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glog 2024/2025, wiicek, BalcoJungle will rise again!

Welcome to the The BalcoJungle, season 2024/2025 GLOG!!!

<= First Year

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I've had plenty of pictures to choose the representative image from but this one is just beautiful, so, I couldn't say no to it!

Ok, I will show you my growing list for the year now, then do a really long summary of the last season - this was my first one, I get to be excited and brag a lot about what I learned and what do I love about what etc etc. It will be in a spoiler, because it is SO MUCH TO READ and nobody should be forced to see that wall. I am proud of pictures tho...
And then I will go into the next season, because it has already started.
Have an amazing time here, you beautiful soul! <3


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GROW LIST:

I - sown 28 of September 2024

Tomatoes (All from World Of Flowers Sp. z.o.o.):

  • Malinowy Kapturek (4)
  • Venus (4) - they were sown at two different times but the difference dissapeared lately;
  • Aztek (5) - same as with Venus;
Peppers:
  • Aji Mango (3) from Fatali Seeds;
  • Aji Nortero (4) from Fatali Seeds;
  • Purple Pumpkin (3) from Fatali Seeds;
  • Orange Blob (1) from Fatali Seeds;
  • Aji Jobito (3) from Fatali Seeds;
  • Thunder Mountain Longhorn (2) from Fatali Seeds;
  • Aji Melocoton (3) from Texas Hot Peppers;
  • Ubatuba Cambuchi (1) from Texas Hot Peppers ( weird, on the chart I have two but I don't remember two, have to look into it);
  • Bulgarian Carrot (3) from Texas Hot Peppers;
  • Aji Lemon Drop (2) from Bohica Pepper Hut;
  • Aji White Fantasy (2) from Bohica Pepper Hut;
  • Aji Chachucha Purple Spotchlet (1) from Bohica Pepper Hut;
  • Tribelli Orange (2) from supermarket lool;
  • Big White (3) from supermarket;
  • Sugar Rush Stripey (2) from Hydroponika Bez Ogródek (g2);
  • Sugar Rush Peach (2) from pali2razy (g2);
  • Aribibi Chocolate (2) from pali2razy;
  • 5 Fermented Seeds Experiment (some did sprout but died, overall experiment failed due to neglect ;o)!
OWs:
  • SR Peach (pali2razy);
  • Hab Yellow (nursery);
  • PJ ICe (Towns-End Chilli & Spice);
Probably dead OWs:
  • SR Stripey (it didn't survive)(Hydroiponika Bez Ogródek);
  • Ramiro (supermarket);
  • Fatali (Heldros);
  • Dorset Naga (ChilliChump); //well, it's green still on 2nd of March ;o
  • Aribibi Chocolate (pali2razy);
  • Black Molten (Towns-End Chilli & Spice);
The thing is - I don't really know what will survive yet. I only know what has leaves. There are some dry and there are some green but without leaves. I have no idea what will be of them but I am hopeful.


II - sown 2nd of December 2024

  • Aribibi Chocolate (4) pali2razy;
  • Orange Blob (??) FataliSeeds;
  • Purple Pumpkin (3) FataliSeeds;
  • Aji Jobito (2) FataliSeeds;
  • Aji Norteno (??) FataliSeeds;
  • Aji Mango (5) from Fatali Seeds;
  • White Fantasy (5) Bohica Pepper Hut;
  • Cachucha Purple Sploched (4) Bohica Pepper Hut;
  • Thunder Mountain Longhorn (??) Bohica Pepper Hut;
  • Bulgarian Carrot (1) Texas Hot Peppers;
  • Ubatuba Cambuchi (5) Texas Hot Peppers;
  • KS Linzo Chocolate (4) Texas Hot Peppers;
  • Manzano (??) Bohica Pepper Hut;


III - sown 5th of January 2025

  • Cayenne Red (5) from supermarket (g3);
  • Cayenne Yellow (5) from supermarket (g3);
  • SR Peach (5) from pali2razy (g2);
  • SR Stripey (5) from Hydroiponika Bez Ogródek (g2);
  • Jalapeno (5) from supermarket (g2);
  • Habanero Yellow (5) from supermarket (g2);
  • Habanero Orange (5) from supermarket;
  • Habanero Chocolate (5) from supermarket;
  • Habanero Red (5) from supermarket (g2);
  • Fatali (5) from supermarket (2 from Bohica Pepper Hut and 3 from Heldros [g2]); //didn't sign which are which
  • Red Blob (5) from supermarket; //I'm calling it Red Blob because it looked like a green blob and then it got red.
  • Medusa (5) from FataliSeeds;

G2 being 2nd generation and g3 the third.


