Updates

The one really big strawberry is just starting to get red!! I was very interested to see how all of this went, and it seems to be strait forward. Whats more interesting is that two of the five strawberry plants have 3-5 strawberries with quite a few more blooms. One of the others has 5-7 blooms that will be strawberries, and two of them have NOTHING in the way of blooms and or fruit. Both (one being the topsy turvy) seem to be healthy and green, just no fruit. I guess everyone moves at their own pace :)


On to phototropism. The broccoli are back at it. After staking them yesterday afternoon with bamboo stakes and zip ties, they are now moving back in the right direction from soil to top. All of them seemed to be without damage to the base of the stem, and there was very little work related to getting them to stand up against the bamboo without shackeling them to the support.


This is a photo of the broccoli just after it was staked, you can see that unlike the photo above, this plant needs to orient itself back towards the sun.


Here is the full line of plants that after I got done staking them. When all was said and done, I ended up staking all 8 (two in the adjunct flower bed) as 5 of them were completely down, and two of them were leaning. Once everything is said and done I am guessing all of these plants are going to jog at this location as all of the stem will not re-orient itself having little to no photo-reliant needs.

We shall see I guess.