Friday 31 March 2017

Rambutan Plants Cultivation ,Growing ,Care, Use and its Surprising Health Benefits.




Rambutan (scientifically termed as ‘Nephelium Lappaceumis’) is a fruit that definitely features in the list of ‘Most Exotic fruits of Our Planet’. It’s a fruit not a lot of people know about. However, some experts call it ‘super fruit’ because of the many benefits its ingestion has. This fruit resembles lychees in the way it looks- it is red coloured on the outside while it is inside it white, it is oval in shape and is generally one to two inches in length. Moreover, like lychees, it is also found in bunches with stems sticking out of them. The fruit has a thin, leather-like skin layer with multiple tube-like structures sticking out of it that seems like spikes on a hedgehog. Sometimes, one can also find rambutans having greenish yellow or orange exterior skin colours. The fruit, in many ways, also looks exactly like a sea urchin.

The trees on which this fruit grows have some interesting characteristics as well. The fruit grows on trees which are about 10-20 feet (which is nearly 3.05-6.1 m) high. These trees generate cultivable fruits twice every year- a smaller batch of mid-spring along with a bigger one at the end of fall. Some of the rambutan trees are male and therefore do not produce fruits at all. Several trees are hermaphrodites, i.e., producing both female and male flowers, while some are entirely female. The hermaphrodite trees, thus, are the most fruitful (pun intended).

They’re white or even green in colour, plus some variation exists in between the female and male flower. Biologically speaking, cross-pollination is essential for female trees, in order for them to bear fruits. The rambutan flowers help majorly in this by attracting the bees to their high-quality nectar. Thus, without the flowers, there would be no fruit at all.

Rambutans, apart from tasting quite good, have several nutritional characteristics which are beneficial for our health.

Benefit of Rambutan:-

Helps You Lose Weight

Rambutan resembles a lychee fruit and can be found naturally throughout Southeast Asia. These fruits are a pretty low source of essential nutrients, but they make up for it thanks to their moderately high concentration of manganese, niacin, magnesium, and vitamin C. Rambutan fruits are known to provide many nutritional and health benefits, which is why there are so many dishes involving it.

Although eaten raw the fruit has a somehow low nutritional value, its skin contains potent antioxidants and anticancer polyphenols like caffeic acid, ellagic, and gallic acid. Over the next few minutes, we will go through the ten biggest health benefits of Rambutan.


Because of its high fibre yet low-calorie contents, Rambutan can help you lose quite a bit of weight. This is not only due to its low-calorie contents but also because of how much water they contain, which is assimilated by the body over time while tricking your stomach into thinking it is full. Its seeds also help reduce weight, but you must remember that raw seeds can be somehow dangerous, which is why it is advised to crush the seeds and combine them with other foods.
Rambutan Regenerates Blood Cells

Thanks to its high copper contents, Rambutan will accelerate your body’s white and red blood cell regeneration. Red and white cells are responsible for carrying oxygen throughout the blood system while defending the organism from a microbial attack at all times. Rambutan also contains manganese which humans need to produce useful enzymes that perform a variety of vital biochemical functions.

Makes Your Skin Smoother

Rambutan is known to possess many health benefits, yet many of the women who are fond of it swear by its ability to smoothen the skin. Due to their high water content, Rambutan will hydrate the skin, making it soft and supple. Then again, many fruits possess the capacity to smoothen the skin thanks to their rich water content. Rambutan, however, doesn’t contain the calorie concentration of other fruits, thus being better for people who are on a diet.

Rambutan Makes Your Bones Stronger

Not many fruits contain the high concentration of calcium, phosphorus, and iron that Rambutan fruits contain. Your body needs calcium on a daily basis to strengthen the bones, while phosphorus helps with their regeneration. Like we said, Rambutan also contains quite a bit of iron which helps haemoglobin transport oxygen from the lungs to different organs and tissues throughout the body.

