Waiting for the seedlings to poke through is agony. I soaked and warmed mine, but not to the tap root. Placed them in main grow bags, four days nothing. Shit, I'll regerminate more seeds with tap roots. So as they are popping now. Low and behold stuff is coming up in the bags.
Damn my impatient side of life. So some are going outside in freshened up soil. So now I have Erdpurt and Panama Deep Chunk added to the list. I will let the outside plants be a little neglected but not abused. So I basically wasted a couple hundred dollars worth of genetics.
So again my Ace germination rates were very good.....Twice. Peace
Heheh, I was about to sow some more too!
I always start them in coco solo cups on their own inside the veg tent (feet at 21C), no presoak, paper towels or anything.
This time I did the same but with a light soil mix, left the seedling pots on the "greengarden" out of an unused hen coop (translucent roof), completely on their own, but for keeping moisture on them (on the low side for me, I'm not used to soil)...
Farmerlion, I wonder, how do you prepare holes for fruit trees? Basin care?
Avocados (great munchies!)
Cheers, lots to take aboard - much appreciated!
I have them indoors, they're due a transplant and different soil is certainly in needed.
Happy growing
Nup do you have the avocados in pots? Do they come from seeds of avocados you ate maybe?
If so, do transplant them asap... to ground if possible (with a good bed!). You won't get fruits while in pots, avocado trees stablishment phase throws a looooong and deeep main tap root, something it's not going to happen on a pot. These trees grow incredibly big and strong in nature. Usually no stablished root system = no flowers/generative phase.
Do you know how reproduction works on avocados? I mean flowering types and phases, etc?
Young avocado (1-2 years. implant) Strain: Fuerte
Young avocado, 1-2 years, implant. Strain: Bacon
Avocado, 3+ years, implant. Strain: Hass. In Flower.
Ammending soil
Leonardite is about to arrive. Will use it + heaps of compost to "fluff" and enhance the ground (high clay content).
It's incredible how red soil worms thrive here. Transplanted some lettuces from a seedling tray and it was full of red worm babies at the bottom?!? Guess there were earth worm cocoons on the bag substrate I used (Cejudo)
Thinking on growing them too! (free worm manure!) in the meanwhile I throw them under the weeds composting heaps.
I assume is is good also to have them in pots with live plants for a healthy root ecosystem?
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