{"id":96,"date":"2009-01-09T21:48:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T07:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/eggsntea\/?p=96"},"modified":"2009-10-29T22:12:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T08:12:15","slug":"tea-cuttings-at-4-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2009\/01\/tea-cuttings-at-4-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea cuttings &#8211; at 4 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out of 424 tea cuttings started back in September 2008, only 43 are still going today.\u00a0 That&#8217;s only 10%, but of the oasis cube\/dip-n-grow cuttings, it&#8217;s closer to 20%.\u00a0 The results of the test are clear:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> oasis cubes worked better overall (15%) than potting soil (9%) or soil\/manure (0%)<\/li>\n<li>dip-n-grow worked better overall (7%) than peroxide (4%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next time, i&#8217;ll do them all with cube\/dip.\u00a0 Other findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Some cuttings take a <em>really<\/em> long time to start producing roots.\u00a0 I culled some in potting soil which appeared to be failures (no sign of roots) after 2 months, putting them off to the side.\u00a0 Lo and behold, after more than 3 months, some of those have sign of roots.\u00a0 The lesson seems to be: as long as there is still a green leaf attached to the cuttings, let it keep going.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/eggsntea\/?p=73\">shade tent i built<\/a> based on the CTAHR Mealani paper didn&#8217;t seem to help any, even though it did clearly <a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/eggsntea\/?p=79\">elevate moisture levels<\/a>.\u00a0 Next time, i&#8217;ll just set them in a nice shady spot like under a tree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of 424 tea cuttings started back in September 2008, only 43 are still going today.\u00a0 That&#8217;s only 10%, but of the oasis cube\/dip-n-grow cuttings, it&#8217;s closer to 20%.\u00a0 The results of the test are clear: oasis cubes worked better &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2009\/01\/tea-cuttings-at-4-months\/\">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-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}