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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Soil Grown Arabidopsis and Broad Bean-part1

After previous post on hydroponic grown Arabidopsis, now we proceed to soil grown Arabidopsis and broad bean. Haha, it’s time to become farmer.

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Essential items: log book (contained seed batch no., etc), glove, lab coat, adhesive tape, marker pen, forceps, scalpel, bean’s seeds, Ara’s seeds.

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Now, go to plant preparation room.

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this is compost soil, contained organic material, like faecal materials, plant waste, etc.

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perlite->volcanic material, improve water retention.

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mix in 3:1 ratio

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intercept-->fungicide

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filled soil to half of the pot, pressed hard,

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like this, “hardened the soil in the bottom part”

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then top up the remaining part, this time not need press hard, improve water flow

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ready to water them

**to be continued

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