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Coconut Farming: Normal and Abnormal Button Drop

[Music] this is David loo of DJ coconut breeding Farm uh talking to you about Normal and abnormal buttons dropping from the coconut Spade what is button drop we are talking about the coconut tree when the Spade emerges you get uh the inflorescence which contains little buttons at the base of the Spade as you see in this model and you get the male flows which cover the rest of the space button drop happens in all coconut PMS normally the number of buttons which on that on that Spade uh are much more than what the Palm can handle and can manage and therefore the tree naturally drops around 2/3 of the buttons you would get between 20 and 100 buttons per tree I've seen 200 and 300 buttons on a single tree but you may get not more than 50 or 60 fruit growing on that Tre so I'm referring to normal button drop abnormal button drop is a problem and must be looked at seriously there are four causes when the use of water too much or too little will be the cause nutrition too much but generally it's too little or not at the right time or once or twice in the [Music] year third is pest and disease and fourth is natural shedding of extra fruit as the bunches grow so what is button drop we are referring to the abnormal drop of buttons leaving just one or two fruit on the spade and sometimes even less than that we have a separate video on understanding the problem better and a solution thank you very much [Music]