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Aloha🌋The purpose is to divide. Divide they will conquer one mind at a time. You know who you are. Remember who you are. Let us recognize the reason for all the words, books, visuals, and tickling of our ears mean. A people divided against one another “can and will not stand together” The power belongs to the ones who have the larger army of God. Anyway why would anyone read this book. 🤔Curiosity? 🫨Reactive response? 😡Continued aggravation to the mind soul and body? To cause a reaction of anger or mistrust of each other? 🫠Let’s stop supporting the distractions that take to much time in our heads. Pray and stay focused on our Lord. He has a plan and your part of it. Amen Let’s come together so we can stand as one. Anyway???? Im just concerned that to many people are going to allow all this noise to make their bodies sick. Negative thought have a negative reaction to your own health. Our country was never divided if you look at who you surround yourself with. Well at least me in Hawaii. We have always been around multi cultural people from all over the word. If anything Hawaii is so migrated due to business men from the past bringing in serfs to serve their lives and work on their plantations. I do understand many areas do have many migrants. Many places in the mid and south either where the population is more of one race. Not Judging so please no harm. I’ve been to every southern state in search of buying a home, and that’s what I saw. One realtor joking told me Tennesse was a very white state except for Memphis since I am looking in tennesse where I found beautiful and filled with such kind people. Everyone was wonderful to me and curious to see a Hawaiian Native curious to hear the people have strong roots to their south. Hawaiians also have very strong roots to our Aina. (Land) we are all the same and serve the same God Lord Jesus Christ if you are a believer. Let us remember that and not continue to blow up any more dust of division by participating in their plans. Busy you time in doing good. I know you already do. Give no ear to darkness and it’s lies.
“United in Christ Jesus we stand divided we will fall” Hallelujah Let us pray for one another and for our country and be United in one cause….righteousness and Gods peace. Amen 🙏🏼
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Aloha🌋 I am not a doctor nor claim to be one. I have used pine needle tea for many years when I had a cold or inflammation issues. Drinking pine needle tea has amazing health benefits. Pin needle tea aid in lungs, kidneys, liver, heart, can reduce blood pressure, reduce inflammation, and is full of essential vitamins. Caution should be considered if you have allergies and not consume this tea. It’s the pine pollen that some people are allergic to.
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Aloha🌋🌺 Peppercorn is a finicky vine to grow. I live at a higher altitude where my humidity and temperature fluctuates from months in summer of 80-100+ degrees. My altitude is well over 2000feet above sea level. Winters are between 50-60 chill. I’ve grown peppercorn which love well drained low magnesium potassium rich soil which being volcanic I have a lot of so I high mulch every year. They are highly susceptible to phytophthora blight a soil borne pathogen, so be careful when you water. Also common for mosaic virus. If you have the vines to close and not enough air flow it will spread faster, so you have to watch. They thrive well with high nitrogen rich fertilizer, so I make chicken manure teas which are well brewed down and applied throughout the year year. I also apply rich bat guano once a year. They are not high maintenance once they take root but do take between 4-5 years to hold flowers or even bloom. They don’t do well when fruit set happens in direct sun, and aren’t happy with wet feet (roots). Peppercorn is a tropical vine and unless you can give the young plants hours of sunshine and holding temperatures of 60-80 degrees daily with humidity you many grow a vine but may be shy of blooming. I have some vines growing in a controlled green house that thrive and fail every year. Even in the tropics my altitude is a big struggle for many trees and plants. I do a lot of cultivating manipulations to get fruit in this new environment. If you do have a mature vine that’s at least five years old you can clone cuttings that may bloom in a year. Use only strong thick vine cuttings for success. Seeds on the other hand can take up to five years to possible have blooms. Most peppercorns have been manipulated. Ever used at this point has been manipulated or sterilized. Sorry to be the bad news bear. The seeds I’ve grown from are seed start vines from my grandma that’s been growing for over 100 years old. Alternatives …If you are looking for the heat and flavor of peppers for cooking. You should keep and ferment all your pepper seeds from your hot peppers you grow and use them for heat and flavor. It’s not peppercorn but it does give ya heat and pepper flavor after fermenting. Plus bonus fermenting seeds is good for your gut health. Hope this helps. God bless and happy planting🌱
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Aloha 🌋 O’ how blessed and wonderful. Can wait to hear more praise reports from ya. Continued success to ya. You know some may call it a waste but I get raw milk from a friends cow and water my tomato plants roots and soil with it for a couple weeks after their first blooms appear. The milks encourages strong plant growth
, and prevents blossom end rot, which is cause from calcium deficiency. Sharin’ God bless and keep ya
