Posted on 03/14/2014 12:57:29 PM PDT by greeneyes
Posted on Friday, March 07, 2014 2:18:07 PM by greeneyes
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Yep. Tomatoes don’t do diddly unless it’s at least 50 degrees at night.
That’ll work. Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn’t LOL!
Is this your first T5? They are great I love mine. So much better than the older types.
I found cobra misters at home depot for clearance at 2 bucks. Gonna set them up in the green house with a timer. So excited.
Yes I got shocked at how much plants were last spring ($4 for a tomato plant at Lowes!) and decided to move my process upstream.
The cops or a neighbor with an ax to grind see that evil 'grow light', and they may think you're supplementing already. :-)
True, but keeping them on the cool side with a light breeze from a fan will give you nice healthy plants with stocky stems.
The son of a guy I worked with got busted for having a pretty large indoor growing op. He had a clean record so he avoided jail time but it has wrecked his life economically. Years after he’s still making payments on an expensive pickup truck that was seized. Can’t get a decent job, etc.
I got lettuce, parsley, and a few tomatoes started. I started the tomatoes from seed I had saved from last year to see if they would indeed grow.
And they DID!!
Now I’ll just have to wait and see what I get for a crop this summer.
It’s 47 out today, after getting mailed with a winter storm Wed with a high of 20 and 14 inches of snow.
I can’t wait for spring to be here to stay.
People are getting ‘swatted’ for starting vegetable seedlings inside...
Walmart has them for $3.88 ehehehehe. Scrooge that I hear ya--from now on its mostly seeds for me too plus you get so many more in number from seedlings--just the little extra work is involved.
Fresh heirloom seed should ALWAYS germinate...don't be so surprised. :-)
I turned on a sprinkler for about 45min to water them in. I will run drip line irrigation with a timer shortly. This potting soil really holds water well, so good it scares me. I will only need to run the drippers every other day with it.
Its pretty satisfying saving your own seeds and watching them sprout for next season.
Sounds like a great deal! If you can, take pics when they are up and post them pretty please.
About the same for Walmart. Definitely too much cost for me. I’ll just plant my own for far less cost.
Tis true they don’t like excessive heat either. It’s gotta be “just right”.LOL
If people would start saving their seed; we could have a nice little FR 'seed swap' every year. It's a GREAT way to supplement your inventory without shelling out 'big bucks'. :-)
Speaking of growing Mary Jane as alternate income.. got a song here on the topic by the late Levon Helm..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsuJa8oSH7s
Boy Howdy! Me toooooo. Spring fever has sprung! You are getting a good start it seems.
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