Within Hawaii, cultivating anthurium flowers is a large sector; you will discover far more than two hundred farms currently in production. Some facilities have been in production since the launch of the anthurium industry in the nineteen fifties. Ever thought about how these facilities produce so many anthurium flowers? Very well, keep reading and I'll tell you.
It all begins with building a shade house. After a plot of land is cleared and flattened using a bull dozer, openings are dug in a grid pattern and metal columns are cemented into position. Galvanized cables are put up across the tops of the posts and shade cloth, to inhibit away a part of the sun's rays, is coupled to the wires.
When the shade house is complete, volcanic cinder is distributed on the ground of the shade house using tractors or other farm machines. The cinder commonly originates from volcanic cinder cones and is delivered to the facility in big dump trucks. It is left outside the shade house in a large stack, for the reason that the trucks are too big to fit in the shade house. Normally a layer of cinder about a foot and a half is put on the floor of the shade house. Typically dolomite is added to condition the cinder prior to planting.
Now that the cinder is in position, anthurium plants are gathered. They can come from top cuttings of older plants in other areas of the facility or they may be the result of vegetative propagation. These plants are then sown by hand in lengthy rows of 25 to 50 feet that are commonly six to eight feet across. Beds are spread wide enough to allow harvesters to walk in between them and ordinarily a gap big enough for a farm vehicle is left also.
Most of the time, daily rain fall supplies ample moisture for the plants. When the rain is not enough the anthurium plants might be watered by overhead sprinklers. Weed control is always an urgent problem. A lot of weeding is done manually, since anthuriums are rather vulnerable to herbicides.
It all begins with building a shade house. After a plot of land is cleared and flattened using a bull dozer, openings are dug in a grid pattern and metal columns are cemented into position. Galvanized cables are put up across the tops of the posts and shade cloth, to inhibit away a part of the sun's rays, is coupled to the wires.
When the shade house is complete, volcanic cinder is distributed on the ground of the shade house using tractors or other farm machines. The cinder commonly originates from volcanic cinder cones and is delivered to the facility in big dump trucks. It is left outside the shade house in a large stack, for the reason that the trucks are too big to fit in the shade house. Normally a layer of cinder about a foot and a half is put on the floor of the shade house. Typically dolomite is added to condition the cinder prior to planting.
Now that the cinder is in position, anthurium plants are gathered. They can come from top cuttings of older plants in other areas of the facility or they may be the result of vegetative propagation. These plants are then sown by hand in lengthy rows of 25 to 50 feet that are commonly six to eight feet across. Beds are spread wide enough to allow harvesters to walk in between them and ordinarily a gap big enough for a farm vehicle is left also.
Most of the time, daily rain fall supplies ample moisture for the plants. When the rain is not enough the anthurium plants might be watered by overhead sprinklers. Weed control is always an urgent problem. A lot of weeding is done manually, since anthuriums are rather vulnerable to herbicides.
