MONTALBO, JOSEPHINE M.

U-1L EXERCISE 1 As we all know, rice is the staple food not only in the Philippines but also a big part of the world especially Asia. It is the grain with the secong highest worldwide production after corn. Rice fulfills dietary needs of millions of people around the globe spread over several territories and countries. More than 40,000 variations of rice are cultivated and sold. Each one has its own unique benefits to offer. You can evaluate the usefulness of rice by judging it on the criteria of processing quality and the rate at which each one releases carbohydrates. Broadly speaking, you can categorize the huge variety of rice into white, brown, or wild rice. Before planting rice, we were thought of the different materials used in land preparation such as furrower, lithao and a lot more. We were thought of the nine growth stages of rice: Germination, dapog, wetbed seedling, tillering, panicle initiation, booting stage, flowering stage, milking stage, dough stage and matures stage. The only raw material needed for commercial production of rice is the rice seed or seedlings. In Exercise 1, we used the transplanting method of rice specifically straight row wherein there is a specific spacing in planting rice. For this reason, I am very excited when I know that a part of Exercise 1 was planting rice. As I step my feet in the rice field, I can feel the heat, dirtiness of it. Also, the planting proper was a very difficult task since the palay must be aligned to each other. Stepping backwards was at first exciting but later on, it became a difficult task with your whole body bend all throughout. Thats when I realize that planting is really hard. I decided that I wont left any grain of rice in my plate since the Filipino farmers worked hard for the rice we are eating everyday.

MONTALBO, JOSEPHINE M. U-1L EXXERCISE 5: FLOWER INDUCTION

According to http://www.encyclo.co.uk, Flower induction is the physiological processes in the plant by which the shoot apical meristem becomes competent to develop flowers. Biochemical changes at the apex, particularly those caused by cytokinins, accompany this process. In this exercise, we use flower induction in mango tree and pineapple. Many varieties of mango and pineapple trees naturally produce fruit every other year; during the "off" year, the crop may be very small or even nonexistent. The use of flower inducers stimulates flower growth during the resting year so the tree produces annually. Flower inducers can also increase the number of viable blooms during the natural fruit-producing year, for an increase in production; they can also be used on varieties that provide a crop every year, to boost harvest. The materials we used were potassium nitrate, sprayer, pail, pitcher, tags, pentel pen and water. In a Carabao mango tree with mature leaves, I sprayed 2% Potassium nitrate. Potassium nitrate is a flower inducer that contains potash and nitrogen, needed for flower growth. Choose an overcast day where there is no rain forecast, to allow time for the chemicals to absorb into the tree without scalding the leaves. Spray a low dose of 1 to 2 percent KNO to water directly on the tree leaves when the buds are dormant. Next, I tagged the leaves I sprayed. I repeated this process using 240 ppm ethepon + 1 % urea solution in pineapple plant. Ethephon was sprayed on mature-green pineapple fruits to degreen them to meet produce marketing requirements. There can be some detrimental effect on fruit quality. Although many environmental groups worry about toxicity resulting from use of growth hormones and fertilizers, the toxicity of ethephon is actually very low, and any ethephon used on the plant is converted very quickly to ethylene. After 14 days, I went back to examine the plants but I did not observe any flowers bloom. During the two weeks of waiting, I recognized that there were rainy days. Therefore I conclude that flower induction had this fatal