OT: How's It Growin'?

alaskanassasin

I’ve been using “captain jacks” with good success 

JethroVA

johnmitchell said:

Doing great in my front yard

We're legal to grow and possess now in Virginia.  Four plants per household.  One may possess an ounce. 

BSR

This one's actually a bit old but it's the last pic before I took out the cucumbers due to disease. Got plenty to make my fill of pickles for the year though.

I learned about shade cloths this year, man what an improvement.



Cilantro, two kinds of peppers, garlic, soy, all home grown, good use of some fresh stuff if you need another.



First few peppers of the season. I grow over 50 kinds and these little yellow ones (charapita) are my favorite so far.



These were sold as "Korean dark green" but they taste much better red... Definitely the most productive plant I have.



Can't say they taste all that great but fish peppers sure look cool.



UFO



Orange habaneros, although I learned this year to just grow scotch bonnet instead. They're really just a much better habenero with a little less production.



My in deck hydro setup. Need a more recent pic, it's done ok for my first season learning... 


I have a few other things growing too, thai basil being one of my favorites but in case you can't tell I'm obsessed with peppers.

YukonRon

johnmitchell said:

Doing great in my front yard

Perfect.

BigGreenKev

BSR said:

This one's actually a bit old but it's the last pic before I took out the cucumbers due to disease. Got plenty to make my fill of pickles for the year though.

I learned about shade cloths this year, man what an improvement.



Cilantro, two kinds of peppers, garlic, soy, all home grown, good use of some fresh stuff if you need another.



First few peppers of the season. I grow over 50 kinds and these little yellow ones (charapita) are my favorite so far.



These were sold as "Korean dark green" but they taste much better red... Definitely the most productive plant I have.



Can't say they taste all that great but fish peppers sure look cool.



UFO



Orange habaneros, although I learned this year to just grow scotch bonnet instead. They're really just a much better habenero with a little less production.



My in deck hydro setup. Need a more recent pic, it's done ok for my first season learning... 


I have a few other things growing too, thai basil being one of my favorites but in case you can't tell I'm obsessed with peppers.

Say more about the deck hydro setup.  Very cool and would love to see a more recent pic of it

BSR

I have a 4 inch PVC tube with holes cut in it and a 2" return line. Currently the tank is under the deck and getting too hot so I'm basically having crop failure although every plant is producing a few pods they look terrible (pics tomorrow).

Next season I will pump the water into my office (glorified shed) and have an indoor tank with a cooler which should solve most of my problems and make service way easier.

It's only my first season trying it and I was very late getting the system running so I'm pretty happy with getting anything out of it and having a good idea of what to fix.

alaskanassasin

BSR said:

I have a 4 inch PVC tube with holes cut in it and a 2" return line. Currently the tank is under the deck and getting too hot so I'm basically having crop failure although every plant is producing a few pods they look terrible (pics tomorrow).

Next season I will pump the water into my office (glorified shed) and have an indoor tank with a cooler which should solve most of my problems and make service way easier.

It's only my first season trying it and I was very late getting the system running so I'm pretty happy with getting anything out of it and having a good idea of what to fix.

Could you bury your return line use the earth to cool? Or does your dock terminate into a lake or something else you could coil a line in?

BSR

alaskanassasin said:

BSR said:

I have a 4 inch PVC tube with holes cut in it and a 2" return line. Currently the tank is under the deck and getting too hot so I'm basically having crop failure although every plant is producing a few pods they look terrible (pics tomorrow).

Next season I will pump the water into my office (glorified shed) and have an indoor tank with a cooler which should solve most of my problems and make service way easier.

It's only my first season trying it and I was very late getting the system running so I'm pretty happy with getting anything out of it and having a good idea of what to fix.

Could you bury your return line use the earth to cool? Or does your dock terminate into a lake or something else you could coil a line in?

I thought that would be enough and I have it buried along with the feed line and as much of the tank as possible but the water still gets to almost 80 degrees.

Next year the tank will be in AC with a cooler and I'll have a shade net built that awkward length and width.

alaskanassasin

What kind of gpm are you running?

BSR

alaskanassasin said:

What kind of gpm are you running?

As advertised almost 30 but I measure more like 12 with all the roots slowing it down. The root rot really clogs it up. It was all good till temps got up there.

alaskanassasin

Interesting set up thanks for sharing. 

bubbajack

Night time bloomers just finished up.

alaskanassasin

BSR

alaskanassasin said:

are you actually from Alaska? That stuff would have been dead long ago around here...

alaskanassasin

From Alaska? Yes. Currently residing in southern Ohio.

alaskanassasin

Where are you located?

BSR

alaskanassasin said:

Where are you located?

Hampstead, NC... far enough south that a potato or onion would look like hell by now. I grow a bunch of them and garlic though.

Sweet100s

@caliking
beautiful work.  Are the posts in the bed’s corner structural, functional, or a design element? 

Gulfcoastguy

Quite a few of these soon.

caliking

Sweet100s said:

@caliking
beautiful work.  Are the posts in the bed’s corner structural, functional, or a design element? 

The green (painted) PVC posts are for supporting netting, trellises, and anything else that needs to hang of of something. That's all I know

johnmitchell

Beefsteaks and German Johnson’s first batch

dbCooper

Picked some jalapenos for ABT's tonight, serranos will be put to use this weekend...

Got some habaneros that are getting happy...

saluki2007

caliking said:

Sweet100s said:

@caliking
beautiful work.  Are the posts in the bed’s corner structural, functional, or a design element? 

The green (painted) PVC posts are for supporting netting, trellises, and anything else that needs to hang of of something. That's all I know

@caliking Do you have a website you got the design/blueprint for that?

caliking

saluki2007 said:

caliking said:

Sweet100s said:

@caliking
beautiful work.  Are the posts in the bed’s corner structural, functional, or a design element? 

The green (painted) PVC posts are for supporting netting, trellises, and anything else that needs to hang of of something. That's all I know

@caliking Do you have a website you got the design/blueprint for that?

We’ve done this before. Vertical section of 1.25” PVC, secured to the inside of the box with pipe straps. One in each corner, and two along each long side of the box. Slid 1” lengths of PVC into these sleeves. Then elbows and cross pieces to span the width of the box. 

PM me, and I’ll be happy to share more details. I’m the grunt labor for these sort of projects, and just do what I’m told to

caliking

@saluki2007 meant to post this pic…

alaskanassasin

 First step to salsa.

Gulfcoastguy

Picked Aji Amarillos, habaneros and butternut squash Wednesday. The peppers are in the dehydrator now.

dbCooper

Picked some Habs today...

While that was going on one of Beagles came by and snatched a Serrano off the bush.  I took it away as am certain she really would have regretted going further...

dbCooper

Probably the last of my peppers, jalapenos and serranos.  Have some habaneros that need another couple weeks, weather not likely to cooperate.

alaskanassasin

The guy at the elevator said they are shipping my soybeans to Indonesia.