Perhaps I spoke too soon

In my last post I wrote about how three out of four of my pots had not produced any plants. When I thought that they were a lost cause, I stopped watering them altogether, and instead concentrated all of my efforts on my singularly productive pot. At that time, the pot had about 9 sprouts, yet as those 9 sprouts grew I found that new sprouts were continuing to come forth. I hypothesized that if these sprouts could germinate without having been covered, then the seeds in the other three pots still might stand a chance, and so I set out to water them for a test period to see if I had been mistaken. As it turns out, each of the 3 barren pots has produced me a single sprout. That's better than nothing, certainly, and it's even convenient because I won't have any trouble transplanting them due to intertwined root-systems or other complications.

As for the original pot, it appears to be thriving!


I also made a wooden box for growing from the railing on my balcony so that not everything is on the floor. It's not finished yet, but you get the idea.

1 out of 4 ain't bad?

It's been more time than I wanted to allow since my last post, but unfortunately these seeds have been reluctant to do much. Incidentally, only one pot out of my four original pots has produced sprouts, but in that single pot, there are several successful plants. The key will be to let them grow together for now and then salvage as many of them as possible by transplanting. The sprouts actually showed up a few days ago but they were minuscule, and I had my doubts as to whether they would even show up on camera at all. So I waited patiently, and I can now give you, dear readers, a snapshot of my infantile tobacco plants:


I can't tell you what that particular quality was about the other 3 potsworth of seed that led them not to sprout, but if nothing else, I've gotten a fair bit of satisfaction in having watched natural selection unfold right before me. Indeed, only those plants which have escaped death by my own incompetence will survive to reproduce. Next time I'll be keeping a notebook in order to better determine where I erred.