The Mom orchid company There are less than ten large orchid- growing operations in Costa Rica. The remainder are mostly orchid-lovers who cultivate on a small scale. These growers mainly rely on methods gleaned from books or learned by trial-and-error. Usually they don't know when the best time to fertilize is, so that the orchids either bloom too early (producing flowers with poor nutrition), or grow leaves but no blossoms.
在哥斯大黎加有規模的大蘭園不超過十家，其餘是喜愛養蘭的小農栽培；就憑著書上的解說土法煉鋼，經常不知何時是施肥的適當時機，使得蘭花不是提早成熟，開出營養不良的花；就是光長葉子不開花。