Hobbyist or Commercialist ;growing and caring

Though the Tropics is its natural habitat the Anthurium needs special care and attention in order for it to be healthy and producing flowers at maximum level. Whether one is a hobbyist or a commercialist would determine the care and treatment given to the Anthurium plant. The hobbyist emphasis is on personal satisfaction.This would involve smaller amounts under cultivation :just enough to fill the vase ,or make a wreath or decorate a room.It may even involve personal experiment being done to develop stronger, more beautiful or durable species.I had a friend who was a rose hobbyists. She knew how to graft roses, so she got pleasure in designing two toned roses.BY so doing the hobbyist can become a plant researcher and graduate into becoming a plant scientist. When the hobbyist purchases the original plants he can care for them under trees , in small green houses or under cover of saran netting,for shade. He could hand water and fertilise by mixing the NPK solution to manually fertilize. By personal care he will increase his garden size.Using hands on experience he'll recognise rhizomes and by removing and replanting their new shoot the gardener grows new plants .Being diligent in his hobby the hobbyist may start small and end up with a large garden, maybe even become an entrepreneur, having a farm he has become a commercialist, creating income for himself and his country. . There is relaxation that some folk experience in growing plants, maybe a particular plant as an anthurium or an orchid is more satisfying to the hobbyist . He would spend hours in stress relieving activity of tending his plants and just admiring the blooms. In order to help the commercialist  determine his minimum size farm I would have him quantify the amount of funding needed for the commercial venture. Emphasis must be placed on both the quality and quantity of blooms which must be without blemish for export to the US, our main market. A financially viable shipment must be of a minimum of about 1000 blooms per week.Taking note that a mature anthurium plant flowers once per six weeks, a minimum sized farm should be 9000 plants , bearing in mind that  not all blooms will be of export quality. I had a backyard farm  of 7000 plants,covering18000 sq feet plot ,yet I had great difficulty doing 1000 blooms per week.simply because blemish free , ist class quality is a challenge to produce beyond 60% of your harvest, but where I failed in profitability I gained in satisfaction of seeing beautiful anthuriums week after week
. In my next post I'll discuss more about the infrastructure relating to the care of these plants. > NPK: These numbers represent three different compounds: Nitrogen, Phosphorous, ans Potash (potassium) which we can also describe with the letters N-P-K. these three numbers listed on fertilizer labels correspond to the percentage of these materials found in the fertilizer.