chili

Step 1

Fill a bucket with water and let the water sit out for 24 hours. This will remove any chlorine that may be in the water that would be harmful to your chilli seeds.

Step 2

Fill a rectangular flower pot with a potting medium. It is best to germinate the seeds indoors and then transplant them outdoors.

Step 3

Place your chilli seeds 1/4 inch deep into the potting medium. Cover them back up with soil. Make sure the seeds are spaced 1/2 inch apart.

Step 4

Pour the water from your bucket into the rectangular flower pot. Only use enough to make the soil moist--not soaked. Then cover the pot with plastic wrap and keep it in a location that is above 75 degrees F. This is the ideal temperature for germination.

Step 5

Keep the soil moist and the plastic over the pot for eight weeks. The seeds will have come up by then and you can then remove the plastic.

Step 6

Choose a location in your garden for planting your germinated chilli seeds. It should be a spot that gets a good amount of sunlight each day.

Step 7

Loosen the soil in your garden and apply a fertilizer. Chilli Farm recommends using a 15-15-15 fertilizer. Then transplant the chilli plants to the garden. Of course, you can continue to grow them indoors and just transplant them to larger pots.

Step 8

Keep your soil moist. Chilli plants need a lot of water. You will also want to make sure you fertilize your chilli plants once a month during the growing season.

Step 9

Stake your chilli plants if they become too top heavy. Keep in mind that the root system of a chilli plant is quite small, which makes it less able to support a larger chilli plant. A simple stake will do the trick.

Tips and Warnings

• The ground temperature should be 65 degrees F before you transplant the chilli plants from their indoor pots.

Things You'll Need

• Bucket
• Water
• Rectangular pot
• Potting medium
• Plastic wrap
• 15-15-15 fertilizer
• Stake

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Welding equipment
• Mini saw
• Metal pipe
• Fan blade
• Wrench or handle
• Gears
• Plastic cone

1. • 1
     Cut a metal pipe to about 6 inches long using a mini saw and then cut a small circular hole on the bottom of the pipe large enough for the bolt to slip snugly through. Cut several rectangular holes about 1 inch high and 2 inches wide above the circular hole around the pipe equidistant apart until they go all around the pipe. Put the cut rectangles off to the side because you will need them again later in the project.
   • 2
     Place the bolt through the circular hole so that it can turn, but remains securely in place. Attach a gear in a vertical position. Grind the fan blade down until it can fit snugly into the pipe, leaving just enough room for the rectangles to pass through along with the fan.
   • 3
     Attach a bolt to the fan and to the other end attach a gear horizontally. Weld the flat side of the rectangles to the edge of the fan blades and place them into the metal pipe. The rectangles should line up with the rectangular holes cut earlier so that when the fan spins, the rectangles cover the holes completely. The gears should fit together so that when the handle turns, so does the fan.
   • 4
     Glue the plastic cone around the end of the pipe to direct the sound and then test the siren out by turning the crank. The faster you turn the crank, the faster the fan will spin and chop the air flow. Each time the rectangle covers it forces the air out through the cone, creating the sound

Legend white snake

The story is set in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Bai Suzhen (白素貞), a female white snake, dreams of becoming a goddess by doing good deeds. She transforms herself into a woman and travels to the human realm. There, she meets a green snake, Qing (青), who causes disaster in the area she lives. Bai holds Qing captive at the bottom of a lake but promises her that she will return 300 years later to free her. Bai keeps her word and develops a sisterly bond with Qing. They encounter Fahai, a sorcerer who believes that every demon is inherently evil and must be destroyed. However, Bai is too powerful and Fahai is unable to eliminate her immediately, so he vows to destroy them if he sees them again.

Fearing that they will meet more human sorcerers, Bai and Qing retreat to the Banbuduo, a realm that exists between the human and demon worlds. They try to perform good deeds by bringing rain to places experiencing drought. However, Qing was careless and almost flooded the whole town once. Due to this mistake, Bai loses her chance to become an immortal. However, Guan Yin informs her that she may have yet another opportunity.

