gejala pokok | symptomatic trees

i had to a cluster of the statice seedlings yesterday. it’s a very sad day indeed.

basically saw a bit in the soil near cluster number 1 that was wet and was slightly depressed (physically, not emotionally), and it was kinda glistening and moving. changed the direction and took a much closer look at it, also to check for ‘true’ leaves so that i can start transplanting.

turned out the movement wasn’t water, but a whole bunch of very very fine white coloured wriggly thingy that i can only call worms in my limited vocabulary. still unwilling to kill the seedlings, left them there and did some research. no luck, but there’s this thing called ‘wire worm‘ that kills crops. so to prevent the worms from going to the other clusters, with heart weighing like a big pot of tanah, i took out a chunk of the soil with the seedlings and dumped them.

now it’s just wait and see if the other clusters are okay. if ‘true’ leaves will emerge (basically, the cotyledons are usually a twin leaf that stores nutrients in the seeds, and when they germinate, real/regular/true leaves start to grow and changes function from storage to photosynthesis). and if they can survive the transplanting, which is apparently like what surgery is to humans.

crap.

some foto2 of development:

cluster number 2 of the statice, which is the healthiest so far, and has some ‘true’ leaves coming out in between the cotyledons. this was taken on 6 april, and they haven’t changed much since.

the cluster that i had to kill

but the celasio looks good! they’re like a small little forest but i’m going to have to start ‘thinning’ them soon, which means more murder!

this whole planting thing is bad for my karma i’m sure