Documentation of our July 02/03 2022 workshop
Introduction
On July 2 and 3, we collected seeds and cuttings, some with roots or aerial roots, and planted them on structures that we assembled from freshly cut green bamboo.
Participants from left to right: Jonathan (director of Lancetilla), José (gardener at Lancetilla), Soroush, Jean, plus Felix (taking the picture)
See also:
Plantings
Greenhouse
Planted on July 2 2022, from left to right:
- 2022-07-02 8:40 tree: seeds
- 2022-07-02 9:50 tree: cuttings of ficus elastica
- 2022-07-02 9:32 tree: cuttings
- 2022-07-02 8:40 tree: cuttings
Outside
Pole
Planted on July 3 2022:
- 2022-07-02 10:40 tree: cutting
- 2022-07-02 10:43 tree: cutting
One of the cuttings is with aerial roots, one with regular roots. The one with regular roots was planted in the greenhouse over night.
Sliced bamboo on metal posts
Photos of what we planted are missing. They are seeds plus two cuttings, left and right. The sliced bamboo has been labeled with a marker.
Sliced bamboo on bamboo triangles
Planted on July 2 2022:
- 2022-07-02 08:40 tree: seeds
Planted on July 3 2022:
- 2022-07-03 10:40 / 2022-07-02 09:26 tree: twig collected the day before and planted in the greenhouse over night
- 2022-07-03 10:43 / 2022-07-02 09:32 tree: cutting with aerial roots, collected the same day
- 2022-07-03 10:43 / 2022-07-02 09:32 tree: cutting with aerial roots, collected the same day
Trees
Trees are named according to the time about when we discovered them. Not all trees have been identified by species.
2022-07-02
José Vindel was exploring trees with us on July 2. Later Jonathan, the director, joined.
08:40
09:00
09:05
09:20
09:24
09:26
09:32
09:50
- Species: ficus elastica (+ other tree?)
- Jean got cuttings:
10:52
11:29
12:34
13:46
13:48
2022-07-03
On that day we were by ourselves, with tools borrowed from the garden. In the morning, we walked around in the touristic part of the garden. Using two GoPros brought by Jean, we took pictures for photogrammetry of some trees.
09:07
09:27
09:32
09:42
- Species: some strangler fig
- We discovered the tree when exploring the garden by ourselves. Felix should have a picture from April too.
- Host: fallen big tree
- 15° 44' 14.9712" N 87° 27' 22.428" W
10:40
10:43
Notes
- Jonathan mentioned the ámate arbol, a tree that – according to him – can be found in old British colonial towns, which had a park in the center. (By comparison, the Spanish colonial towns were designed with a stone square in the center.)
- Seeds should germinate in about 14 days.
- See photogrammetry data by Soroush and Jean.
- See also handwritten notes by Felix
Designing a structure
- Ideally: natural growth with minimum intervention
- Consider integrating bats, i.e. making it attractive to them
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