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Solitude Nursery MWF/ FORESTRY nursery Capacity 75 000 seedlings Community nursery for community forest

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Prepare media for sowing seeds

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Seed sowing In pots In plugs On beds

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stacking On table, On ground In cage

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Potting in small or big pots or plugs

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Watering, hardening and weeding

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Record keeping Accession number Date sown Media / pretreatment used Date germinated and number Date removed Destination Remarks

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Staff One nursery manager 9 other staff Everyboby does everything in the team, seed collection, nursery work, planting in the field, monitoring, bat and birds count, office work, education etc. Help from volunteers; scouts, school leavers, youth groups, staff of private companies, fishermen during octopus closed season, jeune chambre economique, etc.

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Problems encountered Lack of water for irrigation Lost of rare seedlings (cage) Lost/ misplace labels ( place one in pot) Lots of weeds Pests and diseases snails, rats,