When you are hungry in the wild, you forage food. This is also they same with the rats, bats and or any insects that can heavily damage the dragon fruit fruit.
Here are some examples
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The solution for this, is to wrap the fruit with a fruit bag. It is like a net ....
Harvesting early in the morning before everyone having their breakfast. Fresh from the farm for our loyal consumers. Bees are busy early this morning catching flowers - pollinating to increase our yield. Oh my! Is that 1 kg for one fruit? Thank you Lord for many blessings. Naa nami pangpalit ug bulad ug ginamos #Organic #organicallygrown #pca #pcafarm #dragonfruit #thinkcleanthinkgreenandeatorganic
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My purpose of this webpage is to reach many farmers who love BEES and organic growing..
ORGANIC CONCOCTION- bio inputs… culture the micro organisms,
Fermented plant juice or FPJ Concoction
use for fertilizer for growing the plants (Nitrogen)
Kangkong, Alugbati, camote tops, ubod sa kawayan, bani or banana trunks, green leaves, herbs.. Why? Getting growth hormone. Dali lang magtubo unya naa na sa tanom gikan ang growth hormone.
Ingredients:
3 kg mix na veggies cut into one inch
3 kg molasses
Procedure
Pick the leaves between 6-8am (important ang time)
Cut one inch
Put in balde or banga and Mix it
Linisan sa ibabaw na balde (diha sa rim aron limpyo)
Cover with manila paper, secure with the rubber band, label and date and name
7 days ang harvest
Uses:
2 tbsp in fpj
1 liter unchlorinated water
Or 2 lata sardines in 16 liter sprayer for plants
Seedling tray- diligan When Transplanting the plant- diligan again.
FFJ- fermented fruit juice Concoction - natural taste enhancer
3 kg Molasses
3 kg -Fruit- all sweet fruit
Banana na hinog (cardava or binangay or tundan), hinog papaya, Calabasa na hinog
This is the taste enhancer sa bunga and leaves of the plant. Mura ug ma sweet ang fruit ng dragon fruit or any fruiting plants
Procedure in making the concoction:
Washed fruits
Include the skin ng fruits, cut into pieces
Mix in the banga or any container like balde
Cover with manila paper.. Do no write on top sa manila paper to avoid ink contamination
Label it
Harvest in 7 days
Then Strained the liquid.. Note: Take the remaining solid and put it in the soil directly in the garden or in sama sa food ng chicken
Dosage for spraying the plant:
2 tbsp ffj liquid
1 liter unchlorinated water
Or 2 lata sardines in 16 liter sprayer for plants
Where to spray?
Fruiting plants or kanang mao jud sugod ug bunga- spray ffj in fruit to make the fruit taste sweeter. Spray in leaves only in early morning or late afternoon. Spray at the bottom of the leaves. The reason for that is that the stomata of the leaves are open and readily absorbed by the plants.
Spray it when the fruit is coming out.
Spraying on different days or mixing it with the other concoctions.
IMO/ Indigenous microorganism concoction
Use in compost pit and source of beneficial microorganisms
Cooked rice clean or bahaw..
Molasses
Process:
Banga or plastic or kawayan- tanggalan ang ibabaw and put ¼ ra jud sa lalagyan ang kanin.. Huwag punoin… kanin is to attract the amag.
Manila paper and seal with rubber band
Or put in bamboo area or under the tree that has plenty of leaves
Purpose: To attract amag After 3-5 days and check and open. If amag is orange, white yellow or green. Those are good and harvest it… If there is Black amag is removed and thrown away.
After harvesting...
Weigh the amag if 1 kilo then mix with 1 kilo molasses in pail and mix it
Cover in manila paper and rubber and label it date of fermentation and date of harvest.
Harvest 7 days
Purpose: Good in baboyan - removed the smell in piggery. Good for disinfectant… and also good for the chicken (I guess)
Good in compost pit to pabulokpabulok faster na mga leaves… it will take 3 weeks
Beneficial micro organism in soil. Vegetable in seedling tray. Spray IMO and so the micro organisms is already in
Spray also in transplanting the plants
Ratio
2 TBSP
1 liter of unchlorinated water
Drench in soil or dilig sa lupa…purpose paramihin ang micro organisms
Fish Amino Acids/FAA or Kuhol Amino Acids
-flowering and make the leaves green
We need amino acids
Fermented
Materials”
Fish mas madugo ang isda ay mas maganda. Can use tinai of the fish… it should be limpyo.. May takip at hindi madapuan ng langaw
1 kilo fish
1 kg molasses
Cut in one inch and put it balde.
