Musky's twenty twelve

SocalChilehead · Jan 19, 2012

Great list good luck through the season.

MGOLD86 · Jan 19, 2012

Now that is a great list. Followin this one!

Matt

Justaguy · Jan 19, 2012

Will be fun to follow

patrick · Jan 19, 2012

I believe Minneapolis is going to experience a heat wave. Great list MM, good luck to ya!

muskymojo · Jan 19, 2012

Thanks guys. It was -32F with the wind chill this morning, but it's a balmy 80F inside my grow room.

I basically just boxed in my furnace and water heater with scrap wood and damaged sheet rock I had laying around. The door is covered with leftover greenhouse film so I can peek in there and check the temp.

It's hard to get a good picture, but this is the inside. That's a water heater in the bottom left corner. The bottom shelf is my attempt at homemade lights. I bent the reflector from white aluminum coil stock, and the fixtures are exterior flood lights. It's 8' total, with 16 CFLs putting out 28000 lumens. I could always upgrade the bulbs to get some more light, but we'll see how it works. The top shelf is 4 bulb T8 fixtures. The middle shelf will probably get the same.

Here are a coulpe pics of the underside

And this is an example of how I mark my plants

I'm just starting to bring my overwinters back to life. This one is a Douglah.

Well, that's about it for now. I will try to keep my log updated better than last year.

Thanks for looking!

S.S.Tupperware · Jan 19, 2012

your off to a hell of a start...

coheed196 · Jan 20, 2012

Looking good

patrick · Jan 20, 2012

Dang! Those plants have a better room than my own!

Are you going to be able to adjust the height of the lights or plants?

muskymojo · Jan 20, 2012

patrick said:
Dang! Those plants have a better room than my own!

Are you going to be able to adjust the height of the lights or plants?

The top 2 shelves are/will be fully adjustable on chains. The bottom one is fixed. I can only adjust the floodlights themselves, so I'll just raise the plants if I have to. The floor is cold anyway.

mjdiamond83 · Jan 23, 2012

That's an awesome setup and grow list Musky! Almost 100 7 Pot plants :fireball:

jessxcr · Jan 23, 2012

Wow. Impressive. Looks like you will be busy this year.

erikjlee · Jan 24, 2012

Wow that's a metric f@#kton of pepper plants! I feel so inferior for only have ~40 superhot starts total! Good luck, I'll be watching too.

Wow that's a metric f@#kton of pepper plants! I feel so inferior for only have ~40 superhot starts total! Good luck, I'll be watching too.

muskymojo · Jan 24, 2012

Thanks guys. Hopefully I get good germ rates.

First official sprout of 2012 is an Orange Manzano! :woohoo:

My camera is currently in Guatamala with my wife, so no pics for about a week. Hopefully the next pics will be of mostly full trays. :pray:

Thanks for looking!

Pr0digal_son · Jan 24, 2012

Neat setup Musky. I like the number labeling. Something to look into.

PIC 1 · Jan 24, 2012

Man, those lights look............ "Space-Age"...............especially in black and white.

Probably before your time but that lighting gizmo looks like a futuristic photo from the early 1960's "Popular Mechanics" mag..........now I know someone here can relate to that!

:cool:

on

Greg

muskymojo · Feb 1, 2012

Haha yeah, I didn't even take the pics in black and white. They just turned out like that.

Time for a quick update. 211 seedlings as of now, which is 74% after 14 days. Not the best rates, but new ones are still popping every day.

You can't really see them, but here is 144 of them basking under the lights.

The first ones to pop are putting out some true leaves.

A pretty Purple Bhut

This is the same Douglah today

And this is all the overwinter plants. There is one Douglah, one Brain Strain, one Dorset Naga, one Chocolate Bhut, two Bhut Indian Carbons, and two Barrackpores. They seem to be waking up from their little nap, and putting out some nice new growth.

The next round will be going in the dirt in about 10 days.

Thanks for looking!

S.S.Tupperware · Feb 1, 2012

Nice progress, looks like your gonna have a hell of a season...

muskymojo · Feb 5, 2012

Quick update.

As of this mornining, 245 of 284 cells have popped after 17 days. Now I am officially happy with a 86% germ rate. I'm sure a few more will continue to pop as well.

These are some of the first ones that sprouted. Most of them already have roots coming out the bottom of the cells.

I do things a bit differently than most. I use 2 cell trays for every 1 tray I grow, for a few reasons. I start out with a tray filled with starter mix under a dome for germinating. The other tray is under lights with no dome. Every day, I cut out the individual cells that have sprouted and place them in the tray under the lights. This way the sprouts get air and light as soon as they break the surface, and the ones that haven't popped yet stay moist and warm under the dome. In a perfect world, everything in a tray would sprout at the same time, but that just doesn't happen. Especially when growing several varieties in the same tray. Also, I'm not wasting precious room under my lights on empty cells. Some people will say this is just too much work, but it works great for me.

Here is an example of the trays under lights

Here is one that just popped overnight, and is going to it's new home under the lights

Thanks for looking, and have a great day! :beer:

HopsNBarley · Feb 5, 2012

Very nice Musky. Quite impressive!
This will be my first year growing and plan on having a space similar to yours if all goes as planned.