Red Blue Lily

Red Blue lily may can found in the natural lagoon and rice field. This aquatic plant also called as hydrophytic or hydrophytes is a plant that suitable with the water environment for their life. This plant can grow inside water with soil concentrated. Aquatic vascular plant can ferns or angiosperms. Seaweeds is not vascular plants but include of sea multicellular agae, so this plant can not include to water plants. Compare with other plants like mesophytes and xerophytes, hydrophytes have no problem in prevent water because much water in the environment.

 

Characteristic of hydrophytes:

1. Thin cuticula, cuticle have function to prevent of water loss, the most part hydrophytes no need for cuticles.
2. Open stomata because of much water and no need to store first.
3. Increasing the number of stomata
4. Structure less rigid to support the water pressure
5. Leaf flat on the surface use to floating
6. Sacs air use to float
7. Small root, water can spread directly on the leaf
8. Light root, don’t need to support plant
9. Root can take oxygen from deep water

Osage Orange

Osage orange, Maclura pomifera, sometimes called mock orange, is a hardwood tree of the mulberry family, Moraceae. It is a medium sized, often throny tree, growing to 18 m (60 ft) high, its orange, rot resistant wood is used for bows, fence posts, and other outdoor applications. Its round, wrinkled, yellowish fruit somewhat resembles a large orange. Native to the Arkansas and Texas region, the drought resistant osage orange has been planted throughout the United States.

Osage Orange

Osage Orange trees are a common sight on the Great Plans today although they were not a widespread member of the prairie community originally. Found primarily in a limited area centered on the Red River valley in southern Oklahoma and northern Texas, they were planted as living fences or hedges, along the boundaries of farms, and have spread widely from these restricted, linear beginnings. The name of the tree comes from the Osage tribe, which lived near the home range of the tree, and the aroma of the fruit after ripe. Not all this tree will have fruit because Osage Orange are either male or female, and only the females be able have fruit.

The chop one in half and will see on a pithy core surrounded by up to 200 small seeds that are much sought after by squirrels. In addition to ripping apart the tough, stringly fruit. There is a slimy husk around each individual seed that must also be removed before the seed can be eaten. Osage orange trees are a magnet for every squirrel in the neighborhood.

Button Mushroom Cultivation Just Stand for 5 Months

Most button mushroom traditionally farmers just can stand for 5 months in their efforts, why this happened? Many factors that causes it can happen, if I classify based on what I know, the cause of the cessation of Mushroom cultivation is as follows.

Failed to produce with optimal benefit.

The cause was a major factor in their quit attempt to cultivate button mushroom traditionally, they are too quick to change the pattern of planting based on their instincts alone when not supported by sufficient knowledge or consultant for mushroom cultivation. They only communicate with the traders (who buy their mushrooms), actually merchant has no competence or are not concerned with optimizing the production of mushroom growers, or they communicate with the seller mushroom seed only, which obviously did not seriously consider the condition of mushroom farmer, which is too limited and can not meet all the requirements and do not supervise in detail to mushroom farmers.

Raw materials are not available continuously
Another cause is the limited raw materials. Mushroom farmers only familiar with one type of raw material for growing mushrooms, but the availability of raw materials is highly dependent on the season, so farmers can not survive to produce a continuous basis. Farmer don't familiar with other kind substrate for button mushroom growing. This has influenced the sustainability of their mushroom business because they also rely on seasonal labor works, so that in time to stop the mushroom production workforce is also stopped.

Drastic Change In Season
Traditional farmers obviously can not deal with this, drastic seasonal changes can cause them to stop production and even close their businesses, which are caused due to many factors, among others, also are included in the factors mentioned above. Production is not profitable, not available raw materials and labor also quit. Once they stop usually very difficult to get up again because of capital and labor factors are difficult to find quickly.

Just Trial and Error
The most frequent stop producing quickly is this factor, the farmer who just try and error, many factors for success in mushroom farming, unlike in trading, trial and error sometimes can be very profitable, but very different for the mushroom business, trial and error only will wasting money.

This traditional business operations must be improved both the method and mushroom production management system so that the farmers of this mushroom can life long time. Traditional system should be modified into semi modern cultivation system, even still use traditional equipment but the system should be changed into semi modern ways. For example on the sterilization ways should use better equipment and should separate with the growing place. Sterilization equipment should perfect and can reach the requirement needed on cultivation button mushroom. The place should be wide enough in order can arrange the place for cultivation and for waste.