Forcing house and cut-stem trade since the early packing years
Lily Worldwide Company Limited operates a forcing house and cut-stem flower trade from its Causeway Bay desk at Rm 1104 Island Beverly, 1 Great George St, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong - 999077, Hong Kong (HK). The firm moves greenhouse bulb lots into scheduled bloom, carries cut stems through auction parcels and packs export crates for buyers who need a dependable calendar rather than a lucky morning. Every lot is logged, every cold chain run is timed, and every crate leaves the bench with a sap tag that tells the buyer exactly what is inside. Read the full service schedule and how each lot is handled →
Mist line keeping humidity even across the bench face while the rail runs its lots.
Each desk below is a working station inside the forcing house, not a brochure panel. Read across and pick the station that matches your buying calendar.
We source and hold greenhouse bulb lots in numbered trays, grade each lot by calibre and record the storage temperature from the day it arrives. Buyers receive a lot sheet that states variety, calibre band and the week the tray entered cold store. These lots are the raw material for every forcing plan we build.
The auction rail closes parcels of cut stems by grade, stem length and head count. Each parcel is bound, tagged and weighed before it leaves the rail. We keep the parcel sheet with the buyer name so a later query can be answered from the same document that travelled with the stems.
Crates are built on the packing bench with a vented liner, a moisture pad and a stem brace that stops movement in transit. Packing staff weigh every crate and print a sap tag with lot number, destination port and packing time. No crate is sealed until the tag matches the parcel sheet on the rail.
A forcing plan sets the cold period and the warm-up curve for each bulb lot so that bloom lands on a chosen market week. We build the plan backwards from the auction date, then check it against greenhouse capacity and the mist line load. Clients receive the plan as a dated table with review points along the way.
Cold chain runs connect the forcing house bench to the export gate and then to the buyer dock. Each run has a start time, a temperature band and a named handler, and the run sheet is signed at every handover. If a run slips, the buyer hears about it from us before the crate reaches the gate.
Retail bundle programs assemble mixed stems into shelf-ready bundles for florists, market stalls and event buyers. Bundles are counted, wrapped and labelled with variety names in plain English. Standing programs repeat on a fixed weekday so a shop can plan its display without calling every week.
Most flower trading is described as a matter of luck and weather. We prefer to describe it as a matter of dates. A bulb lot that enters cold store in one week will bloom in another, and the gap between those two weeks is the whole craft of the forcing house. Lily Worldwide Company Limited builds its trade on that gap. We take greenhouse bulb lots, hold them in a controlled cold period, and then warm them on a curve that we have agreed with the buyer long before the first stem is cut.
The bench is the centre of the work. At the left of the bench sits the bloom auction rail, where parcels are closed and tagged. In the middle stands the bulb crate stack, holding graded lots ready for the next forcing cycle. At the right runs the mist line, which keeps the air across the bench face from drying out during grading hours. The three devices are not decoration. They are the order of operations, laid out in a row so that a visitor can read the trade by walking from one end to the other.
Buyers who work with us tend to ask the same three questions. When will the stems be ready, how will they travel, and what happens if the calendar moves. Our answer to each question is a document. The forcing schedule plan covers the first, the cold chain run sheet covers the second, and the parcel sheet covers the third. When a parcel is amended, the amendment is written on the same sheet rather than in a separate note, so the record stays whole.
Lily Worldwide Company Limited opens its spring auction window from the Causeway Bay desk, and the full forcing calendar is sent to registered buyers before the first parcel is called.
The Causeway Bay desk is where the trade is booked. Rm 1104 Island Beverly, 1 Great George St, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong - 999077, Hong Kong (HK) is a small office with a long bench of records, and the staff there hold the calendar for every lot in the house. A buyer who calls the desk on a Monday can be told which greenhouse bulb lots are in cold store, which parcels closed on the rail over the weekend, and which export crates are already sealed for the gate.
Export crate packing begins from the same information. The packing bench does not decide what goes into a crate; it receives a parcel sheet and builds to it. Vented liners are fitted first, then the moisture pad, then the stem brace, and finally the sap tag. The tag is the last item because it must carry the packing time as well as the lot number. A crate without a matching tag is opened again, even if it looks correct from the outside.
Retail bundle programs are the smallest unit of work we do, but they follow the same rules. Each bundle carries a variety label in plain English, a stem count and a packing date. Shops that join a standing program receive the same bundle count on the same weekday, and any change to the count is confirmed by email before the run begins. For a florist with a narrow counter and a fixed display plan, that predictability is worth more than a discount.
Our buyers include wholesale florists who need volume on a fixed day, event studios that work to a single date, and export traders who consolidate crates for overseas markets. Each of these groups needs something different from a forcing house. The wholesale florist needs a steady count. The event studio needs certainty about bloom stage. The export trader needs documentation that survives a customs inspection. We build the forcing schedule plan around the buyer group rather than asking the buyer to fit a single template.
We also work with growers who hold bulb stock and want it brought to market on a schedule rather than sold at harvest. A grower can hand us a lot, agree a bloom week and let the forcing house carry the risk of the curve. The lot remains traceable throughout, and the grower receives the same lot sheet that the ultimate buyer receives, so there is one record rather than two competing versions of events.
Every service on this page is described in more detail in the services section. For pricing, sample lot sheets or a copy of the current calendar, write to support@dingyueintl.buzz or call +13863810509 during Hong Kong business hours.