Makapala, North Kohala, Hawaiʻi Island · October 19–21, 2017

Master Cho on the Nutritive Cycle

Three days in a Makapala hall with Master Cho Han-kyu: when to feed a crop, what to feed it, and why. All seven recorded sessions are here as they happened. His Korean is translated again and checked, so you can read what he said, not only what the room heard.

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9 talks on “timing”

Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang ·16 min Spoken in Korean

Seawater 1:30, Two Hours Before Sunset = Fast Uptake

Cho says the soil's hometown is the sea, from Genesis, and tells Elisha salting the spring in 2 Kings as the Bible's seawater story. Then the ranch: cows dying on acidic grass, an owner afraid of salt, and the fix, seawater diluted 1 to 30 because seawater is 3% salt and a plant's green blood 0.1%. For drought pasture he gives the timing: spray 1 part seawater to 30 parts fresh water two hours before sunset, cut and feed the next day, and the same timing for every crop.

Found The soil's hometown is the sea, so Natural Farming uses a lot of seawater.

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Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang ·31 min Spoken in Korean

Living Liquid, Not Enzyme: Collect at Dawn, Face South

Cho says what we make isn't an enzyme but a living fermented liquid, and tells the loaves and fishes as a picture of how one lump of Microbes covers 6,000 pyeong. He weeps, then says farming is done with love, not technique. The practical core: collect material when the plant holds the most of nature's power, in the morning, and collect IMO where the first sun falls; sunlight's far-infrared growth ray is why sprouts face south. He ends on three sets of parents: the crops that raise you, so pesticide is parricide.

Found What we make isn't an enzyme (효소) but a fermented liquid (발효액), and a fermented liquid is a living thing

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Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang ·40 min Spoken in Korean

Structure on June 24 Sets Next Year's Fruit

Cho cuts open a dry tangerine from breakfast and explains why it failed: fruit that bears once a year is conceived the summer before, between June 30 and July 5, so water-soluble calcium phosphate (Structure) goes on June 24 with Medicine (OHN). He writes the dates on the flip chart, then turns to the breakfast papaya, nitrogen and taste, and a long parable of mother's milk against cow's milk.

Found This spring's flowers formed as buds last year, end of June to early July

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Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang ·23 min Spoken in Korean

Same Rice Seed, 180–240 Grains vs 80–140: Crop Results

Cho's results slides: conventional rice at harvest looks like orphanage children, natural-farming rice like children raised by both parents; the same seed gives 180–240 grains a panicle against 80–140, about 30% more yield at a 50% better price. Then the stories behind the photos (cooked rice, Amore cosmetics, a melon farmer caught using agrochemicals, Ehime lemon leaves at $1 each) and crops fed at each 'morning sickness': pepper, beans, broccoli, cauliflower, corn and strawberries. Lunch follows.

Found At harvest, conventional rice has dead, dry leaves, like orphanage children; natural-farming rice is raised by both parents

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Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang ·37 min Spoken in Korean

Fat Tree, Empty Fruit: The IMO5 Ring at the Drip Line

Cho opens with plans: next time he wants to walk farms and diagnose crops, and he wants Hawaiʻi visitors to eat on natural farms. Then he cuts open the mangosteen a participant gave him. It's nearly empty, because the tree was overfed when young and lacked calcium phosphate the July before. His fix is IMO4 mixed 1:1 with vinegar-moistened bone char, spread in a ring at the drip line ahead of flowering; the room's questions settle what the 1:1 means.

Found The mangosteen came out nearly empty: 'miscarried'

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Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang ·22 min Spoken in Korean

Seawater + Calcium Weekly = Skin Bees Can't Break

Cho opens with the rice chart on the screen and says upland rice would grow here on mountain moisture. Then he holds up a damaged citrus fruit: it didn't crack, a bee stung it, because too much nitrogen made the skin thin. The fix is a weekly fine-mist spray of Structure (WCP), Reproduction (WCA) and seawater, given before the plant's mid-week dip, which he writes on the flip chart for a quarter acre.

Found Mountain humidity here is about 70%, enough to grow upland rice; IMO No. 4 holds 80% moisture

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Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang ·21 min Spoken in Korean

Baby Food by Age: Mugwort FPJ First, Fruit FFJ Later

Cho uses a person's ages as the picture for a crop: from 1 to 15 the body is being built, so the young crop gets Food (FPJ) of mugwort and water dropwort for iron and manganese; from about 15 to 25 it gets Food (FFJ) of ripe fruit and opened flowers, once a week each. Dr. Park sorts out which plant carries which mineral. Then Cho tells farmers to run comparison plots, remembers the 78-year-old grandmother who taught him, and says the old farmers farmed with wisdom.

Found Like a child of 1 to 15, a young crop gets Food (FPJ) of mugwort and water dropwort

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Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang ·30 min Spoken in Korean

Send a Dowry at Transplant, Then Read the 180-Day Chart

Rice goes to the field on May 5. Cho's dowry story: like a father sending a daughter off with money, give extra at the end of Type 2 so the transplant roots in and fruits. He says Natural Farming is a work in progress that Hawaiʻi must build for its own weather, then walks the rice chart by date and leaf count, calls rice a 180-day crop, warns against overfeeding, and reads the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and calcium needs of each stage.

Found Rice is transplanted at the strong-seedling stage, May 5, and gets Type 2 again in the main field

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Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang ·34 min Spoken in Korean

Feed 5–7 Days Early: Ripening, Flower Buds, Leaf Shape

With the prescription handout projected, Cho goes through the stage columns and the ripening spray: seawater 1:30, then 1:25, then 1:20 a week apart, sugar up 2–3%, plus purslane Food at 1:1000 for shine. Then the rule: give each stage's prescription 5 days, or a week, before the stage. Questions follow: flowers are made the summer before, the moon calendar, rice by leaf count, reading the stage from leaf shape, and alternate bearing. It ends at lunch.

Found The prescriptions go by stage: seed and seedling, Type 2 for the trunk, changeover, Type 3 for the fruit, then ripening

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