sour your passion into your job is a luxury not many people have . One of the lucky ones is Rob Houwing from Multi Vitro , who ’s been living his ambition for 34 years . With a closely - knit team he provide Dutch raiser orchids and carnivorous plants . " grow orchids was and still is my hobby . I start out doing tissue cultivation to coalesce my hobby and contemplate , " Rob suppose .
While studying plant physiology and horticulture at the University of Wageningen , the Netherlands , he did an internship at a Dutch orchid agriculturalist . " I started a pocket-size lab to increase some plants for that agriculturist . I liked it so much , that I continued to do so even after my studies , " he says . " When I graduate , I thought : I have nothing and therefore ca n’t recede anything . find space for my caller was unmanageable . finally I was able to hire an empty anteroom of 100 m2 in an honest-to-goodness paper factory in Renkum , a townspeople in the eastern Netherlands . We start with limited resource . " Rob quickly come up some customers and when the paper factory had to be demolished after three years , a brand new science lab was built in a nearby town .
Careful workRob revel the challenge in start up new thing . " We often only get a few plants . Then we take out the growth degree and place it on in nutrient metier . When it becomes a plant , we start with the multiplication . We expend propagated plant every class to assure that the culture remains everlasting . The material is replaced on a even cornerstone , because we ca n’t range the peril of something going wrong during propagation . If the grower brings me a pink orchid , so to speak , he wants to get a pink one in return . If month later in the nursery the contrary appears , it ’s too late . That ’s why I ensure that I bring the plant to the agriculturalist every week , so that we can discuss procession and whether the deliveries take to be flourish . "
Carnivorous plants and orchidsRob is still enthusiastic about his work . " raiser wrick to us with plant that are hard or slow to reproduce or ca n’t be circularize by seed . As one of the few small science laboratory in the Netherlands , Multi Vitro is fairly unique in the provision of carnivorous plants . We serve a customer with the exclusive right of a number of species . We are also specialized in orchids . The phalaenopsis , however , we have deliberately ignored , because the large companies often regulate multiplication themselves . moreover , we do everything the client call for for and we also set up projects now and then . 75 pct of the increase is not different in terms of study . You do of course of instruction have to make a turn of adjustments to the nutrient medium . My experience often tells me if something is going to be difficult or easy . "
Small talkThe Pilea , or pancake plant is one of their own projects . " A few age ago we gravel the melodic theme that there is a market for it and that has worked out nicely . For the staff it ’s also nice to supply a fresh variety . There is a very right atmosphere here . Multiplying just involves numbers so there is heap of small talk of the town at the same time . " Over the yr Rob gathered a close - entwine team around him . " Most of them have been work here since the commencement . We solve on an surface area of only 30 m2 , so you know each other through and through . Especially reckon the fact that my married woman and two children work here too , it makes it feel like a existent menage business . "
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