Roselle Ayah Yeop

24/09/2022

Baru kutip ni. Jom buat juice😍

12/01/2022

A grave mistake: An unforgiven sin

I was at the buds farm, last week. My eyes cought an awlful event that, not sure if it was done unintentionally or purposely!!!

A very grave offence was committed by one of our buds participants...

No!!! Not to mention any names. I was also equally to b blamed for not telling the participants soon enough, so as not to allow them to commite the unforgivable mistakes.

Look at the photo I enclosed. What do u see?

At ground level U can see burned material (litters, leaves, twigs, gubbages, plastics, etc),

look at above it

Can u see the brown leaves?

I know not many people can see that. Even if they could they don't even bother v much.

U know what happened,?

The flow of radian of hot air fr the burning materials is v hot and killing the plant tissues ,(leaves, branches, twigs and everything else.

What u see as brown discolorisation are the dead tissues of the living plant. (In this case it is pokok jambu air).

The intention of this young farmer burning the litters, are unquestionally good, ie to clean up the vacinity, however the method or procedure adopted here is wrong.

By burning, almost all nutrien locked to the plant tissu molecules such as carbohydrates fat, protein etc will b gone into the thin air.... what is left are charcoal materials, which is of less value if u compare to what will turned out if he had treated the garbage to decompose into organic matters. His soil will b more fertile as most of the nutrients are retained in ionic form and returned back to the soil.

If there is a need to burn those materisls how do u do it

In the first place i don't recommend burning it, however if u follow this guideline it will reduce the damage done to the environment and to your plants.

Guideline for controlled burning.

i. Chose a spot about 10-15 feets away from the nearest free.

ii. Look above the spot u have chosen. Can u see the sky or cloud? If u can it means u have chosen the right spots for burning ur unwanted
materials..

iii. Colllect all the garbage and gatget , gather then at the spot u had chosen.
iv.

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BUDS participants were tought to prepare their own organic matters using locally available materials

(Will continue later; pls hold ur comments, its not finished yet. I"m not good at using this gatjet. It has past my time!!!

09/01/2022

Kecekalan dan kesungguhan hasrat peserta BUDS negeri Perak.

Saya pulang ke Kuala Kangsar untuk urusan dusun saya d sana. Ketika berada d sana, saya telefon salah seorang dari peserta BUDS, sekadar bertanya kabar.

Dia memberi tau saya, dia dan beberapa orang kawannya sedang berada d tanah tapak proj BUDS milik Majlis Belia Daerah (MBD) Kuala Kangsar, sedang membena bangunan rumah hijau (green house) daripada buluh dan batang pinang serta berbumbungkan plastik putih sebagai struktur pelindung hujan (rain shelter structure, RSS)

Saya amat tertarik dgn initiatif mereka, lantas saya bergegas ke situ untuk melihat sendiri apa yg sadang mereka lakukan.

Sesampai saya d situ, kilihatan RSS mereka sudak hampir siap cuma bumbung yg belum d pasang.

Buds' participant constructing the rain shelter structure (RSS), using bamboo, areca nut stems, left over planks, etc for their seedling.

(Will continue...)

30/12/2021

Asam paya (Malaysian indegenus roselle sp.) telah berbuah.

Pertengahan bulan Sept. 2021, saya tanam 4 jenis roselle serentak, (Sudan, UMKL Asam Paya (Malaysian indeginous) dan sejenis rosel ornamental sp yg mempunyai warna petal with amat cantik, warna merah tua (meron petals).

The ornamental sp was the first to bare flowers, just 4 weeks after planting, followed by Sudan and UMKL, about 2 weeks later ie about 6 weeks after planting.

The asam paya was the last to flower, about 3 months after planting
(mid Disember).

The plant out grow the other 3 species to about 6 feet tall, with robust stem and branching. However the calyces formed are much smaller, barely over 1 inch with short sepal tips.

