Looking good Billy
I just started my second batch of seedlings. The first batch of germinated in paper towels and this batch I threw directly into the dirt and every single one of them popped. That seals it, no more paper towels for meHey Now,
Progress!
We have 3 beans each of Fat Pete’s Cookies from SSSC, and Acid Patch Kids from Old SageSeeds. I’ll be putting together a few more 5 gal. pots for some more goodies from SSSC.
The obligatory first picture here. Just some toothpicks for markers. A while back I had a f*#k of time germing and since then just started putting the seeds directly in the soil. Have a pretty good average since.
Some tomatoes ready for the garden in the background.
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Thanks man!!Looking good Billy
Oh heck yeah. I had a germing crisis a few years back. Tried all sorts of things to no avail soaking, grow plugs, paper towels. . . Now I prepare my pots with a good soak of liquid bone meal to bind up any excess salts, yucca extract for wetting, and some benes to kick start the soil, let all that sit and soak for a few days then beans right into the dirt. I spray to keep it damp until they sprout, cover the sprout for a few days and viola' it's a plant!!I just started my second batch of seedlings. The first batch of germinated in paper towels and this batch I threw directly into the dirt and every single one of them popped. That seals it, no more paper towels for me
Looking good, farther/faster along than my next batch. I used different soil this time (MG raised bed pouting soil) and I think it was a mistake. Light woody soil but no nutes in it. Time will tell, it does have earthworm castings bone meal and kelp meal in it along with poultry litter.Hey Now,
Sunday update time.
All that are gonna pop have popped so we have five plants. Not too shabby, 8 days in the dirt and around 5-6 days since they showed themselves. They all look pretty good at this stage. Going to drop some more beans in today. Here’s some pictures.
Three regular beans in each. Grow to sex, remove males and weakest females until one is left. I’ve been running regulars this way forever. . .You gonna grow them in the same pot?
I’m using recycled soil. Mostly NFTG #4 with some Happy Frog as well. I like it so far. As I don’t use salt based nutrients I’m not terribly worried about build up. Even so I have done one “flush” with liquid bone meal, that is Herculean Harvest from NFTG. Flushing with HH should bind up any salts and help to flush them out of the soil. What I did do was to prepare the pots with the HH flush as I mentioned then I “fed” the pots with some beneficial microbes and mycorrhizae along with something for them to eat, some yucca to enhance wetting (this seemed important as the over dry soil was really quite hydrophobic!). And as always SLF-100 enzymes and a splash of Mag Amped.Looking good, farther/faster along than my next batch. I used different soil this time (MG raised bed pouting soil) and I think it was a mistake. Light woody soil but no nutes in it. Time will tell, it does have earthworm castings bone meal and kelp meal in it along with poultry litter.
As peat breaks down, it makes soil acidic. I tried reusing soil without amending it and had pH related issues in the past. I thought since I was growing using organic soil and organic nutes that it would be ok. For me, it was not. Vegged fine but the flowers were small and sugar leaves got crispy.I’m using recycled soil. Mostly NFTG #4 with some Happy Frog as well. I like it so far. As I don’t use salt based nutrients I’m not terribly worried about build up. Even so I have done one “flush” with liquid bone meal, that is Herculean Harvest from NFTG. Flushing with HH should bind up any salts and help to flush them out of the soil. What I did do was to prepare the pots with the HH flush as I mentioned then I “fed” the pots with some beneficial microbes and mycorrhizae along with something for them to eat, some yucca to enhance wetting (this seemed important as the over dry soil was really quite hydrophobic!). And as always SLF-100 enzymes and a splash of Mag Amped.
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