Thursday, March 6, 2025
Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/06/2025
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Moorings Presbyterian Church
Categories
John Finer speaking about “Orchid Physiology”
John Finer is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science at The Ohio State University and Courtesy Researcher in The Water School at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is currently serving on the Education Committee and Research Committee of the American Orchid Society and is an Education Director with the Gulf Coast Orchid Alliance. After retiring to Naples, FL in June 2021, John focused on propagating and reintroducing native orchids into local Florida communities and making novel new orchid hybrids, which will be available soon from select orchid growers around the US.
So far, John has 36 new registered orchid hybrids with many more on the way! For his presentation, he will talk about “Orchid Physiology” and explain all of the various ways that orchids are so different from other plants. Hopefully, understanding some of the basics of orchid physiology will allow us all to become better orchid growers. Since retiring, John started a YouTube channel where he is “The Plant Propagator” and a new business called “The Orchid Propagator”, where he grows and sells his new orchid hybrids.