Mikedin’s garden center, Let’s grow!

[SchwiftyGrower]

Grats on the absolute BEAUTIFUL harvest man, I’m chopping tonight as well so we were growmies on this one man!

 

[Tumbleweed375]

That Scrog table/hanging rack continues to blow my mind. Working smart, and working hard!

 

[Mikedin]

That Scrog table/hanging rack continues to blow my mind. Working smart, and working hard!

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Thanks brother haha, just takes 4 adjustable straps remove the legs attach one side flip it to the side, pick up the other end and done haha,

Got the AC crankin but still 72 in here haha, went and got a new 12g 25ft extension cord to run it it pulls up to 1600w, turns out my lights aren’t where the major power expense is

Broke up the root balls, I don’t “reuse” my soil per se, but I do put it all back outside, why waste pure peat and perlite, roots for some organic material, all my amendments that haven’t been used up, as well as my myco coloinies I spent the whole grow building, since I was top dressing my blueberries and raspberries with it I added a bag of this fox farms acid loving amendment as well, soil PH in the berry bed is running around 6.5, this has a bunch of sulfur in it wanna get that soil ph down to 4.7-5.0. (Over time I don’t like slamming it with some soil acidified amendment specifically, but work it down over time) tbis has 4.0% sulfur vs the 30% sulfur the soil acidifier has in it

 

[Mikedin]

Well we will know where you'll be in a while. looks good man. Beautiful.

Thanks fam! Yeah… that’s gunna take awhile by myself lol, normally I’ll start wet trimming in 4-5 days and then work my way through the tent till done

Jesus I’m so behind, seriously what’s going on with notifications lately? I am getting 0 notifications from threads that I’m following.

yeah it’s weird same here, I get some but not others lol

 

[Mikedin]

Then there’s the other part of harvest

 

[Mikedin]

Grats on the absolute BEAUTIFUL harvest man, I’m chopping tonight as well so we were growmies on this one man!

Thanks brother! Gettin the room as cold as I can, down to 70 I’d be happy to hold it there, RH is 60% and I removed all the large fans so we’ll see hopefully I’ll get at least 7-10 days on them before they get dry, I always end up having a quick dry but hopefully with the coolest outdoor temps this week I might get lucky, I gotta jump over to your topic as well I haven’t gotten any notifications from it

 

[Mikedin]

Morning all! Drying still underway, tent is at 70f / 60%RH

The Cman x okie is looking happy in frostettes shade

Couple days of rain and the garden is goin ballistic supposed to be sunny today should see another burst of growth

 

[BudRanger1919]

Congratulations on the harvest!! I also think your trellis-reverse-to-drying rack is really neat!

 

[Mikedin]

Congratulations on the harvest!! I also think your trellis-reverse-to-drying rack is really neat!

Thanks fam! Not sure if it was a forethought or a lazy thought that first made me do it haha, and yep just dryin away now temps and RH holding steady, glad I harvested when I did, in 8 days temps jump into the upper 80’s I should be twords the end of the dry by then and trimming so hopefully I can avoid the heat issues during the dry, should be low to mid 70’s and decent until then

 

[TreeBee]

Morning all! Drying still underway, tent is at 70f / 60%RH

The Cman x okie is looking happy in frostettes shade

Couple days of rain and the garden is goin ballistic supposed to be sunny today should see another burst of growth

I just noticed you have a top to your tomato supports! You will do WAY better than I did. If I had a top and not just the side supports I would have been gold but I am cheap and wood is not my material. I can't wait to see those bad boys in a month they will be huge! Do you do any squash? I am doing butternut and sugar pumpkin this year. Its a first for me and I am not sure how many fruit to allow per vine.

 

[Mikedin]

I just noticed you have a top to your tomato supports! You will do WAY better than I did. If I had a top and not just the side supports I would have been gold but I am cheap and wood is not my material. I can't wait to see those bad boys in a month they will be huge! Do you do any squash? I am doing butternut and sugar pumpkin this year. Its a first for me and I am not sure how many fruit to allow per vine.

