Though i wanted to start both Carnation and Gerbera poly houses at the same time, i was little held back to start two new things at a time. so now that Gerberas got months older, i have finally finished working on the Carnation greenhouse. Its a 1200Sq.mt farm and is located right next to the previous one.
The levelling, soil filling and foundation poles work was all done priorly along with gerbera unit, the work started and finished pretty soon. It took about a week to finish the poly house structure and another 2 weeks for filling vermicompost, cocopeat and rotovating the soil so that everything mixes up well. Ya, i forgot to mention cocopeat was not a part of my plan in gerberas but in carnations i wanted to add up cocopeat coz i have read that it gives soil a good holding capacity which might be helpful for carnations growth.
Carnations farming is labourious and thats the reason why there are very few carnations unit around. The most important work being installation of supporting the poles and support mesh and then working on the plants later on with these meshes obstructing ur reach to the plants for daily work. Even the GI wire mesh is a pain if the size is not fixed properly u end up having multiple puntures on ur legs while walking between the beds.
After mixing up of soil bed preparation took about two days and the drip irrigation and fogging system took about another two days. Then the first layer of mesh was installed on the bed. Altogether five such layers will have to be placed so that the stems come up strong and straight.
Since we had a bad experience with the fumigant in gerberas we didnt take any chance and got the best one that was recommeded by KF BIOPLANTS. We used silver colloidal hydrogen peroxide for the disinfection of the soil and the next day we have planned for the plantation.
we got about 33000 carnation saplings and we did the plantation in two phases- day one and day two . we did not wanted to hurry like we did during the gerbera plantation. Altogether we have 6 varieties now.except for the variety named cool all others thrived well. cool saplings were weak and had lots of mortality in the first week itself.
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| Site location of the polyhouse for carnation unit. |
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| All materials dumped and the workers busy with segregating the things. |
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| All the foundation poles installed and soil was also dumped and rotovated even before these materials came up |
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| It took about a week for them to finish this polyhouse- quick and neat. |
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| A truck load of cocopeat was ordered and here its being unload and transferred into the carnations unit. |
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| cocopeat uniformly spread over the soil |
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| workers dumping the cocopeat and spreading them . |
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| uniformly layered cocopeat and vermicompost and was ready to be mixed up with soil . |
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| After rotovating with a tractor ..we did a second round of mix up with a power tiller .. |
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| Beds ready for plantation in the carnations polyhouse |
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| silver colliodal Hydrogen peroxide being used as a disinfecting agent for fumagation |
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| Soil disinfection by wetting the beds with a rose can filled with H2O2. |
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| The first layer of mesh for the support of carnations stems |
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| all set for the plantation of carnations the next day |
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| Me trying to resize a mesh which was alittle more than the length of the bed |
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| Day one after the plantation some carnation varieties were strong as rock and others were so weak. |
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| Healthy Carnation saplings |
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| Tender and fragile carnation saplings- freshly planted and waiting to start a life |
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| An overview of the carnations beds after the full plantation was done |
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| some of the weak varieties which started troubling from day three onwards |
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| Day three- except for one variety named cool ( the ones that u see here) all other saplings looked happy |
