The Tea Garden: It's a jungle in here!

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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!

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Unknown said...: I am so jealous of you. Your plants look awesome. Just think about drinking your own tea everyday - nice.; August 12, 2009 at 4:32 PM

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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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It's a jungle in here!

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