Alpha Hydroponics GLOG 2012

megahot · Mar 18, 2012

Very nice! Your plants are looking good!!!

PepperLover · Mar 18, 2012

nice healthy looking plants thank you for sharing...

AlphaHydroponics · Mar 18, 2012

PepperLover said:
nice healthy looking plants thank you for sharing...

Oh by the way, the white hab seeds were from you via another member. I'm pretty sure they went 100%

HopsNBarley · Mar 18, 2012

Lookin good man!

3/5King · Mar 18, 2012

nice stuff. That root growth is great, nice and white. Sucks that you had a few bomb but that's the way it goes. My bonda ma jaques and a few others I was stoked about got burnt up upon first getting my grow under way....so I feel ya. Good luck with the rest of your grow.

stc3248 · Mar 18, 2012

Real pro looking stuff! Nice list as well! Can't wait to see how your organic season turns out.

Good luck this year!
Shane

benzo · Mar 19, 2012

Just checking in Alpha :cool:

This should be a fun ride to some pods :flamethrower:

BakersPeppers · Mar 19, 2012

Looking good boss

You growing any seeds you got from me??

AlphaHydroponics · Mar 19, 2012

BakersPeppers said:
Looking good boss You growing any seeds you got from me??

Thanks Dale, yes several came from you.
I need to check my notes as to which ones specifically. Will pm you details later tonite.

pshngo · Mar 19, 2012

lookin good :cool:

AlphaHydroponics · Mar 19, 2012

megahot said:
Very nice! Your plants are looking good!!!

thank you Jon.... Thinking bout that tater tot recipe

HopsNBarely said:
Lookin good man!

Thanks Ryan... Just saw you put 72 in the dirt round valentines day... any news?

3/5King said:
nice stuff. That root growth is great, nice and white. Sucks that you had a few bomb but that's the way it goes. My bonda ma jaques and a few others I was stoked about got burnt up upon first getting my grow under way....so I feel ya. Good luck with the rest of your grow.

Thanks David.
Looking forward to this season, and the new varieties..

pshngo said:
lookin good

Thanks John... hope you have been well. Hope to do another trade with you this year.

Regards, Chris

benzo said:
Just checking in Alpha This should be a fun ride to some pods

Hey Ben.. Just trying to juggle it all, like the rest of us....
Just looked up Goulburn on the map... Looks like a beautiful spot!

benzo · Mar 20, 2012

Yeah bro, Goulburn ain't a bad place only a small country town so have always grown my own vegies at one time or another. How much is the LED worth that your using?

Trippa · Mar 20, 2012

Looking good so far bro. Keep the updates rolling.

AlphaHydroponics · Apr 18, 2012

Up-late update. We have been crazy busy this season with the early spring/ summer here in Georgia.
It doesn't mean we haven't been hard at work spreading the word and heat round the Peach State.
Over the last month, the pot ups (4inchers), spent some time in the sun in the greenhouse.

We managed to pot up about 140 pepper plants and 200 heirloom tomato plants (4 inch pots/solo cups).

Hydro basil (Italian and lime basil) organic lemon and limes round out a good selection for garden to table cocktails and meals.

Next update... plants in the ground!

stc3248 · Apr 18, 2012

Really cool stuff! Tell us about the hydro system and the black wall units...are those hydro as well? Are the 140 peppers total? Or do you have more than that?

AlphaHydroponics · Apr 19, 2012

The hydro systems are a 28 site aeroponic system (center with basil), alphahydro 5 gallon dwc, (right on the sink with datil pepper plant), the black wall systems are vertical hydro drip systems to be planted with herbs later in the season, ( we usually rotate basil from the aeroponic system into the wall units) and the grey table( on left) is a flood table, which we will rotate pepper and tomato plants into as the season moves forward... http://thehotpepper....-aeration-pots/
The greenhouse is designed to be modular, allowing for "crop rotation" if you will, cloning, excess plant inventory and experiments with constant output.

About 2/3rds of the plants (pepper and tomato) go to our clients locally... the rest end up in our organic gardens, our community garden plot or with friends.

cory_huck · Apr 19, 2012

I am really digging those wall mounts....How much are those, and where can I get them?

benzo · Apr 20, 2012

those vert wall units are the bees knees bro. Best way to grow indoors with them in an octagon shape with a bulb hung vert in the middle. so much more surface area compared to a horizontal grow hey. Also like the polycarbonate GH. Wish I had the money to get one, well one day I might be rich enough lol.

AlphaHydroponics · Apr 21, 2012

We managed to get some plants in the ground this week at our community garden plot here in Decatur Georgia.
A great addition to the Alphahydroponics garden, the community garden is a tremendous opportunity to grow more and share what we have learned here at The Hot Pepper. That said, we started with our allotted 6x12 raised bed with full sun exposure. We double dug the bed and then amended with organic soil, perlite and vermiculite. The overall depth of the bed is over 2 feet.

Our goal with this bed is to "go deep" with the roots and "get vertical" with the plants. To achieve these goals, we added 4 foot posts on the corners and sides, anchoring the posts in the bed, and to the frame.

We recycled some used lawn bags as weed block for the beds....

We added a thick layer of our composted organic mulch...

We chose a dozen plants that were ready to go in the ground....

We dropped 12 plants in the ground, and "framed out" the vertical posts with 3 levels of vegetable and plant support net...

2 Black pearl, 2 thai hot, 1 aji lemon, 1 red congo, 1 hanoi red, 1 chiletepin, 1 five color chinese, 1 maui purple, 1 hot cherry, and... 1 golden cayenne

A good soak, followed by 2 days of heavy rain right after planting should get this plot started....
Next update, 3 similar beds with the real heat, at the Alpha Hydroponics homestead garden... including 7 pots, Bhuts, Butch T's, T. scorps, red habs, etc... and a ton of heirloom tomatoes... Thanks for looking!

Alpha Hydroponics GLOG 2012

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