xtsho
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So what's you're take? Is cannabis easier to grow indoor under lights than tomatoes?
How Does Your Garden Grow??????
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injinji
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My rainy season is so long I really have trouble remembering to water when it's over. Once again I had to toss about 1/3 of the peppers from the bed down at the riverhouse. Still had all that would fit in my shirttail. Luckily I found a shoe store bag in the car. And I'll try to remember to water when I get back down there tonight.
drsaltzman
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Way.
xtsho
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Well I guess for $100 it was a good deal for 4 years of use. The cover is about done. Seperating from the zipper and breaking down in other spots just from age. I'm hoping to make it through winter without a total failure and then move the frame back next to my shed and cover it with 6 mil 55% opaque greenhouse sheeting. I'll probably finish the ends with plywood and make a couple ghetto doors so I can walk through it. That would also make it more structurally sound.
The location I'm placing it will get sun from the side so blocking off the ends will not affect any sunlight and just make it easier to replace the covering when needed.
I won't immediately toss the old material but will use it to cover the raised beds in early spring to heat up the ground. So I'll get some more use out of the cover. I like to squeeze every last drop. Seems like a waste to throw it away if I can still use it for something else and get more use.
The location I'm placing it will get sun from the side so blocking off the ends will not affect any sunlight and just make it easier to replace the covering when needed.
I won't immediately toss the old material but will use it to cover the raised beds in early spring to heat up the ground. So I'll get some more use out of the cover. I like to squeeze every last drop. Seems like a waste to throw it away if I can still use it for something else and get more use.
drsaltzman
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Look at the bright side:
Only 53 days until we start getting more daylight every day.
drsaltzman
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Had to cull an eggplant and a tomato in the tent.
Just no room. They all love it in there too much.
Now I have one of each: chile, cucumber, tomato, eggplant.
A perfectly good eggplant headed to yard debris ...
Just no room. They all love it in there too much.
Now I have one of each: chile, cucumber, tomato, eggplant.
A perfectly good eggplant headed to yard debris ...
xtsho
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Not much going on. Have some fava beans on the side of the house where I had been growing corn. The bok choy is growing but really slowly. The beds are all covered in seedlings from carrots, mustard greens, beets, etc... that I had let go to seed. Ground cover is good though and I'm sure some of it will turn into something harvestable.
The fava beans got hammered by the rain.
Bok choy. Somethings nibbling on a couple of them. Going to spray them with some sesame oil which I'll also use as an ingredient when I cook it.
The fava beans got hammered by the rain.
Bok choy. Somethings nibbling on a couple of them. Going to spray them with some sesame oil which I'll also use as an ingredient when I cook it.
injinji
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I planted pepper and tomato seeds Wednesday night. Four kinds of tomato and six of pepper. The short term plan is lights for a couple three weeks after I cup them up, then into the hole in the ground until it's safe for them to go out in the spring.
The peppers at the river are still going, as is a couple of the tomatoes in the raised beds. Not a lot of fruiting going on though.
The peppers at the river are still going, as is a couple of the tomatoes in the raised beds. Not a lot of fruiting going on though.
sunwestgenetics2021
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Looking great!
StonedGardener
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I can't tell, there is snow covering most dead things up.....my small
garden hemlock and holly with red berries contrasts well with that white stuff. Have to start a snowman thread......getting railed and building snow sculptures is a great fun for a kid like me........?..snow( at right temp) is a wonderful, easy medium to get creative with.
garden hemlock and holly with red berries contrasts well with that white stuff. Have to start a snowman thread......getting railed and building snow sculptures is a great fun for a kid like me........?..snow( at right temp) is a wonderful, easy medium to get creative with.
M.O.
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I got out in the garden as much as I could this year. Never enough time.
Some highlights from the year for you.
Camomile I coaxed out of the environment. Blooms for weeks in the spring and again then to a lesser extent later summer. Bees and beneficials love it.
Taters! This is my favorite crop to date. Legit treasure hunt at the end.
Beastie. Spit bugs believe they’re called.
Black cherry aphids with an army of guard ants. This I spent all summer at war with. I didn’t win. Next year it’s ON.
Some highlights from the year for you.
Camomile I coaxed out of the environment. Blooms for weeks in the spring and again then to a lesser extent later summer. Bees and beneficials love it.
Taters! This is my favorite crop to date. Legit treasure hunt at the end.
Beastie. Spit bugs believe they’re called.
Black cherry aphids with an army of guard ants. This I spent all summer at war with. I didn’t win. Next year it’s ON.
M.O.
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I’ve done tomatoes inside under a 400 watts hid. The time frame is actually kind of similar so at the end you’ll have some nice but very expensive tomatoes haha. As long as you get an indeterminate though you can keep them flowering and producing. It’s still pricy. I did like the cherry style though. Those seemed better suited for producing in small square footage. You can really pick genetics that are more suited to indoor ‘greenhouse’ too though which is nice. Definitely stay away from ‘field’ varieties.
xtsho
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Citric acid followed a few days later with neem or sesame oil will take care of aphids. The citric acid kills them on contact and the oil keeps them from coming back. The reason to wait between sprays is to prevent phototoxicity on the leaves.
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M.O.
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Sounds good! I was picking off the infected leaves and using neem but will definitely pick up some citric acid and sesame oil. Thanks!
For the ants I used diatomaceous earth but it only slowed them down. Usually I don’t bother with ants and figure they are beneficial but this is nutty. I suspect they bring the aphids to the tree! They pretty fiercely defend and farm them. If I didn’t care about the cherries it’d be pretty fascinating lol
M.O.
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And those same ants that never cared about you before will bite to defend them as you clean the tree. We had good times this year. The cherries are worth it though!
I have pear and apple too, oh and mulberry, but so far just the cherries give me troubles.
shnkrmn
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I'm in marginal climate for cherries. Had two, they never really yielded then got a blight and died after 5 years. I should grow mulberry.
M.O.
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They grow great up north here so I’m hoping to figure it out.
My ‘picture this’ app identifies the mulberry as White Mulberry (morus alba) and we at least used to be zone 5. Maybe in a zone 6+ bubble here. Sandy loamy soil. The mulberry grows like a weed and I have to chop it out in places. We have a couple big ones that really produce though. I honestly love them off the tree but I haven’t been able to make them last and like them at all. A lot of people hate them locally here and just think they make a mess. They park under them though. I’m like you know I have black walnut that really produce too and if I parked under that…. Come on people lol.
Sometimes they’ll get a white moth/caterpillar but since I started encouraging beneficials a few years ago they’ve been gone.