Tumpek Wariga — also called Tumpek Pengarah or Tumpek Bubuh — falls on Saniscara Kliwon Wariga in the Balinese Pawukon calendar, once every 210 days. It is the day dedicated to honouring the plant world — trees, crops, and gardens — as living entities worthy of respect, gratitude, and ceremonial attention. The ritual reflects the Balinese Hindu understanding that all living things carry a spiritual force (taksu) that sustains the balance of life on earth. On Tumpek Wariga morning, Balinese households conduct a ceremony at each significant tree in their compound. Fruit trees — coconut, mango, jackfruit, and rambutan most commonly — are wrapped at the base in a length of black-and-white poleng cloth (the checked ritual fabric that marks sacred objects throughout Bali) and offered a small pyramid of bubur sumsum (white rice porridge), along with incense, flowers, and a brief prayer. The ceremony is simultaneously agricultural and spiritual: the prayers ask the tree's spirit to produce an abundant harvest and to remain healthy through the coming cycle. In a practical sense, Tumpek Wariga also marks the beginning of the agricultural calendar period in which trees are typically pruned, fertilised, and checked for disease — the ceremony provides a ritual framework for what is also a practical horticultural inspection. In the royal gardens and major temple compounds of Bali, the ceremony extends to include offerings to bamboo, rice seedlings, and sacred trees with particular cosmological significance.