No one does or sells chili centil (the little red hot chili) seedlings around here. So for the rooftop vegetable gardening (here: Roof Top vegetable gardening) I posted about a few days ago, with the ambitious 800 chili plants, they rope me into germination laboratory. They supply chili seeds, peat soils and hands to put everything ready, potting soil in trays and seeds in place. I, on the other hand, put up the laboratory. .... I have to employ all the skills that I have to put woods together, nail them for a crude germination rack. I manage to put up an awkward looking netting to ward off hot sunlight. Within days, seeds popped up, one after another. Both of us (bangchik and kakdah) took turn to spray them.....
Germinating 1000 Chili Centil
picture: 24th April 2011
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| chili seedlings |
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| chili seedlings |
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| chili seedlings |
picture 25th April 2011
Old woods lying around the construction site nearby, were left more or less to decompose, or to be collected at the end of the project for bonfire. Of course I ask permission from the project manager, out of courtesy. I spent a good weekend to complete it. Two open shelf wooden cabinet, 3 feet high and 4 and a half feet long. One of the cabinet comes with 3 shelves, the other one with only two. Netting at the back, top and sides. They are very sturdy!
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| chili centil, the eagerness to grow |
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| chili centil: taking up seed coats high. |
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| Chili centil: this particular tray manage to get 100% germination. |
picture 26th April 2011
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| upper rack |
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| upper rack |
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| Lower rack: most chili seeds had germinated |
Yeap, they rope me into germination laboratory, but what an experience. That surely will not be the last. There will be more and more. Big scale germination will meander onto other plants, I am sure....
bangchik and kakdah
Projek tanaman atas bumbung
Rooftop gardening: they rope me in
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