Our Orchid
Creators

Meet the Breeder:

Clone

“Before I became a director at Clone in 2004, I worked at Taisuco, where I was involved in production and breeding. After I started at Clone, I discovered that this company had its own varieties. I started the breeding programme at Clone to make it more competitive in the market.

Our first target market was the Japanese market, where people are mostly keen on large flowered varieties with white, pink and white red lip colours. We then decided to concentrate on other markets. We developed other varieties and colours for these markets by studying their needs and wishes. My years of experience with different markets and growers gave me a good idea of what types and colours were needed. I also understood what the requirements were, for example the speed of propagation, productivity, plant shape and shelf life. We take all this into account in our breeding work. Then, as we combine all the good characteristics, it gets easier and faster for us to create the right new variety.

Our cooperation with Sion is the perfect way for us to gather market information and to gauge the needs. We use this feedback in our breeding programme. Only good varieties can help us create and increase production efficiency. Orchids’ future competitiveness lies in breeding, which is the best way to engage in this market and also to get feedback on the useful information about market needs so that we can adjust the future range.

Good varieties help to create and increase production efficiency. The future of the orchid business lies in the hands of breeders. That’s why we must keep on surprising and innovating”, says Tony Hsu.