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insomnia47

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wow, i just typed up a post, hit the wrong button and the internet ate my post.

some one posted about potatoes and carrots in hydro?

you gotta use hempy buckets filled with perlite water with a drip system, or by hand. start the potatoes low and add medium as they grow as potatoes grow shallow.
 
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I found it :D

gonna be watching this one.... I can help out with some of the plants, but dont have much experience with a few of em . I do like that you're thinking of what not to plant next to each other. Keep in mind that the beans/legumes will benefit damn near most above ground veggies with their nitrogen fixation or w/e.... I also know from experience that roses will benefit from having onions planted near.... and they love beer ;)
 
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gogrow said:
I found it :D

gonna be watching this one.... I can help out with some of the plants, but dont have much experience with a few of em . I do like that you're thinking of what not to plant next to each other. Keep in mind that the beans/legumes will benefit damn near most above ground veggies with their nitrogen fixation or w/e.... I also know from experience that roses will benefit from having onions planted near.... and they love beer ;)
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Awesome! Great to have you, I'm really new to most of this so it's still a huge learning process. Any and all help and tips I can get are great!
 
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420God

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A good portion of my melons have started to sprout and the tomatoes are popping up every few hours along with the some of the other vegetables. I have tray started with peppers that should start sprouting in the next few days.:D
 

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mcpurple

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looking very good man. the peppers may or may not take longer then a few days though, i planted bell pepper and jalapeño seeds and they are just now coming up after about 2-3 weeks after every thing else. i asked some one at the nursery if they take longer to sprout and she said most the time yes. but mine are coming up now, i thought i was gonna have to toss them cuz i thought maybe the rotted.
and go grow are you sure they love beer?
i would assume but do not know that beer would be either to acidy or to alkaline
 
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mcpurple said:
looking very good man. the peppers may or may not take longer then a few days though, i planted bell pepper and jalapeño seeds and they are just now coming up after about 2-3 weeks after every thing else. i asked some one at the nursery if they take longer to sprout and she said most the time yes. but mine are coming up now, i thought i was gonna have to toss them cuz i thought maybe the rotted.
and go grow are you sure they love beer?
i would assume but do not know that beer would be either to acidy or to alkaline
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my wife bought me a book about roses, and damn near everything called for beer..... so I now use my leftover beer in most of my gardening. Its got all kinds of little beasties and yeasties in it.
 
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mcpurple said:
looking very good man. the peppers may or may not take longer then a few days though, i planted bell pepper and jalapeño seeds and they are just now coming up after about 2-3 weeks after every thing else. i asked some one at the nursery if they take longer to sprout and she said most the time yes. but mine are coming up now, i thought i was gonna have to toss them cuz i thought maybe the rotted.
and go grow are you sure they love beer?
i would assume but do not know that beer would be either to acidy or to alkaline
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They've been in the seed starters for close to a week now but yeah I'm figuring they'll take a bit longer. The package said they could take up to 3 weeks or so to germinate. I'm actually kinda hoping they take a bit longer now that they're calling for more cold weather to come my way. I wasn't really planning on having to transplant so many to larger cups before they go in the ground but if the weather doesn't warm up that's what I may find myself doing.
 
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ya i still got about 30-40 transplants left when they are ready. i think my peppers took so long cuz i may have buried the seed to deep. but they are coming up now so thats good. my artichokes just popped soil the other day as well
 
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insomnia47

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im also doin a mighty garden this year, i started some stuff about 2 weeks ago and its starting to overgrow my room. tomatoes are all about 1 ft tall in 5" jiffy pots. peppers have been germinating for a week, i try to put them in a warm spot, it helps speed it up a bit. they like to pop at 80 to 95 degrees. thinking about building a 4' x 8' x 2-3' tall clear poly "box" to use as a mini greenhouse to get them outside a little earlier, were still getting snow here but it shouuld be the last of it. for my "box greenhouse" im building a frame out of 2x3 lumber and using 2" foil backed styrofoam insulation as a base.wrapping the whole thing in clear 6mil plastic and making the top removable/adjustable for venting, ill throw up some pics when its done this weekend.

also new to this but with the impending end of the world as we know it, im getting apocalypse ready. learning to garden, and fend for myself w/o corporate amerika.

imma sub and try to share my knowledge as well.
 
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insomnia47 said:
im also doin a mighty garden this year, i started some stuff about 2 weeks ago and its starting to overgrow my room. tomatoes are all about 1 ft tall in 5" jiffy pots. peppers have been germinating for a week, i try to put them in a warm spot, it helps speed it up a bit. they like to pop at 80 to 95 degrees. thinking about building a 4' x 8' x 2-3' tall clear poly "box" to use as a mini greenhouse to get them outside a little earlier, were still getting snow here but it shouuld be the last of it. for my "box greenhouse" im building a frame out of 2x3 lumber and using 2" foil backed styrofoam insulation as a base.wrapping the whole thing in clear 6mil plastic and making the top removable/adjustable for venting, ill throw up some pics when its done this weekend.

also new to this but with the impending end of the world as we know it, im getting apocalypse ready. learning to garden, and fend for myself w/o corporate amerika.

imma sub and try to share my knowledge as well.
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Lol, that's great! Kinda the same reason I'm putting in my garden. Eager to see this mini green house as I might have to build my own really soon as well.

That radish is funky as hell, can't even imagine how it tastes.:-P
 
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insomnia47

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well i constructed a "greenhouse" grow box for my porch. its quite big but i got the space, commin in at about 4ft x 7ft and a whoppin 3ft tall. this is just gonna be used to start seedlings off before transplanting to the garden. i used 2x3 lumber from HD there like 1.75$ a board, cheap. the base is a sheet of plywood, with a 1" HI-R foil backed styrofoam insulation, wrap the whole thing with A LOT of staples and some Poly 6mill. i put a small electric/fan heater from walmart (15$), an oscilating fan (15$) and a wireless digital thermometer (11$) inside, seems i can keep a temp between 69 and 73 right now, gonna test run it dry over night to see if i can regulate the temp enough to put something alive down there.

its basically a big box with a lid, 3ft is a bit of a reach but im pretty tall so its no biggy and its tall enough to accomodate a 5g bucket with one of my (14" tall) ghost pepper plants in DWC(hydro).





wireless thermometer is good for 200ft so im gonna move it to a nice sunny spot and hope for the best, i got some 1ft tall tomato plants i gotta put in there first. and some spaghetti squash, some broccoli's. oh speaking of broccolis, ever hear of a romenesca broccolli? check this crazy ass legume out!



looking for seeds so if anyone knows where holla at me
 
mellokitty

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is that natalino or rrrr (i forget, there's a similar one that starts with r, or m, or something....*puff puff*)
EDIT: apparently kitty should read the accompanying text more often.... oops.
anyway if it's a natalino i just ordered mine from vancouver seed bank with my 'others' ;)..... $6 for the pack, i have no idea how many are in it because it's in the mail....
 
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