WalkGood 2013, 2014 and Beyond

WalkGood · Mar 20, 2013

Al-from-Chile said:
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JJJessee · Mar 20, 2013

Not much kelp washes up on the ~~beach~~ riverbed in these parts. Some mud plantian dies back in the fall -wonder it it packs any magic seaweedical punch....maybe. I have considering hauling sand by the bucket off the riverbed -100yds, uphill, both ways. On account of the magnificently dense clay around here But I got what Shane has -it's seasonal -just flares up on me when there's a season.

They want $40 a ton for it around here! For sand!

Coffee and eggs. Good combo. I had such miserable success with eggs because they dried out so fast with my mix. Coffee does seem to hold water well.
Goferit!

RocketMan · Mar 20, 2013

Great info coming from the Coffee experiment there Ramon, have you started wo work any with the coffee tea or just the grounds? Actually I wonder what adding like 10% to say 15% coffee tea to the Kelp tea you like touse might do? Add some Nitrogen at the least, but who know. I'm starting to use a very mild coffee tea with some added Blackstrap Molassas for the babies in the solo cups. Supposed to be getting some rain today too.

Cheers Bro

DocNrock · Mar 20, 2013

Your transplant looks like it will make it. Fingers crossed for you, man. I mean, how can it lose with such a cool duck standing guard? Just noticed in one pic that it seems your place backs to a waterway. Very nice. I'll be very interested to see how the seeds germ in pure coffee grounds. Now that would be cool. Eggs and coffee, a breakfast of champions!

Jamison · Mar 20, 2013

Took me a min to get caught up der mon! That transplant will survive man. They are strong plants bud!

WalkGood · Mar 20, 2013

JJJessee said:
Not much kelp washes up on the beach riverbed in these parts. Some mud plantian dies back in the fall -wonder it it packs any magic seaweedical punch....maybe. I have considering hauling sand by the bucket off the riverbed -100yds, uphill, both ways. On account of the magnificently dense clay around here But I got what Shane has -it's seasonal -just flares up on me when there's a season.

They want $40 a ton for it around here! For sand!

Coffee and eggs. Good combo. I had such miserable success with eggs because they dried out so fast with my mix. Coffee does seem to hold water well.
Goferit!

I believe the best place for you to harvest would be the beach but it’s been years since I surfed Cape Hatteras so I don’t recall the seaweed there. There is some interesting info click here (2nd paragraph) about the types in NC but I bet you have better info than I. I’m sure there’s a season for it there, I read an article back in 07 click here that shows the same stuff I use Sargassum.

The tests I’ve been doing with coffee are to see if I can make a mix that the fungal gnats don’t like. Even when I get rid of them for a while they seem to show back up at my seedlings, I never had this issue in the past :/

RocketMan said:
Great info coming from the Coffee experiment there Ramon, have you started wo work any with the coffee tea or just the grounds? Actually I wonder what adding like 10% to say 15% coffee tea to the Kelp tea you like touse might do? Add some Nitrogen at the least, but who know. I'm starting to use a very mild coffee tea with some added Blackstrap Molassas for the babies in the solo cups. Supposed to be getting some rain today too.

Cheers Bro

Bill I first started with the coffee tea per Tom’s (Cycadjungle) recipe. In the past I always had it in the soil but had never used it as ground cover. I think the ground cover keeps ants away or at least this has been my observation but I prefer the seaweed ground cover as it does the same but probably with more beneficial trace elements. Per Tom’s feedback I’m only using the coffee tea to spray for bugs now rather than a weekly spray as some type of fert. I think there’s enough coffee in the soil to provide that. I have not tested coffee in my seaweed tea and I don’t see a need to do that, the seaweed is good enough on it’s own. The Molassas into the seaweed might get the thing going faster but I’m a little worried about anything sweet in there that could attract ants again. For now I’m good with the tests and I like to throw in that I don’t see any gnats around the coffee starters but only time will tell as I did see one the first day next to the eggs. BTW for anyone wondering it’s not the eggs that attract the gnats as I have seedlings in small pots that get them too. Yes I’ve done the Mosquito dunks but they come back after time :/

DocNrock said:
Your transplant looks like it will make it. Fingers crossed for you, man. I mean, how can it lose with such a cool duck standing guard? Just noticed in one pic that it seems your place backs to a waterway. Very nice. I'll be very interested to see how the seeds germ in pure coffee grounds. Now that would be cool. Eggs and coffee, a breakfast of champions!

