Growing moringa is easy
This calendar week I receive two due east - mails in the same day regardingmoringagrowing .
Though I ’m not a total expert on the health side of Moringa , ( my friend Cathy is more amazing than me on that front ) , I am very good at maturate moringa – and I ’ve get multiple Cypriot pound of dried Moringa gunpowder in my role to prove it .
Moringa is blistering stuff and nonsense right now .
My dad is grow moringa trees in the Great South Florida Food Forest Project . He was approached by a admirer interested in strip the leaves for re - sales agreement at the local farmer ’s market . He said no , since the issue on his little trees would n’t really be worthwhile and he ’d rather habituate them himself .
Now … let ’s see if I can be at all helpful in regards to the e - mails I ’ve received this week .
Growing moringa is easy
Moringa Email # 1 :
Hello , become your contact information on your Florida Survival Gardening . Hope you do n’t take care asking a question .
I ’m ponder in adding Moringa Oleifera Leaf powder as a add-on to mine , my family and congener on our day-to-day regime .
I also enjoy garden , it is very meditative for me , so I ’m essay to decide to either grow the trees myself on just buy the dry pulverisation . In as much I love to garden I ’m NOT certain how many Tree to plant and expect a sane amount of Moringa Leaf pulverization to produce . I also understand that it call for 7 pounds of tonic Moringa Oleifera leaves to produce 1 Irish pound of Moringa Leaf Powder .
With that in mind I have a few questions and hopefully you’re able to help me square up what to do next.1 ) How honest-to-goodness / suppurate a Moringa Oleifera tree before it commence to bring on leaf that are suitably and in effect can be used as a supplemental dried leaves ? 2 ) How much leaves approximately a 6 month old Moringa Oleifera tree will produce ? How about a 1 year quondam tree?3 ) Do you befall to know a source of Moringa PKM-1 and PKM-2 seeds?Thanks in progression for your help . tolerant regard ,
B. P.
My moringa trees in winter
answer :
Moringa powder is an first-class supplement . The data point I ’ve seen is quite telling – it ’s essentially a multivitamin tree diagram . We consume moringa on a regular basis – I dry out my own gunpowder here , which is well-situated since the leaves are very thin .
If you ’re in Florida or another comparatively warm state , it ’s by all odds deserving produce your own . In USDA growing Zone 8 and 9 it will freeze to the earth in winter . If the tree diagram are well - established , however , they ’ll return . There are specimens in Gainesville that have regrown for 8 + years .
Though you may start moringa from cuttings , semen make much stronger plant life . They ’re leisurely to germinate as long as the weather is tender – and they ’ll grow into a 10 - 20′ tree diagram in ONE growing season if condition are well .
So , in answer to question # 1 : you’re able to start harvesting leaves from a tree that ’s only a few month erstwhile . To get some measure , however , plant a group of 8 - 10 trees a few feet apart and keep cutting them back to make them bush out and produce more stems and leafage . I have a while of 8 Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree that make us about 4 - 5lbs of dried leaves every year . That ’s enough to keep your family very well supplied with Moringa .
Question 2 is toughened to answer . If you water and fecundate well ( just do n’t water too much when the trees first burgeon forth – they ’ll rot ) , plus keep chop shoots to advance branch , you could probably get a pound or so of leave from a year - old tree . A six - calendar month sometime tree ? Maybe a quarter pound . They really start flying towards the sky at six month but wo n’t hit their full potential drop until a year or more . Even with freezing to the ground , they grow back again with amazing vigor the next year .
They ’ll do even better if you protect them like I doin this video recording .
interrogative sentence # 3 : Where to get come ?
you may get PKM-1 fromECHOor sometimes onebayor , even easy , on Amazon .
I have n’t tried PKM-2 . Where I live the moringas in my yard conk out to set seeds no matter what I do , so it does n’t seem to count . I ’ve set seed from multiple root and always gotten lots of farewell but no pods . Oh well – they ’re still deserving get .
Moringa atomic number 99 - mail # 2 : Good dawning , Moringa question … I just bought five 4 ft . trees that have been in a glasshouse . One has a long brown ejaculate pod . Should I remove it and relieve it til Spring to plant seeds ? Or give it to David Goodman ? What is the right pick here?LOLAlso , there are lots of leave and bloom . Should I move out the leaves and dry out them ? Are the flowers edible ? I ’m break down to seek to keep the trees from freezing by shelter them next to my air/ heating plant whole against the family with a screening over them when it ’s insensate . Will that be enough ? So many questions and cold come tonight.-L.W.
Thanks for mentation of me , but relieve the pod for yourself – I ’ve have about three dry quart of various moringa seeds in my office mighty now .
Yes , I get a short obsessive .
you may remove leaves if you like , or cut them back . They wo n’t bear in mind . At this time of year they do n’t commonly get very tight , though , so do n’t await much regrowth . The flowers are edible and have an interesting flavor . If you ’re lucky , they ’ll set more seed pod .
The only success stories I ’ve see of get moringa to set seed here are A : moringas in muckle with qualified etymon and vitamin B : moringas in really unsound soil . I call back the stress bring on pod set .
To keep your trees from freeze down , it would be best to make for them indoors or put them up against the back wall under a porch or in a shed . 32 degrees will melt them back to their roots . When they ’re only 4′ tall , you might as well keep them from damage until spring , then plant them out . Your plan of putting them next to the breeze conditioner and covering them is potential the next best thing .
My moringa trees in winter
I desire that help – thanks you both for written material and allowing me to answer here on the web log .
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