Home Renovations

Almost half a year ago, Adam and I collected a few mangrove pods. At the time, we put them into 12 ounce glass beer bottles with some soil and brackish water. I hoped for the best as I watered them with fresh water from the tap. Months later, they appeared to be doing quite well. They have grown in size as well as added an abundance of leaves. As an experiment, we moved one of the mangroves to a bigger home.

The first step was to drink a gallon of root beer (hello, floats!) to obtain the larger container. We then had to break the glass beer bottle holding the mangrove to free it for the move.

Finally, we simply added soil to the new plastic container and voila, a new home for one of the mangroves. If it thrives, we will then move the others.