46 day update!

Ok, so I still haven't gotten my cajun pepper out into it's new set up, but I'm going to try to do that right after I post this. Also, I picked out a spot (finally) for my cukes and melons, I just have to figure out how to block my dogs from getting to it. They're going to be too big to have in my hydro room.

So here's everyone at 46 days :)



You can see how tall the tomatoes are getting!! I don't think that other one is a green tomato, but we'll see ;) But I know I have one german green for sure.

I know I have spots on my cukes, it's because the water was splashing them... hopefully that'll take care of them.



Look how great my bell pepper is doing tho! I was worried about him for the longest time. Remember, he was one I saved from the soil. I think he likes the hydro better :)

And here's the melons...aren't they pretty!!?? Someone questioned me about trellising the melons because they had never heard that before...but why else would they shoot out feelers to wrap around things?? Makes sense to me!



Although I lost a few plants, I still think things are going pretty well :) I AM conserned that the two tomatoes are too close to each other, but we'll see what kind of trouble that causes later. I still have to rig up the yo-yo system to support them. For now I have old school gardening tape ;)

Comment down below and tell me what you think!
~C~

Update!

I haven't taken any pictures, but I will in the next couple days when I move everyone outside! But I thought I would jump on and give an update about everyone. I've lost 2 green tomatoes, I think the nutes were a little too strong. Going to look up recommended EC for each different plant and not go by what the company recommends. Right now it's at 1.6, I also think it might have been due to water dripping on a couple of the leaves. But the one that made it is doing awesome.
The pepper plant is still growing slow, but it IS growing! And the melons are about ready to be moved to their outside permanent home!! I just have to rig something up for them to vine on. Same with the cukes. I did lose one also to leaf damage.
I also have an insane aphid problem!! I'm groing them organically, so I'm not using chemicals. I caught some ladybugs and let them loose in there, but that was a huge fail LOL I'm looking for natural remedies, so if anyone has any, please forward them to me! I know there's something with neem oil, and i have some so I just have to find the recipe! So far they're just on my bell pepper plant (not the small hot pepper plant) and starting to go on my melon plants.

So that's it for now. Everyone's doing great for the most part. Not growing as fast as I'd like. Going to flush the system for a week and start over with the nutes (nutrients) and then move most outside in the sun. Hope to get my HID lights up also for my other plants and plant some lettuce in a home made DWC system. Hubby's going to help hopefully :)
~~Cheri~~

Getting bigger!

Wow, what a weekend! Memorial Day weekend is always pretty busy for me. My husband usually comes home for the long weekend (he works all over the country and has to fly home) so we have a lot of things to fit into one weekend! He hasn't been home for 7 weeks, so you can imagine! We always have a family barbeque (and by family I mean him and I and our kids and occasionally a friend who has nowhere to go). We went to the creek and took our mini bbq to cook on. It was nice :) Kids had a great time and I got some much needed sun! (I'm pretty sure people went blind from my legs/...)

So, my hydro plants are doing awesome! They started to get a little nutrient burn, so I've changed the water and went a little lower EC then the recommendation from the manufacturer. I also found out the reason why my little cajun pepper plant hasnt really grown much is because the ec is about 3 times as high as peppers like!! Learn by mistakes. I hate doing that, but it really is unavoidable I guess. So I'll be switching it to its own system tonight or tomorrow. I still have to cut the holes and get it ready LOL

So here's everyone now.

If you can see the plants in a bag in the back, those are my blueberry bushes. idk where I'm goign to out them yet, so they're just kind of hanging out in the hydro room. But here's my german green tomatoes (aunt ruby's).

My Lemon Cucumbers:

My Tigger Melons:

And my Cajun Peppers that need some help!

All in all everything is going pretty good. It could be worse ;) lol The water change should help things out a lot and getting the cajun pepper in its own system with the right EC will be a difference of night and day I'm sure!!

~~Cheri~~

On our way!!

OK, so it's been a while since I posted here. Truth is I've just been super busy! But here's a highlight of everything so far!!

Caleb and I planting the seeds!

Closer

We used a mix of 4 parts perlite to 1 part vermiculite. Great combo!

The 'grow room' (aka the laundry room lol)

Hole in the cup. I added many more because this just didnt cut it!!

13 days!! The cajun pepper plant is taking it's time. It had barely sprouted!

Day 22 - I have now separated everyone and you can see how the pepper hasn't really done anything.

The room NOW. All 3 systems up and running. Tomatoes are in the one on the right, cukes are in the bucket with the pepper plants, and tigger melons in the left.

I changed the res (water tanks) and gave everyone fresh nutes and we're good to go!! I'll chekc back in in a few days!

~C~

Hydro stuff!

The Hydro stuff started getting delivered yesterday!! YAY! Got the systems yesterday with two 10" netti baskets (they fit on 5 gal buckets), and today we got the EC meter (tests the water for nutrient levels), Nutrients, pruning sheers, plant clips, and seeds!

As soon as the PH strips show up I can start getting the system ready. I have to wait for the PH up and down, and the rockwool plugs before I can actually add plants. ...I think that's all I have left to get actually...

Things are coming along well. All the seeds except the yellow squash and half of my zucchinis have sprouted.

My sugar baby watermelons

Roma tomatoes are looking great! Lots of plants!

my cukes are doing insanely well! And on the right are two of the 3 sprouted zucchini plants.

...where my bell peppers should be...

These are my my beefsteaks I think.

I got some new seeds yesterday. Midget melons. I'm going to build a hydro system for those. I should get more stuff today...we'll see!

Coming along well!

The rockstar cukes today. Not such dramatic growth in the last 20 hours or so, but still good!

The whole tray. The bells are starting to germ along with the melons.

I had to take the cukes out of the tray because they were getting too tall for the tray. They're now uncovered in another window. Everybody looks healthy and strong, I'm quite happy :)

I should get more seeds today and my hydro systems have been shipped! Should get those in the next couple days. I should get a lot of the stuff I ordered in the next couple days actually. Half of it has been shipped!

I'll keep ya updated ;)