MY HIBISCUS

My garden is more beautiful with the blooming hibiscus.

Actually not mine. But my wifes.

SWEET MELON MMT

I read in the paper about a kind of melon being grown in Terrenganu, in Malaysia.

Here are the photo of the paper posting.

The Star Friday 3 Nov 2017

Advantages:
Compared to the rock melon, it has the following advantages:
- easier to pollinate - rock melon requires a  manual pollination, whereas the sweet melon uses natural pollination.

- No need to wrap the fruit like rock melon.

- Can be planted 3 sessions per year.

- Attract a higher price. rm4 to rm 6 per kg.

Trees for Cities

About 30 years ago, DBKL planted a variety of fast growing trees. The idea was, to quickly transformed KL to a city within forest. Now the very same trees are giving DBKL problems. They are no longer healthy, they are not able to withstand tropical storms. A number of cases, the trees collapsed on vehicles and peoples on foot, causing death and destruction.

The Star 27 Feb 2017

 The following trees are deemed to be unsuitable, and to be replaced...
- Acacia
- Angsana
- hujan hujan
- jemerlang laut
- khaya
- petai belalang
- tecoma

The suitable trees are:
- keruing
- merawan siput jantan
- sepetir
- tanjung

The new trees are slow growers

Price Check on Malaysian Fig Prices

BB. Here is another price tracking dated 15 Sept 2016
It is another FB posting, and I am giving him extra exposure...
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Muhammad Faizal Sanip

23 hrs

Pelbagai anak pokok tin stabil untuk dijual.Berminat. hubungi Faizal 0123788797

RM80

Kampung Budiman, Meru, Klang

Yellow Labanese rm150
Verde Branco Giganta rm350
Gulgun rm300
Green ischia rm140
China White Rm150
Super Jumbo rm130
Excel rm130
Red Khutmani Big rm120
Ibg rm80
Md rm80
Btm6 rm80
D0an banyak lagi..
Harga Dari rm80 Dan keatas ya.. tq

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AA. It may sound crazy, but the price of the seedlings is too high.

Here is a snap shoot

price sample

Look at the price of manresa fig, at rm 530, more than the basic salary of poor Malaysian.

Planting On Ground - My IBT Fig

Planting on the ground has a lot of advantages. You do not worry about too much water, as the drainage is better.

The Green Jordan that was planted 10 Sept 2016

After the planting, it rained heavily for 2 days, so was worried that the new plant will be flooded.

So I devised a method to cover it. This was why the plastic sheet appeared over the seedling.

The cover and I hope the wind is not too strong to blow it away

Planting My Fig on Ground

I have decided to move some of my plant to ground. This is because, planting on ground will grow  a bigger tree, reduce the chance of water stagnation.

So on 6 Aug 2016, I moved 2 trees, mikael and BTM6 from pots to ground.

The fig trees are placed beneath shades of palm branches

My Fig Mikael happily under the shade on 11 Aug 2016 

The Lemon Grass

About Lemon Grass

Planting On Commercial Scale:

There are many suggested methods of planting the lemongrass. These

are some of the methods:

a. plants the grass in rows, 4 feet between rows. On each row, the distant

is 3 feet. This is sometime known as 4x3 planting.

b. On each spot, you can plant 1 seedling . 3, or 5. It depends on you situation, if the seedling is costly, then plant 1, if you are doing a replanting where you have many free seedlings, then put 5. You can plant in 2 holes or 3, but not too many in 1 hole.

If you put only 1 seedling, then you have to replace it within 2 weeks, if the seed dies.

Some Locations, It does grow well

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. After a month: Fertize it

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Load t o the pick up and ready for the market.

My Air Layered Fig - MD1 AB

I had reproduced the MD fig tree by the process of airlayer.

This was the plant that I bought on 18 may 2016.

So far I had made 2 seedlings, I called it  by the alphabets A and B. So the new seedling is MD1 A. MD1 is the parent. If I were to buy another MD tree, it is called MD2.

This is the second seedling...

air layered plant MD1B 

My Fig Garden - My Collections

Date 9 June 2016
Additional 4 more trees.
1. purple jordan
2. green jordan
3. btm6
4. btm6



Date 7 June 2016
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And today, I bought more varieties.

1 LSU gold and the other was BK?, I have to get it correct.

LSU is the long one, about 12 inches long

The LSU needs support, it is too tall

Date: 1 June 2016,  I bought three more varieties of my fig trees. All are from NT
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There were:
- alma
- wuhan
- bellone - but the seller is not so sure as the name tag had disappeared.

I am hoping to increase my collection to 20 varieties and keep 3 trees per variety. That will be alot, 60 trees around my little house.

from left bellone, alma and wohan

with the above three, my collection has become 15.

I intend to stop at variety of 15 figs

My New Interest in Fig Tree

I had revived my interest in tropical farming. This time it will be in home farming, that mean I am planting fig tree around my home only.

In my last entry, I talk about the first tree is fruiting fter only 4 months. The price of fresh fig fruits is too expensive in Malaysia. The seedling is worst still.

The high price can be deterrent, and at the same time it can be s motivation, depending on which side you are on.

Here are some of the plants that I am starting to grow...