Growing Red Thai Ginger Indoors

This is my successful "Karmic Red Thai Ginger". Planted at the end of June, 2012 .. from small sprouted ginger corms. Basically, in four months the plants produced nice fat ginger roots and are still growing strong [November].

I do not know what is under the soil. However, the surface ginger has grown exceptionally well.

I rooted the fresh dried ginger inside plastic bags, to keep the roots moist. Then I broke the sprouting corms off from the parent root and I put them into a compost soil that allowes better drainage .. soil that does not become soggy and wet. The planting soil is more like a natural biological coconut fiber type compost .. with no peat added.

Although the plastic planting container is deep, I planted the rooted ginger corms close to the surface. This method seems to work best of all. I think it is best to remove as much of the parent root as possible .. otherwise the larger root seems to root itself and slow down the fresh corm growth.

With the Red Thai Ginger, I sprayed water inside a plastic bag and left them until the small buds began to grow their own roots..

I am trying something new with the ginger I bought a few days ago. That is, to put the best looking roots on top of moist soil and cover the whole plastic grow container with a plastic bag. I spray them lightly once a day.

You can grow your Indoor Food Garden in anything. This container was from store bought baby Pak Choi .. and is perfect for rooting garlic cloves or ginger. The reason I do garlic is because I can grow my own fresh garlic greens.

It is really easy to do!
All you need are fresh garlic cloves. I break off the outer cover to allow moisture to soak into the heart of the cloves. Then I soak the whole garlic in some water for half a day.

I then place this onto my indoor container soil and cover with a plastic bag. In this case I am sprouting the ginger and the garlic in the same container.

Once the garlic greens start sprouting they can be planted into another container .. or simply remove the plastic bag and start growing the greens. The same can be done with onions. You can soak and plant baby onions indoors .. and harvest fresh onion greens.

The Best Ginger In The World

The best Ginger in the world
Is the ginger you grow yourself

This is not my "Karmic Red Thai Ginger" .. which is still growing (indoors). This night-ginger is my first indoor growing of sprouting ginger corms from February, 2012 .. which, I have just "harvested".

Seriously! I did not harvest much ginger root out of this long season .. but even if you only get one ginger root .. it is the best ginger in the world. By far the best ginger. I have never tasted real ginger root until today !! That is the ginger I grew myself.

The first mistake I made is that I over watered the soil.

If you try growing your own roots indoors .. in plastic containers .. do not drown them in water. The first plastic container I used was too shallow .. and the sprouting root corms were too wet. So, I lost 70 percent of the growth.

I was so happy to have the beautiful tall ginger leaves growing from March through until November. Ginger greens are like beautiful slender potted plants. So lovely, that you do not have to grow ginger for the roots .. you can grow the ginger for its beauty.

I did not realise that I over watered the first ginger roots because the tall green leaves were so beautiful and growing so magnificently. The more they grew .. the more I watered them. This is how we learn = never be afraid to make mistakes .. and never be discouraged .. but learn from any "mistakes".

I later discovered that beautiful tall ginger greens do not necessarily mean beautiful crisp ginger roots. Most of the ginger under the soil had rotted away .. and were useless as a food source!

Except for these two ginger roots .. which had grown closer to the surface. Small but beautiful! These small ginger roots are the best ginger I have ever tasted!

I was surprised! I thought the fresh roots would taste sharper and stronger than store bought fresh ginger root. I was wrong! My own ginger tasted sweeter and more savory than normal ginger root from the market. Of course, this is Europe .. the ginger closer to home (in Asia) is probably a lot fresher '-)

I put the washed home grown ginger into a small pot of water to keep them fresh until I have used them. First I tried stir fry vegetables with ginger, fresh garlic and lemongrass. Usually, I do not stir fry .. I steam my vegetables or eat them raw .. and this was the surprise. My own fresh grown ginger was so sweet and not at all sharp or bitter. The taste was so gentle .. and so fragile. I was really amazed by the flavor.

