A highly
qualified relative of mine drawing a good amount of pension money after
retirement wanted some dwarf varieties of fruit bearing plants at Bhubaneswar.
He has no bad habits but to please his wife he ordered for ‘plantain/banana
seeds from a reputed American company.
His wife
leaked this news to me. “For each seed germinating you would get hundred rupees
from me” I said.
He
prepared a pot with outmost care with cow dung and good river bed soil and
implanted those seeds on 1st of April -2018.He would sprinkle water
and covered the pot with a net and watched every day morning for the dwarf
seeds to germinate.
He did not
lose heart and planted rest of the seeds on 1st May. He is still
hopeful the seeds may germinate. Earlier he has tried with dwarf orange seed
without success. His wife is fond of banana fruits but alas nobody knows whether
he would be able to present his wife with some dwarf fruits during this life or
next birth?
When
confronted he said “These are experiments, you see, some succeed others fail,
that’s science! There is no harm in trying”.
Sanjoy Kumar
Satpathy
Bhubaneswar
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