The Story Of My "tree" Musketeers

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In fact, we were very surprised to see blooming in progress during the night after repotting in the morning. It is also a sure sign that the plants love their new homes now that they were being migrated into a larger flower pot.

We had been repeatedly greeted by the sharp chirpings of the plants' happy "beneficiaries" throughout the day, except when there's a heavy downpour. The olive-backed sunbirds were feverish with excitement at the sight of plenty bird food (i.e. flower nectar) and there's indeed plenty to go around.

There were fully bloomed buds & those that were still in transit when the flower bud-to-be had been pushed out of the red "scales" on the red "corn".

And it's high on the "yummy" factor becox they do look like red candies!

Edited December 4, 2011 by edenstrauss

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Photographs of Day 3 (of the repotting) - still going strong in flower-power with many new blooms

Edited December 7, 2011 by edenstrauss

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Day 3 (continued) ...

Edited December 7, 2011 by edenstrauss

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Over-fertilising my plants *SOB*

Hi guys,

I was overcome by a strong sense of greed. Even after the plants were blooming so beautifully.

A silly idea strike me & I thought that since the plants had been flowering so vigorously, I should be replenishing their vitamins by fertilising.

However, I was so greedy that I tripled the dose of fertiliser. Instead of the usual 10-15 drops of fertiliser diluted in 1 litre of water, I've decided to pour in 30 over drops...

The outcome was a disaster!

By the time I came back in the evening, I was shocked to notice that the over-fertilising had burnt off the anatomy of my poor plants!

The photograph below shows evidence of over-fertilising of my plants. I have to stop feeding them any fertiliser for a long time from now... But hopefully their condition would stabilise & they wouldn't die on me.

Edited December 7, 2011 by edenstrauss

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The condition of my ginger plants further deteoriated as the after effects of overfertilisation sunk in. And I think I had also overwatered the plants in a desperate attempt to flush out the excessive fertilisation.

To make things worse, the rainy weather meant that the plants had been "over-drinking" water. As such, there were both burnt marks & rotting...

More photographs of the outcome of over-watering & over-fertilisation:

Advice from the nursery: To sit back & wait for the effects of the fertilsation to wear off on its own.

Edited December 15, 2011 by edenstrauss

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Much to our surprise, even though the plants had been overfertilised, it started blooming abruptly ...

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The newbies had started showing signs of entering the stage of adolescence.

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A candid photograph of a new shoot growing tall & sturdy with a newly-grown out leaf that's waxy-looking:

Edited December 18, 2011 by edenstrauss

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The weather has been extremely erratic for the past 1 to 2 months. And today, there were sudden bouts of heavy rain that poured down mercilessly throughout the day. It was sunny one moment & before we knew it, huge sheets of rainwater came pouring down on pedestrians.

I was extremely concerned with my poor "ginger" plants becox a heavy downpour throughout the day could prove to be detrimental when they had been taking in too much water. The poor plants definitely couldn't afford another blow when it had previously been overfertillised!

By the time we reached home in the evening, we were pleasantly surprised to see so many new flower buds being pushed out of the "scales" of the red "corns". I supposed the sunbirds who visit our plants every day would be most delighted with the outcome when the buds would be fully bloomed by tomorrow morning. It would mean food for them as they live on flower nectar.

Here comes the Group category of photographs taken during the night after a heavy rain throughout the entire day:

As the lighting is poor in the evening, these shots were taken with flashlight from my camera ... We sincerely hope that they would be a feast to your eyes!

Edited December 18, 2011 by edenstrauss

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cont'd:

Edited December 18, 2011 by edenstrauss

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Portraits of the plants (The Individual Category) :

I've decided to categorised these photographs under Group photos & Portraits otherwise, they might just come across as messy.

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We've decided to take a snapshot of a new addition to the "ginger" family. I felt that it looked really cute!

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Further to showing photographs of the buds in my preceding posts for this thread, I've taken photographs showing the buds in full bloom the following morning.

Please refer to these latest photographs showing the buds in full bloom:

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I had mentioned about IJO's organic fertiliser earlier on in one of my posts in this thread:

http://www.renotalk.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=44590&view=findpost&p=678385

Of late, I require a replenishing of this organic fertiliser after the repotting process but realised that I couldn't find the product at Giant (Tampines) & other supermarkets such as NTUC Fairprice.

Although my plants had been overfertilised & didn't require fertilisers for now, I swore by IJO's organic fertiliser becox they worked wonders on my plants & they do promote healthy green leaves spotting fattish stems.

A photograph of IJO's organic fertiliser:

I was relieved that I didn't discard the empty satchet as the contact details of IJO Corporation was printed on the back (of the satchet).

So for you folks who are still interested in purchasing IJO's organic fertiliser, please contact the company directly to obtain details of where you could purchase the fertiliser from:

IJO Corporation Pte Ltd

3018 Bedok North Street 5

#06-49 Eastlink

Singapore 486132

tel: 6-447-8867

(email address: enquiry@ijocorp.com)

I was told by this manufacturer that IJO meant "It's Just Organic" in short. My verdict for this organic fertiliser is that it's a great product for nurseries & plant lovers.

Edited December 31, 2011 by edenstrauss

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Photographs of my Ginger plants on 31st December 2010:

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New baby shoots growing stems & ready to be potted:

Edited January 10, 2012 by edenstrauss