The Tea Garden: Day 4, January 18th

I went to a hydroponics store in town, and picked up a special nozzle for my planter to let it drain out, a small pump, a timer, expanded clay pellets, nutrients, 2 sizes of rockwool cubes, and a couple square buckets to plant in.

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This blog takes place in my home, really, in my bedroom. At the age of 15 I thought about growing tea, I've always loved plants, and I started really liking to drink tea. I've attempted to grow many tea plants (which you can see in this blog) the first one I grew from seed and was in a hydroponic drip system, I was able to grow if for many months until over fertilization, and heat took its toll and eventually killed the tea plant.
I wanted to keep trying, I learned from my mistakes and gained experience growing other plants. So I then purchased 50 tea seeds of four different species (large leaf, Small leaf, Guangzhao, and Rosea) and left them in the fridge until I knew what to do with them. It came to me to use a soil-less grow medium, because of the control, the stability, and the many choices of medium. I chose Coco Peat, basically its ground up coconut shells and the outside fibers of the coconut, it is very airy and with a little tuning is perfect for the tea plants. I got one of my hydroponic flood and drain tables and filed it about 5 inches deep with the coco, and placed the seeds an inch apart in sections and with labeled Popsicle sticks. As of now a total of 29 seeds germinated and became plants. After some started getting leaves I split them up into pots, and they are now getting established in their pots, and will need repotting soon. I chose earth juice organic nutrients, they are mild and should work out fine. Everything is going well for now, but I'm out of space, so what I'm going to do next is build a bigger indoor growroom, or find a greenhouse.

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