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Friday, June 3, 2011

Update: Lotus

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In an attempt to transfer one of my lotus plants, several of the leaves died. It's not fully dead yet so I'm still trying to nurse i...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Update: Lotus, White Pitcher, and Venus

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Lotus Both lotus plants now have 4 leaves each and I see a fifth leaf coming up. I currently don't have my camera right now but when I ...
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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Growing Water Lily Bulbs

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So far my water lily seeds haven't sprouted. I need to wait for the materials I need to replant them. For the time being, I bought a wat...
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Friday, April 29, 2011

Loofa Seeds Die

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I went to check on the loofa seeds and they are all dead. I'm assuming due to the sudden hot weather in my area the greenhouse got too h...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Loofa Seeds Already Sprouting

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It's only been 2 days and 5 of the loofa seeds have sprouted to the point where they need to be transplanted into the seed trays. I have...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Growing Loofa From Seeds

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I'm growing loofas and I"m doing more experiments. I had 12 loofa seeds soaked overnight. Using my 12 compartment seed trays, I pla...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Growing Asparagus From Seed

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I'm doing a little experiment with growing asparagus. Last night I soaked 12 seeds in water. Today I planted 6 of them in seed starter a...

Update: White Pitcher Plants, Venus Fly Traps

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White Pitcher Plant & Venus Fly Traps Last time I said that I thought I saw 2 white pitcher plants growing, one of them even had a se...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Update: Lotus and Pitcher Plants

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White Pitcher Plant That grass like thing that I showed a few months prior is still here with no change. However I have noticed something w...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Update: Lotus

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The lotuses are now peeking above the water. Hopefully in a few days the leaves will show. Lotus Plant Other Lotus Plant I have noticed ...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

Vegetable Garden

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A few weeks ago I started the seeds for my vegetable garden. I'm growing tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, several different type...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Replanting Kiwi Seeds

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As you might recall, our kiwi plants died in the great heat die off. Well today I replanted them, just in a different matter. Last time we...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Lotus Seeds Planted

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I put some garden soil in 2 buckets and filled it with rain water that I collected. I waited a few days but the water has not settled yet bu...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Both Lotus Seeds Growing

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Both of my Lotus seeds have sprouts which means that I will need to plant them soon. Both of my Lotus seeds are growing Next Step I have...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Sprouting Lotus Seed

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Yesterday I reported that one of the Lotus seeds had split and I saw some green. Actually whenever I checked up on the Lotus seed every few ...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Update: Lotus

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Today I went to check on my Lotuses and one of them has a split with some green showing. Nothing has sprouted out yet but hopefully somethin...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Update: Lotus, Pitcher, and Venus

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I checked the weather reports and it looks like it's not going to be warm enough for at least another week. I saw my electronic heating ...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Possible Delay In Germination

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There is possibly going to be a delay in the lotus, water lily, pitcher plant, and venus fly trap seeds. These seeds require warm temperatur...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Growing Water Lily Seeds

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I went online and bought some Hardy Water Lily seeds. The colors are Pink Hot Pink Sensation Pink Blue Yellow White I'm trying ...

Update: Lotus seeds

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There's not much to update except for that now my other lotus seed is lumpy too. So I should be seeing a green shoot within a few days.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Growing Lotus Seeds

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I went online and bought 5 lotus seeds. I'm currently growing 2 of them. Lotus seeds needs to be scarified in order to germinate. Onli...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Venus Fly Traps and Pitcher Plants

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I got this urge to want to start growing water and swamp plants. So I went online and bought some water lily, lotus, Venus Fly Trap and Pitc...

Slight Change

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I know that I haven't been on here for quite a while. But there will be some slight changes. I will be growing whatever I feel like grow...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Still Nursing

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There's not much to update. We are still trying to nurse our heat damaged plants back. Some are for sure not going to make it so we have...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

The Great Heat Die Off

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So here's what's been going on. I have been on vacation studying for my MCAT which I just took on Friday. So Trevor has been taking ...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

Updates: Loquats, Pears, Apples

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We have good news on 2 of the plants and bad news on one of them. Apples I'll save the best for last so I'm starting off with th...
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Saturday, July 3, 2010

Growing D'anjou Pear Seeds

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Two weeks ago we took our seeds out of the refrigerator and put them in room tmeperature. The pears we got are D'anjou pears. Well they ...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Extracting Kiwi Seeds

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This is the method we used to get our kiwi seeds You Will Need Sharp Knife Butter Knife Bowl of water Coffee Filter Sieve Bowl Instru...
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Just Some Picture Updates

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Pineapple Pineapple in pot Pineapple #1 with fruit left on Pineapple #2 with fruit left on Lemon Lemon plants. The front one ...
Saturday, June 26, 2010

Growing Apricot From Seeds

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My neighbor has an apricot tree. Every year she let's us come over and pick as many apricots as we want. There's always too many to ...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Update:Gala, Citrus, Pineapple

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Gala Apples As I said a few days ago we have to redo the Gala apple seeds. Well we were scooping out the bad seed starter and apparently on...

Growing Blackberries and Raspberries

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Our blackberry seeds have been sitting in the refrigerator for 2 months while our raspberry seeds have been in there for a month. Now it is ...
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Monday, June 21, 2010

Moving Pears

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So on May 14th we put some pear seeds in a moist paper towel, put that in a plastic bag, then put it in the fridge. It's been 5 weeks an...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

Growing Blueberries From Seed

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I bought some blueberry seeds from The Kentucky Blueberry Growers Association a few months ago. Their seeds are already stratified so you d...
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