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A few days ago I presented a post where I shared how to prepare a macerate with the leaves of the Neem plant, this as part of the recommendations provided to me to rescue my lemon plant
As the macerate must be several days in the dark to achieve the effect of the neem leaves in the water, the days are not yet fulfilled, while today's work consisted of cutting the dry branches of the plant.
This lemon plant has some years in my small garden, it was born there without looking for it, I did not plant it, I went on a trip, I left it very small, I was distracted with the preparations for the trip...when we returned the plant was very big and it was decided to leave it there, because I said this is a gift from God.
The plant when it started to give us its gifts, it was impressive the size of them, beautiful lemons that I felt impressed with them.
She continued with her harvests, very gracious with each harvest. The last one was so much produce that the gratitude was so great that we took on the task of giving gifts to the neighbors who do not have any in their homes.
Load after load, always kind. Then I noticed that there were black leaves, I cleaned them, then the leaves were filled with white fluff, the same went on with loads. The trunk has turned black. It continues to put its respective water every day and has been step by step cleaning the leaves, which can at times that I dedicate myself to it. It is a task of dedication and with a lot of respect for it.
The truth is that the contamination was growing, the plague took over.
Today, while the days of waiting for the macerated product are over, I completed the next task, which is to cut the dry branches. It was a very careful task, I removed as far as I could the dry twigs, and other not so small ones, being very careful not to mistreat it and not to mistreat myself with its thorns.
I was able to remove a few branches, twigs and leaves. It has stems filled with a gauze like a cotton can be called.
While I was doing this work, I was thinking about the dedication of the people whose work is to cultivate citrus, extensions of land with this type of plantation, of course, maybe they take care of the plants since they are small so that this does not happen and the plants are always healthy. I was thinking about the types of medicines they use, the people who apply medicines to them, to keep track and how to attack in case of an epidemic.
This plant does have a load, and it really gave a lot of flowers, then we saw how the small lemons fell, I thought that the lemons would not be saved. In spite of everything it has lemons that have grown, not like the first ones, but you have to use them immediately because they tend to harden their peel and of course their juice is not easy to drink.
Waiting for the product that is being macerated to comply with step three which is the application of the same on its leaves, try to be well covered, hoping for the best result. As I saw that the plant is in very bad condition put to prepare more leaves to macerate so that it does not lack and can cover the seven days of treatment.
In spite of its illness it does not stop giving shelter to the little birds that make their nests there.
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