I am a man for the hands of the farmer and I know to become a great man for the wisdom of the farmer.
Earlier this year, I planted about 3000 Okra seeds in my garden. And fortunately, 2800 seeds survived. I was looking at my okra growing when my garden became a bed of flowers, especially when my garden came.
Okra is one of the wonderful plants that gives both food and theater scenery in the garden. When the okra flower develops further, it becomes a healthy pod. This is a wonderful vegetable with a proven track record included in the menu.
Four months after I began harvesting okra, I decided to prepare my garden for purification purposes. At this stage my okra certainly fulfilled its purpose. It gave me not only delicious pods but also extra income.
After cleaning my garden, I could not help but since I missed my lovely okra, I decided to plant for the second success again. Like my predecessor, it was a smooth green varieties and very strong plants.
As happened in the early batch, the new group of Okura displayed its wonderful flowers and covered the entire garden every time it blooms. " Soon, I will eat a cup of fresh and healthy okra pod ", I told myself.
I knew that the leaves were rolled, began to atrophy, and were a leaf disease (Cercospora abelmoschi) until the day when I realized that my okra leaves were abnormal. It is a warm weather disease that affects a significant proportion of my okra population. It is welcomed by an aggressive fungus that promotes okra's plant withering and detachment.
Since I do not want to use synthetic fungicides in my garden, I decided to eradicate all the infected okra and bake it so as not to spread the disease.
Okra's spot disease is the most common in the Philippines, especially the Mindanao Island. The following are pathogens of Okura disease.
Dump off ( Pycium sp. , Rhizoctonia sp. ). This is usually the result of seeding per area, high planting result against the season, meaning planting okra when the soil is too cold.
Southern Bright ( Sclerotium rolfsii ). Fungus usually infects the roots and stems of okra and withers as it progresses. A warm and humid weather is what the disease likes to carry the fungus, and unless treatment is done as soon as possible, there is a possibility of explosion at the field center. Signs of infection, including coarse white mold mitt, can often be observed on the soil line.
White mold ( Scleroderma ). This is a disease of Okra when it is exposed to a serious wet condition. The representation of pathogens includes the presence of a small black resting structure (mycorrhiza) and a cottony white mass (mycelium). Sclerotia is the source of the inoculum and can survive during the crop cycle.
Powder Millwood ( Parrot eye Asteris Penicey ). It usually occurs in the warm dry season. Fungi cover the upper and lower leaf surfaces with white mycelium. Severe infection causes leaves to roll forward, causing scorch
BLOSSOM BLIGHT / WET ROT ( Choanephora cucurbitarum ). Target of infection includes young flowers and old flowers, young fruits, wounded leaf tissues. As a result, newly flowering flowers will divide and disintegrate, and the affected area will often soften and fall to the ground.
In planting okra, we should consider the following:
1. Season of planting
2. Weather conditions and soil conditions
3. Necessity of crop rotation.
