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.

Many Mangroves

A while back, Adam and I tried to check out a new boating spot behind Pearl Harbor. Unfortunately for us, we arrived to a parking lot full of "no boating" signs. We decided to take a walk around the park, since we had driven all the way out there. It was a nice walk along the water, though that park houses mongooses possessing the least fear of human beings I've ever seen. While we were on the lake, we saw several mangrove plants; we noticed that their seeds had washed up on the shore.

 

I took a few of them and planted them in beer bottles with salt water taken from the beach. I have slowly been adding freshwater to the bottles as the water level lowers. Eventually they will be in entirely fresh water, which I fear may be harmful, but for now they are sprouting and happy as ever!