SKULLBIKERS 2021 Everything BUT Peppers GOLOG

skullbiker · Jan 6, 2021

It's here, another year filled with vegetables, fruit, and other stuff!

The tomatoes are up, I planted 3 seeds per cell to be sure I was covered. 36 seeds planted.........34 germinated! Now I have a problem.................I have very rarely culled a seedling in my life, I used to have enough room to cover it, not so much now.........what a dilema.

ACHOCHA! Here too, I planted 12 saved seeds that were 7 or 8 years old. Ten germinated!

One of the pie pumpkin plants.

One of the Waltham Butternut Squash plants.

ahayastani · Jan 7, 2021

skullbiker said:
Now I have a problem.................I have very rarely culled a seedling in my life, I used to have enough room to cover it, not so much now.........what a dilema.

I know the feeling :mope:

skullbiker · Jan 7, 2021

ahayastani said:
I know the feeling

I may try to stick a few in the sand out behind the garage, I bought some organtuan/orgasmic/ORGANIC stuff to treat the soil to kill the root-knot nematodes that mutilated my plants roots there last year.

skullbiker · Jan 9, 2021

Update on the Bonnie cabbage starts I put in buckets on Dec. 5. Just about ready to start making heads.

Here's the Dragon Fruit(red) from the first seed of them I germinated, growing SLOW but sure.

Plantguy76 · Jan 10, 2021

Nice glog going on best of luck this season

dragonsfire · Jan 10, 2021

Good luck on the Veg !!

skullbiker · Jan 10, 2021

There's gonna be a bunch of vines!(I hope)

skullbiker · Jan 10, 2021

Plantguy76 said:
Nice glog going on best of luck this season

Thanks, here's the link if you want to glance at the 2020 thread:

http://thehotpepper.com/topic/73150-skullbikers-all-of-2020-outside-not-peppers-glog/page-1

skullbiker · Jan 10, 2021

dragonsfire said:
Good luck on the Veg !!

Same to you. Hopefully you will get a warm season.

skullbiker · Jan 14, 2021

I took this tray down today from the top shelf where it resides. Near the bottom of the photo a Red Dragonfruit seed has germinated and at the top is a new Passion Fruit seedling and just below and to the right of that is a Passion Fruit loop. I know, you're thinking "no big deal", but these seeds were sown on October 22, 2020. The last one germinated about 3 weeks ago.

skullbiker · Jan 15, 2021

A few pics of veggie stuff.
Cabbage in front, left rear are pie pumpkins, center rear are squash/zucchini, right rear are butternut squash.

Here is a closer look at those pie pumpkins, they are in gallon pots, the seeds were planted 12/22/2020.

The Achocha are going to need a permanant home soon.

skullbiker · Jan 21, 2021

Tomatoes

Celery

Megaton Cabbage

Watermelon

skullbiker · Jan 24, 2021

Planted out the summer squash today. Four in each 65 gal grow bag. The seeds for these were planted about 4 weeks ago.

skullbiker · Jan 25, 2021

I decided to start some Celery a while back. Here's how it looks when it germinates(kind of tiny).

Here's some about 1 1/2 week after it's been picked out of the starter cell and transplanted.

skullbiker · Jan 26, 2021

Here come the Daikon Radishes.

Part of the next bean crop.

Waltham Butternut Squash.

skullbiker · Jan 27, 2021

The tomatoes are growing fast, I had to spread them out a little.

ahayastani · Jan 27, 2021

Is there a special reason you start the tomato plantlets inside instead of outside? Just curious...

skullbiker · Jan 29, 2021

ahayastani said:
Is there a special reason you start the tomato plantlets inside instead of outside? Just curious...

They grow much faster before plant out under controlled conditions and are stronger/more vigorous. This way they have a fighting chance when they go on the final container. Although we have super weather here, we also have super pests above and below ground. I have found out that even my container plants were susceptible to the below ground nastys.