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juanitos 2017

My goal this year is to make a system with minimal maintenance while also being easy to setup and process plants.
 
Getting your medium ready can be messy / time consuming with potting mix. So this year i went with coco plugs. I simply had to put them in the trays give em some water and they are ready to go. They will be easy to handle without making a mess in 3 months when i package them.
 
The biggest part of maintenance is watering / nutrients. In the past when i was smaller i just individually watered 1020 trays. While this works it is slow / can be messy. Spraying everything with misters is an option but that makes everything super humid and can affect electronics (like led strips) in the area. I have been using bottom watering for forever why not stick with that... but how?
Instead of watering individual trays.... just get some big ass trays. with a 8x4 ft tray i can bottom water 16 trays at the same time! 
 
Hauling water over there in the winter when the hose is frozen can be annoying... So in comes a reservoir. This will hold enough water for a week or more. 
 
Moving that water up into the trays can be messy / dangerous if i spill on any electronics... So in comes water pumps to pump the nutrient solution from the reservoir to the trays. and might as well put timers on them so i don't have to turn on the pumps manually..
 
Lights are controlled by a timer.
 
The heater is automatically controlled by a thermostat.
 
So there is 0 daily maintenance in this system. Just weekly maintenance of the reservoir, check tds / ph / water level and amend accordingly.
 
The only thing DIY is the supports for the trays and the led wiring. So it's easy to reproduce if i need to scale up $_$
 
= medium =
32mm coco plugs
72 ct plug trays
 
= nutrients =
hort americas hydro
ph down
great white myco
 
= equipment =
patton milkhouse heater
30a 12vdc power supplies
3014 204/m led strips
hurricane 16" fan
botanicare 8x4 lt trays
botanicare flood fittings
70 gallon res
eco water pumps
electric timers
 
= area =
~ 50 sq ft shed in my backyard
 
= vars =
biquinho
aji dulce
 
joes long
lemon drop
pimenta de neyde
sbs purple ornamental
 
thai hot

malaguetinha
cumari do para

paper lantern
MOA
west indes red
 
Scotch Brain
BBM
JPGS
chocolate moruga
trinidad scorpion
SB7J
BOC
 
+ a few other randoms
trying to keep the list smallish
 
January 19th
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January 27th
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PaulG said:
I haven't seen those grow bags before - what size are they?
 
I checked them out online and I see they have different water
holding capacities - which are you using?  Nutrients?
 
How many seasons do you think you can get from them?
300
using hort americas hydro at the moment but it is a bit too strong on nitrogen. will probably have to switch something low N next month for production.
 
2 seasons. then mix them into a plot or compost. not complete trash / waste.
 
Guatemalan Insanity Pepper said:
it's the: AlienScorpionDeadlyFireball pepper !   :lol:  Ya hadn't heard bout that one yet ? ;)


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
j/k  :rofl:
 
 
 
probably just needed to label the pic something is my guess, but we'll wait for Juanitos to tell us what that plant is :)
I hate to admit it, but I thought that was a real pepper for a second there and got really excited, then I realized it was a joke and was sad lol. You got me!
 
Don't you just hate it when pro's make it look sooooo simple.
 
I will do everything juanitos does to the book and It'll be good.
 
Hat's off to you juanitos - that impressive. I will follow this glog until then end .... replicate  .... and fail.
 
I'm telling you all It's it's the alien green finger thing all over again. Saw this in '47.
 
went on vacation for 10 days.
forgot to refill nutrients before i left and plants were not happy. some blossom end rot on pods.

refilled nutrients and increased watering because it's pretty consistently very hot here now.

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malaguetinha are finally podding up
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think my paper lanterns / scotch brains from last year crossed >.>
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First, I wish my garden would look like that after some neglect, beautiful grow you have going on.
 
 
juanitos said:
think my paper lanterns / scotch brains from last year crossed >.>
 
Also, those are great looking pods! If you intend on selling the F1 seeds, would you please let us know? 
 
 
 
Last night i was at the pepper field and my dad's wife tells me they are going to put the house on the market... this friday! No warning or anything for me lol.
I would not have planted my peppers there if i had known they were going to sell but i guess it's a recent decision they made. Kinda lame 6 months of work for potentially getting nothing.
oh well their house is more important than my peppers. I doubt they will sell very fast(big house, smallish town, buyers market).

So who knows how the rest of my season will go.
Time to start planning for 2018 =]

bumpy
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