{"id":1525,"date":"2015-12-13T08:43:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T08:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ozone.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2015-12-13T08:43:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T08:43:36","slug":"cardamom-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/?p=1525","title":{"rendered":"Cardamom plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1528\" src=\"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-232x300.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-232x300.jpeg 232w, https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image.jpeg 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>I purchased some <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cardamom\">cardamom<\/a> plant a few months ago and have managed to keep it alive. It is doing well although some of the leaves are yellowing. It might be because I left the plant outside too long into the very wet season. It is now in my garage for the winter. Initially, I had it straight under the hydroponic lights but it did not like that and now I have moved it a bit away from the light so that it is a bit protected from the power of the metal halide lamps.<\/p>\n<p>I couple of months ago, I also split the main plant into 6 other plants. I have re-planted the little shoots into small pots but also put a couple of plants outside in a raised bed. I would like to see if the plants are better outside for the winter or within the garage under fluorescent lighting. (And the warmth of the propagator )<\/p>\n<p>As I was doing some research on optimum lighting and heat setting etc&#8230;I realised that cardamom is actually a very valuable plant and the spices that it can produce are very expensive per weight. I have not had any pods yet, so will probably have to wait until next year for it. (<strong><em>Update<\/em><\/strong> : It actually takes 3 years before the plant will produce its first flowers and therefore pods. A bit more to wait then)<\/p>\n<p>I recently donated a plant to my brother&#8230;a further proof that we are getting older and possibly wiser&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Also need to start a cumin plant from seeds. Not sure if I can use the ones in my spice rack&#8230;must try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased some cardamom plant a few months ago and have managed to keep it alive. It is doing well although some of the leaves are yellowing. It might be because I left the plant outside too long into the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/?p=1525\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}