Good for Your Kidneys

Like we already pointed out, Rambutan contains phosphorus among a diversity of other useful contents. Now phosphorus has many functions within the body, from helping bone regeneration to protein formation and cellular repair. It also plays an important role in keeping your kidneys healthy. It does this by encouraging the healthy balance of all fluids eliminated from the body, thus helping your kidneys remain toxin-free.

Rambutan Prevents Constipation

Apart from its high water content that helps the body stay hydrated and balanced, Rambutan also contains around 3g of dietary fibre per 100g of pulp. Because of this, it contributes to relieving constipation quite a bit. You see, dietary fibre adds bulk to stools, encouraging their proper elimination. Rambutan is also known for killing and expelling intestinal parasites thanks to its antifungal properties.

Gives You Energy

Thanks to their high carbohydrate contents, Rambutan can be used as a natural energy booster. Its almost 20% carbohydrates content helps regulate blood sugar levels thus providing your body with enough energy to perform a variety of cognitive and physical activities. Because of this, your body no longer needs to use proteins for energy, using carbohydrates to perform essential cellular functions instead.


Rambutan Contains Vitamin C


Even a handful of Rambutan is enough to provide your body with all the vitamin C and manganese it needs to function properly. Manganese and vitamin C are responsible for protecting you against oxidative stress chronic diseases, and premature ageing. Furthermore, vitamin C stimulates collagen production, a protein that our body needs to maintain the structure of our blood vessels and skin.

Can be Used to Treat Common Illnesses

Interestingly enough, you can use Rambutan to treat common illnesses like thrush, headaches, or even dysentery. Traditionally, people have been applying Rambutan leaves on their forehead whenever they had a headache to ameliorate the pain. By creating a paste from the tree’s bark, you can treat thrush apparently, while its roots can be used to treat fever. This being said, you can use Rambutan to cure almost any common illness along with a few uncommon ones as well.

Rambutan Fights Cancer

Not only can Rambutan be used to treat common illnesses, but the antioxidants contained by its fruit can help protect you against cell alteration and DNA deterioration, which are the main causes of neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. Like we already said, Rambutan contains a variety of useful contents like vitamin C, manganese, p-Coumaric acid, caffeic acid, ellagic acid, and gallic acid, chemicals that have been known to reduce stomach cancer, ulcers, and neurodegenerative diseases like dementia or Parkinson’s.


Thursday 9 March 2017

Adenium germination - A step by step guide






SPECIFICATION OF ADENIUM
Environment: Full sun

Temperature: 75 - 80F
Average Germ Time: 14 - 21 days

Depth: 1/4 inch

Moisture: Keep seeds moist until germination



GERMINATION OF ADENIUM

The perfect media fresh and mixed with sieved vermicompost or  Coconut powder. Below are the steps how to of sow seeds with this methods.


Step 1
 Prepare fine Coconut powder by filtering with a strainer and dry on direct on sunlight, or  freshly washed  sand and mixed with sieved vermicompost

Step 2
At the time of filtering can get two types coconut fibre and separate with another basket.

Step 3
Use water mixed fungicide chemical for watering dry coconut powder until it's soaked. To protect the baby seedling fungicide chemical is very important.Through this process, the roots will be nice.

Step 4
Use thick coconut fibre on the bottom of our sowing pot. They will be works as a strainer can control water flow and also protect coconut powder flow out from the bottom of the pot.

Step 5
Now cover the fine coconut fibre.

Step 6
 Use small amount "Organic Fertilizer", and this fertilizer will help the baby and younger seedlings and also them growing stronger and healthier.

Step 7
Please do not use chemical fertilizer to just boost up the growth rate but it can weaken them in future growth.

Step 8
Cover again with fine coconut fibre.and spread again good fertilizer (Do not use more)all over the coconut powder.

Step 9

 Cover with small amount fine coconut powder again.

Step 10
 Now Watering them and watch until you see water come down from the bottom of the pot .

Step 11
Now make s different row for sowing the seeds.

