Almond seeds or badam are not so easily to germinate specially in tropic climate.
Almond seed germination is not an easy job if you are note aware of stratification of seed process.
In horticulture, stratification is a process of treating seeds to simulate natural conditions that the seeds must experience before germination can occur.
Many seed species have an embryonic dormancy phase, and generally will not sprout until this dormancy is broken.
It need low temperatures to germinate and maintain growth. Even if you get one plant from 10 almonds, you should feel lucky.
The commonest problem is fungus attack on the seed after sprouting and after transplanting.
Watch Step by Step Video Tutorial below:
Here, Summer is completely gone and monsoon is at its peak and this month of August is the best time for sowing vegetable seeds.
As I have discussed in one of my videos titled 15 major gardening mistakes, one of them is sowing wrong seeds in the wrong time. So, Some Vegetables and fruits grow only in certain Temperatures, Humidity, and Soil PH levels, so it is critical to know which season is compatible to grow our plants.
In India, We have three main seasons:
Summer or Pre-monsoon season – Occurring from April to June
Monsoon or Rainy season -Lasting from July to September
Winter season – Lasting from December to Feb.
In July, the rains start and temperature levels fall and the soil cools down. So, August is the ideal time to sow some vegetable seeds.
Well, we will list out the vegetable seeds one by one with results of some of them. But before that, I want to share you this package of seeds containing 45 different varieties, I purchased this from amazon website. It came in a very well packaged and well arranged container and also comes with an instruction leaflet. Initially I did not believe this, but the results were really exceptional.
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So, lets start:
- All Types of Gourds and Squashes: Like Bitter Gourd, Ridge Gourd, Bottle Gourd, Pumpkins and many others including cucumber. You can see, I have sown these gourds. Theres nothing special about the sowing technique. Just remember a simple tip on the depth of sowing, like you need to sow double the thickness of the seed. You can checkout my video on 25 seed hacks from my video collection.
You can watch video below to see the results. Will update your on how these thrive further possibly at facebook or instagram,
- Radish, Carrots and also beets and Onions, now or after a month. Choose deeper containers for these underground veggies or root crops. And also maintain sufficient spacing when you sow these. You can see the result of some of these.
- Beans and Peas: This is the best season for sowing beans and peas. Just sow them normally and see the result in few days.
- Green Leafy vegetables, you can get good results with Spinach, Lettuce, Coriander, and others. You can see the results of this package on your screen.
- Well, next. You can also sow Other seeds like Tomatoes, Brinjals, cauliflowers and capsicum.
The results of this online seeds was 99 percent to me, that’s really exceptional. You get lot of varieties of veg seeds in this package for just 250 INR, that’s less than about 4 US dollars.
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Jasmine propagation is possible by three different ways:
- Rooting jasmine cuttings
- Planting jasmine seeds.
- Air Layering method.
All these methods create healthy young jasmine plants that can later be transplanted into your garden.
In this video I will show you how to grow Mogra Jasmine plant from cuttings and rooting them and then A genius unique air-layering method, different from one done routinely.
Firstly, Growing Jasmine from Cuttings:
The main steps involved are
– your cutter or pruner must be clean and sharp.
- You cuttings should be 6 to 10 inches long, like 4 inches should go into the soil.
- Strip the leaves from the cutting before rooting.
- Dip the cutting into rooting powder (cheap and organic rooting powder can be made using cinnamon bark powder – just dip the rooting point into this powder or alternately purchase a rooting powder)
- Cuttings grow best in summer and humid atmosphere ( 60 to 80 degree C is ideal)
- You have to wait for atleast a month before considering a failure.
- NOW, the most important step is the angle and the exact place to make a cutting:
Take the cutting from semi-hard part of the plant for best results. The cutting angle should be kept at about 45 degree as seen here and cut just below the leaf node.
Then just insert the cutting to a depth of about 3 – 4 inches into the potting soil. I suggest a mix of plain soil (60%), coco-peat or sand about 30% and compost like vermicompost or even powdered decomposed cow or horse dung about 10%.