Transplantation success
It has been 6 days since my last herb update. I transplanted the propagated herbs to their new spot. After achieving a 100% survival rate for the propagation, I was feeling quite confident that the transplantation would be successful too, but the survival of all of them was a surprise.
I put 2 basil and 2 mint plants into an aquaponic setting and the other 4 of both herbs I just potted in soil. Guess which ones grow faster? Just look at these roots of the basil!
Aquaponic basil and mint
The mint is really growing upward fast and the basil is creating a lot of leaves in just a week.
Left basil roots, right mint roots. The basil herbs have created a lot of roots, very impressive for adapting to this new container in just a week.
Mint in the garden
The mint in the garden is still alive but hasn't grown too much since transplantation. Probably very busy with growing new roots.
Basil in the garden
Looks quite impressive and has grown a fair amount. The pot is quite small so the leaves look huge. However, it hasn't formed any new leaves. It must be pretty occupied with growing roots as well.
I'll give you guys an update on the herbs next week and will have a schematic for the automated RPI watering pot included!
Support me by upvoting this post
Be sure to follow me if you would want more of my posts on your feed!
Thanks for reading - @patcher
This post received a 2.9% upvote from @randowhale thanks to @patcher! For more information, click here!
I've just started growing my own little garden in my apartment and started off with some Rosemary, but they are being attacked by small little tiny bugs (pretty sure aphids) How do you take care of plant pests?
Hey @keonaona, I haven't dealt with pests yet. Perhaps it's because I don't remove/kill any of the spiders in my apartment haha. I don't know how you deal with these tiny bugs of yours!
Congratulations @patcher! You have completed some achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :
Click on any badge to view your own Board of Honor on SteemitBoard.
For more information about SteemitBoard, click here
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOPCongratulations! This post has been upvoted from the communal account, @minnowsupport, by patcher from the Minnow Support Project. It's a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, theprophet0, and someguy123. The goal is to help Steemit grow by supporting Minnows and creating a social network. Please find us in the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network (PALnet) Discord Channel. It's a completely public and open space to all members of the Steemit community who voluntarily choose to be there.
If you like what we're doing please upvote this comment so we can continue to build the community account that's supporting all members.
This post has received a 14.84 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @patcher.