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Date Posted: 22:34:49 04/01/18 Sun
Author: Carlo G. Soldevilla
Subject: Agriculturist (Note for Sir Pinol) by Carlo G. Soldevilla

Agriculturist (Note for Sir Pinol)
By Carlo G. Soldevilla
Written on April 2, 2018

3 years I stopped in college
But I did not waste my time
I became a typist, earned my keep
And bought a grafted rambutan tree to plant.
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In my mom’s house in Silang, Cavite,
Our neighbor complained:
“It’s been 7 or 8 years now, this mango tree I planted never bore any fruit.”

That mango tree’s arms reached our place (over the fence)
I find it a ‘golden’ opportunity and not thinking of the dried mango leaves I swept.
Leaves can be a ‘nuisance’ brought about by ‘dirt’ of the falling leaves of the mango tree.

With my knowledge in agriculture, I ‘grafted’ the tree’s branches (that’s ‘overarching’, reaching our place.).
After two (2) years, they bore Indian mangoes (those branches which ‘went’ to us.).
But the branches belonging to them never bore any fruit.

So the sad story is that they (owners of the mango tree) were the ones asking from us mango fruits--
For 2 years straight.

Later on, he (the mango owner) cut his tree. (He could have felt miserable why only those branches reaching our place are the ones bearing fruits.). I never told him of my agri skills.

By asexual propagation (budding, inarching, grafting), I can make any sour tree (no matter how big tree tree is ) sweet. .. and I’m pretty sure that you, sir, being an agriculturist knows all these techniques. Kudos to you and to Kidapawan, the city of fruit trees.

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Note: Aside from propagating fruit trees, the writer, later finished two (2) college degree courses (A.B. and B.S. degrees.).

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