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As the tittle suggests, I will explain more about the chili tree in my garden. There are many things that make me like chili, one of which is the 'spicy' taste of chili that cannot be obtained from other vegetables. I tried to grow peppers, but it always failed and I was very helpless in learning it.
Often I am very jealous of some people who can grow peppers, because peppers are quite expensive and it is not a culture in Indonesia. Paprika is usually found in some foreign foods, not Indonesian. But, I like pizza, so, paprika is my favorite. Paprika does not have a taste that is as spicy as chili, but, it tastes so similar to fruit, there is sour and spicy together.
I am also still confused, the classification of chili itself is called a fruit or vegetable? Same as tomatoes and peppers. But, should chili be called a vegetable because it is impossible for people to eat chili like eating pineapple? It tastes so spicy. But, we can know that chili is a simple ingredient, a food complement. Chili is very strange, always must be in a dinner or lunch for me and the local Indonesian people.
There are many things happening in my garden this time, such as the chili tree that has just started to grow some chilies that are shy to appear. This is the first fruit, the result of several months of this chili tree growing. Although it takes a while to bear fruit, but, I like the tall chili tree. This tree is about 1.6cm tall. besides that, there are 2 other trees that are still very small, only a few weeks old. Instead I am afraid that the other trees are easily damaged by pest attacks.
Several times I started making planting media from a mixture of soil, organic fertilizer from goat manure, burnt rice husks and fertile brown rice husks. This is all for several vegetable plants that I decided to use only soil. Like eggplant trees and chili trees. I prefer them to grow in pots with soil, because it is not a hassle to always be aware of the water for hydroponics. But, the thing I hate is the caterpillars that will attack the leaves of my vegetable plants like what happened to this eggplant tree.
The leaves look like they have a lot of holes, whether it's from caterpillars or pests, but what's clear is that I don't like them. They attack these valuable living things, which will then produce healthy and nutritious food. I'm sad but as long as the tree is still strong enough to survive, I will keep it.
Another thing happened in several hydroponic boxes, all of them looked empty except for the small water spinach. I had to sell some of them because there was an order for seedlings to my acquaintance to be used for a hydroponic exhibition. So this time I was late in putting some seedlings in the hydroponic box.
The seedlings are still in the condition as above, it is still very risky to move them, but I have started to put in water containing AB Mix fertilizer liquid in a small concentration. Around 500-700 ppm, usually for pak choy vegetables it is around 1000-1400 ppm.
There is also water spinach that has not been moved in the box, because I am still calculating the ratio for those that will be divided into 2 groups, pak choy and water spinach. I plan to plant more pak choi, because the demand is quite high to fulfill several orders.
Call me Isdarmady, because I have a full name that is very long, namely Isdarmady Syahputra Ritonga. I am a head of the family who work as Farmers Vegetables Hydroponic and Consultant Hydroponics, sometimes I also sell coffee from various regions in Indonesia.
I have expertise dispensing coffee with a variety of techniques and tools brewing, because I have the desire to make a coffee shop with hydroponics as centerpieces. Help me realize that dream.
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