I hope she does, it’s my fault as I gave her too much soapy water. So far I don’t see new growth and that’s not a good sign, but we have rain later so maybe that will stimulate something. Yes the duck is a prize collection as I did not enter the wacky duck race that year and found it much later, was surprised no one else had snatched it up, cleaned her and she looks good now

The 50/50 coffee & soil mix yields 2 sprouts so far, it will be interesting if 100% coffee can do it, kinda thick & too moist but we’ll see. I only hope it works to keep gnats away … probably someone else has done this before, hope they chime in and save me time, lol.

Jamison said:
Took me a min to get caught up der mon! That transplant will survive man. They are strong plants bud!

You are right, IMHO peppers are very resilient but in this case I over did the poison for the nematodes … hope she makes it.

annie57 · Mar 20, 2013

WalkGood said:
Stay tuned, we'll be right back after this commercial break ...
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stc3248 · Mar 20, 2013

Ramon...wonder if mixing some slug bait into your mix would get the gnat larvae...bet it would. I had huge gnat trouble last year, but thankfully have stayed clean this year. The thought of slug bait just occurred to me...

annie57 · Mar 20, 2013

stc3248 said:
Ramon...wonder if mixing some slug bait into your mix would get the gnat larvae...bet it would. I had huge gnat trouble last year, but thankfully have stayed clean this year. The thought of slug bait just occurred to me...

Mosquito dunk water, Shane, has worked for me--indoors and out--washed down onion transplants with 1 5 gallon bucket mosquito dunk water for gnat larvae. Not seen anymore gnats or evidence of gnat larvae damage.The actual gnats don't do the damage but see a fungus gnat, it's been a mama or daddy or about to be. Since I off-gas the chlorine in tap water in 5 gal buckets, just crush a dunk in a paint strainer to contain it--Bti is Bacillus thuringiensis v. israelensis--completely organic, won't kill fish, pets, kids, anything except mosquito larvae, fly larvae, fungus gnat larvae. And for some dang reason the adults are attracted to the water. I just scoop em out, dead, use the water indoors too. Helps and won't hurt anything . . . unless ya a nasty plant eating larva

stc3248 · Mar 20, 2013

Tried the dunks last year and it helped, but didn't cure the problem. Them plus sticky traps had them down to a managable hoard.

Devv · Mar 20, 2013

Nice Glog Walkgood, too many glogs and too little time, OK I'm a a bit of a lurker.....

Hope your baby makes it!

Scott

Sawyer · Mar 21, 2013

annie57 said:
And for some dang reason the adults are attracted to the water. I just scoop em out, dead,

Hmmm.... what is this a killin' my chillins? Ooooh... I"m dead

annie57 · Mar 21, 2013

Sawyer said:
Hmmm.... what is this a killin' my chillins? Ooooh... I"m dead

P. Dreadie · Mar 21, 2013

No sea weed here either ... hasn't been for quite a few years as I understand it . :confused:

Closest I get is in a jug .

WalkGood · Mar 21, 2013

stc3248 said:
Ramon...wonder if mixing some slug bait into your mix would get the gnat larvae...bet it would. I had huge gnat trouble last year, but thankfully have stayed clean this year. The thought of slug bait just occurred to me...

Very nice idea, another test … right now I’m feeling all tested out, hehe. I will probably try this down the line, this years problems have all been new, never dem issues in the past here

One neighbor started yard spraying and it could be others have folowed dem ... now all their critters are hitting me

annie57 said:
Mosquito dunk water, Shane, has worked for me--indoors and out--washed down onion transplants with 1 5 gallon bucket mosquito dunk water for gnat larvae. Not seen anymore gnats or evidence of gnat larvae damage.The actual gnats don't do the damage but see a fungus gnat, it's been a mama or daddy or about to be. Since I off-gas the chlorine in tap water in 5 gal buckets, just crush a dunk in a paint strainer to contain it--Bti is Bacillus thuringiensis v. israelensis--completely organic, won't kill fish, pets, kids, anything except mosquito larvae, fly larvae, fungus gnat larvae. And for some dang reason the adults are attracted to the water. I just scoop em out, dead, use the water indoors too. Helps and won't hurt anything . . . unless ya a nasty plant eating larva

Mosquito dunk has worked for me too, just lasts a few days and they’re back. I’m really just testing coffee cause I have access to so much and I was curious, I may have pushed these tests beyond where I wanted to go, hehe. Familiar with BTI, nice stuff and I have a bag full, btw it’s very cheap here …. once I kill the tests then I’ll pull out the real guns

stc3248 said:
Tried the dunks last year and it helped, but didn't cure the problem. Them plus sticky traps had them down to a managable hoard.

Try to mix your own BTI, it does work. I think some dunks don't have BTI in dem and the ones that do might have low quantities, thus a bag of the magic dust for a few bucks is worth dat spend. Listen to Annie not me, lols.