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I will do now a 2024/2025 season in a nutshell! And hide it in a spoiler, because it's a lot of text!
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Season 2023/2024 was so much fun! I've had so much work on the balcony and so much relaxing time it is really my favourite place on hearth right now. I mean, not now, now it's cold and there is still plenty to do and I am kinda running from it gracefully with a cold and on cold medication so very very... funny but from time to time that was the case with every love partner I've had to this day so, I think it may be love.

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Every part of the journey was fun in a different way.

~Choosing seeds and them germinating! - everyone loves it, I am not different here. Giving life to new plants?! From tiny little thing to months of jars on shelves!? I think it is important to do a little bit for Earth and that may be a really good little bit. Like really juicy one. Like walking dogs and seeing some bottles on the road because people can be pricks. You're going to throw away some poop? Take the bottle. Or 3, because more people nearby are pricks. Throw them away with the poop. No problemo.
So, yes, seeds in a dirt, hooks, beautiful green or even purple leaves, so so so wonderful, this part is fun! Have to say, non of the ajis from the picture germinated or germinated but I lost them. Only freebie grew and still gives me berries! 😂😍
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~Caring for saplings inside under the lights in my room! Seeing them growing out of one pot and another! And another! And where the hell is May?! Three months from now! WTF!? - yeeees, this part can be crazy sometimes. Especially if you're bad at keeping the list small AND I KNOW ALL OF US ARE! It flies fast but May is always so so far away and plants are looking at you with anger. Love, I mean, love. Just make double pots at the end there. And buy some hydro solution. Pff. But sirously, there is half a year of greenery inside my room and it makes my heart sing. Rearranging the futniture so peppers have all the (window) sun in the world!? Huhu!

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~First nice sun all around the house - I don't have outside yet to put them on the ground but chasig the sun inside was fun too, I remember. Plenty of work but it is kinda first big work of the season, so, still fun. don't have pictures tho...

~FIRST BALCONY TRIP. Hah. Sun and good temperatures at the balcony, I remember it was tempting me way too soon to put them there fulltime. Nights still were too cold for them to groow reasonably and I learned that inside is better for the roots and roots are the most important till jun even. Patience is what we grow here! Omg it was in MARCH!
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~Spring was kinda unpleasand because I was constantly seeing them as too small and I really have to loose this part of my character because it doesn't matter, at the end they were way bigger than I imagined. This season I hope OWs will take the focus here.

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~Summer and the first pods - everything before that stopped existing because from now on, everything is constantly producing amazing colourful pods. I mean, there was a month where I was waiting for them to ripen, again, insant rewards are fun but that is not how it works here. But from the first red/yellow to the last (FATALI IS STILL RIPENING!) there is so much peppers to pick, my inner child is content.

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~More pods! - after entering harvest season there is nothing else, only pods pods pods pods...

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~Autumn and now - I don't wana talk about it! 😂 But seriously, sauce making is amazing, I have some sugar rush ready to make a jelly out from (yes, I saw some of your posts and today I woke up with a jelly in mind). Preparing OWs, taking all the plants from dirt, cutting them and cleaning the space... It poses some new challenges to my weird brain but I am sure after I start it won't be so bad.

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And here you have! 2023/2024 season in a nutshell! I chose few pictures to show some parts of my journey but there were way more of them, of pods harvested and jars done.

