Mikedin’s garden center, Let’s grow!

[MDK]

Looking good, about that time here as well

 

[chemistry]

Nice soil, looks really loamy.

 

[Mikedin]

Nice soil, looks really loamy.

It is I’m on a creek bed, the creek is 200 feet wide, 50’ deep now, and about a 30’ drop from my backyard lol. The part that is piled up and covered is about 1/4 fox farms lucky dog peat moss tilled in, with a Few cups of gypsum, the large darker section of the garden is all filled up compost from last year nothing new added. The covered section will be the hot pepper bed, im trying to increase the heat around the plants and root zone, supposedly that plus less water should produce hotter peppers, so the black fabric I hope will help raise the tempature around those plants. I’m at the top of the old riverbed soil is half sand basically, but the trees are loving it that I planted last year, these where all 2 foot bare root whips last spring they hit the ground, there all starting to leaf out and the apple blossoms are already out

All the trees are beginning to leaf out but these honeycrisp are really loving the weather lately, whole week of 75-82 crazy warm for this time of year

Gotta get them some fruit tree neuts, almost time to give them their first pruning, starting to see what’s what now, once the peach trees and nectarine trees catch up I’ll prune them all at once


Couple pics of what it looks like from my backyard behind the fence

 

[Zen_Seeker]

Well done sir.

 

[Mikedin]

Well done sir.

Thank you, just came in from the garden, nice storm rolled in right as it got dark, looked awesome lightening off in the distance (until it wasent ) didn’t even think about pictures just relaxing after work smoking and drinking with the wife for awhile watching.

Really glad every tree made it through winter we’re happy as hell

 

[Goodshit97]

Thank you, just came in from the garden, nice storm rolled in right as it got dark, looked awesome lightening off in the distance (until it wasent ) didn’t even think about pictures just relaxing after work smoking and drinking with the wife for awhile watching.

Sounds wicked relaxing man. Gotta enjoy the little things right.

 

[Mikedin]

Sounds wicked relaxing man. Gotta enjoy the little things right.

Yep gotta enjoy life while you can, just finished a 14 hour shift came home worked in the garden for awhile and now relaxing that it’s dark and raining

 

[Mikedin]

First sweet pepper from the vegetable tent

 

[Mikedin]

Allright folks, where to begin

Been a busy week and a half or so, but started out last week with a deficiency, while thinking and taking to @Shaded_One and @GNick55 i figured it out to be a calcium def, I had used pellitized gypsum instead of water soluble.

I made the kelp/gypsum tea as a quick fix and gave about a 1/2 gal of it to each just as a quick uptake boost, it appears to have worked here’s some before pictures had light green growth coming in

All the plants have their 2 week Shaded_One’s Gaia method amendments on top of the soil and ready when I water tomorrow or the next day when they are ready, but here is how the girls look now about 3.5 days after their kelp/gypsum tea

Badly affected leaves have been removed, leaves that had a lot of curl and light tips are relaxing back out and green is slowly returning to the tips

Leaves aren’t drooping on Frostette she was just tucked back under the net

 

[GNick55]

Allright folks, where to begin

Been a busy week and a half or so, but started out last week with a deficiency, while thinking and taking to @Shaded_One and @GNick55 i figured it out to be a calcium def, I had used pellitized gypsum instead of water soluble.

I made the kelp/gypsum tea as a quick fix and gave about a 1/2 gal of it to each just as a quick uptake boost, it appears to have worked here’s some before pictures had light green growth coming inView attachment 1352350View attachment 1352351View attachment 1352352View attachment 1352354View attachment 1352355View attachment 1352356

All the plants have their 2 week Shaded_One’s Gaia method amendments on top of the soil and ready when I water tomorrow or the next day when they are ready, but here is how the girls look now about 3.5 days after their kelp/gypsum tea

Badly affected leaves have been removed, leaves that had a lot of curl and light tips are relaxing back out and green is slowly returning to the tips

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Leaves aren’t drooping on Frostette she was just tucked back under the net

ok seem to look better.. you’d know as your there..
i’d say watch your light height.. you have leaf edge curl and some white tips?..

 

[Mikedin]

ok seem to look better.. you’d know as your there..
i’d say watch your light height.. you have leaf edge curl and some white tips?..

Definitely had white tips, light height 30” at 20% seeing some green returning to the tips in leaves that weren’t completely damaged. They are improving, not where I want them to be yet, but they seem to be going in the right direction, hopefully after the next watering with correct gypsum etc, we’ll see next week i guess

Besides that the cement shoes are doing great in both the strawberry fields and the one in lucky dog,

Started a runtz auto from a friend yesterday in a 3 gallon pot in the veg tent just for some mid photo grow harvest fun lol

 

[Mikedin]

So I was talking to the wife before work and I priced out building a 1.5” PVC 5’x35’ identical design scrog table I made for the tent but for a full garden row for tomatoes, price for everything is about $250 so it’s something I’m contemplating, gotta stop by a few places j in might be able to get a. Few free lengths of pipe and elbows and tees from some friends and family then I’ll buy whatever else is needed

 

[GNick55]

Definitely had white tips, light height 30” at 20% seeing some green returning to the tips in leaves that weren’t completely damaged. They are improving, not where I want them to be yet, but they seem to be going in the right direction, hopefully after the next watering with correct gypsum etc, we’ll see next week i guess

Besides that the cement shoes are doing great in both the strawberry fields and the one in lucky dog,

Started a runtz auto from a friend yesterday in a 3 gallon pot in the veg tent just for some mid photo grow harvest fun lol

haha ya i keep thinking i should grow a peyote cacti.. but never do.. though wouldn’t take up any room..

 

[Mikedin]

haha ya i keep thinking i should grow a peyote cacti.. but never do.. though wouldn’t take up any room..View attachment 1352396

With they could ship that here to the US haha I’d have a room full lol. I do have a package of cactus seeds I wan gunna try to make a small cactus garden, it has about 20 varieties I was just gunna pop them all in a flat trey and let them go

 

[Mikedin]

My parents neighbor was a collage horticulture professor, he also taught chemistry, he grows some insane shit,but cool part was he could order any type of seeds for educational purposes

There’s a lot of poppies that grow around my parents house nowadays although they are “ornamental” since they don’t get picked or harvested in any way lol

 

[GNick55]

My parents neighbor was a collage horticulture professor, he also taught chemistry, he grows some insane shit,but cool part was he could order any type of seeds for educational purposes

There’s a lot of poppies that grow around my parents house nowadays although they are “ornamental” since they don’t get picked or harvested in any way lol

my buddy has a peyote going on 3-4 years now..

 

[Mikedin]

my buddy has a peyote going on 3-4 years now..

Do they multiply? I thought it was just the flower bud that you eat correct?

 

[Mikedin]

HAPPY 420 FELLOW FARMERS

 

[Mikedin]

Ok sooo

Completed the up pot on the cement shoes

Here is cement shoes in Fox Farms Lucky Dog and 20% perlite using Shaded’s Gaia green method

Then we have the other cement shoes, same exact blend for amendments only in 80% Fox farms Strawberry Fields / 20% perlite

And here’s the side by side, lucky dog on the left

 

[Zen_Seeker]

ok seem to look better.. you’d know as your there..
i’d say watch your light height.. you have leaf edge curl and some white tips?..

Trying to steal some advice as it looks a lot like my issue. But then most deficiencies look alike to me.