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Aloha🌋 Hawaii here ………..First above all else….🎉congrats🎊 on your second year of achieving and gaining success with every passing season. Don’t be discouraged fellow productive food grower. Tomatoes are very sensitive to temperature. They hate wet feet. Pollination sensitive also. Low 60 temperatures can cause ridged fruit and cat facing. Ya do know the fruit is still safe to eat if you want to try it. The key to all fruit set production is pollination and temperature. Water is most important after pollination accrues. It is then that water is important and needed to form large fat tomatoes, and cucumbers. Not to much! Not to little! Life is like that, right? 😉 Your cucumber also looks like it could be a pollination fail. Not to worry. Make sure the female flower and the male flower are clear of the large leaves so bees have easy access straight to them. Remove the larger leaves around them to encourage bees to easily fly to and fro.🐝 Free bees do a better job when they are not obstructed and can fly a clear path. Cucumbers are pollinated by insects also. Tomatoes are self pollinating as they have the male and female its and bits as one with the flower. 🤗
Don’t be to hard on yourself. Use that energy to try again. You did well. Hey my first garden I had beautiful tomato plants with lush large green foliage….and that’s all. I never got a flower and saw zero tomatoes till my third year. Not a blue ribbon winner either, but because I finally had one I grew after three years. I ate the whole thing and loved every juicy finger lick’n morsel. 🥰Ha ha ha
I would also encourage you to get books books books and more books for your specific area, pest and environmental pressures and read. Morning noon and night…read. You’ll need to learn fast with all that’s coming. The good thing is it’s possible for you to learn quickly when you have books on hand for references. Get a soil amendment book and learn the important rolls of nitrogen-phosphorous-potassium for root growth foliage growth and flower blooming support. A lot of people say test your soil but I did once maybe 18 years ago and never did again. Learn about watering properly to stay off disease. Also learn to plant according to moon season placement and hight it’s important. Frost dates in your area and follow the weatherman not the one on the tv. You got this and you can be successful as long as you don’t give up or worst not try by planting anything in a pot to 🌱sprout. Ok☺️
Hope this helps God bless you keep you always in His perfect peace and will. Keep pressing toward His prize. You’ll never know if you don’t always try.
Amen
Aloha🌺
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🌺Wow God is good and your harvest amazzzzing!
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Aloha 🌋looks as if your cuc’s hadn’t pollinated properly. Remove them immediately when you see that or let one that’s yellow to save seeds. You also shorten the life expectancy of the plant when you stress them with fruit that’s struggling it’s self. Plant bee attracting flowers around your plants to attract more bees maybe. I also remove the one big leaf from around flower clusters to help the bees fly in and out more freely. Feed your plants with ready available teas or ready available liquid fertilizer. Cuc’s are heavy consumers.
Container growing ;especially, in plastics are not an easy way to grow. Soil can get to hot and hold to much water if there’s not enough proper ventilation or irrigation which in turn causes soil born troubles. Mulch decomposition if not proper will also cause soil to become to hot when the decomposition process is in process and containers don’t allow enough airflow to cool the soil. Bottom holes isn’t enough. You also need holes on the sides. That will help your soil be healthy. I hate to confess it but container growing is not easy;especial, if you live in a hot or rainy area. I do raised bed, mounding and level farming and so many of the crops thrive outside on the ground much better than a container. It’s how God intended plants to grow, free like people. But as everything else, man wants to control the natural ways and cycles things are done and rule over even growing food crops. That’s why when we find a come again seed plant thriving without our assistant we are puzzled. Plant work through their struggles without us. I pray over every seed and plant we put in the soil.
“Lord here is a miracle as I hold a seed. You’ve blessed our farm with this gift which hold so much potential. Your seed from above. I place it in the soil as if in Your hands. Tilled the ground then sewed it in Your rich soil, water and feed good nutrients and speak Your Living Word over it daily. I always stand in awe when that tiny seed packed full of energy pushes its little🌱 self through the soil and soon becomes a thriving source of food.”
Don’t let this discourage you. Always start over and there are many well informed folks here to help support your success.
God bless
Aloha 🌺
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Aloha 🌋 Hawaii
Hawaiians always used the Aina (land) and Kai (ocean/sea) to resolve issues naturally because they understood there has to be balance to have an abundance. We use sea water or at times since we are quite a distance from the ocean, we get road salt from the feed store and add equip parts to water and spray. The salt dehydrate the sucker roots that take up the nutrients and the plants or weeds we don’t want die. You might have to spray a few applications but it does work well. You can then safely clear that area and repurpose the soil with decomposing matter if you want to grow anything.