What's the most fun in a weird way? Having one season dying but not dead, still lingering with some jars and greenery on the balcony and second being born with tiny leaves under the bulbs. Like, it works! Do you wanna all year and a little bit more time to spend on a passion!? Choose chillies! It will give you some time you din't know you had!
In a weird way? Because it is somewhere in the background of where the fun usually is 😂 If you get me. It's so satisfying when you think about it but you don't really go and think about it all the time powering that satisfaction to do some good in a world. It doesn't last but it... is.

I AM SO SORRY. I THINK I MAY HAVE TEMPERATURE. 😂:fireball::fire::flamethrower:



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2nd of October

I have put some seeds to the ground officially starting the 2nd season! They are under 2k lumens, 4k kelvins light bulbs (3 of those) which did amazing job last year.

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So peacefull. At this time, the life is being called upon! Wizardry in progress! DNA activating! CREATION TAKING PLACE! But quietly and below the surface.
There is even THE LIST! But it is readable only to me, so, I will now create the sheet.

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Green ones are tomatoes.

Seeds for the jalapeno x ramiro experiment are inside the pepper which started to color few days ago, so, soon enough!

Big White is the sweet supermarket pepper, tribelli orange also. I wanted to have more sweet ones on the balcony but while browsing online shops I tend to focus on shapes and colors and then I wake up few days later with hot peppers seeds in my hands not knowing how what whyyyyy? And if I want something and tend to be stupid, Universe is giving me things anyway. 😂 Sometimes.


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I don't know if I remember it correctly (wouldn't be the first time if not) and the day of sowing was 28th of September because I know that was a day I was writing the post about doing that. But maybe tomatoes are just so fast... because I have pictures done DAY AFTER the 2nd and first tomatoe sprouted. It was Venus!
I'm choosing the 2nd of October as THE DAY because I am more sure of this one (surer sounds wrong).

I wouldn't put them in the ground just yet but I wanted to have some inside anyway and the varieties are determinate, I wanted to test how they behave under the lights. I am not as scared they will make my early inside jungle into something wilder than I want. I like wild but undeterminate are too crazy for me, grow too fast and the lights soon enough would be overran.

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And then the next day!


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First peppers sprouted 6th of October, so 4 days after sowing.

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It was Orange Blob! The winner of this year's germination contest!

Link to picture from Fatali Seeds.

Soon after Melocoton and Tribelli. And then the rest joined in. They were fast. I remember most varieties bought online last year sprouted to and some even over the month time.

Today's picture.

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I have to say, lilies experiment failed. I mixed some lilllies, they both have put seed... thing one of which ripened and those were the seeds. Bu I think they were empty inside, so light, it would go far places on the windy day. I have never seen one so, I've put them in the ground anyway not expecting much. And they failed.

Ajio Jobito, and Manzano Yellow didn't sprout. Orange Blob sprouted, so there is a win, I don't need the second one. Aztek the tomatoe... I wanted to give one away to my dad but I always can clone the one that sprouted.

I really hope for Manzano to germninate but like I said at some point thinking about the last season - no fail is worth crying about because the wins take the spotligt. Should, ofc, and we decide how soon they will but the sure thing is - they always will with time.
Soon enough I will be sharing those wisdom so much, you will throw up rainbows at me.

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So, here we are! October 2024! Woah.

Last year I didn't really start the season any day, because I had some peppers already and was sowing some in different times, I think in November, maybe December and January... This time more order! Chaos is still here but there always will be with me as a grower! It adds sparks. Nah, I'm just crazy and lazy sometimes.

I like what I see from the start, so, this is going to be wonderful season!

Brought to you by Bear.

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He thinks he has cold also. But he's an actor. I should start paying him for his work, he is really good and I kinda feel like I'm stealing from him especially when he stops and pretends to piss when he sees some mildly big dogs far enough so they won't yet start pulling towards but close enough that he thinks he can buy some time to meet them. He also can yawn pretty loud if he wants attention and talks. So, perfect husky mastered.

Have a great day and night!​
 

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Todays harvest:

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Weeds going into the compost tea:
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I found the baby pumpkin finally and got pollen there.
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I found 2 another female ones just appearing. I think they don't need me to pollinate them but I am not risking it, hope I will be here on time for them.

Cucumbers are better at this:
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I am trying to figurę out the best way to fertilize them. I am listening to Rich' video and making every watering a fertilized one.

