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They brought me more chipper mulch Friday. That's the good part. I know for a fact this new pile is two loads. This means the pile they hauled in the week before was a helluva lot more than 2 loads/12 yards. That pile is huge compared to the new pile. The bad part is the new driver dumped the...

The electric co-op did line cleaning recently. They brought me a nice pile of mulch from the chipper yesterday. Not sure how many loads they brought but it looks like 2 loads/12 yards. This stuff starts making some pretty decent compost in about 6 months. Right on time too. Last time they...

I've learned the in-ground overwintered plants are not so hardy. They've steadily given it up. I goofed up and killed one myself by careless placing of a pot on it for a temperature that reached 30.7° the morning of March 19. I broke off the single branch and nothing came back. Most of the rest...

I agree with all of this. Some of my lights have two modes. For growing vegetation, 430-660 nm. For flowers and fruit, 430-740 nm. The Veg side draws 125W and the flower side draws 55W. I always run both. The far red above 730 nm and some very low UV at 380-410 nm are pretty much invisible. They...

The major thing for this year is working with the CARDI Scorpions. I don't care too much at all about a massive harvest. I will be growing some YNBS crop, including the ones who made it though the winter. I hope they do well. I have a lot scorpions started. Four different types. My red CARDI...

Here's another view of tulle in action.

I use tulle to bag my isolation plants. It's a bit of a pain but it's cheap and works well. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HLKLCFI/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

End of season notes: The weird cold started the night of 1/15. Surprise ice storm with a lot of wind. I ran the water and the plants did well even with a lot of the covers blown off. Picture was taken at noon. When the ice melted, I finished the picking and hacked the plants. I didn't have...

Winter season notes: The plants are good and still doing everything they're supposed to be doing. I've been turning on the water when it looks certain to go below 30°. That's just about every night lately. Got a break last night with a low of 35°. Mid-January with plants still flowering...

Interesting. It makes sense. The field treatment for frostbite is thaw the frozen tissue, ideally with body temperature water.

Thanks CD. That's a very interesting read. It will give me a lot to learn and plan for possible implementation next winter. What I will do now is cobble up some properly open to air, waterproof enclosures for my sensors and start collecting more data. I just did quick and dirty plastic bags out...

I've always heard the way overhead irrigation for freeze protection works is it coats the plants and their important parts with ice. I never understood how you can freeze something to protect it from freezing. Now I've seen it happen and I know it works but I still don't understand how and why...

The plants are all good. They've had about eight nights below freezing so far. It was down to 30 point something at 4:15 this morning so I turned the water on for a couple hours. The water seems to do a big job. This is my first year using this strategy. I shouldn't have to do anything tonight...

The plants are still happy. Flowering, making babies, and sprouting new branches. Keeping them picked is like sweeping the sun off the sidewalk. I have four bins waiting for processing right now. Been picking since it's getting cold tonight and tomorrow night. We've had many two-day freeze/frost...

If you like germinating in paper towels, you'll love coffee filters. The root doesn't grow into the filter paper.

I guess nobody else wants to play this silly game ☺️ My name for this guy would be Bill. Rude name, Mr Prickensack.

Your pictures remind me I need to get back to growing some herbs. Lazybone has special boxes for that.

I got some seeds from Atlantic. Yellow and I took my bonus buy in reds. We had an email confab about the yellow cardi peppers. I asked about history and background. He said it is what it is and he has no lineage info but it's a great variety.and it's not a variety they made. Later, after I...

It was a jalapeño who taught me to never disrespect a pepper. One of the hottest peppers I ever ate was one of the three fresh jalapeños I got to eat with an excellent pastrami sandwich. I bought this meal from a deli in Queens NY during one of the most famous blizzards to ever hit the city. I...

We just had another 2-day cold period that was similar to the one we had the first of this month but was colder earlier in the nights. Monday and Tuesday I tried to pick everything. Ha! Good luck with that. Monday night I didn't bother with turning on the water.since it was still 41° at 4AM...