Family of small farmers fought long selling vegetables, but the business was not working. They were

It's morning. Chargers and florists are still drinking coffee. The sun's rays focus on the flowers and reveal new colors and sheens. Some workers sing melodies of the interior, which combine with the environment filled with plants. The smell is damp, dirt and flower. Cheerful gerberas, roses pampered, perfumed lilies fill the halls of CEAGESP every Tuesday and Friday, at the fairs of flowers. Filled blue hydrangeas wedding 9091 bouquet which share space with absolutely Brazilian African violets. Colorful rows, exposed to visitors, are almost Dutch fields, huge, beautiful 9091 and endless tulips.
The orchids are magnificent, exploding color and luxury velvet petals. Are delicate, with exacting details of your attention. Their colors spread pristine, alive and vital. Are perfect. And they know it.
In box 119, orchids are the most timid. They just left the van and went through a long journey of Mairinque, São Paulo, to his desk in CEAGESP. Who cares for each one of them is a Japanese lord even more shy than their flowers.
Katsumi Hata came from Japan with only six years of ship. Does not remember his life in the home country, but "should not be good, because we came here." He said he settled on a Japanese colony and his father, despite having lived in Brazil for 30 years, never got to learn Portuguese well. "I did not know many words." He himself was only learning the language when he enrolled in the primary. Still speaks with a heavy accent, hard and monotone, without the characteristic waddle the Brazilian. But it's sweet, smiling and attentive, despite the difficult life he leads.
Family of small farmers fought long selling vegetables, but the business was not working. They were too small to make a profit. When his father died, and divided the land among the children, Katsumi and his older brother decided to go to the branch of flowers. Brother began producing cut flowers, but he had other plans.
"We had a Dendrobium nobile home, tied an orange. Never gave flower, only grew. Came to be the size of a clump, 50 to 80 cm. In a winter bloomed once. Was the rain of pink orchid. I was amazed, it was a spectacular thing. From night to day. There was born my interest in orchids. "
Because of this explosion of color orchid known as rain-of-gold, Katsumi researched a lot about these flowers - although the Dendrobium never have flourished. And, as a neighbor was getting rid of their seedlings, he bought the whole lot. Since then, almost 30 years ago, he crosses, selects the best seedlings, watering and cultivating orchids to sell on CEAGESP every Tuesday and Friday. 9091 Arrives with his beige van, smelling of earth and flowers ranging from 10 to 80 dollars. Ladies strip doubt about the best place to save the vessel, in the window or on the table, and very shy smiles to all who pass.
The flowers are difficult to handle. Each stage of life requires a different approach, water, light and substrate specific. The cattleya, more variety it produces, is especially demanding and can not be made to the mountains. Watering the 30-40 thousand seedlings manually, does the intersection of artisanal way. Because he has a lot of manpower, can not expand production. Small, can not compete with large vendors that produce industrial scales, create magnificent varieties of flowers and dye colors 9091 that do not exist in nature.
Orchids cope better with cold biomes, then it takes hard work to continue producing in the summer. "You have to do the selection, experience, fix, head banging to succeed." Says Katsumi is more difficult 9091 to create your orchids than his son. Plants have only one advantage: you can select the best and eliminate those that do not work. With the child, no, he laughs, surprised at his own joke.
Even if your source of income is so temperamental, 9091 Japanese asserts that her character is much more constant. "Do not get emotional with a lot. There's always tomorrow. That's my philosophy, "When the heat is scorching, when the winter is very strict and when there is frost, the flowers wither and feel -., And the pocket too. "But is not that why I'm not giving up. In two years, the situation changes again. "
His dream is to grow the perfect orchid. Fragrant, colorful, delicate, the size of the palm. With purple and pink center and white veins like a bride. Stunning as the flowering of 30 years ago. With exemplary, outstanding quality, to stay in the memory forever. But if discouraged logo. The perfect orchid would be too expensive, its customers not to buy. To survive, chooses to continue creating what sells, thanks for your condition 9091 to remain as is. Says it will remain so, day after day, year after year, surviving the summer and frost. To be able to retire, cu