Thing are going good. Well, mistakes have been made, but I'm still satisfied with the results. The mistakes are putting out the Moonflowers to early and using loose, low-nutrition soil to cultivate the plants in. I thought the loose soil would let the plants grow big roots, but the soil didn't supply some of the plants with the right amounts of nutrition to grow big.

On this picture you can see almost all of the plants. It is only Sensitive plants that hasn't been moved out.

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A lot of stuff has happen since the last update. I have replanted many flowers and have started to cultivate many more new flowers.

A few French marigold have been placed in their final locations. Here is a picture on two of them.

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Everything is growing well. The decision to stop using pelt pieces and use loose soil in milk carton instead seems to be right. I have hardly been needed to look after the plants. The soil have been keeping itself moist for long periods of time.

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The project is in full swing. I have started to cultivate four more flowers, French Marigolds, Moonflowers, Sensitive Plant and Scarlet Sage. Two flowers I tried before and two new ones. The Sensitive Plant is more of a indoors plant, so I will keep some of them indoors and some on the balcony. The Scarlet Sage is a gamble. It's not suppose to be on a balcony with strong sun, but maybe it will survive if I place it on the ground in the shade.

I started with putting all the seed on moist tissue paper and sealing them in plastic boxes.

Within a week the French Marigolds started to grow, so I quickly move them over to soil. I also noted that a few of the Sensitive Plant and Scarlet Sage seeds had sprouted very thin white roots (or had started to mold), so I moved a couple of the seeds over to soil. I did it because I feared that if I moved them later I would just damage their roots (or they all would become attacked by mold).

The Moonflowers are late starters (as usual) and are still in their plastic bin.

Annual Asters
Bloomed late, but looked good.

Jasmine Tobacco
Grew a lot and I liked the flower. I think I will be planting them in the balcony box next spring.

Shoo-fly flowers
Did not grow as much as expected. Maybe I should have tried giving them fertiliser early on. The few flowers they did produce was pretty through.

Strawflower
A Pretty flower, but couldn’t stand up straight by themselves. I don’t think it looks nice when the flowers are falling over.

Monkey flower
Looked very nice, and I think I’ll someday plant more of those.

Moonflowers
Never bloomed, and I’m a little disappointed about that. I still have a few seeds left, so I’ll probably plant more next spring. But If it wasn’t for that I wouldn’t try planting them again.

Everything is growing and doing good. I’m hoping that I will have lots of blooming flowers within a month or so. I’m completely done with replanting all the little plants.

The rhubarb and Shoo-flies are growing like crazy.

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Since last update, I have replanted all sprouts to small pelt pots and moved them outside. I did not replant all sprouts, a few weak ones were thrown away.

You can also see that my birthday gifts have been placed in new pots.

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Still growing strong and more of them have been replanted to their own peat piece.

The sprouts that have been inside the cultivation box seems to be weaker. I needed to add support for the Strawflowers. They couldn’t stand up right.

The sprouts that were moved out of the cultivation box and not moved to their own pelt piece, seems to be doing great. And two of three Moonflower seeds have sprouted.

The second time I moved sprouts to their own peat pieces, I placed them out side the cultivation box. They seems to be doing alright, except for the four that died. I keep forgetting to watering my sprouts.

In less then a week all my seeds have sprouted.

As you can see I planted more than one seed in one pieces of peat. This is because I know that not all seeds will grow and not all sprouts will grow up to become big plants. Most of them will, but I rather have to many than to little.

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