Day 25 for the second batch of radishes

The leaves of the radishes didn't grow much since the baby leaves had emerged. The stems didn't get any longer either.

Why was that?

Last weekend, I suspected that it was due to the low level of fertility in the soil. I sowed the seeds of the second batch as soon as I removed their predecessors. The soil didn't have a chance to recuperate. I didn't add a lot of extra nutrients to it as well.

But then I observed that the rightmost radishes grew better than their peers in the other pots. Why? They are exposed to more or less the same amount of sunlight. Their soil are more or less the same infertile. What made them grow better?

I suspected that it was the way I watered them.

In the rightmost pot, my favorite plant is the pepper. I don't really care about the radishes there. So, when I watered the pot, I would just pour as much water as to the pot. As I did that, I would inevitably make the radish leaves wet. Whereas I took extra care not to wet the leaves of radishes in the other containers. That could be the reason for the difference in their growth rate.

So, since last weekend, I would purposely wet the leaves of the plants whenever I watered them. That seems to do the trick!!! The growth of all peppers and radishes has improved a lot!

Second batchers matching into the second week

The radishes are growing okay. Not surprisingly fast. But they are healthy. Their stems are now much shorter than their predecessors, who prolonged their stem to compete with their neighbors for sunlight.

There's one thing that has been puzzling me. In the leftmost pot, the seed that I sowed in the center of the pot never germinated. It failed for the first time. And it also failed for the second tim. Perhaps something wrong with the depth at which I sowed the seed? Or, the surrounding seedlings are releasing toxin to harm their neighboring competitors?

The compost tea didn't work well - at least not for the rightmost pepper plant. It's still thin and not too tall. Its leaves are small also.

The pepper plant in the middle performs the worst. Shortest, thinnest and growing the slowest. So, I am going to use something else with the weaker plants -- chicken soup. I mean, chicken poop soup.

The leftmost pepper plant is growing wonderfully. The leaves are big. Its stem is thick. And it's shooting up straight and tall. Looking forward to its pepper wonder fruits.

1 week after sowing the second batchers

Most seeds have germinated as expected.