In the meantime, Bai and Qing accidentally bring a scholar named Xu Xian, and his friend, into the demon world. Bai protects them from the other demons and falls in love with Xu in the process. After the battle with the lord of the Underworld, Xu confesses his feelings for Bai, claiming that it was love at first sight. However, for a human to return to his world, he must first become unconscious and have any memory about his experience in the demon realm erased, but Xu knows and avoids being knocked out. However, Fahai finds a way into the demon world and he tricks Xu into being knocked out.

When Xu Xian returns to the human realm he forgets everything. Since he and his friend entered the portal separately, they end up in different locations. Xu meets many new people there. Not long later, Bai takes a final step to becoming a goddess, which is to collect human tears. Bai sees Xu with another woman and assumes that they are a couple. Qing realizes that when Xu and Bai meet, Xu will fall in love with Bai again, so she helps to arrange a meeting for them. Xu and Bai are married, open a medicine shop and live happily together.

However, as humans and demons are forbidden to bond, the town is struck by a plague and ends up on the verge of total destruction. Bai, Qing and Fahai finally agree to a truce and obtain a magical herb needed to help the population. Bai becomes pregnant later with Xu's child, but Fahai continues to attempt to eliminate her and Qing.

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, when the Duanwu Festival is held, demons in human form will revert to their original shape. Bai thus decides to take Qing and Xu Xian back to Banbuduo, but Xu falls for Fahai's trick again. Bai's true form is revealed and Xu is literally scared to death. Bai retrieves a drug that restores Xu to life. After giving birth to Xu's son, Bai is unable to control herself anymore and is forced to tell her husband the truth about her origin. Xu kindly accepts her, but Fahai attacks the weakened Bai and imprisons her for eternity in Leifeng Pagoda.

Legend white snake

The story is set in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Bai Suzhen (白素貞), a female white snake, dreams of becoming a goddess by doing good deeds. She transforms herself into a woman and travels to the human realm. There, she meets a green snake, Qing (青), who causes disaster in the area she lives. Bai holds Qing captive at the bottom of a lake but promises her that she will return 300 years later to free her. Bai keeps her word and develops a sisterly bond with Qing. They encounter Fahai, a sorcerer who believes that every demon is inherently evil and must be destroyed. However, Bai is too powerful and Fahai is unable to eliminate her immediately, so he vows to destroy them if he sees them again.

Fearing that they will meet more human sorcerers, Bai and Qing retreat to the Banbuduo, a realm that exists between the human and demon worlds. They try to perform good deeds by bringing rain to places experiencing drought. However, Qing was careless and almost flooded the whole town once. Due to this mistake, Bai loses her chance to become an immortal. However, Guan Yin informs her that she may have yet another opportunity.

In the meantime, Bai and Qing accidentally bring a scholar named Xu Xian, and his friend, into the demon world. Bai protects them from the other demons and falls in love with Xu in the process. After the battle with the lord of the Underworld, Xu confesses his feelings for Bai, claiming that it was love at first sight. However, for a human to return to his world, he must first become unconscious and have any memory about his experience in the demon realm erased, but Xu knows and avoids being knocked out. However, Fahai finds a way into the demon world and he tricks Xu into being knocked out.

When Xu Xian returns to the human realm he forgets everything. Since he and his friend entered the portal separately, they end up in different locations. Xu meets many new people there. Not long later, Bai takes a final step to becoming a goddess, which is to collect human tears. Bai sees Xu with another woman and assumes that they are a couple. Qing realizes that when Xu and Bai meet, Xu will fall in love with Bai again, so she helps to arrange a meeting for them. Xu and Bai are married, open a medicine shop and live happily together.

However, as humans and demons are forbidden to bond, the town is struck by a plague and ends up on the verge of total destruction. Bai, Qing and Fahai finally agree to a truce and obtain a magical herb needed to help the population. Bai becomes pregnant later with Xu's child, but Fahai continues to attempt to eliminate her and Qing.

