Jeremy Losaw

Email: jeremylosaw@gmail.com
Phone: (864) 650-4124

SpecialtiesOrchid photography, hybridizing, orchid rehabilitation, vanilla
FormatOnline and in-person
Provides plants for sale?Yes

Biography

Jeremy Losaw has been growing orchids for almost 20 years. He started by buying a previously bloomed Phal from the Lowe's bargain bin and reflowering it on his windowsill. He now grows in a 13' x 20' greenhouse that has internet-connected automation and too many plants. He is an amateur hybridizer, making over 100 crosses. He has two AOS cultural awards, and 2 AOS quality awards. He is a photographer for Carolina's Judging Center, and his photos have featured in Orchids magazine and Orchid Digest. He is the winner of the 2020 Roy T. Fukumura Award for his photograph of Bob Fuch's Aerides lawrenciae 'Crownfox Velvet'.

His favorite orchids are Cattleya rex, Paph. stonei, Leptotes bicolor, and Neofinetia (vanda) falcata. Outside of orchids, he is the Super Fab Lab Specialist where he runs a maker space to help students build their new innovations and to help with their research. He holds 12 patents for a variety of consumer product innovations and does international innovation training events in countries like the Dominican Republic, Namibia, Italy, Grenada, and Thailand. He has two daughters and wife Kerry. None of them are remotely interested in orchids but do seem to like the lizards that cohabitate in the greenhouse.

Talks and Abstracts

1

Orchid Photography

A program and workshop about how to take great orchid photos with your phone camera. It starts with a review of the 3 different types of orchid photography and examples of each including the tenants of AOS award photography. Then there is a case study of how to take a great orchid photo in a home setting before a hands-on workshop for attendees to take their own photos with their phone camera or DSLR.
2

Story of Hybrid: Adventures in Making Orchid Hybrids

This program is a practical guide on how orchid hybrids are made focusing on the story of how I made and bloomed my first cattleya hybrid. Includes details on how a hybrid is made, sowing seeds, growing plants out of flask, and variation in a hybrid swarm. Concludes with an optional deflasking demo where attendees can pot up deflasked plantlet to take home.
3

Orchid Rehab

A program on how to save stressed plants and bring them back from the brink. I share how orchids become stressed in the first place and effective treatments to inspire new growth and start the road to recovery. Includes case studies of plants that were successfully brought back from the brink of death.
4

Vanilla Species and Extract Production

This presentation covers all things related to the tastiest orchid, Vanilla. Includes information about plant habit and flowering, a review of select species, vanilla flavoring and production, and growing Vanilla in the home.
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