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Orlando cutting experiment
In my last posting I talked about our experiment with fertilizer. After just over 1 week, I have good news to report. In addition to adding an 18-18-21 fertilizer blend, we mixed in Black Cow manure to the soil. As you can see in the photo below, the original cutting that I planted is doing very well (see far right). We have seen significant leaf growth in the past week. The cutting second from the right went from one small bud to several areas of leaf growth. The next one was completely stalled and now we are getting leaf growth at the top. The last one is currently stalled, but we’ll keep working on it.
It rained almost constantly this week (5 days straight), so we had to put the cuttings under shelter to keep them from getting too saturated. I suspect that as we put them out into the sun, we’ll see
a higher growth rate.
Burundi plantation progress
I am in the processing of purchasing a Dell D610 laptop off ebay to ship to Jean-Marie in Burundi, along with a digital camera. I’ll be sending them with a team that leaves in mid-June. Since Jean-Marie will be in Rwanda for a couple of weeks, returning in early July, I’ll have to wait until July to post photos of the plantation.
I will be wiring the first funding increment next week that will fund the irrigation system and the land clearing. Much of our initial work will begin in June, so I should have more updates coming soon.
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
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