Soaked my starter pellets, which are coco, because I bought several boxes last year. I like the finely milled texture of them. They worked well then, I’m sure they will again. I used a dash of Age Old Kelp Extract and a tiny amount of Aloe with a splash of H2O2 as suggested. Unwrapped and placed these into my starter pots surrounded by damp starter mix (using Jiffy brand because it was on sale). Mix of my process last year as well incorporated suggestions made by @Dirt_Wizard in post #18. I’ll get some gypsum for Ca because I did notice a bit of deficiency there on one of my seedlings.
AKBB 907 Blue Genes
Looking a little funky, didn’t expect 2 tails on two of these! I’ll cull the runts as soon as it is feasible to do so, seems once they break ground and have cotyledons that’ll be easier. I’m going to abandon this uncracked bean upper right. Into the pots they go! Our conjoined twin seeds are in pots A and D, respectively. @LD50 we’re preparing for takeoff down here, rare shit happening
FDM Indiana Bubblegum
I set this up for a photo but didn’t take any. Rushing with excitement. All but one nice tails, one is a little slow.
Ace Panama x Malawi
I’ve been calling this Panawi, but I think @noknees has a better name with Panalawi. Henceforth, these will be called that instead. All 3 perfect, ready-to-rumble.
All going into my ghetto grow tent, a section of storage closet in my office. I’ve got two 4’ LED shoplights that were on sale at Walmart last year, I think the duo was about $20. Recreating my setup last spring but did a better job cutting the cardboard this time.
Light cycle I’m doing the same as last year, with a target transplant date of 5/7. 6am-8pm so 14 hours. Twilight hours are going to be 5:50am-8:15pm, with actual sun-up 6:10am-7:57pm on the 7th. Worked well last time, sticking to it unless there is a convincing reason to alter it.
I’ve got a heat mat and I’ll control the temp using my over-utilized space blanket reflector technology. :LOL: Let’s just say I don’t regret buying these in bulk. They’ve gotta be less than a dollar each, but haven’t bought a big package of them in sometime because they last pretty well indoors. This is the same blanket I used last season.
I’ll be adding a small fan once the dome comes off. There’s room for two trays because I’ll be starting the peppers, tomatoes, pumpkins, watermelons and more in the coming weeks. All the hardware is the same as used last season. I keep saying that because I feel like it helps justify to my wife the $100 hose I bought yesterday, telling her “it’ll last for years,” which isn’t untrue. Honestly, I don’t even need to justify anything, I just do. Whatever. But most of the shit is from last year. Here I go rambling.
Yesterday I planted two blueberry plants from Home Depot. Our little one LOVES blueberrys. I guess for the first year I need to keep them from fruiting, which will be challenging to resist. They went into what I’m guessing are about 20 gallon planters with a mix of my new “extra spicy” soil and conventional bagged potting soil leftover from last year. I had basically filled my car with it last March when there was a sale, there were a few unopened bags leftover. I used a similar technique I’ll use when I transplant the herbs - spicy soil on the outside edges, mild soil all around the transplant rootball, sprinkle of mycos inside the hole for the rootball. Roughly 50/50 spicy/mild by volume. I’ll add some asthetically pleasing rock so the other half is content with their appearance on the patio.
My meager grass lawn seems like it will work. Compost worked in, mixture of bermuda and something else, straw blankets, new sprinkler, everything looking good on that front. We’ll see how the next few weeks go.
I’m very excited for the season upcoming, not just about the weed plants. But definately excited about those in particular.
CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF
