Shane's Vegetable Farm
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I have spinach that hasn't sprouted. Possibly because I followed my instincts and tried to germ on a heat mat. Now my reading tells me spinach needs cool conditions to sprouted. Outdoors my spinach sprouts, grows for 3 weeks then bolts in the first June heatwave lol. So I'm sprouting new seeds in a cool spot this time to see what happens.
DarkWeb
Probably My Fault
Yeah spinach definitely doesn't like it warm.
I turned off household heat (cast iron radiator) in that room and my res is at 68 degrees. Only heat is 500w of led. Kind of efficient?
These have found their feet after a week or so of veg. Topping and supercropping, I'll flip to flower this weekend. Polar Gelato on the left and Wonder Pie on the right. So an old favorite and a freebie from Greenhouse Seeds. The Wonder Pie is extremely bushy, kind of annoying to me. But Wedding Cake x OG Kush sounds good so let's see! As usual I'm feeding GH Maxibloom and calmag, irrigating twice a day to runoff. Planted in 50/50 Promix HP and coarse perlite.
tvanmunhen
Stoner
Getting started on peppers and eggplant for the outside garden. Lettuce Inc. is going to corner the greens market.
Dboybudz
Dazed and Confused 😛
I know, I love eggplant just takes the whole year outside to get any. Definitely be ahead of game doing inside. Guy a grow vegetables was saying if you top pepper they produce more we didn't try yet. All I know is one year he bought this pepper spray fertilizer made for peppers,(popping pepper) I think and had so many and plants we're biggest I've seen. It was 15 and he's to cheap said I'm not spending that on just peppers,I said you never had plants that big without it. I looked at ingredients was mostly seaweed in with a couple added but seaweed definitely helped even as foliar.
Now I want eggplant parmigiana for lunch!
DarkWeb
Probably My Fault
I'm not doing eggplant indoors. Just leafy stuff. But now is the time for starting plants to put outside. May 15 is traditionally last frost date here. I use my home made compost for fertilizer, that's it. If.you want a big crop of peppers just pick all the first fruits that set. Topping kind of does that too. Plants grow much larger and set way more fruit later in season that way. And.they ripen all at once too rather than season long. I'm growing peppers for hot sauce so picking them all at once is a plus.
try New Zealand spinach it doesnt bolt
New Zealand spinach is a cut and come again variety with a trailing growth habit. My goal in this system is to grow and harvest complete plants and replace as I go. The NZ would be great outdoors on a trellis tho. I may try it this spring. Thanks!
I harvested 2 heads of lettuce on day 35. Really beautiful stuff I would kill for in the supermarket. The number of grow sites is deceiving. Using every other hole, the tubes are packed with roots tangled together. I tore the roots off one harvesting so I harvested 2 heads. 3 heads per bar is more realistic, still a lot of salad.
Waiting for some rockwool plugs to arrive. I believe they will work better than rapid rooters which don't fit well anyway.
Waiting for some rockwool plugs to arrive. I believe they will work better than rapid rooters which don't fit well anyway.
Dboybudz
Dazed and Confused 😛
Really amazing bud,you just decided to grow and setup a hydro grow and killed it. Looks so good that lettuce.
Thanks! I used to do a lot of hydro until 13 years ago when I took a break from growing.
Dboybudz
Dazed and Confused 😛
Yea I see, seemed to know a lot about it, plus used to using a res and little details just setting up.
I just made a deal: lettuce for garlic. Our garlic crop failed last year and.our friends win ribbons at the state fair for their garlic. I am starting more stuff in rockwool cubes.I think they'll sprout faster.
the chijimisai is taking off too.
the chijimisai is taking off too.
Damn!
tvanmunhen
Stoner
I want salad now.
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