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July 15, 2010 at 9:52 am · Filed under Lifestyle, Photos, Plants, potato
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Photo 1 and 2 are a stamp that a student had bought me. It has my Korean name on it. 3 is the Zen Potato project. The container which I had for it had no drainage at the bottom. One day a teacher over watered the container and I noticed signs of the potato molding. So, I chucked it into the rice fields. 4 is my latest mate delivery. Yeah! It’s a lot of mate, but it will get drank. My attitude has become very positive these few days, and I think it’s because of 5. These are the clovers that I started growing in the home. They only took about 2 days to sprout.
April 8, 2007 at 11:21 am · Filed under potato
Here’s the start of my bonsai potato. Albert has been hibernating in the cabinet, above the sink, for the last week. He just arrived from a long trip from Idaho. He woke up, today, for some yoga and this photo-op. It looks like the dark side is trying to convert him too.
References: greatscott, potato gallery
March 13, 2007 at 7:29 pm · Filed under Bonsai
I took these photos over the weekend. Today, I’m pronouncing the little bamboos dead. I guess they weren’t happy with their new soil environment.
March 2, 2007 at 7:24 pm · Filed under Bonsai
It’s been almost a week and a half since I replanted the bamboo. It looks like it’s doing…hmm…fair. There were a few questionable leaves that went ahead and died on the larger shoot, but it looks like the one good leaf is remaining green/healthy. Leaves grow out from the top of the shoot, so I’ll have to wait and see if any are on the way. I’m sure our recent cold weather isn’t helping. I’ve mostly been keeping the soil moist and adding a drop of Green Green every few days. I wasn’t sure if the soil would be good. It’s not fertilizer, but just average dirt.
But more importantly, Wednesday morning I decided to check on the Kowhai bonsai seeds. A recap of the directions says to keep the seeds in the fridge for a period of 4-6 weeks. I did 5.5 because it was getting a fuzzy mold on the top. I, then, moved it to a dark upper cabinet. It says you may have to wait between 3-6 weeks after watering before shoots appear. It’s been 1 week and I already see 4 of them! One of them was pushing the lid off the top soil. The next step is to remove the lid and replace it with another dish. This dish is supposed to act as a green house. But the one, shoot is already heading sky high. After they reach ~2″, it’s off to it’s own pot and warm light. I’ll have to wait and see how many more I’ve got. I, also, hope the temperature starts to get milder, so I can move it to a sunnier area.
Here’s a photo. I actually wrote this on Wednesday. As of Friday night, there are 6 sprouts as you can see. The booklet says:
You may have to wait between 3-6 weeks after watering before seedling shoots appear – be patient.
February 17, 2007 at 7:13 pm · Filed under Bonsai
On a few bamboo stalks, new sprouts had begun to appear at the base near the roots. Most were growing on dying stalks. The leaves and stalk dried up, but the base around the sprout remained green. I noticed them, and they’ve been growing for the last 3 months. I had been wondering how long I should let these grow? What would happen if I did? Should I try to plant these in fertilizer or keep them in water? Well, I made some last minute decisions, today.
As I checked some of the smaller stalks, I realized that one of them had been grossly neglected. The stalk had already died, but a fungus was now taking over. It engulfed the stalk and the sprout in a mucousy slime. It was like someone had blown their nose on it. Yuck City.
Since, I lost that one, I figured I should make a ruling call on the others. On two other dead stalks, I pulled/cut off the sprouts and put them in some dirt. One was really small, and I dont know if it has much of a chance. The other looked like it was starting to get moldy too and I put in some soil. I gave them a couple of drops of ‘Green Green’ to stimulate the soil. Hopefully, new roots will grow.
In other news, the Kowhai Bonsai has less than a week left in the fridge. It has some peach fuzz growing on the top of the soil. I hope this doesn’t mean I’ve over watered the seeds and they’re rotting. Plants can be so needy at times.
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