Nursery At Our Little Farm

Had been working on our nursery since last year, after we planned on producing value added products for our farm. We started off initially producing banana suckling for our plantation. Our nursery had grown since then.

On the bananas, we now have variety which we like such as berangan, emas, kerling and saba. We also have other varieties which we shall discontinue as we feel that it's not suitable.

Our Chinese yam, sucklings are produce in-house. We are now at the 4th generation.

Papaya seedling are already in progress, we are now producing the Mas Solo varieties. Seeds were taken from the trees we planted back in April last year. First batch of about 150 plants had already been transferred into poly bags. Papaya seeds maybe the easiest to germinate.

The first batch of Agarwood, didn't went as smooth as anticipated. Due to the recent heavy rain, it's infected with Phytophthora fungal. Had already had some mortality. Punched holes on the poly bag to increase drainage. Organized and counted to be about 590 plants. Also I may had send it for hardening too early. Had put up a shade netting of D 70.

Soursop plant-lets are at the hardening stage, estimated to be about 150. May not be grafting soursop as it bear fruits quite early, about 3 years. This takes the longest time to germinate.

Jackfruits, we have plenty. I guess I was not successful on the grafting on the previous batch is that the rootstock could be too small. It should be at 'pencil' size. Had added another qualifier, that it should have mature leaves (3 lobed). Ao far had only managed 2 plant-lets, that was transferred to field planting. Another 5 in the waiting. Looks like I need to put in more effort here.

We now have 3 types of lime. The numbers of plant-lets is only at 14.

Rubber seedlings, estimate to be in the region of 350. I tried germinating 200 seeds. Had also pulled about 250 seedlings that germinated from the rubber plantation next door. Looks like we may not need to germinate, as it's lesser work, just to collect from the rubber plantation. Grafting, had not had any success yet.

Avocado, we are already on the 3rd batch. Had transferred about 40 successfully grafted plants to the field.

Other seedling that we are preparing are breadfruit, chempedak and manggo. There are still plenty more to learn. The numbers of successfully grafted plants are still low. Am working hard on it.  These shall keep me busy for a while. Planning to finish off my chaos and be home for the Chinese New Year celebration. Stay tune for our next update.