I planted my "Red Thai Ginger" in June, 2012 .. into a deeper plastic container with the ginger corms at the top of the soil (not buried deep in the soil). Those roots are still growing [indoors] .. and the ginger greens are still green.

I will do another post on my "Red Thai Ginger" .. which was planted on the surface of deeper containers and was not over watered. Those ginger roots are really sprouting out of the soil [of an indoor garden].

I have this problem that they are so beautiful .. I do not want to harvest them. Today I began a new ginger sprouting batch .. which I will explain in another post. If you live in a warm climate or have a greenhouse .. you can continually grow your own fresh ginger all year round.

I have one important thing to say! In our society, today, we are so conditioned to get more .. get bigger .. if it is small - it is not worth it. So, what I am saying is the opposite...

It does not matter if you only grow enough ginger for two or three meals .. it will change your life! This is where words fail me. There are no words to describe or explain how growing your own food can transform you .. other than: Eat it!

In that respect, "small is beautiful".

What I have learned from the ginger plant is: Okay! We eat the local food from the farmers and growers .. that feeds our physical bodies. But .. we become enlightened when we eat the smallest part of the food we grow ourselves.

Do not think only of "the large" and eat only "the large" .. that makes us greedy .. but also think of "the small" and eat "the small" .. especially if you have grown it yourself.

Bottle Tower Food Garden

Teach yourself to grow food in plastic bottles #-)

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Karmic Red Thai Ginger

The beginning of 2012 took us through Mercury Retro - Mars Retro and Venus Retro .. where it was next to impossible for us to move forward into progressive action. But, in that time .. I discovered a profound connection with Nature.

The "key point" of my experiences became Grow Greens .. out of which I began to build on a life long experience of growing plants, planting trees, loving Nature and learning from the green creatures of the Earth.

In this image you see what I call "Red Thai Ginger" corms attached to the fibrous root of the parent Ginger root...

This is why I say: Listen to Nature .. be aware of Nature and learn from the parent Planet you live on.

If you don't have roots extending from the fresh new Ginger-corms then it is best to plant the new growth together with the fiber-parent-plant.

However, if you have fresh roots extending from the fresh Ginger corm base then you can plant the Ginger corm fruiting body into the soil - on its own - without the parent plant.

Here in this image you can see the rooting Ginger corm on its own ready to plant.

If the Ginger corms do not have these roots I would not remove the fresh growing corm from the fibrous root .. to plant them. I planted - what I call - Red Thai Ginger after three days of extended root growth.

My first Ginger-root container was simply the parent Ginger root with new Ginger corms attached to the roots, planted into compost soil. My second plant container was the self rooting Ginger corms separated from the fibrous parent root. My third container is the Red Thai Ginger root, which I also carefully removed from the parent root.

Karmic Red Thai Ginger
Karmic .. is my term for generations of human relationship with Nature .. lifetime after lifetime. Where, we humans are in direct relationship and are being taught by the Planet we live on, are being taught by the animals and plants, trees and resources we need and use everyday for our survival.

For example, the Ginger plants form a relationship with me. This is a "karmic relationship" that may have evolved over thousands of years [spirit years] .. where I understand the plants and the plants understands me = we have a good, natural symbiotic relationship.

In Computer Geek terms, one could say that the Ginger plant is a living software program on the natural operating system of Planet Earth. Let's say Ginger is Anti-Virus .. with hidden folders and ever expanding Quantum/Cosmic communications pathways.

The key Initiation programming is "love" or compassion .. empathy and psychic interconnection to the Planet we live on. This is the basic quantum interface through which plants, grasses, trees, fungi, animals, birds ... etc interact and communicate with the living system they all / we all inhabit.

Let's re-define "karmic"!!

Is Karma a living Interactive Cosmic Software .. where the incarnated spirit-being participants are taught by Cosmos lifetime after lifetime? So, what is the Interactive Software? It is Nature!

You can go onto your Computer and open folders, open Browsers, open programs and communicate Online .. but what about the living Operating Planetary System around you?

