Buttermilk Solution

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• 5 Liters Buttermilk
• 1 Liter Tender coconut
• 1-2 kg Chigare /Arappu/albizia amara  leaves or (250-500 grams leaf powder)
• 500 Grams Waste fruit or 1 Liter juice from waste fruit.

Preparation:

• Mix the buttermilk and tender coconut.
• Crush the arappu (Chigare) leaves well.
• If using waste fruit, add it to the crushed leaves and put this mixture in a nylon mesh and tie it.
• Immerse the mesh in buttermilk tender coconut solution.
• Let it ferment for seven days.
• By using the nylon mesh we could avoid the need for filtering the solution wile spraying.
• If you use Chigare /Arappu Leaf powder use fruit juice instead of waste fruit.
• Mix all four ingredients and let it ferment for seven days.
• Wherever Chigare/arappu is not available you may use soap nut seed powder.
• Many plant parts when they ferment release a sticky gum-like liquid.
• You may add this liquid to the buttermilk and let it ferment.

Usage:

• Mix (10) Ten liters water with 500ml to 1 Liter solution and spray.
• This helps plant growth, repels insect, and adds resistance to fungal diseases.
• This solution has the same potential as that of Gibberelic acid.

Buttermilk Solution Improved Method :

This is an easy to make and improved version of buttermilk solution. 

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Ingredients:

• 4 Liters Buttermilk
• 1 Liter Tender coconut
• 250 Ml Papaya fruit pulp
• 100 Grams Turmeric Powder
• 10-50 Grams Hing (Asafetida) powder
• Any two of the following tender leaves
• 100 to 200 grams each  Neem, Tulasi, vitex negundo/Chigare/arappu, Custard apple, Lakki/nochchi/nisinda , Aloevera and Pudina.

Preparation

• Cut these leaves into small pieces and mix this in the above solution.
• Let it ferment for 7 days.

Usage:

• Mix (10) Ten liters water with 500ml to 1 Liter solution and spray.
• This helps plant growth, repels insect, and adds resistance to fungal diseases.
• This solution has the same potential as that of Gibberelic acid.