{"id":17,"date":"2006-10-17T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/?p=17"},"modified":"2006-10-17T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T06:17:00","slug":"40-yabukita-8-chin-shin-oolong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2006\/10\/40-yabukita-8-chin-shin-oolong\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Yabukita, 8 Chin Shin Oolong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim went to Hilo this morning and picked up another batch of rooted tea cuttings, from the USDA, rooted by Aileen Yeh.  Look how pretty they are!  So green and strong and healthy.  Aileen does great nursery work.<a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-1\/DSC00246-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Yabukita and Chin Shin Oolong rooted cuttings\" title=\"Yabukita and Chin Shin Oolong rooted cuttings\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-1\/DSC00246-2_small.jpg\" \/><\/a>  The ones on the left are CSO, which are a special kind from Taiwan which is more difficult to grow but makes an Oolong with a good reputation.  You can see the leaves are smaller, less shiny, and more bluish:<\/p>\n<p>They are delivered in little sponge cubes.  There is a lot of different (conflicting) information about what potting soil to use for tea.  The Indian textbook (Tea Cultivation : Comprehensive    Treatise) says to use the &#8220;clean subsoil&#8221; of the site they will be eventually planted.  The nursery professionals say to use normal commercial potting mix.  Other people caution against using rich soil, apparently the little plants do better if they have to work harder!  Here in Ahualoa we have acidic soil (which supposedly the tea likes) with very little nutrients.  I just can&#8217;t see using this soil directly, so i mix it with some of our rich dark home-made compost.  I used to mix 1:1, now i mix 1:2 compost:soil.  The buckets have, top left: our compost, top right: our local redish acidic clay soil, bottom: the mix.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-1\/DSC00247-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-1\/DSC00247-2_small.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-1\/DSC00252-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/06-1\/DSC00252-2_small.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim went to Hilo this morning and picked up another batch of rooted tea cuttings, from the USDA, rooted by Aileen Yeh. Look how pretty they are! So green and strong and healthy. Aileen does great nursery work. The ones &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2006\/10\/40-yabukita-8-chin-shin-oolong\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}