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, when the Duanwu Festival is held, demons in human form will revert to their original shape. Bai thus decides to take Qing and Xu Xian back to Banbuduo, but Xu falls for Fahai's trick again. Bai's true form is revealed and Xu is literally scared to death. Bai retrieves a drug that restores Xu to life. After giving birth to Xu's son, Bai is unable to control herself anymore and is forced to tell her husband the truth about her origin. Xu kindly accepts her, but Fahai attacks the weakened Bai and imprisons her for eternity in Leifeng Pagoda.

The Empty Pot

BY royal proclamation, the Emperor of China announced a contest to decide the next heir to the throne. The Emperor was old and had no son, and because he had been a plant-lover for years, he declared that any boy who wanted to be king should come to the palace to receive one royal seed. Whichever boy could show the best results within six months would win the contest and become the next to wear the crown.

                You can imagine the excitement!  Every boy in China fancied himself likely to win. Parents of boys who were talented at growing plants imagined living in splendor at the palace. On the day the seeds were to be handed out, thick crowds of hopeful boys thronged the palace. Each boy returned home with one precious possibility in his palm.

                And so it was with the boy Jun. He was already considered the best gardener in the village. His neighbors fought over the melons, bok choy, and snow peas that flourished from his garden.  Anyone looking for Jun would probably find him bobbing between his rows, pulling out new weeds, moving one sapling over to catch more morning sun, transplanting another to the shade. Jun carefully carried the Emperor's seed home, sealing it securely in his hands so it wouldn't fall, but not so tightly that it might crush.

                At home, he spread the bottom of a flowerpot with large stones, covered the stones with pebbles, then filled the pot with rich black moist soil. He pressed the seed about an inch below the surface and covered it with light soil. Over the next few days Jun, along with every boy he knew and hundreds he did not know, watered his pot every day and watched for the telltale unfurling of the first leaf as it burst through the surface.

                Cheun was the first boy in Jun's vilage to announce that his seed was sprouting through the soil, and his announcement was met with whoops of excitement and congratulations. He bragged that he would surely be the next emperor and practiced his royal skills by bossing around the younger, adoring children. Manchu was the next boy whose tiny plant had emerged from his pot, then it was Wong. Jun was puzzled - none of these boys could grow plants as well as he!  But Jun's seed did not grow.

                Soon sprouts emerged from pots all over the village. Boys moved their plants outside so the baby leaves could bask in the warmth of the sun. They built stone fences around their pots and zealously guarded them from mischievous children who might accidentally - or not so accidentally - topple them over. Soon, dozens of sprouts in pots throughout Jun's village were stretching out their first leaves. But Jun's seed did not grow.

                He was confused - what was wrong? Jun carefully repotted his seed into a new pot with the very best and richest black loam from his garden. He crumbled every ball of soil into tiny particles. He gently pressed in the seed, and kept the top moist and watched the pot every day. Still Jun's seed did not grow.

                Strong, powerful stalks soon emerged from the pots cared for by other boys in Jun's village. Jun was thrown into despair. The other boys laughed at him and started to mockingly say "as empty as Jun's pot" if there were no treats in their pockets, or if they had just finished their bowls of rice. Jun repotted his plant yet again, this time sprinkling dried fish throughout the soil as fertilizer. Even so, his seed did not grow.

                Six month's passed. The day approached when the boys were supposed to bring their plants to the palace for judging. Cheun, Manchu, Wong and hundreds of other boys cleaned their pots till they shone, gently wiped the great leaves till the green veins glistened, and prepared themselves by dressing in their finest clothes. Some mothers or fathers walked alongside their son to hold the plant upright as he carried the pot to the palace, to keep the plant from tipping over.

                "What will I do?" wailed Jun to his parents as he gazed out the window at the other boys joyfully preparing their triumphant return to the palace. "My seed wouldn't grow!  My pot is empty!"

                "You did the best you could," said his father, shaking his head. Added his mother, "Jun, just bring the emperor your pot," said his mother, "it was the best you could do."

                Shame-faced, Jun carried his empty pot on the road to the palace, while gleeful boys carrying pots tottering with huge plants strode to his right and left.

                At the palace, all the boys lined up in rows with their blossoming plants and awaited judgment. The Emperor, wrapped in his richly embroidered silk robe, strode down the line of hopeful entrants, viewing each plant with a frown. When he came to Jun, he scowled even more and said, "What is this? You brought me an empty pot?"

