The Season on One Table: Soil, Soak, Flowers, Sugar

What goes on the crop at each stage of the season, from soil to harvest, and why?

The last teaching block of the seminar. Cho and the interpreter stand at the projected table '영양주기에 따른 자연농업 처방', with columns for soil foundation, seed and seedling treatment, Type 2, changeover, Type 3 and ripening (숙기촉진); the frame at 32:45 is the clearest. Jars of solutions sit on the table in front. From 31:16 the interpreter walks the table in English herself. An audience member's lost notes interrupt at 32:37. At 49:59 the interpreter tells Cho in Korean that certificates and cleanup are waiting.

• Seedling soak (how to dip) — Cho: only the roots go in the solution. Keep the leaves out, and don't sink the plant past its 'nose'. The recipe itself is on page one of this session.
• Type 2 (after transplanting) — Cho names Type 2; the interpreter says Fuel (FAA) for nitrogen. No rate spoken. The table's Type 2 column is too blurry on video to read reliably. The Type 2 column was read aloud and checked against the handout photo on Saturday morning (session 6): BRV 1:500, FPJ 1:500, OHN 1:1,000, (FAA) 1:1,000, WCP 1:1,000, LAB 1:1,000, yeast 1:500, Mineral C 1:1,000.
• Changeover (교대기), from the projected table — Spoken: Structure (WCP) plus Mineral D. Read off the frame (low resolution): BRV 1:500; fermented juice 1:500 (acacia flower, fruit); OHN 1:1,000; FAA 1:1,500–2,000; WCP 1:1,000; WCA 1:1,000; LAB 1:1,500–2,000; Mineral D 1:1,000. The transcribed handout table for this column is jumbled with the Type 3 column, so this frame reading is the better source. It matches the handout photo used on Saturday morning (session 6).
• Type 3 (3형), from the projected table — Spoken: lots of calcium, and water-soluble calcium phosphate. Read off the frame (low resolution): BRV 1:500; fermented juice 1:2,000–3,000 (acacia flower, fruit); OHN 1:1,000; FAA 1:1,500–2,000; WCP 1:1,000; WCA 1:1,000; seawater 1:20–25; Mineral A 1:1,000; liquefied IMO4; 활성 1호 and 2호 at 0.2 L per 20 L (names as on the slide).
• Ripening (숙기촉진), from the projected table — Clear on the frame and the same as the transcribed handout table: Cleanser (BRV) 1:500; Medicine (OHN) 1:1,000; Reproduction (WCA) 1:1,000; Minerals (seawater) 1:30 the first time, 1:25 the second, 1:20 the third; Mineral E 1:1,000. Start 10–15 days before harvest. Seawater: 3.33 L in 100 L of water for 1:30, 4 L for 1:25, 5 L for 1:20. On Saturday morning (session 6) Cho said to start a week before harvest; three sprays a week apart fit the printed 10–15 days better.
• Shine on fruit (as the interpreter gave it) — Food (FPJ) 1:1,000, given here by the interpreter. Cho gave it himself on Saturday morning (session 6): purslane Food (FPJ) at about 1:1,000 for color and shine. It isn't on the table's ripening column.

1. The most important thing in farming is the soil: love it

   The room answered 'love'; Cho: 'the soil, the soil'. Soil is like a mother: all life comes up from it. Make it rich first and the farming is abundant.

   ▶ 29:47 As spoken

2. Building the soil starts with cover cropping (초생재배)

   The interpreter put it as 'start growing corn first'. The table's soil column also starts with cover cropping. She adds: plant corn, give IMO4, let it grow, knock it down, then the soil treatment solution.

   ▶ 30:27 As spoken

3. The season runs: soil solution, vegetative growth (nitrogen), flowering, fruiting, harvest, each with its own column

   The interpreter walking the projected table.

   ▶ 31:40 From the slides

4. Soak only the roots; if the solution wets the leaves, the plant 'catches cold'

   Water evaporating off the leaf takes heat from the plant (기화열, heat of vaporization), and then the roots develop poorly. Like getting rained on and needing cold medicine.

   ▶ 35:11 As spoken

5. Don't sink the seedling too deep: its 'nose' stays above the line

   You don't pull the blanket over a baby's face. Think of the crop as your baby and you'll know what to do.

   ▶ 37:01 As spoken

6. After transplanting: Type 2, Fuel (FAA) for nitrogen

   Cho names the stage; the interpreter names FAA. No rate spoken.

   ▶ 38:28 As spoken

7. At 'marrying age', prepare the plant for the changeover and lots of flowers open

   Cho: 시집갈 나이 (marrying age). The interpreter: the changeover solution goes on at the start of flowering.

   ▶ 38:56 As spoken

8. For lots of fruit next year, apply it this year from the end of June to early July

   Cho's Korean (Korean seasons). The interpreter said only 'the year before'. He goes straight on to calcium phosphate. On Friday morning (session 3) he put the start at June 24, a week before June 30.

   ▶ 39:20 As spoken

9. Fruit takes a lot of calcium phosphate: give Structure (WCP) and Mineral D

   The table's changeover column lists Mineral D 1:1,000.

   ▶ 39:47 As spoken

10. Mineral D is phosphate-rich rock, dissolved so the water inside the rock comes out

    Told with Moses striking the rock for water. Cho offers to show CGNF Hawaiʻi how to make it from local Hawaiʻi rock, take a little himself, and have it sold cheap. 'Let's do it while I'm young.'

    ▶ 40:06 As spoken

11. Once the plant is 'pregnant', Type 3: lots of calcium and water-soluble calcium phosphate

    The baby has to grow in there; growing is the principle of life.

    ▶ 43:23 As spoken

12. Ripening feed raises sugar and color; the sourness goes and consumers welcome the fruit

    The sourness and consumer point wasn't interpreted.

    ▶ 43:54 As spoken

13. Ripening: seawater 1:30, then 1:25, then 1:20, with BRV 1:500, OHN 1:1,000, WCA 1:1,000 and Mineral E 1:1,000, 10–15 days before harvest

    Read off the projected table. 1:30 = 3.33 L seawater in 100 L water; 1:25 = 4 L; 1:20 = 5 L.

    ▶ 32:45 From the slides

14. Cho would rather come to Hawaiʻi and visit your farms than have everyone fly to Korea

    Classes like this raise the level a lot. The interpreter said 'once every two months'; Cho's Korean was heard only as 'once in between'.

    ▶ 45:22 As spoken

15. Cho's view: mainland merchants will come asking for Hawaiʻi's food, and should need CGNF Hawaiʻi's permission to buy it

    This is his opinion, not a plan anyone agreed. The interpreter questioned it in Korean ('that doesn't make sense') and gave it in English as CGNF Hawaiʻi vouching for product quality.

    ▶ 47:50 As spoken

16. Cho's view: put out a little less than people want: if Hawaiʻi eats 10,000 eggs a day, sell 8,000 Natural Farming eggs

    A small shortage lifts the price. Also his opinion; no figures from a real market.

    ▶ 49:09 As spoken

17. Don't try to build paradise at once: start small, and it may be your children's or grandchildren's time

    'Who is the owner of this paradise?' The room said God. Cho: 'No, it's you.'

    ▶ 52:03 As spoken