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Brilio.net - Utilizing land at home to grow vegetables and fruits is a useful activity. Various types of plants can be cultivated with consistent care. The harvest from these plants can be used for personal consumption or sold to others.
Tomato plants are one of the favorite choices to be cultivated at home. Providing the right and sufficient nutrition is very important for the growth of tomatoes . The use of kitchen ingredients such as salt and flavorings can be an economical nutritional alternative.
A video on the BALI ORGANIK TV YouTube channel shows an alternative way of providing nutrients for tomato plants. Two types of kitchen dregs are used as effective nutrients to fertilize plants. This method is an option for people who do not want to use kitchen spices as plant nutrients.
The first ingredient needed is the remaining pulp from carrot vegetables. Before use, the carrot pulp must be soaked in a container filled with water and covered for 24 hours first. The owner of the YouTube account BALI ORGANIK TV explained that carrots have nutrients such as potassium, calcium, zinc, and manganese which are very good for plants.
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The next day, separate the soaking water and carrot dregs, because this time only the water will be used. However, don't throw away the carrot dregs right away, this material can be used as solid plant compost later. Well, the carrot dregs soaking water can then be mixed with another type of kitchen waste, namely water from washing rice.
Carrot and rice dregs are the secret of the owner of the YouTube account BALI ORGANIK TV to always successfully care for fertile tomato plants. However, the liquid from these two kitchen dregs must also be mixed with sufficient rice husk charcoal, so that the acidity level is right and does not harm the plants.
"This liquid has a pH of 6, so to overcome this, we use rice husk charcoal. Because rice husk charcoal has a pH of between 8 and 9, it is alkaline. We hope that with a high pH, this solution will be more neutral and good for our plants," he explained, quoted by BrilioFood from YouTube BALI ORGANIK TV on Tuesday (12/11).
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After being mixed well, this plant fertilizer liquid is ready to be poured onto the tomato plant. The owner of the BALI ORGANIK TV YouTube account explained that each plant can be given 200 to 250 ml of this liquid. In addition, don't forget to clean the planting medium from weeds or wild grass and loosen the planting medium before watering.
"This material is safe to use even when the plant is flowering, it will not cause leaf loss because the material is light, it can be given to the plant once a week," he added.
In addition, this plant fertilizer solution from carrot and rice dregs can also be used on other types of plants. Usually, in addition to tomatoes, the owner of the BALI ORGANIK TV YouTube account pours it on chili plants, long beans, guava trees, and so on.
photo: YouTube/BALI ORGANIK TV
How, are the plant care tricks from netizens on the BALI ORGANIK TV YouTube account really interesting? The upload that has been watched 132 thousand times has also received a lot of enthusiasm from netizens in the comments column, you know.
"Great, bli. Thanks for the input. I have carrots at home. Btw, sticky corn is a local product in our area, in Petumbea. Can the plants and corn cobs be used as POC too? Or can it only be used as leaf compost?" asked YouTube @gracekarunia8641 which received the reply "Can be used as POC or compost, my friend," from the account owner.
"Greetings organic gardening......the presentation of how to garden/livestock organically...is very extraordinary...Bli...what I need to ask is, is it normal for us to need 2 to 3 weeks to make poc? Can we add more ingredients during the process? Thank you Bli....for the enlightenment...," added YouTube @bambangsoedarmono7924 and was answered, "It's best to wait until it goes through the fermentation process before adding the ingredients."
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