Doing Rosemary Update

Last 20th September I planted few Rosemary cuttings in three pots, one didn't make it.

The base plant still available and get few more cuttings to redo it.

Progress with this plants is very slow.

Together with earlier cuttings.

Doing Few More Rosemary

My first trial of Rosemary fail, since its roots got water damage and I was at the time using pebbles as the media for planting. Recently manage to get encouraging result and this prompt me to try more. I am using hydroton and in pots this time round.

It grow slowly, but enough to give hope that it may just work. I'll repeat the same style of growing from cutting in hydroton and place them in the gutter growbed.

Fresh cutting taken from the base plant and prepared for planting.

Cuttings needs to be stripped of their leaves on the lower part rooting hormone used prior to sticking them in the pot.

Cluster of three cuttings in a pot and hopefully all will survive, from last trial all made it.

Temporarily potted cuttings are placed in the CRAFTS set growbed, once I have space in the gutter growbed they will be reposition there.

I use Rosemary mainly for roast chicken.. they smell delicious.

Cuttings are sheltered with pots as in my Aquaponics Tips.

Rosemary Surviving

Planted this in first week of July and after about two months it's looking good.

Will plant another three pots to fill up the #guttergrowbed

Rosemary Revisited

Rosemary in aquaponics is one plant that I need to retry, it didn't do well the last trial. This time I'll do it in the #SilosGrowbed style aquaponics.

Almost two weeks ago I planted few cuttings and checking it today to see whether there are any sign of positive growth.

Pull out the cuttings from the pot, and it does show some root growth.

It looks good as above, the last time I tried Rosemary due to sludge in the growbed their roots does not look that good as in photo below.

Closer look on the cuttings below, sure is promising.

Re-pot the cuttings in one of the Silo tube, to give it more root zone for better growth.

Since I do not have much growbed space left, the Silo tube are place into existing growbed.

Will be few more weeks before I know for sure whether it will grow in this style of planting.

More Rosemary

Two more pot of Rosemary for the growbed. Its much bigger than previous, I let it stand touching water level in growbed.

Soil in the pot will help to provide bacteria in my set and since its still very new, this will help plant slowly adapt to new environment. Never tried Rosemary before, once this growbed mature I'll transplant it out from the safety of the pot.

Herbs Plants To Test Out

That's Rosemary  and Basil to get herb part of the setup , few other seeds will be sow and hopefully by the time this setup stabilized I can start transplanting them.

Turmeric rhizome in that basket and will plant it in the other growbed, these takes a long time to grow.

Planted the herb with its sowing cup, this growbed not ready they won't survive if I just directly planted them in the rocky media. 

Let it take root and get use to the place, once okay I'll remove the sowing cup.  First time I'm doing Rosemary, Basil is not much of a problem.

Over the next few week, slowly plants will be added to my setup and lets do it carefully and I'll document it here.

Update : 21st April 2013

Below are the Rosemary from cuttings directly into growbed.