I was using this thing:
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It is 50g of powder and it is translating to 50ml of water. 1/4 at the bottom would mean 12ml and I was doing less than half of it for a 20l bucket of water - doing Fish amino acid that is. That would be around 4-5 ml for 20l every two days. Sometimes I am scared that this is too much and water with plain water.

Twice already I used the compost tea. Last week I added 20ml of it to the bucked and today I am back to around 10, because I want to add it with every watering or every other one. I don't know. I am trying to feel it through because I am more like that than measuring everyhing.

What I know for sure is: beans and leafy greens don't like fish amino acid as much as the rest but maybe I was adding too much of it before. I am more confident with my ways now.

Compost tea should make it even better for peppers now, I hope I am not fucking it up.
 
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Thank you @NJChilehead for the nice words!

I still am trying to feel everything out. This year is a year of preparing everything at the garden and this makes me a little more chilling thankfully. Next year I will do some things differently (who didn't say that last year, wow) and have it going with a little more balance. Still chaotic but with grace xd

Cayennes are exploding in the Biggy and Peach is doing the same at the balcony. That is enough to get me into the mood.

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All of the Balcony Bunch are exploding in greennes1 And it is exciting! The life force is strong 🤟 :hot:👾👾

Actually, some called it veriditas - green energy, life force, force of lushness, growth, vitality, the strongest when Sun touches the leaves. It seems that consuming it with some leaves is a very good idea. Or even just eating whatever in the presence of it. I LOVE THAT KIND OF STUFF! Magic is around us and in the past people could see it.

But yea, generally - paradise vibes! And paradise!? I am here for it, from heads to toes, my ass would live there, eat there, sleep there, if I could create there a living space.

I guess it is nothing but living but hey, your chaotic monkey pepper wiicek needs his desk and PC. Also for most of the time I am either on the way to the garden or chilling barefoot ass on the ground on the garden talking to the Universe, tomatoes, peppers or whining on dogs that they are whining, drama queens and attention w... seekers.

Look!

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WTF it is huge! And the flowers are havbing this beautiful quality to them...

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I love when they are not straight and simple. It's nice to see it appeared second year in the row, in different variety. <3

Also, I didn't notice before, it seems like one of the smallest Thunder Mountain Longhoirn pods started to ripe!

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Noithing special but hey, he tried!

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I could be a professional photographer I just chose not to.

Also, two revelations:

1. The second 20l purple pepper is not Pumpkin.
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Good, it is KS Linzo Chocolate and I want to see her rise! RISE!

2. PJ Ice from the 12l pot doesn't look like PJ Ice but now, writing this, I lost my confidence and will just post a photo.
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You can notice it, I believe in you.
I'm so sorry, it's so far away I couldn't see it in real life for weeks and taking a photo is haaard. Even for a almost pro. o/

The story behind last year PJ Ice is that it got neglected because didn't set fruit at all for all season, was put into the room where family member was staying for few months and then few weeks after the end of the 1st season I saw those few beauties:
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And now I can see the similarities, so it probably IS PJ ICE! Nice!

I thought it may be Black Molten because in my memory it was more similar to it than to small fiery blobs I remembered for PJ Ice.

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Omg those old photos... I can't wait for this season harvests! :fire::fire::fire::hot:🤟🤟🤟

And here, my Queen - SR Peach. Reminder to up my overwinter game.

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Am I bored? Not really. I just like to swim in this creative flow about my peppers froim time to time and now is really the time to get into it. There is not enough hours in the day, I can tell you that!

One day I will work from Greenhouse!
 
It is starting to get bushy on the balcony but it Garden has it even better it seems! They were planted many weeks after balcony but daily 10-20k lumens for all day straight does the work better than 4-6h of full sun. If weather lets.

Those are getting 7-10k lumens:

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And those 20-30k:

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Thise on left have it better tho, but I will see later on. I have few solutions for the next year: either put all chinenses on the right (if they will have it better than beczuse I am still not sure) or move them Tiny more to the left. Or build something to move shaded bunch higher.