We have bramble bushes that we brought here to contain cattle and it’s out of control everywhere on the mountains now.
Just a suggestion of what we do here in beautiful Hawaii.
Aloooooohaaaaa 🌺
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Aloha 🌋 That looks like it could be leaf fungus. It’s caused from both to much or to little moisture or not enough proper airflow. You can “try” treat organically with bicarbonate aka 1/2 tsp baking soda to a gallon of clean water. I did this three years ago when Hawaii was in a drought and had leaf fungus in my bean plants. Spray early in the morning and never water your garden plants even if it’s hot in the day. Remove any if you have those, fallen leaves from around your vegetable plant also because they also carry fungus if not properly decomposed before applying.
Another could be is particulate burns from the spraying we are all being bombarded by. In Hawaii the greenest place on earth we have forest dying just like the redwoods are in California. Nothing but prayer for that. 🙏🏼
So much Dying suddenly
🌺God bless I don’t know if this what’s going on but hope this helps ya.
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🌺🌋Aloha
It could be tree stress causing some spore spread brought by from people or animals that had rubbed up against it from another area. Always wash your tools with alcohol especially around wooded trees. The stress of a tree can causes just like humans an immune system deficient response also and may have come from the change of temperatures. Like when we get a cold when the season changes. It can also happen from drought to to much rain. I have that issue here some seasons. Those powder straws I call them happens to one tree I had that explodes and caused the spores that spread to other parts of the tree. I did do a tree graft test on it to see when I cut into the trunk if it may be wood decomposition also. Thank the good Lord it wasn’t or I would have removed it. You can spray it down with fresh milk or vinegar, but don’t touch them as you may be spreading it. You can always check the health of your trees when you do pruning. The branches tell ya a lot about your trees health especially if you have black and brown veining.
My grandfather would every spring wrap copper wire around the one year old fruit tree trunks of every tree loosely. He would leave one end up like an antenna free and then wrap it around three times loosely and run the other end into the soil. He did it to every mango, lychee, cherry, fig, lemon, and orange tree. He did it to every hard wood tree once and left it alone. Eventually the tree will swallow up the copper wired but the antenna and the ground end would still be exposed. This never killed his trees even though a young me thought he was crazy for strangling his tress. 😉He never had any trunk or base fungus or disease ever. His generation always did this and at times drove a couple of nails into the trunks also. It was like science being around him. In fact he had the best trees in his yard. So awesome UH of Hawaii always came to cut branches off his trees to graft and propagate to keep his stock. He propagated and made new variation of many mango and lychee trees in Hawaii and never took credit for them but they still thrive till this day. He was a blessing to growers and farmers. More over he was the best grandfather who passed on wisdom and knowledge of growing to my young self that I could never have gotten going to any school to learn.
I hope this helps. God has a plan to prosper you so you speak life into that blessed tree and claim it’s abundance for the kingdom. Amen🥰
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🌋🌺Aloha
Our children are a reflection of their parents and the Ohana (family) they keep. As adults we try and instill respect, discipline and work hard to ground the young minds and hearts in hard work and most important critical thinking. Our keiki (children) are our legacy that we try to leave for a better world. All which has almost been illuminated from the youth these days. I’ve worked with them in church youth groups and they are struggling to find purpose in a fallen world. BUT , I admire and am encouraged in some youth like your son. Seeing he has not only made a beautiful work of his own hands, but a wonderful place to have great family gatherings and maybe Bible studies 😉 would be awesome. You must be so proud as he took all his creativity and expressed his vision in this masterpiece of wood work. Well done! Beautiful Job young sir. 🤗
Thank ya for sharing your wonderful pictures and love for your sons hard work. It is amazing he built this all by himself. It’s built from love❤️ and you can see it. Praise God
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Aloha from Volcano Hawaii🌋
Don’t know if this will help unless your near the ocean…..we use ocean water in areas that have heavy seaweeds. Works wonders and kill all the weeds, vines, shrubs, and trees if you apply it heavy.
Shari’n is cari’n 😉
If your not near the ocean the ya’ll have to get to Hawaii to try this ancient Hawaiian secret.
