With his special love for orchids since childhood and a dream of economic development to escape poverty, Mr. Huynh Ngoc Tuyen, a resident of Hoa Khanh Nam Ward, Lien Chieu District, Da Nang, has taken advantage of his family's terrace to start an orchid business, bringing high economic efficiency.

Mr. Huynh Ngoc Tuyen successfully starts a business from the orchid growing model. Photo: KHANH HUYEN

Mr. Tuyen's orchid garden has an area of 70m² with more than 1,000 pots of orchids in many kinds, most of which are wild, sword, single, mutant flash Dendro orchids, and daffodil.

The deeper he learns about, the more he realised that the kind of flowers is sought after by many people.

Initially, the 33-year-old man encountered many difficulties due to not understanding care techniques, leading to many orchid deaths. It took him a while to gain more experience by learning from orchid associations and groups. Since then, he has bred and taken care of the orchids to bloom to meet the needs of customers.

It is known that his orchid garden is divided into separate areas: taking care of seedlings and nursery plants, taking care of large-sized orchids, and flowering plants.

The process of caring, pruning, and shaping helps form beautiful potted orchids that will be soled at high prices.

On average, Mr. Tuyen earns VND30 million per month from selling orchids. Sharing his experience in growing orchids, he said that growing orchids often encounters many common diseases, especially soft rot in orchids, hanshu disease, red spider mites, fungus, and rhizome wilt.

To prevent diseases, he has to spray once a week, especially spray regularly in the rainy season, as well as build net house and mist irrigation systems.

According to Mr. Tuyen, choosing varieties is very important, you must carefully study the living environment of each type of orchid. Each orchid species has different characteristics, the environment and temperature adaptation are also different and the most important factors are light, water, and humidity. Not to mention, orchids cannot tolerate strong light even though this factor directly affects the growth and flowering process.

Evaluating the startup model, Mr. Bui Trung Hieu, Chairman of the Farmers' Association of Hoa Khanh Nam Ward, affirmed that the model of growing orchids in urban areas improves the greenhouse effect, creating a fresh living space because of its luxurious, noble, and brilliant beauty.

Thanks to understanding market needs, his initial start-up was difficult, but with the courage to think and do, he successfully starts a business and earns an income of hundreds of millions of VND each year, thereby becoming an example of a start-up Typical example in the ward.

Reporting by TIEN DUNG - Translating by M.DUNG