How to keep Jamara on the day of Ghatsthapana?
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Dashain or Bijaya Dashami, the main festival in the Hindu calendar, is fast approaching. On this occasion, elders give blessings to their younger relatives by putting a ‘tika’ on their forehead. Tika is a paste made of rice grains, yoghurt and vermilion. Apart from rice, another plant is central to the festival-barley. Sowing barley seeds marks the start of the 15-day long Dashain festival. The barley seeds sowed on Ghatasthapana (day one) produce barley grass or ‘jamara’. Unfortunately, things don’t always go to plan. Here are some scientific reasons why you may not be getting healthy, long and pale jamara without which Dashain is simply incomplete.
Jamara is the grass that emerges after barley seeds germinate. The Dashain jamara is yellowish while barley sprouts in the field are green. The field sprouts get their colour from a chemical called chlorophyll. But why is jamara yellowish? Is it because jamara is missing chlorophyll? The answer is yes. It depends on how much light the plant is getting. Chlorophyll is present in a plant cell compartment known as plastid. However, plastids need light to activate chlorophyll. The plastid that contains chlorophyll is known as chloroplast, and these are green in colour. As Dashain jamara is grown in darkness, these plastids don’t have chlorophyll. Therefore, the jamara is yellowish instead of green.
Light affects every single stage of a plant’s lifecycle, including early stages and germination. If the lighting isn’t right, the seeds may not sprout at all. In barley and wheat, white and blue light makes the seed go to sleep (promotes dormancy) instead of promoting germination. Dormant seeds remain metabolically active, but dormancy suppresses the growth processes of barley.
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First we have to take some wheat or maize.
Second dig little bit land and put there but you need to put water also then cover it if u I'll cover it then its colour will be yellow if u I'll not cover it its colour will be green. This much