Ha ha ha 😆
Aloha🌺
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Aloha 🌋
Always trust your intuition. We are being sprayed daily with many harsh chemicals, particulates and agents. Non good either. The releasing of plant viruses and fungus through the same application in areas where food is grown is causing many issues. Hawaii farmers have stories that will absolutely disturb you. I often think about when the US military used Agent Orange the herbicidal compound that was sprayed throughout the thick vegetation in the Vietnam war to kill the vegetation. My best friends father who was like a father would eventually die due to cancer that the military would admit years later to her wife and family was because of AO. He said he and his brothers came in through the vegetation after the spraying because no one told them what they were spraying. They were drenched in it.
Ever notice your home is more dusty then before? Your screens and cars are covered with an unusual amounts of soft dusting not dirt. Walk at night with your flashlight beam facing to heaven and see sparkly, dusty, white floating particulates.
We are dealing with dark evil.
What can I do to try combats this? I cover my garden raised beds that are outside of the high tunnels. I believe sun gives better tasting food and high tunes though they get sun it’s just not the same. I used to believe rain also gave freshness to foods, but that’s change also. I now control even the water I use on them. What I do it use clear plastic with shade cloth draped over strong gauge fencing half hoops that I’ve placed on top of every raised bed. The ends are open on both ends with short over hang plastic that allows air freely to flow through both ends. I like to grow in the sun but not so much in the rain fall anymore. If it’s raining I cover them but the sun still shines in through the plastic and shade cloth. On a sunny day with no rain I’ll place just the shade cloth that allows air flow all around. I’ve had no issues with powder mildew or viruses.
Those who grow food have to all become more innovative as the water, air and seeds are all being manipulated for evil intentions to prevent any of us to produce food to survive. Homesteaders are a different breed a’ people though and it bothers them. We aren’t afraid of hard work and find an almost strange solace when faced with a hard challenge. We understand hardship and struggles because of the free way we chose to live our lives. Not complicated by restrictions as we color outside the lines. 😉We overcome and we are never shy away of start over. Even if than means learn a lesson, yank it all out, and start a new seedling. My grandmother filled with all the greatest of wisdom would say. She’s a strong woman who survived being unjustly encamped for being Japanese would say. “You must be like Bamboo if you are to survive all the hardships and heartbreaks life will promise.
“YOU’ll BEND AND NOT BREAK”
Be as bamboo my friend. Be discourage when your garden hands ya a challenge like a plant issue, and never quit when your garden throws ya a situation that need resolve. There are a lot of good people here to support you. But most important God is with you and will provide.
“You are bamboo and you will not break just as bamboo bends and doesn’t break.”
God bless and keep you in all your ways
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🌺Aloha
Probably the Exotic Ambrosia Beetle Black stem Borer Xylosandrus germanus
They burrowed once into mainly ornamental trees but have become more common among fruit and nut trees. Early signs are sawdust toothpicks on your main body and branches. The tree eventually dies back because the female tunnel into the tree to propagate and cultivate a fungal garden in the tree. It’s the female that carry fugal spores and once inside she produces food for the larvae she lays in the trees.
They are most active in spring. Also some flood stressed trees emit ethanol and can cause them to get attacked by this beetle. This beetle is highly attracted to ethanol so you could put out ethanol traps to monitor them to see the intensity in your area. Your tree might look healthy but it could be not healthy and that’s why it’s been attacked.
Permethrin and bifenthrin-based insecticides are most affective but not 100%. Synthetics are not affective. Trees should be treated before attacks. After treatment may not work.
Sadly the best solution so you don’t spread the beetles to your other trees or the fungus symbionts is to remove and destroy it. You know your tree. Take real close look at your trees before you just dig it up. If you can cut branches that are affected and remove as much as possible if it’s not the main body you could try that. Times it’s best to get rid of an badly affected tree as to not spear a problem though.
The Ambrosia Beetle has become a real pest in the whole of the southern states and most active in March – April in
Illinois-Maryland-Missouri-North Carolina-Ohio-Tennessee-Virginia
Hope this helped
God bless
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🏝️🌺 Aloha
“Wow” what a blessing to have such a great son as yours. How wonderful you get to spend much time together also. Your great for giv’n him the freedoms to just be free and creat so many useful creations. In Hawaii we also encourage our young men especially to cowboy up and create a vision for their lives whatever it may be.
It sure looks like God has blessed your lives to live in so much abundance and beauty. Your son is the best, and as I say when a winner came around…”A Keeper” ha ha ha☺️
Mahalo (thanks) for sharing your beautiful work. May the good Lord continue to bless your lives and provide you with all grace for many projects to come.
Aloha