9 March 2022
First challenge. Checking the tray this morning, I noticed one of the quinoa seeds wearing a fur coat of mold. So I immediately removed it from the tray to quarantine it, and hosed it down with the cinnamon water. The fur immediately disappeared, but that plug is staying in quarantine to protect the the other plants in the tray, and to see if the fur coat returns or if the cinnamon water was effective at eradicating it.
The peat plug and the associated seeds are now residing in a single, stand alone pudding cup with a ziplock back inverted over that to keep the greenhouse effect going. It's isolated from the tray with the (so far) healthy seedlings in it.
However, if the quinoa is molding, then I have less hope that it is going to sprout. With any luck, it was just that one seed and I caught it in time before the mold could spore and infect other plugs.
Still no sprouts in the hemp plugs. We are within the time range that they ought to be sprouting, so if there are still none in the next 4 days, then the chances drastically diminish thereafter. If there are still none by the 3rd of April, then the chances are practically zero that it will ever sprout. I'll be mighty pissed if that carefully sourced seed turns out to be all duds. I planted 36 of them to insure there were enough to thin out to 4 plants, and if NONE of those 36 sprout, then I can only presume the entire batch of seed is dead.
Still no activity in the pampas grass plugs, either, but I'm not sure of the time range needed for sprouts.
I expect I may see some action in the "1000 Year Old" rustica tobacco in the next 3 to 5 days.
Later, I plan to get some basil, rosemary, and spearmint plants to set outdoors, but that is still a month and a half off, to defeat the last frost of the season here. No point in getting them any sooner. Snow and falling temperatures is expected here at the end of this week. Furthermore, I may ake another trip down to the old homestead and grub up some already started catnip and peppermint after the last frost is past, to make sure the plants I get are hardy enough to handle it.
ETA: I found this page regading quinoa growing. according to that page, quinoa sprouts 4-10 days from planting, and today is the 4th day, so it ought to start standing up some time in the next week. However, the page also says to plant it 1/4 inch deep, so I may have erred in the planting.
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First challenge. Checking the tray this morning, I noticed one of the quinoa seeds wearing a fur coat of mold. So I immediately removed it from the tray to quarantine it, and hosed it down with the cinnamon water. The fur immediately disappeared, but that plug is staying in quarantine to protect the the other plants in the tray, and to see if the fur coat returns or if the cinnamon water was effective at eradicating it.
The peat plug and the associated seeds are now residing in a single, stand alone pudding cup with a ziplock back inverted over that to keep the greenhouse effect going. It's isolated from the tray with the (so far) healthy seedlings in it.
However, if the quinoa is molding, then I have less hope that it is going to sprout. With any luck, it was just that one seed and I caught it in time before the mold could spore and infect other plugs.
Still no sprouts in the hemp plugs. We are within the time range that they ought to be sprouting, so if there are still none in the next 4 days, then the chances drastically diminish thereafter. If there are still none by the 3rd of April, then the chances are practically zero that it will ever sprout. I'll be mighty pissed if that carefully sourced seed turns out to be all duds. I planted 36 of them to insure there were enough to thin out to 4 plants, and if NONE of those 36 sprout, then I can only presume the entire batch of seed is dead.
Still no activity in the pampas grass plugs, either, but I'm not sure of the time range needed for sprouts.
I expect I may see some action in the "1000 Year Old" rustica tobacco in the next 3 to 5 days.
Later, I plan to get some basil, rosemary, and spearmint plants to set outdoors, but that is still a month and a half off, to defeat the last frost of the season here. No point in getting them any sooner. Snow and falling temperatures is expected here at the end of this week. Furthermore, I may ake another trip down to the old homestead and grub up some already started catnip and peppermint after the last frost is past, to make sure the plants I get are hardy enough to handle it.
ETA: I found this page regading quinoa growing. according to that page, quinoa sprouts 4-10 days from planting, and today is the 4th day, so it ought to start standing up some time in the next week. However, the page also says to plant it 1/4 inch deep, so I may have erred in the planting.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’