2011 Veggies
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Kingrow1
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Dragon fruit dont taste of much, needs mixing with other fruit, its better for its texture than for its flavour. My girlfriend said it reminds her of a testicle and other unsavoury things, which did not make me laugh. I love that dragon fruit peels and slices so easy, quite the thirst quencher sometimes if you get a juicy ripe one. Look weird on the tree though but a real good fruit health wise.
My tomato seeds are bumming out this year, real purple first leaves and stay stunted and small for too long, thinking they need more food, peppers are going ok at the moment and the sweet peas outside are giving us fresh flowers everyweek so at least one sucess this year.
Anyone got any good ways of keeping the purple of the tom seedlings this year, tis a new variety for me, sweet n neat, not as good as the outdoor varieties i normally buy.
My tomato seeds are bumming out this year, real purple first leaves and stay stunted and small for too long, thinking they need more food, peppers are going ok at the moment and the sweet peas outside are giving us fresh flowers everyweek so at least one sucess this year.
Anyone got any good ways of keeping the purple of the tom seedlings this year, tis a new variety for me, sweet n neat, not as good as the outdoor varieties i normally buy.
mcpurple
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some toms go purp normal, all my tom starts i had all had very dark purple undersides and a tint of it on the top of the leafs, i didnt feed mine till they were about 4 inches tall. what size container are you seedlings in? if root bound they will stop growing. glad you peas are doing ok, im going to do a semi large fall crop compared to what i usally do
Kingrow1
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My peas are the only inedible ones there are i think but the flowers look nice indoors. Trust your girlfriend to get you the wrong seedlings from the shop! Yer i am getting heavy purpling on the bottom leaves, tried feeding when first true leave came out and nothing, got growth but stunted and slow with more purple on veins and underside. 5inch pots with perlite and seedling soil which is light in nutes anyway, am thinking of upping the first ferts to like 600ppm, did 300ppm and still no effect. It clears my weed stems up but the toms stay purple! I am gona lower the perlite ratio a bit to encourage the plant to feed. I pulled one up and it had a root but its taking its time to grow, was couple inches long but not many roots of this main root. Maybe they just growing slow but to me the purple is phosphorous def and more nutes only they not clearing up. I scrapped the first lot and doing some more seedlings now and gona give heavier nute dose to start with when the first leaves form. The cotyledon leaves start green but end up almost blue looking, i was told the sweet n neat would be a good grow but its nothing but problems even getting started. Thanks
mcpurple
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http://gardendesk.blogspot.com/2009/05/few-problems-with-tomato-seedlings.html
check this link and read if you like. it says it can be caused do to a phos def. like you think it is, but that can be casued by to cold of soil or water.
check th elink and i think it will help
check this link and read if you like. it says it can be caused do to a phos def. like you think it is, but that can be casued by to cold of soil or water.
check th elink and i think it will help
Kingrow1
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Ah possibly cold water, i have a temp checker too, how cold do you think the water would need to be to cause this problem, the pots heat up nicely in the grow room but would the shock of watering with cold water every 4 days do it? They handle it when germinating in peat cubes?
Kingrow1
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Warm, whole unit runs round 18 to 20 celcius 24hours a day more or less. Pots and soil always feel warm to the touch but not too warm, i did notice the toms like the higher temps for growing, really flourish in the heat well. Im gona get my water up to room temp just to be safe but never did nothing to my other plants. I will hope it is the ferts then, i might try germinate one in some stronger soil see what happens. Cheers dude, dont think i wana grow this strain again, back to the faithfull tumbling toms. I grown some outdoor varieties indoors but they needed serious prunning like evry few days and yeild was small, they did well but the cherry tomato varieties seem a lot more fussy overall.
whodatnation
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Veggies! 
Kingrow1
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Is that corn you are growing there? Looks nice, if only they did a two foot short version of corn, grows so damn tall and yeilds small imo. I bought babay corn seeds thinking it would be a shorter plant but still 6ft tall you just pick the corn early and small. Toms are looking wild and nice. New tom seed germinating now, will take pics soon, sweet and neat variety, lets hope this one shakes the purpling off quick. Peace
dannyboy602
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I just wanted to say I really like ur dragon fruit. I never saw one I don't think
Does it taste anything like a ripe fig?
mcpurple
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looking realy good whodat, looks like your garden has made a huge come back. is that a compost bin i see on the isde?
i should have an update soon on my veggies some time today ( ive been busy) and i also might beabe to get a few pics of the other plants no one thinks i have but i will only share those in here for you guys, the haters can just suck one till the end
sorry to hear dst, is that normal weather for you guys this time of year?
we had like 3 days of rain and lighting here in oregon, we got record rain fall for this time of year. its back to sunny though, supposed to hit 94 on saturday
DST
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Nah mate, it's just northern europe and it's shit weather, lol. ah well, we will get there (I do exaggerate a little, things are still going..ish).
Start with these..
Get yer spuds oot.
Carrots. (seemingly the Dutch are responsible for making these Orange....) they are called Wortels in dutch (which also means "roots") or alternatively "Pen".
Tasty Toms..
I tend not to fondle big dangly things too often!!
Peace, DST
Start with these..
Get yer spuds oot.
Carrots. (seemingly the Dutch are responsible for making these Orange....) they are called Wortels in dutch (which also means "roots") or alternatively "Pen".
Tasty Toms..
I tend not to fondle big dangly things too often!!
Peace, DST
mellokitty
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i loooove the water droplet shots! (i know i know i'm a dork 
)
well, around here it is 57f/14c and pissing down rain.... and COLD!! wtf? usually this time of year it's still hot when it rains.....
)well, around here it is 57f/14c and pissing down rain.... and COLD!! wtf? usually this time of year it's still hot when it rains.....
dannyboy602
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I'll trade places with ya?
Here it's 100F with too much RH to think straight
I would kill for a thunder storm right now
Here it's 100F with too much RH to think straight
I would kill for a thunder storm right now
mellokitty
Moderatrix of Journals
you know those summer days where you just ooze sweat without doing anything?
we haven't had a single one of those yet!!
kitty misses sweating!
we haven't had a single one of those yet!!
kitty misses sweating!
dannyboy602
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Yeah I know those days...every day for the past week and for the next one too.
I've lost 12lbs in a month. I drink two gallons of water a day and can't remember the last time I took a piss
I've lost 12lbs in a month. I drink two gallons of water a day and can't remember the last time I took a piss
mcpurple
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nice photo shoot dst. the plants look like they are doing great as always ganja ro veggies. i like that bit of info about the carrots, on the farm we grow a few types ( cant remember the names) but we got purple, orange, white, and a few mixed colors. ive been told that the orginal color carrots started at in theri natural habitat is black