The Good - Green beans have flower buds, yeah! The supermarket bought basil (which I thought was dead) came back, yeah!
The Bad - Two strong tomato seedlings and 1 basil baby damped off, wee! All rosemary babies died, wee!
The Ugly - I still didn't transplant oregano, neither did I do anything about chives and green onions, neither did I water cilantro (or maybe parsley?). As a result to the laziness, I lost all of them except the oregano.
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| Week 6 |
Summary:
1. This week's weather has been really good, by which I mean there was probably 5 out of the past 10 days that was mostly sunny (good as to Morgantown's standard). We had a mini tornado, but I moved the plants into the garage, so we were fine.
2. I fertilized everything on thursday with the Miracle-Gro tomato plant food (1tsp to 1 gallon water). After some research, I realized last week I did not use enough fertilizer on them - don't get me wrong, the solution is correct, but apparently I was suppsed to use 1 cup (8oz) of solution per seedling (according to Miracle-Gro), while I only sprinkled a totally of 12oz on my whole garden last week. So this week I used 4oz of solution per seedling, overhead spraying. There's no way the soil in the 18oz cup is going to hold 8oz of liquid, even 4oz drained out a lot. Anyways, the drained out solution just went into the water reservoir (which is a 3-oz cup at the bottom), and will be absorbed by the plant later.
3. Damping Off, Oh No!!!! 1) Two of my strong looking tomato seedlings damped off (at least I thought so), including one that was in the 6-seedling group cup. I didn't even know that they could still damp off when they are this old with strong stem and healthy leaves plus living in a self-watering container! 2) One of my good looking basil seedling in the green herb container damped off as well (why??? it was really healthy and dry!!) - so we ate it. 3) all of my rosemary babies toppled over one by one~ 4) the only black-seeded simpson lettuce seems having the same problem....
Aftermath: I dusted the rest with ground cinnamon, hoping that will help.
4. Green bean surprise: what I thoguth might be flower buds (Alex insisted those were leaf buds) turned out to be flower buds:) hopefully we can get some green beans in 2 weeks (hopefully i didn't jinx it..). I wish I had planted more... at least they brought me hope
5. Adios, Rosemary, Parsely, Cilantro, Green Onion, Garlic Chives
Beans, Contender
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| May 28 (Day 34) - New leaves look healthy - no spots, no curling - don't know if the sunlight or the fertilizer helped, maybe both. |
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| Flower buds :) Noticed those on day 30, was not sure until now. I didn't even get a chance to transplant them to a bigger pot! Hopefully we will get beans in 2 weeks:) |
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| Closer look - beans trying to push out blossoms:) |
Tomato, Beefsteak
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| 05/28 (Day 42) - the good looking tomato babies. wish none of them damp off anymore... the top right corner group of tomato seedlings that survived near-death experience keep growing good, except 1 damped off 3 days ago. Competitive growing is probably the way to go! |
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| 05/28 (Day 42) - the bad looking tomato babies. Dunno what their problem is~ purple-ish, stunned, yellow seed leaves, not growing... can anybody tell me why??? |
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| One of the tomato seedlings that damped off. I tried to cheat death by burying it deeper, don't seem to work, since te tip of the leaves started wilting. The other one, I buried in the ground - can't bear killing them :'( Who knows they can still experience damping off at this age?? |
Pepper, California Wonder
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| 05/28 (Day 35) - the good looking pepper babies. They started looking like a plant and growing taller (or maybe just my wish). I don't know what the discoloration is about though.... |
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| 05/28 (Day 35) - the bad looking pepper babies. These... dunno what to say, they don't grow, they don't die, they are just there |
Pepper, Jalapeno
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| Alex thinks they grow taller. I really don't think they had any change other than turning yellow~ (come on, they've been with us for about 20 days now!) |
Cucumber, Sumter
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| 05/28 (Day 18) - true leaves showed up days ago, and grow well. I should have transplanted them long time ago, but I was too lazy, also I've heard that cucumbers don't transplant good....so i'm scared |
Tomato, Cherry
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| 05/28 (Day 18) - true leaves emerging. The 3-seed-leaf seedling is still in it. After all, that son of *** had a head start with one extra leaf |
Lettuce, Mesclun Mix
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| 05/28 (Day 10) most of them has sprouted, some showed true leaves. Top left: arugula (1 didn't germinate) Bottom left: Cress (both germinated) Top middle: lettuce-black seeds (1 didn't germinate) Bottom middle: lettuce - white seeds (both germinated) and 1 mysterious sprout~ Top right: endive Bottom right: Radicchion Far right: unkonwn, didn't germinate anyway |
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| 05/28 (Day 18?) - black-seeded simpson. the true leaf grew to the size of the seed leaves, but I think it may damp off in the next few days. |
Basil, Sweet
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| 05/28 (Day 39?) - Besides the one that mysteriously damped off with two sets of true leaves, the rest are growing their 3rd sets of true leaves |
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| 05/28 (Day 18) - first set of true leaves emerging... hope they won't die |
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| Surprise! The supermarket basil that I thought was dead came back to life! Started turning green:) but I lost more than half of them during that disaster transplant~ |
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| 05/28 - not only do they look good, but also putting on new sprouts from the side! |
Thyme, German
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| 05/28 - my best looking thyme (the one on the right) started dying~ I just don't get it! how can everybody keep saying that thyme is hardy, and mine just keep going downhill?! so mad |
Oregano, Greek
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| 05/28 - this is what oregano looks like when it needs water~ it has been doing good as long as I keep watering it. and... desperately need to be transplanted. |
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