Progress Report

Hello everyone.

I have been busy the last couple weeks. I have been renovating our new house. Anyway, there is little progress with the Azalea's. They seem to be doing fine, growing more leaves but not growing in height. I now have a little bug problem. I am not sure what time of bugs they are. They are very small and grey in color. They do not seem to be causing any damage to the plants. I think that I am going to do monthly updates with the \Azalea's. 

I have started new trees from seeds on November the 9th. One is Dawn Redwood Cedar and the other is Coastal Redwood Cedar. I sowed around 30 seeds of each. The package says that they will germinate right out of the package in 7-14 days. It took 12 days for 2 Dawn Redwood\s to start to pop up. One died a day or two after it poked out. The one still standing is growing every time I look at it. They will grow around 3 feet a year. So far I would say these seeds are the most rewarding. I am worried that out of all the seeds I sowed I am only going to get 1 or 2 of each type. The success rate for these trees is 20%. Not bad though for a $4 pack of seeds.

Thank you for reading. I will be making a post 2 weeks from now.

Photo Above ; Dawn Redwood, 14 days after sowing

Progress Report

Five Weeks In

I have good news. The trees are still alive and I am still watering about once a week. I've noticed that I am getting a little bit of moss and the odd fly buzzing around. I would imagine it is because of the soil I chose to go with. I tried to solve the problem yesterday by taking the dome off and moving the light right close to the leaves. My goal was to give the plants some air and also try to get the soil to dry out a bit. The soil is not wet but it  also does not dry quickly. Also at this stage they trees are not sucking up much water anyway. When I go to plant my other 5 types of trees in the coming months, I will use a betting draining soil and less organic mix. As you will be able to tell from the photos, the spacing is a little off. Those seeds were the size of sand. Next time I will try harder to place them with proper spacing and in a nice row. Well here are some shots. Thanks for reading.