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Bhuts are showing Cotys now[emoji16] Sent from my moto g(7) play using Tapatalk

Cheers Paul! Nope, not rockwool, I ran out of the Aerogarden sponges and substituted Oasis Horticubes trimmed to shape. Seems to work just fine! [emoji16] Sent from my moto g(7) play using Tapatalk

Starting to get Cotys showing! A couple of Yellow 7s in front and an MoA Bonnet behind and to the right. The Bhuts and the rest of the MoAs are hooking up. Just waiting on the Douglas and the Congo-SR7 crosses. Sent from my moto g(7) play using Tapatalk

I saw that here in Massachusetts last spring. I usually get a load of compost from a commercial provider, mix it with amendments and spread it evenly to prep my raised beds, but last spring was so wet and the compost was so waterlogged that they couldn't sell me any. Sent from my moto g(7) play...

We're a ways from that now Paul... My raised beds are still frozen solid though the snow is totally gone atm. It looks like we may get an early spring here but it could snow anytime in the next few weeks. At least I have my Chiles sowed... Alphanerdz Douglas X3, MoA Bonnets X3, Red Bhuts X2...

I got a few seeds from Neil at the Hippy Seed co... Some 7pot Yellows and Congo SR 7pot Reds. To those I'll add Red Bhuts, MoA Scotch Bonnets and a couple Alphanerdz Douglas if I get germination from the Dougie's... The seed from them is getting a bit long in the tooth and I need to grow a fresh...

Hi all! So anyway, I worked out what I'll need to amend with Armor Si to hit the target set by the soil worksheets... first I had to work out what percentage of the total mass was elemental Silicon so I could use the worksheet formula to calculate how much to amend with. Turns out Armor Si...

Cheers Dan, thanks for stopping in. [emoji846] Sent from my moto g(7) play using Tapatalk

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I think the only real difference is one of scale Paul. In a garden bed the plants have the room to grow their roots out to the limit of their abilities in search of more nutes if the soil in the immediate vicinity becomes exhausted. Planting in pots or hydroponic containers limits them to...

... Back to our regularly scheduled program...   Here are the worksheets for last year and this year in the pepper garden. The front of the worksheet is used to compare the nutes present in your soil with the ideal. I'll have to ask Steve how he arrived at it but I suspect it was from testing...

  Thanks for the good wishes Ben. We're getting by here, but there's a cpap machine in my near future.

  Cheers Joe, maybe afterwards you'll be inspired to try it for yourself, eh?  :surprised:

  There are some pretty big holes here Paul... New England is notoriously short of available Boron, Cobalt, Molybdenum and Silicon. That's not to say that they're not present, but the more soluble forms have mostly leached away with time and erosion. Selenium is another trace element that's...

Cheers Jeff, Uros and Giancarlo... thanks for dropping in!   So anyway, looking at the progress I've made in the superhot garden in the last couple of years it looks like I've managed to decrease the soil pH significantly  from 7.7 to 7.4 by adding sulfur, but the organic matter dropped from a...

Agreed on growing conditions too... You can give a plant all it wants to eat, but if it's too cold for the plant to survive it'll die anyway. Sent from my moto g(7) play using Tapatalk

Cheers guys! Thanks for stopping in. [emoji3] On to topic... For more in-depth info on what I'll cover here check out a book called "The Intelligent Gardener: or how to grow nutrient dense food" by Steve Solomon and Erica Reinheimer...

As a test bed I agree that planting in pots or hydroponic media is much easier than soil, but that's mostly a matter of scale. You're dealing with a much smaller plot of "ground". Plant nutrition in soil comes from the soil solution formed by the interactions of soil dwelling organisms with...

It looks like it to me. Edema leaves a sandy-looking deposit on the underside of the leaves when the plant sap exuded there evaporates. Sent from my moto g(7) play using Tapatalk

Howdy Trippa! If I get germination from my seed stash I will. Last year I grew one plant that yielded a good harvest of pods, but I grew it alongside a half dozen other super varieties and didn't sequester any blossoms after self-pollination to keep the genetics clean. Just too much to do then...