What about the trees and the birds .. the fungi and the insects .. the weather and the atmosphere .. the animals and the forests .. the seas, rivers and fish? Why did the Celtic Ancestors love and respect Nature?

Nature Nourishes Eternal Spirit

This all began with Thai Ginger...

In, Live Love & Grow I decide two containers of Ginger is more than enough. The growing Ginger roots teach me about this Earth, Nature and the Eternal Spirit.

Let's go back to the Thai Ginger and the love for the Planet we live on.

I walk into the store and I see this Ginger .. with beautiful red corms growing out of the Ginger roots. Usually, the Ginger comes from China and sometimes from Peru .. and those growing corms are light or dark green.

I think I must have been a Ginger farmer in a past life .. because this was love at first sight. Here comes planting container number three !! I chose the best Ginger corms and packed them into a plastic bag.

Over time the rooting Ginger has been teaching me, until I came to the point where I then planted them in containers. Usually, I would break them off and eat them raw, as they have many health benefits .. and I like the fresh taste as opposed to the more fibrous Ginger root.

I used the way of encouraging growth that the Ginger roots themselves taught me .. or showed me. This time, instead of taking two weeks to show root growth - the Ginger corms rooted in one day .. the day of the Summer Solstice.

I discovered that human intelligence is equal to observation plus inner spirit communication. Nature is always communicating with us. We humans have to pay attention and listen to Nature.

I decided to pack compost around my self rooting Ginger root from June 14 .. I use the brilliant: PicMonkey for my image formatting presentations.

Here you see how I carefully covered the self-rooting Ginger in compost - planted in a plastic container and the growth looks good. This Ginger root is not my new Thailand Ginger root... The Thai Ginger appeared in the store many days later.

This is where the Ginger roots taught me how Nature - Planet Earth - nourishes the Eternal Spirit. Lifetime after lifetime all spirits of the Earth / Cosmos incarnate into physical 3D reality. Where Spirit shares the experience of material existence.

I look at this Thai Ginger and the nature of this plant affects my mind, it affects my intelligence .. it interacts with me and awakens some deep inner knowing or experience.

What kind of experience?

The Earth is one .. Nature recognises us .. recognises our signature .. who we are and what we do for the Nature in physical reality. Translated, our spirit gives to and works with Nature inside physical reality .. or maybe people do not work with Nature ??

Here you can see the dark red Thai Ginger corms .. to be planted in a new container. This is why I say make a relationship with the plants.

Nature is our Guidance. Nature teaches us. Nature knows and recognises us. Our Spirits are born into physical reality on Earth and Universal intelligence of Nature knows who we are. What I am saying is that the love from these Ginger corms teaches me / my spirit - now. It is the same for all flowerings of Nature across the Earth and in the Oceans of the Earth.

This applies to who we are on Planet Earth in the Solar System of the Milky Way.

The same Cosmic Intelligence is fermenting across the whole Universe, across one Cosmos, in different Star Systems and in different Universes. In which, all life is One and in which all creatures are One...

The teachings are small and connect with you on a deeply personal level .. talking to your spirit .. talking to your soul .. on the most intimate level. On the deepest levels of being, Nature nourishes our Eternal Spirit.

Live Love & Grow

When I was rooting Lemongrass and Ginger roots back in February, 2012 .. I did a lot of "research" and there was not that much information about these plants (at that time). There were one or two hardy plant lovers sharing what they know .. but there was not too much information as exists now...

Suddenly, there has been an explosion in growing Lemongrass and Ginger roots .. #-)

But, there is something no one can tell you about, and there is something no one can teach you. I was not looking for expert advice .. I was simply curious. Now I see a following trend, that has nothing to do with what YOU need to know about plants!

No one teaches me to grow Ginger - other than the Ginger roots. They are still teaching me - I learn something new every day. I bring Ginger roots home that are supposed to go onto my curried rice dish .. and these roots hide themselves, and weeks later I have a new planting issue.

No one has ever taught me how to plant plants other than the plants themselves...

