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Brassica Nursery
Instructions:
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Materials Needed and Instructions
For Building, Stocking, and Maintaining
See
Bottle Growing System. The only difference involves the seeds
used and the addition of Pieris eggs.
Seeds
The Brassica Nursery uses a variety
of seeds to grow different plants to feed the larvae. Turnip, radish,
and lettuce seeds can be purchased
from a garden
store and mixed together. Fast Plant seeds can also be used in
the mix. The seeds should be planted about five days before the eggs
arrive.
Eggs
Pieris eggs can be purchased from Carolina Biological
Supply Company (1-800-334-5551 or www.carolinabiological.com).
The eggs should be ordered to arrive about 5 days after the seed
mix has been planted, so that the larvae will have
something
to feed on. When the eggs arrive, they will be on a strip of wax paper in
a small plastic vial. With tweezers, remove the wax strip carefully
and place it egg
side down on the plant seedlings. Do not
touch the eggs!
NOTE: During larval stages, Pieris should be kept away from
the Brassica being grown in the Light
House System. This will prevent them
from eating
plants that need to grow to the flowering stage.
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