Devv said:
Nice Glog Walkgood, too many glogs and too little time, OK I'm a a bit of a lurker.....

Hope your baby makes it!

Scott

Scott, thanks for stopping in and commenting, I hear you … I’ve posted on some others glogs and have fell behind myself. I try to get around as you imply but we all have limited time and I understand, you always welcome to comment here both good or bad, have a great weekend!

Sawyer said:
Hmmm.... what is this a killin' my chillins? Ooooh... I"m dead

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P. Dreadie said:
No sea weed here either ... hasn't been for quite a few years as I understand it . Closest I get is in a jug .

And when it comes there will be mountains and you’ll be off on vacation somewhere else … isn’t that how it always goes :/ The first time I went down to harvest there were very slim pickings and I had to go back two times to even find enough. Our bulk of seaweed comes in the summer time, try to see if there is a better time of year or not. You can always call the lifeguard boss, he might know but then they might tell you it’s illegal to harvest weed :/

Thanks all for reading and I enjoy reading all yours as well, great tips you guys provide

some I use now and others I will try down the road ... have a great weekend!!! Yea I know it's Thursday but mine started today

JJJessee · Mar 21, 2013

WalkGood said:
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..... Our bulk of seaweed comes in the summer time, try to see if there is a better time of year or not. You can always call the lifeguard boss, he might know but then they might tell you it’s illegal to harvest weed :/
...

After thinking more on how good seaweed is (even in a salad

), I realized I'll be at Cape Hatteras, NC in late July. But then I realized it might be illegal to pick it off the beach. So this is as close as I could get with Harvesting seaweed NC . I think it's probably legal unless it's a nature preserve. I'm going to go for, I may try to dry it before hauling it back home.

If arrested I'll tell them it's for personal use.... It's for medical purposes....I promise not to inhale.

RocketMan · Mar 21, 2013

Ramon do you know if it's legal in all of Florida to harvest it or is that determined beach to beach. Might be worth a little outting to Canaveral or Cocoa Beach with the kids

WalkGood · Mar 21, 2013

JJJessee said:
After thinking more on how good seaweed is (even in a salad ), I realized I'll be at Cape Hatteras, NC in late July. But then I realized it might be illegal to pick it off the beach. So this is as close as I could get with Harvesting seaweed NC . I think it's probably legal unless it's a nature preserve. I'm going to go for, I may try to dry it before hauling it back home.

If arrested I'll tell them it's for personal use.... It's for medical purposes....I promise not to inhale.

lols' on the “medical purposes.” I’d make sure to make some calls and find out when the best time there is a lot on the beaches before you take a long drive … gas is too expensive these days to waste IMHO.

RocketMan said:
Ramon do you know if it's legal in all of Florida to harvest it or is that determined beach to beach. Might be worth a little outting to Canaveral or Cocoa Beach with the kids

From the contacts I have here it’s by City or County and where I live it’s by City … while I use to live in Satellite Beach FL the laws have changed by now and Cocoa Beach is a bit further north from where I lived, different laws AFAIK. I would say yes it’s worth doing it when you go to the beach but it’s not always available, there are times when you’ll show up and there isn’t any. IIRC their best season for lots is summer but after any period of swells (like we've had lately) after cold fronts there is a good probability that some will wash close to shore.

WalkGood · Mar 21, 2013

Not looking good, I don’t see any new growth

I’d say the odds aren’t good anymore but it’s a wait and see game. No one to blame but me, don't know what I was thinking that day but I've certainly learned from this experience. On the plus side I can see my shadow

Very few JA Hab pods to pick today, the front one is showing her roots by this shape if you know what I mean.

First ripe Serrano pepper, plants full of dem but these are the smallest Serrano’s I’ve ever seen o_O

Jalapeño’s almost, should be picking some by Saturday \o/

MoA update, this is the largest one but the other two doing fine and a little behind this one in growth/size

As I said, small harvest but should be enough for two days ^_^ (6 JA Habs, 1 deformed & 1 normal Cayenne pepper and small Serrano)

Size comparison of da worlds smallest Serrano \o/ hehe

Thanks for looking & great weekend to all

PIC 1 · Mar 21, 2013

Give the plant some time, and less light. It may be shocked the inner growth can take a week or so. I'd keep it in the shade. It the end branching starts to brown cut it off. The growth will start low and work its way up.

Nice Hab shots, I'd be happy right now with one of those on my plate.

The ~~Scotch~~ ...MoA is starting to take off. You'll probably start to see new leaf clusters every few days......wait till it branches out. Like Steve's.........one bud after another.

Thanks for your help earlier, I'll give that idea a whirl this weekend...

Have a good one !