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Slizarus

Slizarus

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  • Slizarus
    Success! Home Despot can suck an egg, A local pipe supplier on the other side of town offered me free delivery with kindness. Got all my hoophouse pipe! i just need some bolts now :)
    Slizarus
    Trolling facebook looking for friends/suckers willing to eat some of Svfd118's Reapers on video with me. Couldn't help it, he sent me a box of beautiful pods! So wicked.
    Slizarus
    After much time at the drawing board, I decided I was too cheap to break the mold and have decided for a Top Rail Hoophouse design. Now to order my bender :)
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    Slizarus
    Slizarus
    12x20-24, length hasn't been fully determined yet. I haven't seen any logic that states why you should go big or go home, anything you can fit in your yard is supported here :)I'll get atleast 240 square feet of growspace. That's fine for my first hoop :) I can't fit a 20' wide house on my lot, there's only 20' between the wall and the back fence.
    Orekoc
    Orekoc
    Well, heating and cooling is he issue. The 10x10 houses are just too small to maintain a consistent temp in, at least that is what I've been told by people who tried them. I guess the main thing is to make it as big as you possibly can.
    Slizarus
    Slizarus
    I see, thank you. :)
    Slizarus
    I respect seed vendors more after tonight, 8 trades took hours of bagging and tagging. practice will speed it up.
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    TNKS
    TNKS
    Dont count the seeds and it goes much faster,scoop,dump and use a Sharpie to label the bag.
    Get'em rolling!!
    Slizarus
    Slizarus
    I look forward to when I harvest my own seeds and can give a scoop of seeds instead of counting em :/

    And aye, I kept thinking about the sharpie, but I want to leave the bag reusable (more easily/nicer than crossing out old writing) for others :)
    Helvete
    Helvete
    between this site and other gardening sites it's become a daily thing, part of a ritual that eventually feels like second nature :)
    Slizarus
    There is certainly a degree of satisfaction that comes from seeing your plants bear fruit. <3
    Slizarus
    Started 2 aact buckets, 10 gallons of liquid gold now that I got paint strainers for added fun :)
    Slizarus
    Just ordered 400 sq ft of geotextile fabric, here's to gigantic fabric pots!
    Slizarus
    Plus side of living in an Oil town: Locally delivered 20' lengths of 16 gauge galvanized steel 1" square tubing for my Hanley house, a $1 a foot and no charge for delivery :D :D That cuts down my cost projection so much.
    queequeg152
    queequeg152
    whats a hanley house? a greenhouse im assuming?

    do you plan on bending this tubign to make hoops?
    16 gauge square, without lots of leverage will be fairly hard to bend no?
    Slizarus
    Slizarus
    http://www.kerrcenter.com/pdf/hoophouse-howto.pdf It's a lowcost Hoophouse in a style named after the couple who travels around the country doing workshops and how tos.

    With a bender that I make myself (Blueprints in the pdf) supposedly I can just use my weight as leverage, pictures demonstrate people without much obvious muscle doing it. I believe in mahself :D
    hogleg
    hogleg
    Badass, you go Sliz
    Slizarus
    Natural Gardening 101: Aphids require gut bacteria to process food from sap or they die. I make Colloidal silver, spray on plants, no more aphids? We'll see :D
    cruzzfish
    cruzzfish
    About aphids, douglahxbutchT cross seems not to get them. 5 other plants right next to them have it bad, these two not one.
    -
    Hope to see how this goes.
    Slizarus
    Hooray! I have made a connection for Horse Manure :D I just have to get an open trailer because my vision of burly men with shovels was actually dumping it with a tractor, so my closed trailer isn't ideal.
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    Hybrid Mode 01
    Hybrid Mode 01
    Just go peruse your neighborhood on garbage day. Those super tough recycling bins on wheels that your unfortunate neighbors used to own would work perfectly!
    Phil
    Phil
    lol @ Dash dub
    Slizarus
    Slizarus
    Great Idea :p And they'll never suspect the guy whose landlord is a cop :p

    I'll return them later I swear! XD
    Slizarus
    I really dislike when ignorant people are dead set on believing that Cultivars are GMOs "Oh no! Cotton Candy Grapes GMO!!" *sighs so hard*
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    queequeg152
    queequeg152
    huh? what cultivars are you talking about. cultivars of what?
    Slizarus
    Slizarus
    Grapes, a new strain of Grapes called "Cotton Candy" were selectively bred, I just had a FB friend post about it and an FB acquaintance said they were GMO, I told her they weren't and pulled up an article for it. http://www.grapery.biz/index.php/news?start=8
    I don't like it when people who don't know plants think new grocery store varieties are all GMO :-/
    Zoli
    Zoli
    GMO and selective bred are two totally different things. GMO has potential but now it is used to make plants immune to the pesticide they spray it with. No, soak would be a better word. Kills everything else but the plant. I don't think grapes are GMO but a most of the things are. 90% of corn and soy bean crops for example. Sad.
    Slizarus
    I love trading seeds with you guys, nothing better than home grown. Thanks Hogleg for the Pubes, the Weed, and the Pequins!
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    Slizarus
    Slizarus
    Also, I kept forgetting :p Wicked Mike told me they came from a friend who said "I dont know what it is, but its HOT!" WM said it looks like a sort of 7 pot
    outlaw
    outlaw
    LOL hustlin' da dank
    Weed
    Weed
    we turn the chat into head chat all the time and of course people complain
    Slizarus
    Good News Everyone! My lovely friend was successful in bringing me pepper seeds from a pod she found from a pod in Spain! it's chinense and tasty hot.
    Slizarus
    Slizarus
    Sorry distracted while writing. From a market in Spain. Anyone want some seeds?
    Emald001
    Emald001
    YES please!! I am from spain.. and would love to have something from there grow in my garden.
    Slizarus
    Slizarus
    I will be glad to send you some :) sending a pm
    Slizarus
    friend of mine is bringing home seeds from a pepper she found in a Spanish.market that was too hot for her. I'm excited to grow them!
    Slizarus
    Slizarus
    A spanish market while she's in Spain even!
    sp33d
    sp33d
    That's awesome man ....mystery !!!!
    cruzzfish
    cruzzfish
    Customs isn't messing with this? Wow.
    Slizarus
    Some damn feathered fiend started eating my about to br ripe red hot cherry and scarred the biggest green one. I knew I was going to need a screenhouse to keep them off.
    cruzzfish
    cruzzfish
    What kind? I wanna know in case the ones around here decide to do the same.
    Slizarus
    Slizarus
    I was thinking of setting up a canopy with either wood or PVC and then draping it in some "tougher than most birds can tear through" shadecloth on the sides and top since I don't have a problem with temperatures or ventilation, I just want to keep birds off my produce and potentially lowering the amount of flying insects and scorched fruit.

    Then in winter, I'll put plastic on the canopy and turn it into a greenhouse :D
    cruzzfish
    cruzzfish
    Sounds good. I have the type of bird protection called "hawk nest fifty feet away". It's abandoned now, but the birds don't know that, so they stay away from it. Only thing it doesn't stop is a crazy chipmunk, who chomped the hawk's foot when it was resting in the chipmunk's sunny spot. He only ate peppers once though, decided they didn't taste very good.
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