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In today's video we are going to take the fruit cultivation to another level so that not only do we avoid that the cutting ants are attacking the plants, but we are also going to protect that fruit when it is in the production stage so that it does not come into direct contact with the ground. And to prepare the bottle, I am going to recommend that you cut it right where the part that is curved begins to try to remove the entire tube and also below we are going to cut it because approximately we are going to bury about 10 cm in the garden so that it is elevated from the ground. On the other hand, what I am going to recommend is that approximately at about 10 cm you make a couple of perforations all around because in this sector we are going to make a mixture of soil with leaves, sticks or the organic matter you have so that this way between the air we have a good amount of oxygen at this level that will help us to make all the organic matter that we put in this sector decompose more easily and work the next day as the nutrients for the plant. Here we are with all the plants that we are going to use now directly in the garden. We are going to put them in these bottles. These are plants that I recovered from last season. I am cultivating them, which now I am going to show you, with the rest of wood, sticks, to generate a substrate that is well ventilated and in this way it will not only serve to have a better quality of roots but also as all the leaves and the organic matter that we put in it decompose, this will make them transform into much better quality and size fruits. And here I have everything we are going to use. Leaves, remains of sticks, if you have pebbles of rice, for example, or oats, they will also come in handy. Here, to give an extra nutrition to the plants that I have there of fruit, we are going to put compost. This is going to be practically a handful for each bottle we use. And then the main component is going to be this compost that we can mix in equal parts with black soil. We are going to organize all the bottles so that they are well in line back there and I show you how we are going to do to prepare it. So all the part that we have perforated, this is the one that goes down. A thread that you should put on one side, not in the center, to be able to orient all the bottles that we are going to use. Approximately between one and the other I will leave about 15 or 20 centimeters. And this is the great advantage that we have, is that once we put the fruit plants, for example, the ants, it will cost them much more to get to the plants and in turn all the fruit will be hanging. And we are going to mark the whole circle. Here I am going to do it with a knife to try to bury this bottle a little more, which is approximately here. These perforations I am going to make it stay above the level of the earth so that all the leaves that we are going to put in the bottom are ventilated. So, about 5 or 6 centimeters in this whole sector. Do you see where the perforations are? And then with the soil that we take out, we crush everything around. In this case because I had these remains of leaves from the cultivation that I had before. We are going to look for the perforations at this height at the level of the earth and so we are going to make it firm for when we put all the substrate up here and the fruit plants. And now inside each one I am going to put a handful of these leaves and sticks to make the lower layer. It doesn't matter if they stay like this up, when we finish putting all the substrate we are going to accommodate it so that it is more tidy. This is how I do it with all the bottles we put here. And once we put all the leaf layer, we are going to start covering with compost all this layer of leaves that we have left below and we squeeze a little. We do it with all the others, more or less reaching almost half and not squeezing much because these leaves, when they come into contact now with the compost plus the perforations that we made, this is going to make this decomposition accelerate much more and tomorrow they will become nutrients for all these strawberry plants. Another thing that happens is that all these sticks that we have in the background as they decompose, they will leave air spaces that this will help us so that the roots can also move more easily. This is the fertilizer that I prepared for the lemon tree based on lentils, rice and ashes. Both for rice and lentils, I am going to recommend that you process it a little as to split the seed so that they degrade much faster and begin to release the nutrients. And the proportions? We are going to use 5 parts of lentils, 3 parts of rice and 2 parts of ash. We mix it well and we are going to save this in a bottle until the time to use it. We are going to use a very small teaspoon spreading it well inside each of the bottles. So I'm going to do it with all these bottles to give it more nutrition. And above this organic fertilizer that will be providing nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and many of the micronutrients that plants need, we are going to put a good layer of this compost or compost that you have at home to separate it from the roots that we are going to put right up here. And now, taking advantage of this spectacular morning, we are going to do the transplant and here I have... These are all the plants that I was recovering last season. Look how the leaves are decomposing and this helps us to have a better root system. I'm just going to open it a little like this so that the roots are released and can develop better. And we are going to try that the crown is a little lower than the level of the bottle and I'm going to fill them with compost directly. Keep in mind that all the wood that I put underneath, when they start to decompose, the leaves that we also put, that will make the soil level go down a little, but then we will be replacing it with more compost or, if you have a pre-compost, much better because that will ensure us to have more nutrition. When we have them like this, what we can also do is give it one more extra, with the pre-compost, any extra material that we put on it that provides us with nutrition, it will help us to have a better development of all these plants. And it is important to respect the height of the crown well. He likes to have a soil that is slightly acidic. On the other hand, that the substrate that we put on it, the one you get at home, drains well, but that in turn has organic matter. Because all that organic matter will help us to have better aeration and that tomorrow you are going to do everything fertilizing. And one more piece of advice that I am going to give you, when the plants go into flowering, and if you go to see that the fruits do not deform, many times you will have seen that there are fruits that are deformed, that are bigger from below, but that have a very small tip. This is precisely due to the lack of pollinators, because the only thing that is going to be pollinated are all the female flowers that are at the base. I am going to recommend that with a brush that is very soft, you go through the base of the flower, which is where the anteras are, and they are the ones that are going to give us the pollen grains. And very gently, you go up through the entire surface, that each of those little dots would be the stigma of the female flower. And the greater the amount of pollen grains that reach all these stigmas, the greater the number of seeds that are going to form. And this is going to determine that we have bigger fruits. And once we have them all placed directly in the bottles, what I am going to recommend is a good watering so that all the substrate starts to stay well in contact with the roots after having done the transplant. The great advantage that we are going to have, and this is going to look good, is that the fruits are going to hang, they do not reach directly to the ground, and this is very important to be able to maintain much better quality fruits, because it is normal that when they come in contact directly with the ground, the fungi that can come to see, and if we have, for example, a day of a lot of humidity, can end up making them start attacking all the fruits, and so we are going to end up losing them. And all this method, when we do it directly with bottles, raised directly from the ground, we can also do it directly in drawers, so that in this way, not only do we take better advantage of the spaces, but we can also put more strawberries. I send you a big greeting! Bye!