Wednesday, January 1, 2014

transplanting II

aside from working with teosinte, watching it snow, shoveling snow, watching werner herzog documentaries ( encounters at the end of the earth and happy people...both cold weather films...fitting ), and shoveling more snow i have been looking at the wild potatoes...the two i transplanted five days ago are doing just fine but one in the germinating tray was looking a bit spindly so i took it down to the plant room...put a layer of compost in a peat pot...peeled the fabric off the peat pellet...applied the plant to its new home...filled in with potting soil and put it under the grow light for some sustained photosynthesis in hopes that this one too recovers and begins to sprout new leaves...learning about wild potatoes as i go implies that , beyond a general idea of how plants work and what scant information i have found on the interweb, i don't know exactly how these plants behave when healthy...so growth and new leaves imply success...withering failure...i do believe i made the correct move..i am not sure if i did it in time...more as it develops.

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