Step 12
Use the clipper lightly to put each seed in each row very gently horizontally.

Step 13
Use tag, name and date for your identification.

Step 14
 Cover it with dry coconut powder again, and keep the distance about 1 cm height.

Step 15
 Again use water until top coconut powder just getting wet. Use the wrapper to cover pots and place them under shade for a week.

Step 16
Open the pot cover after a weak, and new baby seedlings growing up from media. Sometimes they take 8 to 10 days.

Step 17
 Spread again light fertilizer all over seedlings. Hope you will enjoy.







Tuesday 7 March 2017

Cycas seed Germination ,Growing ,Care


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Cycas is one of the beautiful ornamental live plants.Cycas is a very ancient plant it grows very slowly. It is mainly used for decorate gardens.It likes mature sunlight for its growth. Cycas revoluta is also called as Kangi Palm covered with snow.


GERMINATION GUIDE


Cycus is very easy to germinate if the seeds are a fresh and new collection.
Use a flat seedling tray and its depth will be 5  inches or  make a bed on the ground with sand what every you like. Make sure you have plenty of holes in it for good water drainage when  you  are using seedling tray.

 For your media take equal quantity of sand, soil and vermicompost. Then  mix all the three ingredients into one container.Sow the big seed sand cover  with mixed  ready seedling  media.




  
Sprinkle diluted fungicide water (2gm in 1 liter water) after sowing the seeds. Check  frequently for keep  moist the seeds  until sprout.It will  takes  25  to  40 days for germination. Keep  the temperature  warm cover the seeds  any black  polythene rapper or can use any coconut  leaves. Minimum  warm, above 60ºF (15.5ºC), is needed inside the container and it should be placed in sunny area.


CARING 
 Before planting the seeds, make sure that your seeds are clean by the fungicide water because a little fungus can be harmful for seeds.


WATERING

  1. Use watering as its required.
  2. After spouting can re-pot with   sandy  soil.





Saturday 4 March 2017

Beans Germination ,Growing ,Care, Use and its Health Benefits.


The beans are also known as French beans. Beans are one of those vegetables which grow long. Especially it grows in winter. It has many colours like Black beans, Pink beans and Yellow wax beans. Almost all the varieties of beans can be available year-round across the world.
Biennials are sown like half-hardy annuals or perennials in spring or fall and planted out in September and October. Winter annuals such as some Californian and desert plants may be grown in summer, but are at their best sown in fall, even if grown in the greenhouse in cold winter areas.


GERMINATION

Beans are one of those vegetables which grow very fast all the season. Most vegetables are indifferent to whether they have light or darkness when germinating. Its seeds are very sensitive, it can be sowed directed to the soil.



Choose a field where you want to sow your seeds. Or you can make on the seedling tray.Dig on the ground to make different row where the plants will grow well.
Dig one end of the row to the depth of your shovel, put that soil at the other end of the row, This way the soil will  be loosened. Dig the space next to that, putting the removed soil in the first space. Continue digging down the row for  loosening the soil at the bottom of each hole, until you put the first soil you removed in the other end of the row.  This process is known as double digging. Do this in an area of the vegetable garden that receives full sun when it is dry enough to work in the spring. Let the soil rest for a few weeks.

Sow the bean seeds six inches apart and 1 inch deep, slightly less if you have clay soil.Use three seeds for one plant. Sprinkle water very lightly and carefully on the seeds keeping the soil moist, but not soggy until the green bean seeds germinate.Now, wait for six to seven days for germination.

BENEFITS OF BEANS

1.Green beans contain excellent levels of vitamin-A, and health-promoting flavouring polyphenolic antioxidants such as lutein, zeaxanthin, and β -carotene in right amounts.

2.Raw fresh green beans also called as snap beans or French beans, should be tender, long, stiff, but flexible and give snap sound when broken. Buy them from organic stores for their delicious beany flavour.

