Several peppers have tiny buds forming. I might get to harvest peppers out of my shower stall this year...
You're lucky... I JUST got shipping info from my seed order, so it should show up in the next couple of days. Hopefully will have dirt in pots this weekend.
I’ve never had those actual fruit under lights when I started from seed. You’d need some weed lamps to get the energy required.
Whether you use your 1000watt dimmable ballast for weed or peppers is between you, God, and your power company.
I'll echo the local hardware store suggestion. At my local here, I can get locally grown plants for about a third - a fourth of the price of the plant starts that I can get at a big-box store. Plus, the ones at the local are much more interesting varieties and or heirlooms. I glanced through that website you linked. While the plants may very well be of high quality, interesting, convenient, etc. $6.25 for an heirloom tomato plant is outrageous.
Looking good! Nothing wrong with getting to cull the herd with those that can't keep up. Nice position to be in compared to the alternative. And here I am with nothing potted/planted yet... just got my seeds in this week, so this weekend is the time to dust off the old Seedling-nator and fire it back up.
True enough. I do have a couple that will probably get pinched. I had about 3 or 4 waves of germination so there are different aged peppers in that pic so some are just young. I was planning to sell some like last year and might be able to sell them for a lot more if I have mature plants with peppers already in place. All in all, not bad to be ahead. What was your spacing on your peppers last year @Nettdata ? I know you have played with squeezing things as close as you can in your garden boxes. I think I had too generous spacing last year and want to shrink it down to fit more. Get those seeds on some damp coffee filters asap!
The spacing was close. 12-16 inches? Watered the hell out of them and lots of fertilizer and it worked out great.
I have to move my compost piles in order to put in a new building for our goats. Since it will be more visible I want to be aesthetically pleasing. So I found this at Gardener Supply: It’s made of powder coated heavy gauge steel, far better than wooden pallets like I’ve been using. Yeah I could probably build something and save a little money, but I have a ton of other stuff to do. Sometimes it’s easier to slap down the cash and move on to the next project.
Well, shit. Started getting the seedling system up and running for the year. Better late than never, right? Step 1. Go get potting soil out of shed so it can warm up a bit. FAIL. It’s a frozen block of ice, not the slightly chilled bit of soil I was envisioning.
"Hardening Off" all of my plants now. I burnt about half of my heirloom tomato plants. I left them under the lights for too long. Lesson learned.
I'm already getting contacted by a lady I sold plants to last year. I am planting a whole flat of tomatoes for her now since she specifically wants the san marzano (''italian tomatoes'') and she has given me a list of other things she wants too. I guess this is a RAVE. Wishing the shower stall was a tub right about now...
I guess very few people start their own plants anymore. I need to patch my greenhouse up from the storm damage and get back into it.