When I was very young I started planting seeds in pots and in no time the empty plant-less house we lived in was full of plants growing everywhere. I was curious, and I was not afraid to make mistakes, that was because I did not have a clue what I was doing.

I was born with this instinct that Nature is my teacher, and I was born with this instinct that the plants teach us (and that is how we learn). When we make mistakes - we learn. Then we adjust and bit-by-bit we begin to understand what works and what does not work.

Although I have ideas how to improve and support plant growth - through observing and understanding nature - I can tell you one thing ... Plants respond to love and higher energies.

Before I say more about this totally underestimated and non-market/sell dynamics of growing plants and food .. I want to say that there are no "experts" about what to do best for planting and growing plants.

I'm sorry! But, all this add phosphor .. add nitrogen .. and whatever else is ?? You find out what it is for yourself !! Many layers of fungi balance the soils of the Earth since the beginning of life on Earth and Nature does the rest.

Live Love & Grow
The one thing you cannot buy and sell. The one thing you cannot manufacture. The one thing you cannot put into a bag and market. The one thing you cannot create artificially .. is LOVE.

Take my Ginger roots...

I don't know why Ginger loves me? I have to stop buying the roots, because they grow like crazy as soon as they come into my personal living space. For some strange reason I love them in return. This is the relationship plants form with you.

I don't do anything special with my Ginger roots... In fact, I do nothing!

I don't do any special soil .. I don't do nutrients .. I don't feed them .. there is no form of scientific expertise. There is only me and the plants. They wont stop growing.

There is one special factor in this human/plant relationship .. and that is love. Ginger plants love me and I love Ginger plants. I don't give them any special food. I simply put potting soil into any type of plastic container (because they are overrunning me) and I plant them.

That is what I mean about the scientific world of "experts". We are drowning in experts and yet our world is not capable of feeding all the children being born on this Earth. No matter how many experts we have.

In my mind this is because the people have to love the plants and the plants have to love the people. It is a mutual exchange of love and respect. We are the plants and the plants are us. They show us love, we show them love. It is a higher form of exchange.

In the image above there is a big fat Ginger root that I put on the soil, thinking that I would have to start a new planting pot... Today, I tried to pick up the root to plant it into a new container .. and it has rooted itself so deep into the soil that I will have to try and carefully dig it out - or maybe it is better that I leave it alone where it is.

Plant whatever plants love you and your will learn - the plants will teach you. This is the special relationship we need to cultivate with Nature. It does not matter if you make mistakes .. because that is part of learning.

I now have to watch this new self-rooted surface Ginger root and I will find out something from its self-determined growth. I will learn something new.

On this path of learning the plants have always taught me that they grow from "the love" .. and love is relationship at its highest level. In a way the plants choose us .. they respond to us .. they feel the love and inside that energy of love they teach us. Inside that energy - exchange of love - we learn.

Ginger Root Sprouts Nature's Guidance

Okay! It is 2012 and I have started to go crazy over sprouting plants...

But! I always was that way! No matter where I go plants sprout around me. I would need my own planet to grow all the beautiful plants that just spring up with no one doing anything to them.

I freshen up my store bought Lemon Grass and suddenly there are roots! I buy sweet chestnuts to cook (I am vegetarian) and when I pull the chestnuts out of the bag they are sprouting. I can't cook them! I have to plant them. This is life.

Now my Organic Ginger from Peru have grown multiple corms of new ginger!

Ginger corms are fantastic fresh food [like fresh ginger fruit] .. but I just have this instinct .. I have to plant them. So, I have this theory that the food I buy knows it is coming into a gardener's mentality household. They just sprout as fast as they can.

The birds know I will feed them and the plants know I will plant them.

2012 - Greening The Earth
It was a really strange weird winter, with way too warm temperatures and way too cold temperatures. December 2011 to January 2012 was way too warm for the winter months and mid-January to mid-February was way too cold on average. But the one thing that shows me "the future" is NATURE and the Planet's plants.

