Feed 5–7 Days Early: Ripening, Flower Buds, Leaf Shape

When should each stage's prescription go on, and how do you read from the plant which stage it is in?

The Korean prescription handout (XFLH5606) is projected until about 2:02:40, then the rice chart (DJSS5255) again. Audience members ask about missed timing, coffee and papaya, the moon calendar, and avocado and lychee years, mostly relayed in Korean by the interpreter. From about 2:18:00 Cho draws leaf shapes on the flip chart: a long leaf, a triangle and a round leaf, then a branch carrying all three.

• Changeover (교대기): flower buds — Handout (shown, not read item by item): BRV 1:500; fermented juice 1:500 (acacia flower, 동자액, fruit ferment); OHN 1:1000; (FAA) 1:1500–2000; WCP 1:1000; WCA 1:1000; LAB 1:1500–2000; Mineral D 1:1000. Spoken: give it one week before the flower-bud date (June 24 for June 30). Cho stresses calcium phosphate (Structure, WCP) here, and says trees that flower and fruit at once, like coffee, need the changeover feeding for longer. No spoken rates.
• Type 3 (3형): sizing the fruit — Handout (shown, not read item by item): BRV 1:500; fermented juice 1:2000–3000 (acacia flower, fruit ferment); OHN 1:1000; (FAA) 1:1500–2000; WCP 1:1000; WCA 1:1000; seawater 1:20–25; Mineral A 1:1000; IMO No. 4 liquefied; 활성 1호 0.2 L / 20 L; 활성 2호 0.2 L / 20 L (the last two not explained). Spoken: give it a week before Type 3 begins (June 30 example). No spoken rates.
• Ripening promotion (숙기촉진): the brix shot — Handout: BRV 1:500; OHN 1:1000; water-soluble calcium (WCA) 1:1000; seawater 1st spray 1:30 (3.33 L per 100 L water), 2nd 1:25 (4 L), 3rd 1:20 (5 L); Mineral E 1:1000; '※ harvest 10–15 days before'. Spoken: Cho starts it 'a week before harvest' for mango, banana or papaya, sprays a week apart, and says sugar rises 2–3% (the interpreter later says 3%). The start differs: one week spoken, 10–15 days printed. Cho adds purslane (쇠비름) Food (FPJ) at about 1:1000 for color and shine; it is not on the Korean handout. Green-plant FPJ is left out because its nitrogen delays ripening.
• Rainy-year correction — Cho: in a rainy, cloudy year, give about double the calcium phosphate you'd give in a dry year. Interpreter: give calcium and water-soluble calcium phosphate together, extra. No base rate given here.

1. The prescriptions go by stage: seed and seedling, Type 2 for the trunk, changeover, Type 3 for the fruit, then ripening

   Cho points at each column of the projected handout.

   ▶ 1:55:10 From the handout

2. Ripening spray a week before harvest of mango, banana or papaya raises sugar 2–3%

   Cho says a week before harvest; the handout says 10–15 days before. Seawater gets stronger each time: 1:30, then 1:25, then 1:20, a week apart (3.33, 4 and 5 L per 100 L on the handout).

   ▶ 1:55:57 As spoken

3. Green-plant Food (FPJ) is left out at ripening: its nitrogen delays ripening

   Cho's answer to an audience member who noticed no FPJ in the column. Never put into English.

   ▶ 1:57:57 As spoken

4. The exception: purslane Food (FPJ) at about 1:1000 in the ripening spray, for color and gloss

   Mango and papaya get good color and a shiny skin; 'it makes very high-grade fruit.' Cho: a purslane leaf is brilliant against the sun. Coffee gets its color too.

   ▶ 2:01:06 As spoken

5. Seawater, calcium and Medicine (OHN) at ripening raise the sugar; coffee tastes much better

   Cho's sentence breaks off at 'the sugar…'; the interpreter gives 'like 3% higher'.

   ▶ 2:01:28 As spoken

6. Give each stage's prescription 5 days to a week before the stage begins

   'If you give it then it won't line up, because there's time needed to absorb it. So give it five days ahead, it fits exactly, and you hit a home run.' He read the whole type sequence off the rice chart while saying it. Here (2:03:07) he says five days; at 2:10:00 and 2:17:16 he says a week, as he did for June 24 on Friday morning.

   ▶ 2:03:07 As spoken

7. Missed the window? Still give it

   Answer to an audience question about missing the 5 days from inexperience.

   ▶ 2:06:03 As spoken

8. The flower is made during the changeover (보전생장), long before it opens; give calcium phosphate then

   An open flower means 'the baby is already born'. A living thing that isn't the mother grows in her body, so prepare: give calcium phosphate. On trees that flower and fruit together, like coffee, the changeover feeding runs longer.

   ▶ 2:06:52 As spoken

9. Flowers that open this spring were made last year, between the end of June and July 5

   Heard as '6월 31일' (June 31, no such date). The interpreter said only 'June to July'.

   ▶ 2:07:47 As spoken

10. If flower buds form June 30, give the changeover prescription June 24, a week before, and many buds are made

    Here Cho says a week ahead; at 2:03:07 he said 5 days. Both are kept.

    ▶ 2:10:00 As spoken

11. Repeated changeover sprays on papaya, eggplant and tomato worked because one of them hit the timing

    A farmer said giving it more often worked better. Cho: it isn't that more often is better; early, middle or late, one application hit the right moment, because these plants flower and fruit at once.

    ▶ 2:11:04 As spoken

12. The date matters, but watching the growth stage matters more

    Answer to a question about moon phases. 'When you get married, do you fix the number of days until you have a baby?'

    ▶ 2:12:28 As spoken

13. Rice: one leaf at planting, two after about a week, transplant at 5–6 leaves, pregnant at 10–11; late pregnancy June 27 to July 2

    Matches the chart (말기 6/27–7/2). If by those dates the plant hasn't reached 10–11 leaves, compare date and leaves and take the middle.

    ▶ 2:13:10 As spoken

14. Read the stage from the leaf: long = Type 2 (spring), triangle = Type 3 (summer), round = Type 4 (fall)

    Drawn on the flip chart. On one fruit-tree branch the lowest leaves are round, the middle triangular, the tip leaves long. New leaves look like Type 2.

    ▶ 2:18:02 Written on the board

15. Many long leaves at harvest mean too much nitrogen, and lower-sugar fruit

    Phosphate and calcium are short; nitrogen-loving bugs and disease come.

    ▶ 2:21:29 As spoken

16. Alternate bearing (해거리) follows last year's weather

    After a dry year, many flowers and heavy fruit; if the year before was rainy, the tree doesn't bear. Asked about avocado and lychee years in Hawaiʻi.

    ▶ 2:24:49 As spoken

17. In a rainy, cloudy year, give about double the calcium phosphate

    Clouds cut photosynthesis, so fewer stored nutrients are made and fewer flowers form; heavy rain also brings nitrogen down.

    ▶ 2:25:57 As spoken

18. Bring a rice plant or a cut branch to the next seminar; Cho can read it at a glance

    Two courses a year for five or six years and natural farming will be settled in Hawaiʻi. Japanese farmers bring their crops.

    ▶ 2:27:55 As spoken