My Home Terrace Garden #4 | Harvesting Radishes from Pots

Namaste to all #Hive gardeners and #Nature lovers.🙏

Hope you remember my blog about 2 months ago in which I shared the journey from sowing radish seeds to growing seedlings in my home terrace garden.

In today's blog, I will take you on the further journey of those radish plants. A journey where I learned some important lessons that I'm sure will be useful to you too.

So as you saw in my previous blog, after 100% germination of the seeds, I separated and sowed them in some other pots, which you can remember by looking at the image above.

After then, I just had to water them on time, which I did. But because I had sown these seeds a little late and by then winters had already set in, I did not have to water these plants more than once or twice a week.

After a few days passed, I noticed that the plants grown in the same pots in which the seeds had germinated were growing properly, but the plants I had taken out from their original place of germination and sown in a separate bigger pot, had almost stopped growing.

Initially, I thought that due to a change of place, these plants would take some time and then they would start growing properly. I have not done anything different because many farmers also germinate the seeds in one place and then sow them separately on their farms.

But even after a lot of time had passed, there was little to no growth in the plants I had taken out from their original place of germination and sown in a separate bigger pot.

And then I started thinking because the plants that had not been moved were growing so well, the problem was only with these plants. And after paying a little attention, I came to know about a few of my mistakes. One of which is visible to you but perhaps you too were not aware of it.

I will tell you with examples, and believe me, you will learn something.

1. The big pot in which I planted the separated plants was just an empty pot in which I had opened a packet of cocopeat. Actually, wherever I needed coco peat in my home garden, I took it from that pot, which was nothing more than an open storage of cocopeat. Meaning, that there were no necessary nutrients for those plants to grow in that pot. I knew this to some extent, but because I did not have any other pot available at that time, I planted the seedlings in this cocopeat pot when I should have given them better soil than the soil they germinated in.

2. I have learned from personal experience that separating newborn plants from their native soil slows down and sometimes stops their growth/life completely.
   Because, usually the first one or two leaves, called cotyledon or seed leaves, represent the first growth of a seed. These leaves provide the initial nourishment to the seedling. After which, as the seedling grows, "real" leaves begin to grow. The real/true leaves completely resemble the leaves of the mature plant. Then similar leaves work in the further life journey of the plant.

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The mistake I made was that I separated the seedlings from their mother soil as soon as the 'seed leaves' grew. Instead, I should have shifted them to other pots only after they had grown at least 4 to 8 'true leaves'. Only then will the plant get the strength to stand strong and grow in its further life journey.

This time I made a mistake so this was the only solution, but for the future, I learned another important lesson.

1. Especially the vegetables growing under the ground should be planted by direct seed method. That is, sow the seeds at the same place where the plant is to be planted because uprooting the plants causes great damage to their finely tiny roots.

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Well, due to a few of my mistakes, some plants got spoiled but plants which remained in their mother soil were growing nicely.

And then within a few days I started seeing radishes under its leaves. By now about 45-50 days had passed since the seeds were sown.

Also you can see, how the real leaves of the radish plant have grown dense.

I took these 2 pictures on January 29, meaning 65 days after sowing the seeds. If the seeds had been sown in the ground or in a bigger pot, perhaps the growth would have been better and a little faster.

But that's the thing, growing something is better than growing nothing. ;)

Although I have experienced this feeling many times before, every time I see the fruits of a plant planted by me, a different kind of excitement, happiness and intense wave of positivity flows within me, I feel like I won a medal. 🌼
Neither am I a farmer nor from such a family background. I just love greenery. Plants give me a feeling of freshness, peace and inner happiness, and growing them myself strengthens my confidence in myself. That if I can grow fruits from a tiny seed then I can do anything, I just have to work smart and be patient.

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Here are all my green blogs

#3 | Growing Carrot From Seeds

#2 | Growing Radish From Seeds

#1 | Growing dessert rose from seeds

Have you ever grown a plant from its seed?

Note:

1. English is not my first language. So sometimes I use 'Google Translate'. Please don't think that anything I have written in this blog has been copied from somewhere or is AI-generated.
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3. All the other content images and words are mine unless otherwise stated.

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That's all for today.
Have a Happy and Blessed day!
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