Media is a vital component for plants, where they could absorb the nutrition to support its lives. There are several reasons in using Spaghnum moss as the media for the Phalaenopsis in Tropical area. Of course mainly this was subjected to the regional climate condition, which is usually hot, and a high evaporation. Several typical reason in using Spaghnum Moss as the media for Phalaenopsis are:

1. It could keep water for a longer time, so that the humidity could be controlled stable. This is very important for Phalaenopsis where they need a high humidity

2. Beside the capability in absorbing & keeping water, it is also able to hold the fertilizer in a longer period of time, therefore could decrease the number of nutrition decrement by the hot climate in tropical area

3. The frequencies of watering & fertilizing could be reduced because of the reason mentioned at 2 point before. And we could save more time and cost

4. Phalaenopsis’s roots are prone to over-humidity. While this media will bring a better air circulation for the plants, because of the space between them

5. For some country like America, Canada, Phalaenopsis are often required to be sent in bare-root condition, and using this Spaghnum moss will ease the job to take off the media from the root. It will also help in taking care the cleannes of the roots

Young Plants - Also known as Small and Medium plants
On the early stage of planting, plants should be sprayed with Topsin Fungicide (1 gr / Liter of water). And on the next day, spray B1 Vitamin (1 cc / Liter of water) everyday until the roots starts to grow (± 20 days). The next step was to spray NPK 30:10:10 Fertilizer weekly and the plant could also be watered with the same formula twice monthly. Watering should be done as needed with how dry was the media or as the control of Media's EC/PH.

Pesticide treatment may be done once in a month, with Topsin (1 gr / Liter of water) to prevent fungidal & Bacterial disease. For Insect invasion, the application should be given after the invasion started, Lannate (1 gr / Liter of water) shall be used.

Mature Plants - Also known as Large plant The same treatment also in young plants are also applicable here, but use the NPK 20:20:20 Fertilizer instead, for the spraying and watering.

Flowering Plants / Plants with Flower The mature plant which is ready to be flowered should be sprayed with NPK 11:41:11 - A Formula - and 7:11:27 - B Formula - Fertilizer. Do it in order of maximum of 3 times / week ( A once and then on the next turn / few day B once). Watering with A Formula once in a month are also helps the plants to grow better. For other treatment, the same treatments with previous plants are also applicable.

During this first quarter of 2004, we got special offer of Phalaenopsis Seedling plants for sale. Most of them are White, Large plant with spike.
We got two kind of this plants, the A Grade, and the B Grade. The B Grade was downgraded just because the leaves are not good enough, but they are all fit plants without any diseases.
We are offering the B Grade with discounted price (15 %!!!).
Wholesaler, please contact us for special pricing. Just mail us for quoting the quantity, whether you need CITES or not, and your airport name if you are going to buy CNF from us.

There are several tips on handling the plants after their 'long-trip' on shipment. Of course we must give them special treatment due to their exhausted condition. Try the following tips for this case:

After the plants arrived, unpack it, then spray it with B1 Vitamin (1 ml / liter). This step was to anticipated their stress upon the trip

Let the wind dry the plants, while waiting for the plants to adaptating with its new environment

After the plants looks fresh, pesticide are applicable to anticipate the attack of virus, illness etc.. Suggested formula was LANNATE (1 gr / liter) and TOPSIN (1 gr / Liter)

For Pot Plant, after one day, the plants are prepare for the next maintenance, while bare rooted plants, has to through the PLANTING PHASE first, and have not prepared for any treatment, until new root grown and old root has adaptated well.

Planted bare root plants, could be given B1 Vitamin daily (1 ml / liter) to boost the root's growth. Generally about 20 days should be enough. This step similiar with the step of planting from a size to the next size. After the new root grown, plants are prepare to be given general treatment as it's size's.

CITES, the document that usually needed to import some special plants, is now considered unecessary by several country, like Holland for example.

It will boost our speed in serving when we need no more CITES in proceed the order. You should check your country, whether CITES still become a requirement in your country.

Aroids, another foliage ornamental plants, has been picked by our product research team, as our new potential product. We believe this Tropical Forest family is interesting enough to be picked as home or office decoration, as well as the hotel also.


Also, the treatment is just simple: humidity 50 % (half wet), may use coco pit also as it's media, and no direct sunshine.

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Dracaena, as one of our new commodities, has captured a lot of attention.
Starting from the hobyist, up to home decoration. It's one of ornamental plant that has a high value of art, because all of the production process is through a hand-made process.

One of the reason of this popularity was about it's ease of care also. As you have you known, we just need to watering it once a week, keep it in a place without direct sunshine will be better, and maybe you want to cut it's browned leaf sometimes.

In overall, this plant have been able to enter many markets in the world, PT. Bintangdelapan Holtikultura ourselves, have exported to USA, Australia and Singapore.

For any request, please mail us to info@bintang8.com. In near time, the general price list should be available and we will send you as your request.

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Okay, this time we would like to inform you about 2 news. They are :
1. We are now launching our Link Exchange Program, which you could see the detail information at http://www.bintang8.com/link.php.
2. Our main contact for information is : info@bintang8.com. You may directly mail or from our web-based contact service : http;//www.bintang8.com/contactUs.php.

Bintangdelapan will soon provide a high quality coconut for sale, and of course, we are surely give you the BEST price. It suppose to be ready in the next month.
Please visit our websites often to pick any new information.

We are always trying to enchance our service to our valued customer. That's why we are now adding a new domain new of our websites, http://www.bintang8.com beside the previous one : http://www.bintangdelapan.com. We have also redesign the sites to fill you with a better information also. Please mail us for your comments or correction and suggestion about our websites to webmaster@bintang8.com.

Chinesse believe that this plant do bring joy & happiness, it brings nice and good atmosphere. We have been selling this goods for about 1 years and it's become one of our best sale ever. Please contact us in info@bintang8.com for further assistance about this product, or you may also see it here in our websites, CLICK HERE.