HI everyone, I spent the day harvesting a 15 year old Mahakea. The good thing is that I took some pictures. I hope you all enjoy them.
The first picture is of the 'Awa plant it self.
The first things we do is cut off all the stalks and make cuttings from them, this next few pictures are part of that process.
Now we have all the cuttings in the moss that I use to root the cuttings.
This picture is after all the stalks have been cut off and we are ready to dig up the 'Awa plant. I leave some of the stalks onto help in harvesting the 'Awa.
Here we are all hard at work digging the lateral roots out.
Now we rock it back and forth a few times and it comes out of the ground.
Now we roll it out and down to the truck about 100 feet away.
This Mahakea had some really large stalks, here is a stalk I kept, I figure it's kind of like the old fishing story, if you don't have it, it ain't true. Well check out this stalk.
I hope you all enjoyed the pictures, I will post more later of how we clean it and stuff like that. Aloha.
Chris
The first picture is of the 'Awa plant it self.
The first things we do is cut off all the stalks and make cuttings from them, this next few pictures are part of that process.
Now we have all the cuttings in the moss that I use to root the cuttings.
This picture is after all the stalks have been cut off and we are ready to dig up the 'Awa plant. I leave some of the stalks onto help in harvesting the 'Awa.
Here we are all hard at work digging the lateral roots out.
Now we rock it back and forth a few times and it comes out of the ground.
Now we roll it out and down to the truck about 100 feet away.
This Mahakea had some really large stalks, here is a stalk I kept, I figure it's kind of like the old fishing story, if you don't have it, it ain't true. Well check out this stalk.
I hope you all enjoyed the pictures, I will post more later of how we clean it and stuff like that. Aloha.
Chris