Hey Everyone, Its
been long since the last post and there are a couple of issues that i wanted to write about and this post is
about one aspect that really manages the flower size quality and the quantity.
Like i mentioned earlier this one variety ..dark pink arrived late in the farm and was not along with the regular schedule of all other saplings. But becoz of the wedding season there was a huge demand for the flowers and i started to harvest these flowers just after like 8-9 weeks after plantation and that has really effected the plants .. No one was bothered about the flower size and quality as it was wedding season and each flower fetched as much as 8rs and so until the season was over i have harvested flowers from these .. but i slowly started seeing the stress on the plants and there has been decrease in the flower quality in the strength wise and also with the length .. i was just not happy and another important thing is that the plants were not able to hold to soil while trying to pluck the flower and resulting in plant uprooting or loosening .. So, i planned to hold the flower development for another 5-6 weeks and stress on the growth of the plant. Removed all the buds and cleaned up all the dried up leaves and raked up soil once and adjusted the plants and waited for them to grow ... 6 weeks and woooooww ... i just was soo happy to see the happy plants all ready and tight to give a depression to other plants .. look at the last pic .. see the flower bloom it was gushing like river !!
End of the day lessons learnt -- Do not start harvesting until the plant is firm and has atleast 16 leaves.
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| Dark Pink Gerbera-- One of the fav of the all buyers now !! |
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| weak plants and dying leaves ... 5 weeks earlier .. with weaker buds and smaller flower diametre |
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| All the buds removed and drenched with growth stimulant |
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| After 5 weeks of dormant growing .. increased Gerbera flower size , stem length and quantity |
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