YOU CAN MAKE GOOD MONEY GROWING LATEX-RICH PLANT(S)

Latex - the watery, sticky or rubbery fluid in many plants has a whole lot of industrial and medicinal uses - some plants have so little latex, almost insignificant but some have a whole lot.

I think latex in plants is equivalent to blood in animals and humans😂 that is my own theory o -
O.Alawode 2024 - Latex in plants equivalent to blood in humans.

Latex from plants can be used  to make chewing gums, balloons, rubber bands, rubber gloves etc

The latex in plants also makes it possible for those plants to be used in direct treatment or making of pharmaceutical products for the cure of diabetes, arthritis, tumours, asthma, wounds etc.

If you have the opportunity to grow large quantities of a plant with abundant latex- you could make good money selling them. But if you don't have much land, you can still grow a latex-rich plant.

With access to small land, you may be wondering what plants are rich in latex apart from the rubber plant which are grown mostly on very large expanse of land.

Well, you can grow Jackfruit not only on large expanse of land but also on a small farm, even in a  garden.

Thanks to the Fruithunter whose Orchard I visited  - I was given a Jackfruit.

Apart from the edible part of Jackfruit being so very deliciously yummy,  it contains so very much latex constituting about half of the inside - no wonder the fruit is so big.

But interestingly, the Jackfruit starts fruiting even before it becomes a big tree - if all factors are in place, it  can start fruiting in the third year when the tree is still the size of a shrub.

At the Fruithunter Orchard, I saw  Jackfruit trees that were not so big  but with very large fruits each bigger than the head of a big cow or the heads of two grown-up human beings with big heads😂

Apart from the latex, the edible part of Jackfruit which can be eaten by boiling or roasting or baking, can also be used in making confectioneries and Smoothies.

If you use the juice to sweeten your tea, pap or other cereals, you won't need sugar or honey at all. 

It will also make confectioneries very sweet - it will have to be someone with extra-sweet tooth that will add sugar. 

Jackfruit is rich in anti-oxidants and vitamins.  So it can help prevent lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and heart problems caused by processed sugars.

Even the seeds which are very nutritious, are edible after boiling or roasting.

The challenge before me now is how will I grow Jackfruit in my cemented garden premises?

Pending the time I  fully get a secured and economically viable location for farming, I won't resist the urge to start cultivating Jackfruit o!.

I will start with small and then bigger containers . I will pack sand and fill the containers like I have been  doing for the mango and almond trees each growing inside drums. .

Eehhen!- by packing sand little by little by myself, each of the drums  are more than half-filled. 

 Such aspects of gardening are so tasking but one can still do them doing the bit you can each day

When one also has additional tasks of fetching water from the well when there is no electricity to pump water or some other reason, it gets even more tasking- but when necessary I do such. May we just not be unfortunate to share resources like water and electricity with those who are wasteful or careless as it will increase the number of times one has to do these more tasking work.

I had such an experience last week doing additional heavy tasks of fetching water from well due to wasteful exhaustion of water in the premises. By weekend even to this morning, my entire body ached terribly. Thanks to God for wisdom, with use of my natural remedies, I was able prevent falling sick outright.

So while I long for the time I would be able to plant many Jackfruits on large expanse of land for the latex and the edible fruit, I will plant some of the seeds in conrainers and enjoy eating the rest - uuummm...the roasted Jackfruit seeds may even taste better than cashew nuts and less cumbersome to prepare. 

In that case Jackfruit seeds as snacks could be potentially more economically viable than cashew nuts 

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