Today I'm resting from a medical procedure last week (or maybe two weeks ago now?). Plus the second COVID shot. So it's just obsessing over the seedlings, and maybe a trip outside later.
I've been sitting some of the chill tolerant seedlings out on the deck to get time more tolerant to unfiltered sunlight, expose them to more light and wind, and get them ready for permanent outdoors life. Just the nontropicals that like chill, or can tolerate it. Currently it's overcast, which is helpful, a little too cool but OK. Some have been outside for 2 to 4 hours on previous days - potatoes, apples, celery. Today's goal is maybe 5 or 6 hours. Depending on how bright it is outside.
Those celery are for Ning. Homegrown is much stronger flavor than grocery. I ate the "microgreen" thinnings, nice celery flavor. The cultivar "Utah" is shorter and greener, while the Chinese type is taller and has white stems. There will be enough for quite a few meals when it's ready.
Those apple seedlings again. The top is #3, the last to germinate but quite vigorous now. Currently still fertigating with 1/4 tsp miracle gro per 2 quarts rainwater. They need water almost daily.
The second is greener than when it started out. Stem shows a bit of red but minimal. The most vigorous of the three. It also seems to be starting tiny branches at the leaf nodes.
#1 is odd. It had distorted leaves at first, then I replanted it. Then it got a longer stretch of thin stem, now a tuft of smaller leaves with narrow internode spacing. It seems to be growing now. No idea what the final tree will be like, or what its fruit, if any will be like. But it's fun to grow them.
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