Thanks everyone !

Just sawi only... it's painful if need to transfer the little fellow from plastic tray to land when they sprout...might kill the roots if not careful lol...

I guess if it's vege with many leaves just spread it on the ready plot of land and let them grow. If it's those that grow upward until knee length then use plastic tray to keep them safe.

Just curious, with huge piece of land you had, how you prevent wild animals or people coming in to curi your sayur ? Fence it ?

By the way, anyone rent these land before ? Looks cheap...RM250/acre... I think is from agrotourism kinta highlands...

http://www.mudah.my/Tanah+Pertanian+di+Kin...nd-14609236.htm

This post has been edited by Ohiki: May 14 2012, 01:52 PM

For Sawi, you may want to just spread the seeds on a raised bed, let it sprout and eliminate the weaker ones and weeds. This shall save some time and work.

With large acreage, it depends on your perception. Here (East Malaysia), we don't fence, wild animals / pest, we usually leave it and just consider sharing with them. They were here 1st anyway. As for people, we do welcome guest, at times we don't see much people in the more remote land. Anyway products at farm gate price is very low. We usually give away some produce to guest that come. Yes, we do have an experience of people curi 36 rubber trees that were planted for about 9 months. My helpers engaged a Bommoh to put a curse on the thief . Fencing is too high cost.

Land prices is very subjective. If you are in love with it, you'll may want to pay higher. If you have no use / do not like the land, you'll most probably don't want it, even if it's free. Bear in mind that there are lawyer's fee, quit rent and other expenses involved. Development cost is also very high, like access road.

$250/month X 240 acres = 60K/month = 720K/yr.
Internal infrastructure shall cost a lot. Unless you have a project in mind that can cover this expenses and make a profit.

Just sharing my personal opinion.

OMG...you curse the poor fellow

No problem, opinion is good.

Facing some bug attack on my jackfruit trees....haha

and I forgot to use "anti-hair fall shampoo" one of the tree

May I suggest the Jackei Chan Shampoo, by Bawang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bawang_Shampoo

Had 1 sour sop small tree, eaten by a numbers of caterpillars over night. Had no choice but to pick all of them off and kill them. 98% of the leaves are on gone. Good thing is that it recovers very fast.

Guys, check this out.

Jambu Batu - about 1kg per fruit. fuii yohhh..


Any one knows what this breed is?




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just wondering anyone here using fish bone fertiliser for your plants? any advice of where can i get them?

hi chinyen,

is it those fish meal fertiliser which comes in a blue metal drum ?

hehe i dont know. i bought the small 400gm pack to try and plan to buy in bigger quantity. i have enquired supplier from Johor , they quoted me rm1900/ton exclusive of delivery charges. i dont think i'm buying that much at the moment maybe around 100kg so i tried to enquire from the kl/selangor suppliers and still waiting for their reply.

i'm worried also if i'm buying the same thing. ts, is there many types of fish meal but they work the same o they dont if there is no difference in ratio of npk mentioned la. should i just buy from kl/selangor area? thanks

Hi Chinyen, just wondering if you can DIY? Like EM, I also tried doing from cheap salt water fish, which works very well too.

i thought of collecting the bones from eateries but i'm not too sure how to process them. whether to just crush them o smoke them first before crushing. i'm also worried that just crushing them will invite flies/pests

Maybe this can help?
 fish_amino_acids_faa_calcium_phosphate.pdf ( 93.4k ) Number of downloads: 58

thanks ya!!!

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Added on May 27, 2012, 5:17 amthanks ya, trhat's very useful.

This post has been edited by chinyen: May 27 2012, 05:17 AM

Hi Chinyen,
Came across this during web surfing.
http://www.kl2010.biz/
Do check out their SCIENTIFIC STUDIES ON THE USAGE OF CHITOSAN.

ok, thanks mr farmer^^

they would work perfectly on my mother's orchid. she was previously using those raw clam juice to fertilise her orchids.

This post has been edited by chinyen: May 30 2012, 03:56 PM

Actually I didn't know about this. I only know about Chitosan as fat burning, for weight lost.

kehe..so was i. i thought it's a supplement. but for plants as well haha

De-suckering Banana trees.

Any tips on how to de-sucker the banana suckers from the parent tree without affecting the stability of the mother tree? I find that after de-suckering, the mother tree losses it's grip on the soil and may tend to topple easily.

anyone knows where can i buy grafting tape here? thanks.

mr farmer, can big pvc pipe help? cut the prefered height and then cut some of the wall off to fit throught the tree trunk without hurting the tree and hammer it down around the tree?

I bought the grafting tape from those agri-shop (similar to hardware shop). Chinyen , you good @ grafting? Am about to start learn grafting Avocado trees, just waiting for it to grow to a bigger size to start. Also still studying from u-tube and internet You got any suggestion?

Big PVC are a bit costly here. Hammering it close may disrupt the roots? Am presently using wooden stick (recycled) to prop the banana trees that are not vertical and weak.