Grapes, grapes and grapes.

Feeling ecstatic starting on my journey into grapes. Was talking to a few friends and yes, team up to start a grape farm, here in Selangor, Malaysia.










Currently starting off with some cuttings and a couple of rooted plants. Plan to start off a small area, about 24 plants as mother tree. These shall contribute scions for future grafting. Currently already have Isabella, IAC, Jupiter and Dixon in hand. Would like to increase the varieties and see which perform best in lowland. I can still recalled that I killed 2 grapes plants before so am treating this with more caution.

My strategy is to establish a small size plot of mother tree. Create more planting material via cuttings for future planting. Area had been identified and work shall start pretty soon.



Grapes should be a good crop to compliment the Figs that we are currently having. In terms of marketing, it's just an add on. Production and care is pretty similar too, so our helpers should not find this too difficult.

Health benefits from Grapes are pretty high. And being a healthy fruit, it goes in line with our "Farm to Folk to Wellness" Eco-tourism concept.

This is also a good opportunity to showcase some of the products that I am an Ambassador of, such as MARDI BioRichar, BlackGold, AgroSol, BioJadi and etc. I only realized that on our packing of MARDI BioRichar there are grapes pictures on it.

 Some planning of establishing the planting.

 Sending some of the mother trees for dripping via fertigation.












The cuttings are very matured and can start flowering soon. Hope to get some grapes next year .
















As usual, grapes are not spared from pest. Would like to minimize the use of pesticide, almost chemical free so that my wife can enjoy the grapes, just like she is enjoying our minimal chemically grown figs. (my wife is a Interstitial Cystitis patient).

Happy Grape planting,. 

AgroSol, Carbon Dioxide enhancement in Malaysia.

100% Natural, 100% Organic, 100% Bee Friendly!

Market development of Agrosol in Malaysia
Scientists warn of 'ecological Armageddon' after study shows flying insect numbers plummeting 75%

After 2 spray, new leafs.

Was searching for research papers for Carbon dioxide enhancement in Malaysia and couldn't find much on the internet. Had been checking with my associates and was told, yeah, people are using this in Malaysia.Maybe people that is using this is off line. Since getting on board to promote Agrosol, I need to create more awareness, especially on-line for a long term approach.

Had been relying on the supporting documents on AgroSol's web page and was happy to learn that they are 100% organic and natural. Latest certification is Bees friendly. The basic concept of spraying AgroSol, let it absorbed through the leafs and increase photosynthesis is simple enough and should work.

I went around the apartment spraying AgroSol on my own and the landscaping plants as a trial to see if it works. I find that some of the plants have this waxy leafs and the spray just kind of run off. I then remember that we have to add some surfactant / wetting agent.

Found 2 posting in Facebook, someone had tested it on Figs & Mango. It seems that these plants react differently to AgroSol. The Figs reacted to produce more buds. The Mango produce more leafs.

I bought a fig plant for testing of the AgroSol on fig. Am initiating some trials for Durian, Avocado, Turf grass and Rockmelon. Data should be available soon. Trying to contact more commercial people to do trial. Should you have interest, kindly contact me. Am trying to arrange close to Kuala Lumpur first due to logistic reasons.

Fig, transferred into recycle bag, filled with BioRichField & BioRichar

Testing different concentration on Turf grass.

Theoretically, it should work well. I have limit the variances to

Method of delivery, getting the AgroSol into the stomata.
My thinking is that delivery pressure and water droplet size affects delivery. Temperature and humidity level too. Adding a wetting agent helps and reduce the absorption time from 2 hours.Wetting / sticking agent help in rainfastness. Absorption is also enhanced by spraying to top & bottom side of the leaf. Different plants have different leaf physiology. Some have waxy coating, some have many small hairs, hindering delivery.
AgroSol's literature indicated delivery pressure of 3 to 4 bar and a nozzle diameter of 100 to 300 microns.

Concentration, different concentration for different plants.
AgroSol's literature indicated 1:66 to 1:266 and just a fine layer. My office suggested 1:400 to 1:600. I am still trying to find out what concentration work best for what plants. Optimizing the concentration, based on plants and stage of growth.

Start spraying

Frequency
AgroSol's literature indicates we can start spraying from the 2 leaves stage. At 10 to 14 days interval. I am in the opinion of optimizing frequency to the stage of growth & types of plants. My initial trials for rockmelon suggested that we need to increase frequency as the growth rate is rather fast (75 days cycle). For these fast growing plants, we can do more (photosynthesis) to more leaves in between the 14 days. I also feel that the current health condition prior to spraying also affects the out come. A plant in not good health shall need to recuperate first before new growth.

Expecting so data to be available in the coming weeks. Also expecting to do more trials on different plants. Stay tune.

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