Parcel 2, What A Surprise.

Parcel 2 is one of the least visited Parcel, due to accessibility. The only remaining vehicle (purely 4X4 only) access, is that we have to go out back to the main access road, travel further up, then turn into a primary road. Road condition is purely for 4x4, and if it's wet, better don't even try. When you arrive, you'll need to pass through this door way to enter. Kind of like a tunnel.
This time, we used the 'short cut' from Parcel 1. This road is no longer accessible, we shall drive to the small creek and proceed by foot.

This innocent looking small creek does carry plenty of water when it rain. It run across the access road and crated a deep ravine across the road.

This actually cuts us off, otherwise we would have a nearer access. Shall ponder on this on a later date.

On the lower terrace, this are mostly planted on a latter date. I found only one plant infected by coccidae, black scale. This time we know what to do. Just clean off all the scale.
There are many types of vein type of weeds here. Some are parasitic / invasive.

I have to pry it out as it had embedded itself through the bark of the rubber tree, drawing nutrient from it. I guess it is slowly try to take over the rubber tree. Looks scary to me. Other vein types of weeds include the normal easily disposed type. There was one with sharp thorns.

 On the higher terrace, these were those that were planted in phase one, almost immediate after Parcel 1. Most trees have vigor growth (other than those affected by coccidae).

My surprise came when I notice the trunk size. It is bigger comparatively. All along have the impression that Parcel 1 was doing well and had been using it as the 'yardstick'. Also planning that Parcel 3 should be 'chasing' up to Parcel 1. Now our 'yardstick' shall be Parcel 2.
Had did some result and the average girth size are Year 1 = 5 cm, Year 2 = 10 cm, taken at 1m from ground.
Harvesting can be done when 80 % of the trees have a girth size of 45 cm, 1.5 m from ground or 1.25 m from union (graft joint) (base on yr 2008 study). Got to start collecting some measurement on the next visit.

 My walkabout, found 3 trees with Hevea Bark Necrosis, Trunk Phloem Necrosis (TPN). It's a stress like disease that kills the rubber tree.  One was totally death, but two survived.

I noticed some fungus like growth, common on the 2 survivor. Tried cleaning off the fungus by rubbing them off. Hopefully they shall do better.
After doing our maintenance at Parcel 2, that is fertilizing, pruning and weed control, we immediately sat down to have a meeting to shortlist what we had done to Parcel 2 that is different / same from Parcel 1 and 3. Parcel 2 & 3 has better growth than Parcel 1. The common factors are no banana trees on Parcel 2, Parcel 3 just planted. Used EM with chicken dung & rice husk. Have to verify the banana trees and check on growth rates in Parcel 1 that has no banana trees. Contemplating to re-initiate EM. If we can maintain this growth rate and duplicate it to the other parcel, we can start harvesting sooner.
There are also plenty of idle land in Parcel 2. Due to the accessibility, this shall be taking a back seat. During this trip, I noticed that there are lots of honey bees, maybe a good source of income, if we know how to domesticates them. Our trial sweet potatoes patch was dug up most probably by wild boar.
Looking forward to our next visit.