This one is interesting:
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Thunder Mountain. I remember this variety was a little different at the Growtent but the balcony one doesn't have furr... Hmm.

Ok, let's enjoy abundance of flowers and pods and the lushiest of them!
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Looks like hab! Those yellowy flowers.
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And this one having fruits already.
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Upwards fruits? Huhu, I'm excited!
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I am the most proud of this Cayenne.
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She is twice or thrice as big as the rest there.




Tasmanian Black!
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She's still not looking the prettiest but I see new branches coming and she is constantly setting new fruits not caring about ripening previous ones. That is kinda impressive. The most prolific variety I have had in those two years. Will stay in my collection for sure, thanks @Bou! <3


This is the best one from the Outside Bunch! Don't know yet what is it but flowers are coming!
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Also, few of them got stunned while sprouting
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They flower and already gave me some fruits but I don't see much growth in branching, maybe in leafave.

And my tomatoes got too much fertilizer. I didn't give them any since the last mentioning of it. They are coming together tho.

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Most of them are good tho.
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Also, I am yolo putting some tomatoes into bags and one of them is 15 galon.
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Thunder Mountain. I remember this variety was a little different at the Growtent but the balcony one doesn't have furr... Hmm.
Nice update! My TML is pubescent too. Can you post a photo of the one on the balcony for comparison?

Tasmanian Black!
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🧐 At first glance I thought the mossy branches were part of the plant, but now I think they are part of the support 🙃 nice purple calyces anyway!
 
@SatanicFlatIron Overall Balcony TML doesn't look like pubescent but when I look at new growth it starts to.

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And yes, @ahayastani , it is a branch from my apple tree. I still don't have anything ready to make it more professional xd


Today I picked another SR Peach and it is really orangy...
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I am going on an adventure to find some last years photos!

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Ok, it is so different on the photo but comparing to this one:

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It's way more bright and less peachy.
That is curious. :o
 
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@ahayastani that is impressive tho, sounds cool 🤟

I went on another small adventure today looking for your @ahayastani glog or something too see your ways and it is either too hard for me or you don't have any! What happened after buying this property?
So, were are those coco made and what is growing in them? I wanna see some photos now 😅
 
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@ahayastani that is impressive tho, sounds cool 🤟

I went on another small adventure today looking for your @ahayastani glog or something too see your ways and it is either too hard for me or you don't have any! What happened after buying this property?
So, were are those coco made and what is growing in them? I wanna see some photos now 😅

Change of plans... Long story... But we're building a house now and construction should be finished somewhere in November. I could do with some Piots and Stanislaws though, they are easier to work with than Juan and José. I will have some good land there, good enough to beat your 4sses in the growdown 😎. My current location sucks, I started 5 plants somewhere in March and I've got only 1 left: 2 destroyed by a baby tlacuache (caught and handed over to an organisation that releases them in the wild, away from urbanized areas) and 2 by cats.

I should post some images in my other plants glog. I'm currently processing some coconuts, so I'll snap some shots and post them there.
 
Ok, so, the life is at its fullest, I see! 😂

Congrats on the house and cats! Cats are cool. They just wants attention... 😅🤣

I always encourage to post and write and share anything.
 
Like this hype!
Omg, look at this branching!
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And flowers! It's in the Garden.
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And my Pride, I cannot hold it and do a picture showing her fullest beauty, but that is the closest I got.
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From the Balcony I have fruits coming!

Tribelli
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Ok, I will name them in the edit. Before my battery dies, have it ALL! Flowers and Fruits, from known to mystery ones! Fatali, Melocoton, Spotchet and others! PJ Ice going strongly!
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Somewhere there is an image of Aribibi Chocolate top branching and I can see there that compost tea is kinda too much in doses I was doing.

Have to make it more subtle.

I also have Masterblend and CalMag I rarery use to balce things out, and seaweeds. I watered twice with plain water and once with all these balancing team.

Oh. And rain was there too in the meantime on the Balcony.

At the garden I use river or rain water with all what us in that barrel on the bottom. Dark green moss from the roof, algae and mosquito stuff... yep. Wanted to use fish today but I am gonna wait.
 
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