Daughter and I had a rather tame weekend. Got Chinese food, went to the hobby store for stickers for her, washed the car and motorcycle, took a short walk, had a pillow fight and watched the new shows on Disney, including the new Phineas and Ferb.
That's okay because we'll be making up for lack of activity soon. Some planned activities coming up.
Like I mentioned, I wanted to start some plants from cuttings. So a little while ago I took some cuttings from the blueberry bushes and got them in a container. Also went across the street and took a few cuttings from the seedless grape vine. Those I placed in the freezer because I kept reading that they should be done after a hard freeze. I'll put them in soil tomorrow or the next day. The vines apparently go dormant after one freeze.
Transplanted two tomato plants into larger final containers. One was the tomato plant started from a cutting. It's already nearly a ft tall. The other was one remaining that was started from seed. I have a few more that were fairly recently started from seed but looking really good. So, I had basically gone down (I thought) to zero tomato vines. Then went up to 4 purchased vines. Then it turned out two in the ground had survived, maybe three. Now I have two more viable vines, so up to at least eight, maybe nine vines.
I've avoided using rooting hormone, not sure how it was produced. Then tried something new today. Processed honey. Did some reading and one person used a good scientific method which involved comparison to natural honey, rooting hormone, aspirin (in place of willow bark) and an untreated control. His results showed processed honey showed faster and more measurable results than anything else. Faster than rooting hormone by more than a week! (His test plant was basil.) I'll report back on my own results.
That's okay because we'll be making up for lack of activity soon. Some planned activities coming up.
Like I mentioned, I wanted to start some plants from cuttings. So a little while ago I took some cuttings from the blueberry bushes and got them in a container. Also went across the street and took a few cuttings from the seedless grape vine. Those I placed in the freezer because I kept reading that they should be done after a hard freeze. I'll put them in soil tomorrow or the next day. The vines apparently go dormant after one freeze.
Transplanted two tomato plants into larger final containers. One was the tomato plant started from a cutting. It's already nearly a ft tall. The other was one remaining that was started from seed. I have a few more that were fairly recently started from seed but looking really good. So, I had basically gone down (I thought) to zero tomato vines. Then went up to 4 purchased vines. Then it turned out two in the ground had survived, maybe three. Now I have two more viable vines, so up to at least eight, maybe nine vines.
I've avoided using rooting hormone, not sure how it was produced. Then tried something new today. Processed honey. Did some reading and one person used a good scientific method which involved comparison to natural honey, rooting hormone, aspirin (in place of willow bark) and an untreated control. His results showed processed honey showed faster and more measurable results than anything else. Faster than rooting hormone by more than a week! (His test plant was basil.) I'll report back on my own results.
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