3.Fresh green beans are very low in calories (31 calories per 100 g of raw bean pods) and contain no saturated fat. Nevertheless, these lean pod vegetables are an excellent source of vitamins, minerals, and plant-derived micro-nutrients.













Thursday 2 March 2017

Butterfly pea germination


The Butterfly Pea a vine is part of the Clitoria genus and its scientific name is Clitoria ternatea. It produces two inches and it grows especially in summer. It is a fast-growing flower and grows like an annual in cooler areas. Butterfly pea is a very beautiful vining often used as an ornamental.


GERMINATION GUIDE





It is a sensational perennial herbaceous plant, with elliptic, obtuse leaves. It grows as a vine or creeper, doing well in moist, neutral soil. The most striking feature of this plant is its white double flowers.
Clitoria ternatea is one of the most amazing plants for hanging baskets or trellis.  Even though its origins are unknown, it is probably native to Asia according to Hortus. Clitoria ternatea is a vigorous and vine.It will quickly bloom from seed in about 6-8 weeks, where there is plenty of sunlight and sufficient water.These will bloom all year long in frost-free zones area.



Blooming Time: All year long. Flowers are solitary, bright deep blue with light yellow and also double white.

Culture: Clitoria ternatea like a rich, moist soil. Keep the soil evenly moist at all times. It needs intermediate temperatures. Butterfly pea needs full sun to partial shade. The plants tend to get leggy very quickly, so if someone wants bushy can pinching .



Use a flat seedling tray or any big pot . Make sure you have plenty of holes in it for good water drainage.Take equal quantity of sand, soil and vermicompost. Then mix all the three ingredients into one container.

Soak in water 3-4 hours before sowing. Seeds germinate in 7-14 days
Sprinkle diluted fungicide water (2gm in 1-litre water) after sowing the seeds.
















Important watering use: Use watering daily as it needs. Never over water butterfly peas.

Benefits of Butterfly pea :

  • It can keep the skin healthy and glowing.
  • It helps to improve eyesight and night vision.
  • Butterfly pea provides antioxidant.







Wednesday 1 March 2017

Coriander Germination ,Growing ,Care, Use and its Health Benefits.


Coriander is a fast growing annual or biennial herb of the Parsley Family.It comes with large umbrella leaves.The name cilantro refers to the fresh leaf, also known as Chinese parsley. Coriander is the name for the seeds.It is very fast growing and automatic herb grow especially in the cooler weather of spring and fall.
 SPECIFICATION OF CORIANDER

Common name: Coriander

Height: 18 to 24 inches (45-60cm)
Difficulty level: Easy

Sunlight: Coriander likes a sunny position but it needs shade due to hot summer days.

Soil: Plant the seeds in light, well-drained soil and space them 1 to 2 inches apart direct in outdoors after the last frost. Sow the seeds at 3-week intervals for continued harvest or Start seeds in propagation starter cubes or plugs indoors six weeks before planting outdoors.Space rows about 12 inches apart. Coriander prefers a deep, fertile soil which can be either light or heavy, as long as it is well draining.


 





The plants, which grow about 2 feet high, are cultivated in rows about 18 inches apart, generally from seed sown in early spring. The seed heads which ripen about midsummer are gathered and dried, then beaten with light rods or flails to separate the seeds.


Water requirements :

 Use watering as it is needed. By moving the water stream constantly waves the can. Do not let the water to flood area. Or use a sprayer to spray the water like mist.Do not over water.

Use and benefit of coriander :

Coriander has following benefits

1.Coriander helps to lower bad cholesterol and increases the levels of good cholesterol.

2.This herb also helps to control heart rate and blood pressure. It is a good source f potassium, magnesium, calcium, manganese and iron as well as low in sodium.Iron is vital for red blood cell production and manganese is used as a cofactor for the antioxidant enzyme.

3. Vitamin K in it is good for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

4.Some of the components of essential oils found in coriander such as Borneol and Linalool, aid in digestion, proper functioning of the liver and bonding of bowels, while also helping to reduce diarrhoea.