clones growing

they are all growing!

1st pruning done, clones started!

I'm excited to say, that things are looking good for the tea garden! I've pruned a lot of my plants, and made cuttings from the pruned tops, the plants I pruned are in the early stages of branching out and becoming bushes. The cuttings I took are growing and looking healthy! amd on a non related matter, I'm in college now! Studying auto-motives and going for a certificate to become a "certified" mechanic! I know it seems odd that I have this huge interest in plants yet decided to go into the automotive industry, well, since I was about five years old, I've wanted to be a race car driver, and even today I still want to race cars, mechanical things interest me as well so I figure it's a good match. I want to take some plant science courses too, but probably a little later, maybe in a semester or two. anyway, enough blabbing, on to the pictures!
the clones


here are some of the big plants starting to become bushes




and a lovely Guangzhao plant I thought I would add as well

Now, with the plants becoming bushes, the rootmass is going to rapidly increase in size, and the plants have grown into their pots, so I'm going to repot them all soon, the problem is, I don't have room for bigger pots... so I've got to get some more room for them, however I don't have much money... maybe I can sell some stuff, idk, maybe I can get a job. Anyway, thanks for checking out the blog!

It's a jungle in here!

Well the plants have been steadily growing, and I haven't updated in a while, so they are a lot bigger. Some plants ran into problems, but I am figuring them out and they are getting better. The plants are so big now its getting hard to take pictures of them lol. anyway on with the pictures!




This is a Guangzhao plant, my best one really.
This is the tallest plant, it's a Rosea, and it's about 21 inches tall

I gave this small leaf plant "Super Thrive" and it started branching out, and is turning into a bush. The larger leaves are partially burnt, but the new growth is all healthy.



I'm still learning all the time, and am trying to do my best at this, but still am having a few problems here and there an you can see. Thanks for checking out the blog! Oh and one more thing... as you can probably tell from the pictures, things are a bit tight in the grow cabinet, I don't have much money to expand the garden right now, if you want to help me out by donating to my tea garden, I would love you for it, and so would the plants! Thanks again and god bless you!

Much Taller

Hey everyone, the plants are getting taller and taller, the tallest being 13 inches tall, but there are 12 plants that are over 10 inches tall. I'm thinking about toppings some plants to see if I can get them to branch out a bit... only problem is that I don't really have the space, they are getting a bit crowded. Anyway I will post some pictures, some leaves have some brown or grey spots on them, don't worry about that, it's just nutrients that got on the leaves when watering.















The plants are growing very well, and they are only going to continue to grow, I'm excited to see what the future holds for my tea garden. I have noticed some leaves on some of the plants are bigger than any tea leaves that I have grown so far, and that makes me happy, pretty soon all of the plants will be bigger that any I have grown.


Thanks for looking at my blog!

Getting Taller

Well as you can see the plants have continued to grow at a steady pace. At this point though some are showing signs of deficiency, I think they may just need some more nitrogen in their diet, or more iron, I'll do both. This is the problem and the best part of going with an inert potting medium, I have to do all of the feeding, but in return I get to figure out what these plants like.
I got my GED!! I shouldn't have dropped out of high school in the first place, but I'm glad I'm caught up.

Gnats!!!!

During the past few weeks there started to be a growing population of little black gnats living on top of the Coco in the pots and flying around the garden. These are common in indoor gardens and they come with most cheap soil. Don't think they are harmless, they can damage your plants by eating the roots. Anyway to control them I am using MosquitoDunks, they are pretty non toxic as their main ingredient is Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis. Just leave part of the dunk in a bucket of water for a couple days, them remove the dunk and water the plants with the water. The mosquito dunks kill the larvae and eggs which feed off of the roots and doing one watering with it should control them for 30 days. For the adults I use sticky fly traps, just be carefull not to get stuck to them, because the sticky stuff is really hard to get off of skin and hair.

There are other methods to get rid of them, but this is the best way I've found.

Steady Growth

I've been just giving them water and most are responding well, I gave them some foxfarm peace-of-mind granular organic fertilizer for acid loving plants, it seems to be working well, but it really smells bad, and now my bedroom smells like it. I gave half of the plants super-thrive, and half just plain water, and it seems like the ones I gave it to are bigger, so I'm going to continue giving half the plants the super-thrive and see if there gets to be a significant difference.







They are growing good, I'll keep them healthy and keep posting pictures alog the way.

Growin' Slow

Well the plants have been doing well. I put layer of earthworm casting over all of the pots of soil, that will add some mild nutrients, some beneficial bacteria, and help keep the moisture in the coco. I also applied cottonseed meal (npk 6-1-1) to all of the pots, it is a mild organic nutrient, that breaks down slowly, and has little risk of burning the plants, but I am still going to apply the earth juice grow and micro as needed because there may not be enough bacteria in the medium to break down the cottonseed meal.




About 3 weeks ago I started noticing some leaves turning a pale yellow color, but the veins in the leaves stayed a nice green color. I figured it was an iron defiecency, because those are the symptoms, so I gave them a full dose of Earth Juice Microblast (micronutrients), and seen no improvement but the problem didn't worsen. So I decided to get a product from the local garden nursery which has a very high level of chelated iron. I applied that product twice at the recomended dosage and have seen no improvement, but it still hadn't gotten worse. I looked at the earth juice website, and examined their feeding schedule, and noticed they recommend using 4 tsp to 6 tsp per gallon of the grow nutrients, and I have only been using 1 tsp, so I think I've found the problem, it may be a nitrogen defeciency. I gave all of the plants the recommended dose of nutrients yesterday, and if that was the problem, then they should start looking better within the week.