{"id":71,"date":"2008-08-17T21:00:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/eggsntea\/?p=71"},"modified":"2010-01-13T21:50:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T07:50:32","slug":"propagating-tea-cuttings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/08\/propagating-tea-cuttings\/","title":{"rendered":"Propagating tea cuttings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today i did some major updates to my online notes on <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/tea\/\">How to Grow Tea in Hawaii<\/a>, in particular a new page on <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/tea\/cuttings.html\">Tea Plants: Propagating  Cuttings<\/a>, putting together everything i&#8217;ve learned so far with some more digging into the Ghosh book on Tea Cultivation.\u00a0 Conclusion: Although results have been terrible so far with trying to root our own tea cuttings, there are many new things to try.<\/p>\n<p>My latest batch of 36 cuttings from my own plants:\u00a0 They were cut on April 28, with a few more on May 15.\u00a0 As of August 3 (~10 weeks old) around 50% were clearly dead, and not a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">single<\/span> one had produced roots.\u00a0 This is despite using the cubes, root hormone powder, and daily watering.\u00a0 I tried breaking open a few of the root cubes, and sure enough, not even a hint of root:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/Tea\/photo#5235745549160355234\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/bdiscoe\/SKka1jgJFaI\/AAAAAAAAAqo\/lGD3COUCsgI\/s144\/DSC00078.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/Tea\/photo#5235745570957510962\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/bdiscoe\/SKka20s_STI\/AAAAAAAAAq0\/IadOMw1pmUo\/s144\/DSC00079.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s frustrating, but rather than just give up this batch, i went ahead and potted the 18 best-looking ones in pots.\u00a0 At worst, they can only die:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/Tea\/photo#5235745599657367298\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/bdiscoe\/SKka4fnkVwI\/AAAAAAAAAq8\/1S9ElQ_Edyo\/s288\/DSC00080.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/tea\/cuttings.html\">notes say<\/a>, i can try disinfecting, try liquid hormone solution, try more shade, try different enclosure for moisture, maybe even try EM &#8230; i must somehow solve the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today i did some major updates to my online notes on How to Grow Tea in Hawaii, in particular a new page on Tea Plants: Propagating Cuttings, putting together everything i&#8217;ve learned so far with some more digging into the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/08\/propagating-tea-cuttings\/\">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-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}