Cover in manila paper, rubber band and label it
Date of harvest is 15 days… - it is 15 days because it tooka while to let the micro organisms came out from the bones
Strain it
When to spray: it triggers to fruiting vegetables and so this is for flowering…
So this is foliar fertilizer and spray to the plant to force flowering
Also in lettuce and pechay
Dosage:
2 TBSP
1 liter of unchlorinated water
LActic Acid Bacteria/LAB
Oriental Herbal Nutrients (OHN): or Caphos
(Note, not a vaccine replacement)
This will serves as fungicides and pesticide to plants. Insecticides and replellant
Licorice or cinnamon can be used too...
Recipe Ingredients:
1 kgGarlic,
1 kg ginger,
200 grams molasses or muscovado sugar
2.2 liters coco vinegar natural
200 grams chili
100 grams na panyawan
First process:
Clean the ginger (do not remove the skin) and cut it into one inch.
Garlic remove the skin
Put in the pail
Mix 200 grams muscovado sugar
Close Manila paper and sealed it with tape and wrote label
Date of fermentation
Date of opening is three days from the start
Harvest in three (3) days
After three days… remove the cover
Pour 2.2 liters coconut vinegar
-200 grams sili cut in one inch
-100 grams in panyawan cut one inch
Mix it again
Cover it and Seal it again… date of fermentation is 10 days
Harvest after 10 days…
This is insect repellant
Dosage of spraying:
2 TBSP mix with 1 liter of unchlorinated water
And spray when there are insects… if insects are so bad make it double dose.
Calphos
Egg shell - remove the white thing inside the eggshell
1 kg egg shell
1 liter coco vinegar
Crush the eggshell and sangag na light brown. Color (huwag sunogin). Cool it down.
Pour the vinegar in the balde and slowly drop the crushed eggshells in the balde.. And it should be lalabas ang bubbles and when maubos na ang bubbles.. Seal it with manila paper and tape
Indigenous Calcium
Date of fermentation and harvest after 20 days…
Use for flowering but the main purpose when the flowers come in .. dapat malakas ang kapit ng flowers …malig on ang sanga and even pechay..
Dosage for spraying: 2 TBSP mix with 1 liter of unchlorinated water
Calphos using bones from animals or Kuphos
Bukog ng baboy: clean it.. No laman only bones lang jud.
Isugba ang bokog medyo brown lang (ni.. Cool it down
Then
3 kg of bones
27 liters of coco vinegar
Ilagay sa balde and lagay ang suka.
Cover it with manila paper and seal.
Harvest it after 30 days
Purpose: It is calcium
Dosage: 2 TBSP and mix with 1 liter of unchlorinated water and spray to the plants
We can use shells from kohol and even shells from tahong and the same ingredients in eggs.
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Dosage: give twice a week
2 TBSP per liter for chickens
2 lata sardines in 16 liter sprayer for plants
The farm was established back in the late 1940s when my grandparents, Cristita and Apolinario Gamayot, moved down to Mindanao from Pilar, Bohol creating a legacy founded on the bounty of the land. The farm still has a number of features from that time. You can find a 60 year old plumeria/Kalachuchi on our land and see the 75 years old ancestral home built using hardwood like tugas and bayong wood. We even have the old jar that my grandmother used to ferment her vinegar and a few items she brought from Bohol.
Starting with my grandmother’s backyard vegetable garden, the farm has been free of pesticides. This may be one of the reasons that she lived 94 years. Over those years, the area has been home to hundreds of free range chickens and a number of cows and goats. The farm has also planted fruit trees like mango, coconut, cacao, guava, biasong and jackfruit with tons of root crops grown like cassava and sweet potato.
The land was split back in 2000, with my father and mother planting coconut, cacao, corn and mung bean to add to the diversity of the crops grown. My family came to own the portion with the ancestral home and my initial plan was to develop the land by planting a mango orchard. Today 40 of these trees survive along with some of the coconut and cacao from my parents.
In 2019,a large portion of the farm was converted to grow more than 2200 dragon fruit vines to take advantage of the high value of that crop. We planted more or less than 100 malunggay trees, papayas and different kinds of herbs and flowers around the perimeter of the dragon fruit. Hoping to deter pests while inviting friendly bugs like bees.
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