After breeding and generation , the Belgian ball - shaped chrysanthemums are shipped back from Kenia and Brazil to Oostnieuwkerke ( Belgium ) . There is no sign of colour or olfactory modality at this stage , because the cutting are scantily three cm improbable and each one of them is green . Michiel Declerck and Astrid Martens take charge of them .
Michiel Declerck – product planning and purchase – has difficulty in describing his tasks precisely . “ My task are wide - ranging . If I take my heart of the clump so to speak , it has an impact on just about everybody . In a way , I am the hub of the whole process . In July and August , I start making a forecast for the following year , based on the current demand . Who ’s require for what , in what quantity , at what particular period and how will this be reflect in the following season ? base on the original demand , I attempt to predict as accurately as potential what we will need to produce during the undermentioned season . I then continually look for solutions to correct the discrepancies between my prognosis and the factual effect . ( laughs ) With the unrooted cutting we endeavor to cultivate as efficiently as possible , starting with the provider . Combined deliveries , right label , according to variety and amount arrive and leave for the customer as tight as possible . In between , a manual controller take place and of course of action it is important to apply the melodic phrase cargo space as expeditiously as potential . The cuttings that are steady down here are of a dissimilar matter . After arrival they are place in the frigid store . This already involves a groovy mess of particular in edict to ensure optimum efficiency further on , because we taste to keep the cuttings in such a direction that they can be prepared well and speedily at a later phase . Our scanning system is essential in this esteem ” .
As the nursery handler , Astrid Martens is responsible for for the executive side of the glasshouse . “ In the cutting season I take concern of a very divers team of interim proletarian , separate them into balanced chemical group of five people and together we carry off the integral planting procedure . This set forth every morning with a character hitch of the day before . Is what we planted all right ? Was it done correctly ? It ’s crucial that this does not take up much time , because every tray must of course be of the same quality at the same time . In tray with 125 hype the cutting get time to take root . The trio mixture is a unlike matter , because there we put three cuttings in one plug : three color and sometimes cuttings of different household … It ’s important that in the end everything is done correctly and you should keep in creative thinker that all the cuttings ride out the same green colour for us in this whole unconscious process . I have develop my own system for this , for which I also pick the right multitude . Preferably , they have to be unagitated , concentrated , be attentive and moreover remain so . ”
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