Only on the tops for the 2 varieties of indeterminates the determinates don’t have a top bar just a high string, the cherry tomatoes are, above that top string already so over 36” tall same with the Big Boy F1’s

Closest squash is zucchini that’s in the other garden bed other side of the yard, I was thinking 3-4 max watermelons per vine though for those, and I have a few surprise pumpkins in allowing to come up and I’ll probably do the same 3-4 each with those (I think, never did pumpkins before)

These are the 2 indeterminates, the organic beefsteak are a bit slower growers early, then the Big Boy hybrids on the right side, 5 gallon grow bags are all peppers all around the garden

Few days ago They were all pruned between the plants, bottom 3-4” of foliage all removed (lollypopped) next day they grew about 4” in height also fed the whole garden with a half dose of jacks 20-20-20 and half dose of Alaska fish fert again, I don’t mind using the jacks twice a month, won’t hurt the soil biology enough to make a difference in that small of amount so I’ll use it

 

[Mikedin]

I know the garden is hard to gauge the size of but here’s one with my wife out in the middle, all rows are 48” between so you can easily wheel around with a full wheelbarrow and not worry about damaging anything

At the point I’m standing we plan to extend back another 10-12’ the whole width of the garden to allow the strawberries to spread wayyy out and make a massive berry patch

Pic was while I was still planting everything

 

[TreeBee]

I know the garden is hard to gauge the size of but here’s one with my wife out in the middle, all rows are 48” between so you can easily wheel around with a full wheelbarrow and not worry about damaging anything

At the point I’m standing we plan to extend back another 10-12’ the whole width of the garden to allow the strawberries to spread wayyy out and make a massive berry patch

Pic was while I was still planting everything

My peppers are struggling this year. I put them out too early then we had a cold wet snap on top of that. I am considering pulling them out of one bed and planting something else instead. Probably some green beans they are a quick crop.
Your set up looks awesome you must pull a large amount of produce out of it. Do you do a lot of canning?

 

[Mikedin]

My peppers are struggling this year. I put them out too early then we had a cold wet snap on top of that. I am considering pulling them out of one bed and planting something else instead. Probably some green beans they are a quick crop.
Your set up looks awesome you must pull a large amount of produce out of it. Do you do a lot of canning?

Yes… and yes… and yes once more for good measure enough to eat, can, and sell lol

Bunch of old pics

 

[TreeBee]

Yes… and yes… and yes once more for good measure enough to eat, can, and sell lol

Bunch of old pics

Yeah you do! Lol holy smokes.
I made so much tomato sauce last year I was so sick of tomatos by the end of the season.

 

[Mikedin]

Yeah you do! Lol holy smokes.
I made so much tomato sauce last year I was so sick of tomatos by the end of the season.

This is what we still have from last summers harvest still some from 21’ in there too I think lol

 

[HeadHunterpipes]

excellent job

 

[PlumberSoCal2]

This is what we still have from last summers harvest still some from 21’ in there too I think lol

A lot if work but well worth it. We give away a lot of bread, tomatoes, marinara sauce, hot sauce and strawberry jam we make. I'm adding vanilla extract this year. Got hundreds of clients and we love sharing our bounty.

 

[PlumberSoCal2]

Yes… and yes… and yes once more for good measure enough to eat, can, and sell lol

Bunch of old pics

I grew the cayenne last year and made my red hot sauce mix of Jalapeno and Serranos too hot for me. Some family members loved it. This year I'm only growing the Jalapeno and Serranos. I make a nice spicy green sauce that you can put on anything.

 

[Mikedin]

I grew the cayenne last year and made my red hot sauce mix of Jalapeno and Serranos too hot for me. Some family members loved it. This year I'm only growing the Jalapeno and Serranos. I make a nice spicy green sauce that you can put on anything.

Same! My wife made powdered cayenne last year, said I threw in about 20 of those orange small peppers….. yeah habaneros so we made some curry with it… bad choice still have it, actually still have a big bag of dried cayenne peppers in the basement lol

Frostettes are getting huge for these 3 gallon pots I think I’m going to grab some 10 gallon pots for this run, maybe 15’s just the 2x frostettes in the 4x8

Boring day, 4x8 still drying, room and tent at 70f/60RH steady

Then I started to put up some lines up for the tomato trellises then it started pouring so at least I don’t have to water

Bunch of cali blues clones all starting to root out, have a buddy a branch of the cali blues still drying, 6 of the 1’ tall clones from the tub and a handful of cured cali blues