The fruit is not growing much biger than Sudan or UMKL, just about similar in size, except that the sepal form relative thinner whorl (ring of petals) with short petal tips or ends

The color of the calyces is much lighter. On a 1, 2, 3 scale, Sudan is the darkest with almost black in color, follow by UMKL and asam paya as the last color intensity. However, the ornamental sp, is completely out of the red scale. Its green when young and turned yellowish on maturity.

(Will continue later)

17/12/2021

Removing roselle seeds from their calyces

Back in the late 1990's, i was involved with a team of govt officers from Agric Dept, Mardi, Universities & planters, promoting the planting of roselle in Trengganu (Ajil).

I remember among other things, we discussed about technical ways of removing seeds from the calyces.
I remember i had a set of a very 'raw' 'machine', but work very well and serving its purpose.

A few weeks ago i was going up n down searching in my old 'junk' boxes, for that old machine.

Finally I did find my treasure. It's still useable.

It's a very simple design, made up of a broke-down umbrella rod as the cutting edge and a broken sprayer pump ` screwed as a 'T' junction to the other end of the umbrella rod so u can have a firm grip holding the handle (refer to photo 1)

To operate the litle machine, hold the T-junction end on ur palm n hold the roselle calyx with d peduncle facing the cutting end. Push the cutting edge thro
the peduncle (tangkai buah), hard enough till it cuts the calyx tissue n will push the fruit out of d calyx.

Remove the cut fruit.

Push the calyx down the rod to give room for the next calyx. Repeat the process until the job ia all done.

(Will continue)

13/12/2021

Perbedaan perkembangan buah rosel antara kultiva UMKL dgn kultivar Sudan.

Kultivar Sudan:
Kaliks lebih besar berbanding kultivar UMKL. Ukuran hujung ke hujung mencapai 3-3.5 inci, manakala kultivar UMKL hsnya sekitar 2.5-3 inci sahaja.

Panjang epi-kaliks Sudan lebih kurang1-1.5 in sedangkan untuk kultivar UMKL, jarang2 melepasi 1 inci. Lebar garis pusat gelongan kaliks Sudans M sekitar 1.5 in manakala kultivar UMKL, kebiasaannya lebih kecil. Walau bagaimanapun, buah Sudan dan UMKL yg subur akan menghasilkan sekitar 20-25 butir biji matang tersedia untuk d semai.

13/12/2021

29/11/2021

The Sudan cultivar.

29/11/2021

The ornamental variant (unknown name)

29/11/2021

Assalamualaikum and Good day everyone 🌸🌸🌸

I would like to share my experiences involving Roselle in the 1990's untill 2010's, around 2013-2014.

In the early 90's, I was involved with the development of Roselle in Trengganu state with Trengganu State Agric Dept, mostly in Ajil.

However, by the turn of 21st century in early 2000's, I was invited by Prof Dr. Muhammad Osman (UKM) to join him working on mutation breeding of Roselle.

We were assisted by MINT (Institut Penyelidikan Nuklear Malaysia, previously known as PUSPATI). With the help of MSc and PhD students (UKM) we managed to introduce 3 new mutant cultivars, (UKM 1, UKM 2, & UKM 3) to the public.

The new cultivars were highly productive, in term of size n numbers of fruits produced.

Our lab reports showed that one of the new cultivars contained substential level of soluble Hydroxyl acetic asid, used widely for slimming.

However, our new cultivars were not attractive enough for our local industrial growers. We received no respond from them (besides, we were bad business entrepreneurs ourself).

The nutant seeds were stored in the coolbox of UKM.

Two years later, when we were reopening the program it was sad to say, the seeds had become dorman and not a single seed germinated.

If time permit, insyAllah, we will proceed with the production of new mutant cultivars.

At the moment, to my knowledge, basically we have 4 variants of roselle in Malaysia. Two of them UMKL and Sudan were introduced from Middle-east. We have a local varient, we call it 'asam paya'.

We also have an ornamental type, with small fruit, deep red petals with green calyx. I haven't seen this tiny roselle in the wild like the asam paya, so I presume this varient is also imported cultivar, grown as an ornamental plant.