GERMINATE Zea mays SEED

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After we have done with land preparing and applying mulcing its time for us to germinate seed. Every group need to choose one crops. After discuss my group decided to plant a sweet corn. Before we choose the plants we need to know how long the plants take to harvest because we have a short time to plant the crops and need to sell before our final exam. For sweet corn it can be harvest on 68 until 72 days. So, it suitable with our time before final exam.

This is the seed of sweet corn
                               

Firstly, we need to germinate the seed in germinating tray. Another way to plants the crops is through direct seedling on the planting bed. Before that, we need to put the seed in the water for one day. It because we want to determined the good seed (sink) and the bad seed (float). The float seed because of the density which is less than water or it can be the seed may be having a waxy coating on its surface which helps it to float. So, we need to germinate sink seed instead of float seed.



                       Then we have to plant all the seed that has been choose on the tray. We use peat moss as the germinating medium for the seedlings. 

The peat moss specifications
Usually, the maximum seed can be put in the each hole are two seed. Why we put two seed in one hole? It because to prevent the competition the seed when they are germinate. It also can be as a backup seed if one of the seed death or cannot germinate. After put the seed, we need to cover back the holes with the peat moss. At the same time we also lack of peat moss because we need to sahre it with other group. So, the peat moss are out of stock then we germinate our seed using tissue or can be use cotton because two of it also germination medium.
Then, we need to start watering it everday in the morning and evening.

You must be curious where we put our tray right?
We put it in the green house. The purpose of a green house is to shield crops from excess cold or heat and unwanted pests. So, since our seed still new like a baby we cannot give it a direct or too lot of sunlight.



 


After a few days we found out of our seed already eat by insect like ant in the night. So, we put the seed again in the blank holes.




After a week, we can see the corn already sprout.








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