Baby Food by Age: Mugwort FPJ First, Fruit FFJ Later

Which Food does a crop need while it builds its body, and when does it switch to fruit and flower juice?

Still at the flip chart, with the projector showing only a blank screen. Under the weekly spray formula from the last page, Cho writes '1~15 DROPWART MUGWART' with 'Fe Mn' over them (first written the wrong way round, then crossed), then '15~25 과실 꽃 FFJ', and marks 1—15 and 15—25 under the three weeks of 1–7. The flip chart comes down at about 42:30 so the projector can be used.

• Food for the body-building stage — Food (FPJ) of mugwort (쑥) and water dropwort (미나리), once a week (Cho). No dilution spoken. The handout (XFLH5606) gives 발효액 (쑥·미나리) 1:500 in the seed and seedling column, and 1:500 (mugwort, dropwort, 동자액 young green fruit) in Type 2.
• Food for the flowering and fruiting stage — Food (FFJ) of ripe fruit or fully opened flowers, once a week (Cho and interpreter). On a mango carrying big and small fruit, use the juice made at that flowering time. No dilution spoken. The handout gives 1:500 (acacia flower, 동자액, fruit ferment) at the changeover and 1:2000–3000 (acacia flower, fruit ferment) in Type 3, so the printed Type 3 rate is much weaker than the earlier stages.

1. Like a child of 1 to 15, a young crop gets Food (FPJ) of mugwort and water dropwort

   Board: '1~15 DROPWART MUGWART' with 'Fe Mn' over them. The body is being built, so it needs iron and manganese.

   ▶ 22:04 Written on the board

2. Mugwort carries more iron; water dropwort carries more manganese

   First said the other way round, with 'magnesium' for manganese. Dr. Park corrected it from the room, and Cho's own Korean at 26:15 confirms: mugwort iron, dropwort manganese.

   ▶ 24:02 As spoken

3. Ages 1 to 15 are the body-building years, so iron and manganese are needed in quantity

   Cho's picture: a child's body is being built fast; so is a young crop's.

   ▶ 29:03 As spoken

4. Past that, there's no need to build the body: switch to fermented flowers and setting fruit (FFJ)

   Cho says 'past twenty' here; the board and his later Korean say 15–25. The interpreter said '20 to 45'.

   ▶ 29:18 As spoken

5. When the crop flowers and sets fruit, give the juice made at that stage

   Cho at the board: a mango tree carries big and small mangoes at once; give the fermented juice of the flowering time. Same family of Food, different kind.

   ▶ 30:48 As spoken

6. Ages 15–25: Food (FFJ) of ripe fruit or fully opened flowers

   Board: '15~25 과실 꽃 FFJ'. At this age the body stops getting bigger and the job becomes raising a baby, so not mugwort or dropwort but fruit or flower juice works best.

   ▶ 31:23 Written on the board

7. The switch comes at about one third of the plant's growth

   Interpreter: 'when their height is one third of that crop… a three meter crop… one foot high'. Cho's Korean, partly audible, seems to count the leaves the crop grows over a whole year. Not settled.

   ▶ 33:48 As spoken

8. Weekly: first half, mugwort and dropwort once every week; second half, fruit or flower once every week

   Cho: 'then the nutrition is balanced.' The interpreter turned this into 'two weeks'.

   ▶ 35:07 As spoken

9. Don't wait to treat a disease; match the nutrition so it doesn't come

   Cho's prevention-first rule; the interpreter gave only 'they will grow very healthy'.

   ▶ 36:12 As spoken

10. Run comparison plots until you can read the crop at a glance

    Treat one plot this way and another that way, watch them grow, and the process gets into your body: one look and you see what you did wrong.

    ▶ 36:40 As spoken

11. One of Cho's teachers was a grandmother of 78; he was about 30

    She taught by history and old stories: her parents farmed by watching the seasons and nature. His teacher in Japan stopped lecturing if a student sat crooked.

    ▶ 38:52 As spoken

12. The old farmers farmed with wisdom, watching nature; modern farmers farm with the head

    Modern people calculate and can't work out the answer. Old people cared about each other; now everything is calculated, 'so there's no warmth (정)'.

    ▶ 40:24 As spoken