I just wanted to record that I planted my next set of winter veggies, some Chinese broccoli. I find if I don't write it down somewhere I forget and it's pretty useful to remember it!
In the meantime my kale and brocoletti have sprouted. My kale had a surprise - a quadricot! Most plants have two "seed leaves", the first leaves that come up. Sometimes they mutate and have three leaves, called a tricot. But the sprout on the left had four seed leaves! The slightly wrinkled looking leaves in the picture are the first "true" leaves.
I only need one plant though so I plucked out the quadricot, because I don't know if the grown plant would be slightly "off".
And I couldn't help it, I had to take more photos of the lorikeets. They're skittish and rarely give me such a clear shot, and the lighting behind them was so beautiful.
In the meantime my kale and brocoletti have sprouted. My kale had a surprise - a quadricot! Most plants have two "seed leaves", the first leaves that come up. Sometimes they mutate and have three leaves, called a tricot. But the sprout on the left had four seed leaves! The slightly wrinkled looking leaves in the picture are the first "true" leaves.I only need one plant though so I plucked out the quadricot, because I don't know if the grown plant would be slightly "off".
And I couldn't help it, I had to take more photos of the lorikeets. They're skittish and rarely give me such a clear shot, and the lighting behind them was so beautiful.
1 comments:
What beautiful shots of the lorikeets!
I've never had a quadricot amongst my seedlings. I didn't know it was possible, but there you go. Perhaps they were in a St Patrick's Day mood and wanted to be four leaf clovers.
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