                It was all Jun could do to keep from crying. "If you please, Your Majesty," said Jun, "I tried my best. I planted your seed with the best soil I could find, I kept it moist and watched it every day. When the seed didn't grow I repotted it in new soil, and I even repotted it again. But it just didn't grow. I'm sorry." Jun hung his head.

                "Hmm," said the Emperor. Turning so everyone could hear he thundered, "I don't know where all these other boys got their seeds. There is no way anything could grow from the seeds we passed out for the contest, because those seeds had all been cooked!"

                And he smiled at Jun.

Nama : Moh. Ardani

Kelas : 9B

The Empty Pot

BY royal proclamation, the Emperor of China announced a contest to decide the next heir to the throne. The Emperor was old and had no son, and because he had been a plant-lover for years, he declared that any boy who wanted to be king should come to the palace to receive one royal seed. Whichever boy could show the best results within six months would win the contest and become the next to wear the crown.

                You can imagine the excitement!  Every boy in China fancied himself likely to win. Parents of boys who were talented at growing plants imagined living in splendor at the palace. On the day the seeds were to be handed out, thick crowds of hopeful boys thronged the palace. Each boy returned home with one precious possibility in his palm.

                And so it was with the boy Jun. He was already considered the best gardener in the village. His neighbors fought over the melons, bok choy, and snow peas that flourished from his garden.  Anyone looking for Jun would probably find him bobbing between his rows, pulling out new weeds, moving one sapling over to catch more morning sun, transplanting another to the shade. Jun carefully carried the Emperor's seed home, sealing it securely in his hands so it wouldn't fall, but not so tightly that it might crush.

                At home, he spread the bottom of a flowerpot with large stones, covered the stones with pebbles, then filled the pot with rich black moist soil. He pressed the seed about an inch below the surface and covered it with light soil. Over the next few days Jun, along with every boy he knew and hundreds he did not know, watered his pot every day and watched for the telltale unfurling of the first leaf as it burst through the surface.

                Cheun was the first boy in Jun's vilage to announce that his seed was sprouting through the soil, and his announcement was met with whoops of excitement and congratulations. He bragged that he would surely be the next emperor and practiced his royal skills by bossing around the younger, adoring children. Manchu was the next boy whose tiny plant had emerged from his pot, then it was Wong. Jun was puzzled - none of these boys could grow plants as well as he!  But Jun's seed did not grow.

                Soon sprouts emerged from pots all over the village. Boys moved their plants outside so the baby leaves could bask in the warmth of the sun. They built stone fences around their pots and zealously guarded them from mischievous children who might accidentally - or not so accidentally - topple them over. Soon, dozens of sprouts in pots throughout Jun's village were stretching out their first leaves. But Jun's seed did not grow.

                He was confused - what was wrong? Jun carefully repotted his seed into a new pot with the very best and richest black loam from his garden. He crumbled every ball of soil into tiny particles. He gently pressed in the seed, and kept the top moist and watched the pot every day. Still Jun's seed did not grow.

                Strong, powerful stalks soon emerged from the pots cared for by other boys in Jun's village. Jun was thrown into despair. The other boys laughed at him and started to mockingly say "as empty as Jun's pot" if there were no treats in their pockets, or if they had just finished their bowls of rice. Jun repotted his plant yet again, this time sprinkling dried fish throughout the soil as fertilizer. Even so, his seed did not grow.

                Six month's passed. The day approached when the boys were supposed to bring their plants to the palace for judging. Cheun, Manchu, Wong and hundreds of other boys cleaned their pots till they shone, gently wiped the great leaves till the green veins glistened, and prepared themselves by dressing in their finest clothes. Some mothers or fathers walked alongside their son to hold the plant upright as he carried the pot to the palace, to keep the plant from tipping over.

                "What will I do?" wailed Jun to his parents as he gazed out the window at the other boys joyfully preparing their triumphant return to the palace. "My seed wouldn't grow!  My pot is empty!"

                "You did the best you could," said his father, shaking his head. Added his mother, "Jun, just bring the emperor your pot," said his mother, "it was the best you could do."

