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If your Kalabasa flowers aren’t growing quite how they should be, Chef JR Royol teaches us a pollination technique passed down to him by his father!

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00:00 Good morning, good morning. We're going to cook vegetables.

00:03 Of course, we're going to eat this early.

00:05 If you're familiar with this signature dish,

00:08 you're probably familiar with the millions of people who have watched Sir Romeo Katakutan's videos.

00:14 He's more known on social media as Idol TikTok.

00:18 His videos include daily scenes here at his 20 hectare farm in San Luis, Bampanga.

00:29 The Lotkar Farm.

00:30 And today, I'm excited to be with the one and only Idol TikTok of Bampanga

00:37 in our happy food adventure.

00:39 So Sir, this is the content that you usually post on your account, right?

00:43 Yes, on TikTok.

00:44 Fresh vegetables.

00:46 Especially this. This is what you usually feed, right?

00:49 Yes, it's delicious.

00:51 It's good for the body.

00:55 I have a story to tell you, Sir. This pumpkin flower is sentimental to me.

01:03 Because when I was in college, we didn't have any other source of income.

01:07 We just planted pumpkins.

01:09 And my mom, every morning, we planted a few pumpkins.

01:16 So, if they're already blooming this season, my mom will pick them.

01:22 She'll bring them to the market, and whatever she sells, I'll buy from her.

01:28 And Sir, this is what I was taught by the Airpods.

01:31 I'm sure to our food explorers who are not familiar with this.

01:34 There are times when your place doesn't have many pollinators,

01:39 there are no many insects, not many flies.

01:43 Even if we plant them.

01:44 So, if there's an incident like that, and you'll notice that the fruit of your pumpkin doesn't continue,

01:51 what you can actually do is, manually pollinate them.

01:56 If the female pumpkin doesn't pollinate, this is what will happen.

02:03 These are the ones we usually buy from the market.

02:07 And this is the male.

02:10 This is what we call, right Sir?

02:12 And this is the female.

02:14 There.

02:16 This one has a fruit.

02:19 So, you'll see that if you'll notice that the fruit of your pumpkin doesn't continue,

02:26 it dies,

02:27 what my dad taught me is you can manually pollinate

02:32 so that the survival or chance of it being able to grow into full grown fruit.

02:38 What you do is, you'll remove that,

02:41 so that you can shoot it inside.

02:47 Because you'll notice that this is the one that will shoot,

02:50 if you'll notice that the female pumpkin is just right.

02:58 And then, we'll just let it in, we'll shoot it,

03:01 then we'll leave it there.

03:05 So, that's basically how you do manual pollination of squash.

03:13 You can do it with other plants, but in this case, that's the technique we can do.

03:17 There, and then the squash.

03:20 Those are my favorite vegetables.

03:22 There's a lot.

03:28 Another tip, you need to harvest it early because when the sun rises,

03:34 the leaves that are opening up, that's when it will close.

03:41 And then, you won't be able to come back the next day.

03:43 So, you need to harvest it early.

03:45 So, where do you usually mix this?

03:47 In the pot.

03:49 In the pot and in the fruit.

03:51 Yes.

03:52 We grill it or we put it in the oven.

03:55 Okay.

03:55 I was thinking of a recipe, sir, that I feel like you haven't tried yet.

04:00 We'll try it.

04:02 That's a good one.

04:03 [Music]

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