Growth after one week

I wanted to show you the dramatic growth of the Jatropha after just one week. The two photos below show the Jatropha plants on May 23rd (top) and May 30th (bottom). I reversed the middle two pots. The difference really has been in fertilizing the plants and ensuring that the soil stays moist. It also helps that Orlando temperatures are now in the upper 80s during the day and around 70 at night.

The roots are now long enough that I will have to replant the Jatropha into larger pots soon. Note that the cutting on the left is still alive, but the buds are not growing noticeably. We’ll keep experimenting with this one.

I took a close-up photo of a Jatropha leaf below. This plant is quite healthy, with no pest or disease evidence. By the way, this is a Jatropha Curcas L variety. I was at a plant nursery recently with my family and the staff there showed me a couple of other varieties. One of them had red flowers. Jatropha Curcas L flowers and produces a fruit containing the seed pod. It is not an ornamental.

I’ll give a quick status update on the Burundi test plantation. I received the laptop for Jean-Marie. That will be sent out with the digital camera in mid-June with the team that is traveling from Spirit of Joy church.

John

“Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him. Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you.” Mark 11:23-24