I'm still trying to understand the best way to use this blog format, I've been adding pages but I think I might just use separate entries from now on. Currently I have two beans at around 6 weeks. Purple Gorilla and Brooklyn Sunrise, they'll both finish around the same time. The plan is to ultimately have two plants growing at six weeks apart, so I can get a harvest every six weeks. That's the plan anyway. Fortunately the Brooklyn Sunrise is staying really small otherwise it could be a little crowded.
This is my first Mephisto, I was expecting an Alien vs Triangle, but they ran out and sent me a Sour Crack. I only have one bean and it's over two years old. I'll be putting the bean dry into a wet plug which was placed on a saucer of water till it wicked itself full of water, then I place the bean directly in, pointy end down, cover with a crumb, and I'd be expecting her to break surface in three days.
In the 70's I remember reading on one of the hippie grow bibles that the bean should be pointy end up, because they say that it naturally does a turn when it emerges, and if you plant it pointy end down, the tap root will emerge and turn to go up, then it will have to turn again once it 'realises'. However I have come to understand that this is just hippie bullshit. It sounds right but it isn't. Anyhoo I'm a pointy end down kinda guy and it's been 100% no problem.
This is my first Mephisto, I was expecting an Alien vs Triangle, but they ran out and sent me a Sour Crack. I only have one bean and it's over two years old. I'll be putting the bean dry into a wet plug which was placed on a saucer of water till it wicked itself full of water, then I place the bean directly in, pointy end down, cover with a crumb, and I'd be expecting her to break surface in three days.
In the 70's I remember reading on one of the hippie grow bibles that the bean should be pointy end up, because they say that it naturally does a turn when it emerges, and if you plant it pointy end down, the tap root will emerge and turn to go up, then it will have to turn again once it 'realises'. However I have come to understand that this is just hippie bullshit. It sounds right but it isn't. Anyhoo I'm a pointy end down kinda guy and it's been 100% no problem.
