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Saturday, April 20, 2013
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Pumpking
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Germany
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Here comes the next set of seedlings, the second half of my line-up and some back-ups. Seeds were started on April 12th. Basically that�s how I did it this year (also with the seeds from the first series, see previous entry), I had filed and soaked the seeds for 15 min and then put them in this kind of sewer pipes (6 inch diameter pipes, cut into pieces of 7 inch length and a slit along the full length), which had a plastic bottom plate held on the pipe with some stick tapy, easy to remove. Pics show the seedlings on April 19th, 2 days after they popped through the surface. Now they are transplanted into larger pots (12 L) in such a way that I fill the bottom of the pot with some soil and myco, put the pipe on top of that, remove the bottom plate from the pipe, remove the tape which covers the slit, fill the pot with soil and myco, and then I just remove the pipe (and the slit allows me to open the pipe a little bit, makes it easier to lift it without moving the root bale). The plants probably won�t take notice of any kind of transplantation (by means of disturbance), they will only feel the advantage of more freedom for their roots and a different soil with more goodies. For this second set of seedlings I have used 12 L pots (instead of the 25 L pots used for the first set of seedlings), because I don�t want to keep them in those pots for so many days.
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