Too warm / too cold ?? Nature was just throwing roots at me .. those plants did not care .. they were just rooting and growing and saying: plant us!!

It is my belief through a lifetime of observing nature that the grass and the plants and the trees know ahead what needs to be done. Those plants know that we humans have to Green The Planet.

Human populations spent the last 2,000 years destroying the trees, destroying the forests, destroying the soil-fungi that feeds the plant's root systems and keeps them healthy. Humans have damaged the natural healthy soil bacteria's over the last 200 years.

The Roman Empire's Alpha male (excuse my French) thinks that the surrounding physical world is an inferior biological system set there to serve man. Like, that man is above the Earth. Get a brain!!

The human body is woven from the life of the Earth. There is no human being without the Earth; but the Planet can survive without man. In fact, the Earth would be a lot healthier if humans did not exist. The Planet does not need us; but we need the Planet.

Not only that! All the creatures of the Earth clothe us and feed us and house us. A blackbird or an eagle has its own feathers - but humans clothe themselves in the fabric of their plant brothers and sisters. Let's get the facts straight!

We humans need plants, the plants don't need us. We humans need animals, the animals don't need us. We humans need the resources of the planet, the resources don't need us. All of nature is guiding us to respect life, to respect nature and grow - grow - grow.

We have to put the green back into the Earth.

One could say that the plants and creatures and animals, the fungi and the bacteriological life forms are guiding mankind back to sanity, back to himself, back to herself. They are the living support system. They are the living Planetary Operating system. Guiding us back to health.

In many ways the human being is a plant - growing on the surface of the Earth.

People need to learn how to grow food. To get in touch with the basics that allow us humans to exist and be healthy. I can tell you that in 2012 the Planet's plants are throwing themselves at us root, branch and leaf...

Trees and plants have a very powerful relationship with mankind. They are the elders. The first life forms on this Planet were bacteria, yeasts, mold and fungi, ferns, plankton and algae. Add to that volcanic soil and volcanic ash.

Everywhere I look they are cutting down trees. The new tree cutting gamers claim it is because the trees have to be thinned. In reality, the trees are a resource and the people cutting them down need money. The Earth is a resource.

Nature is saying to us it is time to start planting. You can plant grass, food, trees, whatever .. put the natural fungi back into the soil. Put the organic nutrients back into the soil. I am teaching myself how this can be done.

It is great to have spouting Lemongrass and sprouting Ginger roots - but how do I plant them and keep them healthy? What do the plants need? Because, the soil is also a dynamic living organism. You don't need "Carbon taxes" . . . you need life, microorganisms, healthy soil, growing greens and lots and lots of trees...

Lemon Grass Roots

I am so exited, because my store bought Lemon Grass has roots...

Grow your own Lemon Grass!
I found fresh Lemon Grass at the local store...
I am crazy about growing things!

So .. I put some of the fresh Lemon Grass stalks into water...

It is real simple...

You cut off a small part of the base of the Lemon Grass stalk to remove the dried part of the grass. From that base fat white roots should grow when the stalk is put into fresh water.

I snip off the top dried part of the Lemon Grass stalks to allow the energy of the plant to concentrate into the base and the root.

I change the soak water once a day - every 24 hours - to prevent a jelly type water forming around the stalks and to prevent fungus growing on the tough outer leaves.

I clean the base of the Lemon Grass in fresh running water.
You want to avoid fungus and cellular deterioration.
on the surface of the grass.

Here you see the cut base of the Lemon Grass ...

Don't use too much water.
Keep the water clean.
Change the water each day.

The timing of root growth depends on local atmospheric temperatures and local climate.

Here you see the roots of Lemon Grass ready to be planted.

Avoid any kind of slimy fungus growth on the outer leaves and wash the base of the Lemongrass before planting into organic soil.

Once you have roots growing from the base of the Lemon Grass .. it is probably best to plant the stalks in a container until the roots are strong enough to be planted out in the garden.

If you don't want the Lemon Grass spreading everywhere, then keep it growing in a pot or some kind of container or grow bag.