the show in Sonoma last weekend and came away with a bunch of
cool stuff. I bought a Cycnoches hybrid of some sort, an Aerangis citrata,
and a Gongora fulva for my shadier growing area. I picked up a Cymbidium
tracyanum for the front porch. And I got a Cattleya dowiana 'aurea' which
I have to find a place for. Finally, I'm taking a chance on a Ghost Orchid
just to see what it does. It's sitting in a Vanda basket where it gets light
and can get misted regularly.

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Dave


Missed seeing you in Sonoma. We were there from Wed. night to
Sat. noon. Judged with Kath. Fun and a nice - nice sale. I
promised to not buy. So I only came away with 4. Have to blame
Bulbo Jersey. There was a great one in the show. I could not
resist buying one from Cal-Orchids along with Ang elephaninum &
Aerangis pumilio. After Alan Koch's talk I got Lc Kiritsubo. I
should have gotten it Thursday night during the preview party.
The plant I loved then was gone. It is the only one in bloom,
but it got so beat up on the way home I can not photograph it.

I wanted to ask someone there about the three tier judging.
Novice, Intermediate, Advanced/Commercial. What are the
differences and criteria for a person/plant to be in a level?

We group the hobby growers for ribbon judging and have a second
class for Professional growers (Denver Botanic Garden and
Commercial growers). We have an award for the Novice doing the
first display in a judged show. Before the Professional status
was set up, hobby growers were loosing all the ribbons to the
Denver Botanic Gardens. We thought the hobby growers deserved to
have a better shot at ribbons.



SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php

I was going to go back on Friday, and instead decided I'd had enough of
being away from home, and made Thursday my last day. Enjoyed dinner
with SuE and her husband John. I came away from the Preview night sale
with a peach tone seedling from Fordyce, then - becasue they are
shutting their business - I went to the GH on Saturday and came away
with a few more nice plants, a L purpurata var suavissimum, a white
seedling and a C labiata alba.

As to judging each society decides their criteria for novice, advance,
intermediaet or whatever. So one has to read the show schedule and
depend on one's clerks for difinition of their club's terms. Usually its
based on the number of society trophys the person has won. I see more
clubs lump the commercial and advanced growers into the same category
and call it 'open'.

When I did the Diablo View show I based the definition of novice,
intermediate or advanced on trophies AND years of growing experience,
becasue we'd never done ribbon judging at our shows before. That way
our advanced growers couldn't claim to be novices even though they'd
never taken a DVOS trophy home before.... it wouldn't have been fair to
the new growers.

K Barrett