Simple Life Matters

The Monstera Borsigiana Albo is one of the most wanted plants for rare plant collectors due to the beauty of its foliage. The leaf design and color of variegated Borsigiana Albo with good genes is very captivating. There are some genes that are tri-color, a combination of white, green and yellow foliage. I bought my Monstera Borsigiana Albo early 2022 for P6500 per leaf. From 2020 to 2021, the price of one leaf of Borsi Aurea cost P50,000 and dropped in 2022 for P10,000 per leaf. As of March 2023, the price of one leaf medium-sized Borsigiana Aurea is P2,500 to P3,500 depending on the quality of its variegation.  CareTips and Propagation:  For soil mixture, you can use, a soil-less medium or loam soil. For a soilless mixture, just mixed coco peat, coco cubes and pumice or rice hull. Let the aerial roots crawl on the plant pole to activate its aerial roots before cutting and transplanting. In this way, you give the newly cut plant a more chance to thrive. Placed the newly prop...

Before I was hesitant to buy the tree from the supplier from Nueva Ecija since I am not sure if Palm Date can actually grow here although it should because the Philippines is a tropical country. I have seen a lot of Date palm trees in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and in United Arab Emirates and the fruit when ripe has a great sweet taste. I need to buy two plants since the date palm is dioecious, having separate male and female plants. They can be easily grown from seed, but only 50% of seedlings will be female and hence fruit-bearing, and dates from seedling plants are often smaller and of poorer quality. Most commercial plantations thus use cuttings of heavily cropping cultivars. Plants grown from cuttings will fruit 2–3 years earlier than seedling plants.  Now as you can see in the photos below, my Date palm is only 3 ft in height but it already bears fruits. This is a grafted tree (draft version) which I bought for Php 1500 for each plant. Date trees reach up to 30 meters (100...