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Prema
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:11 am Post subject: Growing Tulasi in NYC |
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Hare Krishna!
I would like to get eargently any advice from someone who know how to take care of Tulasi plant in NYC.
She suffer a lot during the winter, her top branches are wilting and dieing and I afraid she will not survive... |
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Prema
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject: Growing Tulasi in NYC |
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Hare Krishna!
Dear Rukmini Devi Dasi,
Thank you for your advices, I am actually trying to follow instructions I have learned from this Tulasi handbook. This Tulasi is very young, she arrived at the beginning of the last summer as a small plant. When the winter came, I first removed her from the window, she had then special indoor light of 150w, but since I saw her leafs getting dry from the heat, I changed it to 3 lights of 75w around her, but then she started to drop her bottom leafs, according to the instructions, it recognized it as not enough light. I put her back to the window (the temperature there during the winter was around 70F) and at the same time transplanted her into a bigger pot, since I sow her roots coming out from the drainage hole, and started to feed her ones a month with “Tomato food” which recommended by a local gardening store as something natural with the same nutrition value as the “Miracle grow”. For the next 2 months she looked much better but then her top branches started to wilt and die, at the same time she developed very nicely new branches in her bottom, but her top continue to wilt, until now, that it gets all the way to her new bottom branches. According to the book, I don’t understand if its over watering or not enough watering… I’m thinking it to be a root rot, since her soil is getting dry very slow because the pot is very big now, it takes a week for the top of the soil to get dry… is it possible to re-transplant her back to the small pot? Can it make her better? As much as I can see, she doesn’t have any insect or fungus.
Thank you for your fast answering and help to save Tulasi’s life. |
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Prema
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| Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:28 pm Post subject: Tulasi |
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Hare Krishna!
Thank you so much, I did yesturday night the cleaning to her soil, hopefully she will get better, I also prepared a small green house to help keep the humidity around her with the growing lights on.
Oh, The Tulasi you are worship is really beautiful! |
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