Showing posts with label nursery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nursery. Show all posts

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Larger greenhouse

Increased nursery lid I made two weeks ago is too small again, seedlings are literally pushing it up:

So I decided to move them to a new home. I purchased a mini greenhouse in Ikea, but it's not wide enough to accommodate the whole nursery. Luckily, I have just 10 out of 12 cells occupied (however total number of plants is 12), so all I need is to relayout cells so they are in 2 rows instead of 3. This way I also get better access to them, because now middle cells are totally hidden by leaves and it's difficult to check and water them.
Ikea greenhouse have its own tray and old tray will not survive reshuffle anyway, but I wanted to have some additional insulation in the bottom to avoid soil being overheated by heating mat. So I took an unused broken set of nursery cells and added a sort of legs made of hot glue:
Also I glued this new set of cells together in desired shape (I really love hot glue):
And put thermometer to a more convenient location:
It's time to reshuffle:
By the way, some roots are already sticking out from drain holes and also above the soil. Probably it's time to slip pot them soon:
First trim! (Just cells for today)

 Voila, new home for ficuses is ready (check out awesome glue gun in background):


Wednesday, November 30, 2016

November summary

In the middle of November I've started to grow Bodhi Trees from seeds.
I've put half of a bag of seeds into a glass water for 3 days. (more)
After soaking, I've sprinkled seeds on to 4 media: bonsai soil, sphagnum moss, filter paper and rockwool hydroponics plug. (details)
In 7 days, there was first sprout on rockwool. I transferred seedlings to a small greenhouse nursery on a heated mat (one, two)
Over the course of 8 days, there were 7 seedlings, 5 of them sprouted on rockwool and 2 on filter paper.
In the end of the month I've installed a grow light and I keep it on 24 hours a day.
All seedlings look healthy and grow vigorously!


Saturday, November 26, 2016

Two more sprouts

Another two seeds sprouted on rockwool plug. This thing outperforms other media by far! What's the secret? Is it optimal water transfer or some fertilizer in the plug? It makes water yellow.
Previous seedlings have grown as well. First one is 9mm tall now, look as this mighty tree:


Pretty good progress for 3 days, isn't it? If it keeps the pace, in a month it's going to overgrow the nursery.
Second one is also looking good:

This is overall view of nursery in it's current state: