AQUATIC PLANT CULTIVATION

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Neil,

Please send me your address...will catch up with you when I am travelling to Kerala next. Excellent effort my friend...
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What is the humidity level?
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severumkid wrote:What is the humidity level?



now monsoon Rocks here.........
now a days the weather is
Temperature: 24 °C

Pressure: 1005 millibars
Humidity: 94%
Visibility: 2 km
Wind: 17 km/h from 300° West-northwest
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The average temperature in Trivandrum, Kerala, India is 27.0 °C (81 °F).
The range of average monthly temperatures is 2 °C.
The warmest average max/ high temperature is 31 °C (88 °F) in March, April & May.
The month with the wettest weather is June when on balance 331 mm (13.0 in) of rain, sleet, hail or snow falls across 22 days.
Mean relative humidity for an average year is recorded as 73.9% and on a monthly basis it ranges from 63% in January & February to 82% in June.
Hours of sunshine range between 4.0 hours per day in June and 8.8 hours per day in February.
On balance there are 2381 sunshine hours annually and approximately 6.5 sunlight hours for each day.
On balance there are 0 days annually with measurable frost and in January there are on average 0 days with frost.


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That's a lot of weather info! The 98% humidity must help a lot in emersed growth.
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what do you mean by 4 hours of sunshine?
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severumkid wrote:what do you mean by 4 hours of sunshine?
its in june sky may be fully cloudy cos its monsoon here
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riccia a afun


just take a broken curry pot and trim it like this

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attach some riccia like this

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and tight it with mesh like hair care net (available in ladies vanity shop)


keep it in water of small height add 10 -20 ml tender coconut water and change 100 % water on alternate days
keep it like this a fortnight

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finally place it in glass tank after proper trimming


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you can call it as curry pot shaped moss :roll

if you place it on a wood piece or green colored pipe make it as an umbrella or mushroom
place a Doll of frog on it
enjoy


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''The month with the wettest weather is June when on balance 331 mm (13.0 in) of rain, sleet, hail or snow falls across 22 days.''

Are you saying it snows in parts of Kerala????
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within 100 km of distance kerala have totally different climatic conditions.
in hill stations it does.
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nice efforts.
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