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Local's 1st Glog - Perth, Western Australia

Hey Everyone,
 
Quick intro, I'm from Perth in WA. Just bought a house recently so I now have some room to grow.
 
So I'm relatively new to this, I have only grown from seed once before but mostly just bought seedlings and grown them in pots.
 
Since I bought my new place I thought that it would be a good idea to plant my chillies in the ground instead of pots, well that was a mistake.
 
 
This is about two weeks after the replanting.
 
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The winter has been a little longer than normal this year but they are bouncing back now with the weather heating up.
 
I now have all the seeds for this years grow;
 
- From Chilli Seed Bank
Scotch Bonnet Red
 
- From Hippy Seed Company
St Martin's Habanero
Butch T Scorpion
7 Pod Yellow
Sannam
Peach Fatali
Antillais Carribean
 
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Have a budget setup for now to try to get these germinated, My light that I was using to keep them warm died last night so currently they may be a little cool but they are near a window during the day and closer to the middle of the room at night. 
 
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I'll be looking at trying a DWC setup for a few of these plants once they are ready too.
 
Anyway, I'll keep you all updated as I go.
 
Thanks again,
Damien
 
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grats on the house!
 
can we get pics of the condensing unit and air handler?
 
its customary to start a grow thread with HVAC equipment photos. everyone on this site is crazy about hvac equipment.
 
I would love to take a photo... If I had one :cry: .
 
Being in Australia the temperature is generally warm enough to to warrant one from what I believe (from my very limited knowledge  :rolleyes:, I could be wrong).
 
I am super poor at the moment after the house taking up most of my spare cash so I'll be looking to do this with as little $$$ spent as possible. In the last few years I haven't had issues with germinating, but would there be any recommendations that are relatively cheap? I'm pretty handy so I don't mind a DIY.
 
You can get heat mats with a thermostat for reptiles at a pet store, they are cheap and work great.

If they don't germinate contact me I will be able to give you some seedlings as long as you pick up. Pinjarra/Ravo area.
 
Jase4224 said:
You can get heat mats with a thermostat for reptiles at a pet store, they are cheap and work great.

If they don't germinate contact me I will be able to give you some seedlings as long as you pick up. Pinjarra/Ravo area.
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Oh thanks for that, I will definitely keep that in mind. 
 
LocalFart said:
Has anyone tried to use an electric blanket to warm? Could I make a tent out of one and have it on a low setting?
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Will work , heat mats are just small electric blankets.
Remember , soil temperature is important , not air temperature.
Good luck with your grow.
 
LocalFart said:
Has anyone tried to use an electric blanket to warm? Could I make a tent out of one and have it on a low setting?
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Hey, Damien!  Good luck getting a grow going in your new digs.
 
I used a heating pad, you know, like for sore backs and stuff, it
worked just fine.  I put the trays on top of the pad.
 
Congrats on the new home, yeah, they're money pits. But it's yours ;)
 
Looking forward to seeing how you do, and welcome to the THP!
 
Hey guys, thanks for the warm welcome.
 
 
Good news, I have life  :party:  seems like the old and faithful fluro light kept them warm enough.
 
These are the Scotch Bonnets that I sowed about two weeks ago.
 
There's about 10 sprouts so far, 
 
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I'll keep you all posted, and I should be building the planter box for these over the next few weeks  :drooling:
 
Awesome good to see :)

I'm in Broome at the moment.. man would be incredible to grow chillies in this climate all the plants look so healthy
 
Oh I would love the humidity up there for growing, but me personally would hate it  :rolleyes:
 
Another update, 26 of the bonnets have sprouted. Pretty good considering I was only meant to have 25 seeds in a pack  :P
 
I'll be building the planter box today, I'll post some pics up after I'm done.
 
Here are some pics of the plants,
 
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I'm using the seedling mix from Green Life Soil, I've just transferred the seedlings from the Jiffy pellets because they grow a heap better in the mix.
 
I've made the planter box now so just waiting for the funds to buy some shade cloth and the soil mix and I should be good to go :P
 
I'll post up some pics next week
 
I use 30% screen once the temps hit the mid 90's here in Tejas, which is semi desert. Works great ;)
 
To me your pics don't show. The bottom line of options (at the top) where you see B I U (etc.) the 11th choice is a square green box click it and enter the url in this fashion http://www.mypics.com/pic.jpg
Where that url represents the pic location:
example (one of mine, random):
 
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Hope that helps. I used http://www.devtex.net/2016/250.jpg for that example.
 
Cheers!
 
Yeah I will probably go some 30% then, hopefully it will be enough here, seems like we're going to be in for a warm summer.
 
Sorry about the pics Devv, I use Tinypic and haven't seemed to have that problem before, I'll see if anyone else can't see them either.
 
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