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The International Phalaenopsis Alliance
presents

The Twentieth Phalaenopsis Symposium
August 8 & 9, 2014
Carlos Fighetti & Carri Raven-Riemann

T

he Ontario Airport Hotel & Conference Center,
in Ontario, California, will serve as this summer’s
headquarters for the IPA Symposium, offering a
very attractive $89 per night room rate for a single
or double room. The meeting rooms are quite spacious,
and the guest rooms are comfortable. In addition to dining facilities at the hotel itself, this airport area boasts a
multitude of fine restaurants, several of which are close to
the host hotel.
The Registration Form and additional information are
included in this issue of the IPA Journal and are also available for download at our website, www.phal.org. Please
be aware of the deadlines, especially for the hotel reservations, as we expect to have great participation at the Symposium this year and do not want you to miss being able to
book your room at the host hotel.
This year we’ve invited two exceptional hobby growers to
join us as speakers. Our Keynote Speaker will be Mr. Yang
Yang, a hobby grower from Tainan, Taiwan. Mr. Yang is a
renowned collector of Phalaenopsis species and primary
hybrids in Taiwan. He has been growing and propagating
Phalaenopsis for over ten years and has produced some
exceptional progeny. The subject of his talk will be “Phal.
gigantea & its Complex Hybrids”.
Our second invited speaker is Mike Mims, a well-known
indoor hobbyist from Asheville, North Carolina, who will
give us an overview of his hybridizing program for fragrant primary and complex Phalaenopsis novelties. He has
already been the recipient of several AOS awards to his
hybrids and, as an indoor grower using T5 High Output
lighting, he also has much to share about creating quality
indoor growing rooms to obtain the best growth and flowering from your Phalaenopsis.

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Also presenting will be Alan Koch of Gold Country Orchids in Lincoln, California, who has a long history with
Phalaenopsis species along with many of the original multiflora hybrids developed by Herb Hager. His [