The fundamental principal in our cultural practices is focused on creating an environment of life promotion or enhancement for both the orchids and personnel.

In the intial stages of our orchid nursery, we utilized commercial formulations of chemical fertilizers, insecticides and fungicides. It was somewhere around 1986 that I attended an Organic Farming Conference at Asilomar in California. The conference gave me a basis and helped me to define some of the cultural practices that we are constantly refining and incorporating today.

Another body of knowledge that has patterned some of the things we do falls under the scope of traditional medicine and spa technology applied to humans. The techniques we are encompassing are thus a combination of healthful components that affect the orchids, as well as our orchid care personnel, in a beneficial way.

Darrell Sugita, Grower and Breeder
Hawaiian Floral Nursery