                Shame-faced, Jun carried his empty pot on the road to the palace, while gleeful boys carrying pots tottering with huge plants strode to his right and left.

                At the palace, all the boys lined up in rows with their blossoming plants and awaited judgment. The Emperor, wrapped in his richly embroidered silk robe, strode down the line of hopeful entrants, viewing each plant with a frown. When he came to Jun, he scowled even more and said, "What is this? You brought me an empty pot?"

                It was all Jun could do to keep from crying. "If you please, Your Majesty," said Jun, "I tried my best. I planted your seed with the best soil I could find, I kept it moist and watched it every day. When the seed didn't grow I repotted it in new soil, and I even repotted it again. But it just didn't grow. I'm sorry." Jun hung his head.

                "Hmm," said the Emperor. Turning so everyone could hear he thundered, "I don't know where all these other boys got their seeds. There is no way anything could grow from the seeds we passed out for the contest, because those seeds had all been cooked!"

                And he smiled at Jun.

Nama : Moh. Ardani

Kelas : 9B

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• 2-inch wood dowel
• Hand saw
• Four 1-by-1-inch wooden planks
• Power drill
• 1/2-inch drill bit
• 10-lb. free weight
• Five 1/2-inch-diameter wood dowels, 4-inch-lengths
• Two 1-inch-diameter pulleys
• Fishing wire, 5-foot-length
• Fishing hook

1. Preparation

   • 1
     Make the vertical base of the crane. Cut a 2-inch wooden dowel to a 3-foot length, using a hand saw. Make the necks of the crane. Cut two 1-by-1-inch wood planks to 2-foot lengths, using a hand saw. Make the supports of the crane. Cut two 1-by-1-inch wood planks to 1.5-foot lengths.
   • 2
     Make the upper vertical base hole. Drill a half-inch hole 1-inch below the top edge of the vertical base, using a power drill and half-inch drill bit. Make the lower vertical base hole. Drill a half-inch hole 12-inches below the top edge of the vertical base.
   • 3
     Make the front pulley holes. Drill half-inch holes through the sides of the necks of the crane, 1-inch below the top edges of the necks. Make the middle base holes. Drill half-inch holes through the sides of the necks of the crane, 12-inches from the top and bottom edges of the necks. Make the back pulley holes. Drill half-inch holes through the sides of the necks of the crane, 5-inches above the bottom edges of the necks. Make the back neck holes. Drill half-inch holes through the sides of the necks of the crane, 1-inch above the bottom edges of the necks.
   • 4
     Make the front support holes. Drill half-inch holes through the sides of the supports of the crane. Position the half-inch holes 4-inches below the top edges of the supports. Make the back support holes. Drill half-inch holes through the sides of the supports of the crane. Position the half-inch holes 1-inch above the bottom edges of the supports.

   Assembly

   • 1
     Insert the bottom of the vertical base into the hole in a 10-lb. free weight. The free weight supports the weight of the crane. Sandwich the vertical base with the necks of the crane. Line the upper vertical base hole with the middle base holes. Insert a half-inch diameter dowel with a 4-inch length. The dowel connects the pieces together.
   • 2
     Insert a 1-inch-diameter pulley between the necks of the crane. Line the holes in the pulley with the back pulley holes. Insert a half-inch-diameter dowel with a 4-inch length. Insert a 1-inch-diameter pulley between the necks of the crane. Line the holes in the pulley with the front pulley holes. Insert a half-inch-diameter dowel with a 4-inch length.
   • 3
     Sandwich the vertical base with the supports of the crane. Line the lower vertical base hole with the front support holes. Insert a half-inch-diameter dowel with a 4-inch length. Sandwich the necks with the supports. Line the back neck holes with the back support holes. Insert a half-inch-diameter dowel with a 4-inch length.
   • 4
     Tape the end of a fishing wire with a 5-foot-length and wind the fishing wire around the back pulley. Insert the opposite end of the fishing wire over the front pulley. Tie a fishing hook to the front end of the front pulley. Turn the back pulley forward and backward to lower and raise the front end of the wire and hook