{"id":89,"date":"2008-12-06T21:50:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T07:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/eggsntea\/?p=89"},"modified":"2009-10-29T22:16:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T08:16:19","slug":"latest-tea-cuttings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/12\/latest-tea-cuttings\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest tea cuttings – at 3 months"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may recall from my previous posts big new batch<\/a>, and after 1 month<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s now been nearly 3 months, and here’s the breakdown.\u00a0 Here’s what was left in the trays today:<\/p>\n

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Of the 424 cuttings:
\n20 have produced some visible roots.\u00a0 I have potted them up.
\n32 remain in limbo; not obviously dead, but no visible roots either.
\n392 were culled, for dying, clearly not rooting, or making only a rootball.<\/p>\n

Here’s all that survives from tray 3Y, 7 with some root, 2 with rootballs:<\/p>\n

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This is rather frustrating.\u00a0 Granted, this batch was meant as an experiment, rooted 6 different ways to see what works.\u00a0 And that breakdown on the survival rate is:
\nin oasis cubes: 19%
\nin potting soil: 9%
\nin soil\/manure: 0%
\nFor choice of dip:
\nwith Dip’n’grow: 8%
\nwith hydrogen peroxide: 5%<\/p>\n

The success rates are so low that i’m not sure how much to read into the results.\u00a0 The ones with roots don’t have much leaf growth either, which in the past has meant it won’t survive all the way into the field.\u00a0 So, roughly estimating that only 50% of pottings like these will make it:<\/p>\n

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then the overall success rate (excluding the soil\/manure) will be 6%.\u00a0 My previous best result, from Eliah’s branches, produced 25 plants in the ground, from 255 cuttings (10% success), and they took a full 8 months to all leave limbo, from October 2006 to June 2007.<\/p>\n

<Sigh>\u00a0 It seems like i’ve tried every single way – in soil, in cubes, with powdered root hormone, liquid root hormone, partial shade, heavy shade, outdoors on a table, inside a greenhouse, watering, misting.\u00a0 I’ve made cuttings with 1, 2, 3, 4 nodes.\u00a0 I’ve cut precisely the section between brown and green wood that should do best.\u00a0 I’ve inserted the cuttings straight up, and at an angle.\u00a0 I’ve studied the chapter in the Tea textbook from India.\u00a0 I’ve taken instruction from Aileen, gone home to try it, and they almost all die.\u00a0 I’ve followed the Mealani published shade-house instructions precisely, and they almost all die.<\/p>\n

I really wish there was someone i could go to for advice or help.\u00a0 But the Tea Society doesn’t do that, CTAHR doesn’t do that.\u00a0 There’s not even a mailing list to ask for help, because HTS wouldn’t allow it.\u00a0 It’s frustrating, but i will not be deterred!\u00a0 I will grow a field of tea one way or another, and keep looking for ideas.\u00a0 Have any?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may recall from my previous posts big new batch, and after 1 month.\u00a0 It’s now been nearly 3 months, and here’s the breakdown.\u00a0 Here’s what was left in the trays today: Of the 424 cuttings: 20 have produced some … Continue reading →<\/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-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}