Sunday, May 8, 2011

Do I have Greenfingers?

I'm really bored and stressed from all the studying for the past few days. I had an exam each day from Thursday through Saturday (yes, Saturday) and another two this coming Tuesday. And then I'm done for the semester!

Remember I planted a few plants earlier this year for my Plant Propagation class? I actually planted more than that because I have greenhouse lab every Wednesday (not anymore now).

Here are some of the plants I've planted and those that have grown in that period of time:

My two tomato seeds planted at the beginning.

Then they began to germinate. The feeling I had when I saw this was priceless :)

And they got bigger..

And bigger..

Until they finally bear fruits! Tomatoes after I forgot how many weeks lol.

Flowering Forsynthia..not available in Malaysia. (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) Don't have the mood to Google today :(

Below are some pictures of narrow-leaf evergreen cuttings that we had to root. I can say they are quite successful.




Ornamental pepper. They look extremely pretty when all "grown up"..which explains why they are ornamental.

Leaf cuttings --> Pepperomia. I got the green ones instead of the variegated ones, as you can see from the neighboring plants.

Sweet shrub, which I think looks really cute.

Red buckeye planted from the seed as can be seen below. It's supposed to grow into a very big tree, like an Oak tree.

My Kentucky Coffee plant that grew quite well after I'd scarify them by scraping them against the concrete floor of the greenhouse.

Air layered a rubber tree to get the branch to root..that's just a name tag for me to recognize my masterpiece lol. It's not sold to me.

My Granny Smith apple graft (in front) and Fuji apple graft (the back). I was kind of worried they won't grow.

And I was wrong! They were successful! My professor said the plant will need at least 5 years to grow before I can actually think of getting apples from it. I can't even watch it grow up :( I would have graduated by then.. Goodbye, zai jian, zoi kin, selamat tinggal, annyeong, sayonara etc. etc. etc. :'(

That's it! And I'm still bored and my shoulders are aching. And two exams on Tuesday! I seriously need some motivation right not!! Help!!!!

2 comments:

Small Kucing said...

you sure have greenfingers. Me no such luck. Cactus would die with my touch :p

J. Y said...

Lee Yi Lin! =D