How to Grow Sugarcane Successfully
Growing sugarcane is not that difficult to accomplish, that’s if you know the secret!
Buy a piece of sugarcane from your grocery shop. The secret is buying that is greenish brown in colour (this also depends on variety!). Make sure that the piece of cane has at least two nodes
Apply grafting wax to the top end of the cane to prevent disease and rot.
Plant the cane stick in a pot that is prepared with potting compost and has been watered down lightly.
Place in a warm area as that’s sugarcane preferred conditions, and water from time to time so that the plant does not dry out.
Wait patiently for about two or three weeks. Here is my sugarcane plant after a month with a ratoon (stalk) in my kitchen in London. For those who don’t know, the outside temperate in the last month must be averaging about 5 degrees Celsius (41 degrees Fahrenheit). My Photos:
If you followed the above and found success please send me your photos with you name and location and I could publish them on this site. Good Luck!
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How to Hatch Brine Shrimps for your Aquarium
If you have an Aquarium of fishes and you want to encourage fish breeding, or your want a low cost way to show your children a bit about nature. What ever the case, here is how to create an environment to hatch your very own Sea Monkeys or Brine Shrimp:
- Find a clean container; a cleaned better/margarine tub will do fine.
- Fill with water. If you have chlorinated water, you will need to use an alternative, such as bottled water. It is good idea to allow the water to stand for about an hour.
- Position the container near a light source
- Add a tablespoon worth of rock salt (or table salt that’s non-iodized salt or aquarium salt). The ratio of salt to water is one tablespoon of salt to a gallon of water. Allow the salt to fully dissolve.
- When adding brine shrimp eggs, you will find they will initially float and disperse on the surface of the water. Add enough shrimp eggs so that it covers the surface area equivalent to circle base of a tea cup
- Ensure the water is kept to about 25 degrees Celsius (about 80 degrees Fahrenheit)
- Your brine shrimp eggs will hatch much quickly if you can add a air pump with an air stone so to cause a constant stir of the water in the container
Now all that’s left to do is wait; it can take over a day for the brine shrimp eggs to hatch. Once they have hatched , you can feed them to your aquarium fishes.
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