Newril's swedish indoor grow (update: The world outside)

Bumper · Apr 7, 2015

Great and healthy collection of plants there newril!

Runescape · Apr 7, 2015

newril said:
First version of my indoor ikea growbox

Who wouldve thought they got ikea in Sweden...

Nice list, plants, and light fixture...

newril · Apr 8, 2015

Bumper said:
Great and healthy collection of plants there newril!

Thanks

Runescape said:
Who wouldve thought they got ikea in Sweden...

Nice list, plants, and light fixture...

yep yep, must be quite a shocker that we got IKEA in sweden

tsurrie · Apr 8, 2015

Very nice indoor grow! It seems you're doing it right. Good luck.

newril · Apr 10, 2015

I'm new to pruning but i tried to remove some leafs so that the stems will get more light. I'm not sure if I'm doing it right, hopefully it will work.

nephila · Apr 10, 2015

Thats how i do my pruning aswell

Nice looking plants there! Think i might copy you on the metal reflector thingy you have going on there

newril · Apr 11, 2015

Midnight Sun Peppers said:
Thats how i do my pruning aswell

Nice looking plants there! Think i might copy you on the metal reflector thingy you have going on there

Good to hear that you prune like that as well, since your plants look great

I've used cheap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_blanketas reflectors. I were going to try foil but I got the tip to use emergency blanket from dave2000 (another user at thp)

Trident chilli · Apr 11, 2015

A formidable jungle of healthy plants .... love the emergency blanket tip ... what variety are you most looking forward too

nephila · Apr 11, 2015

newril said:
Good to hear that you prune like that as well, since your plants look great I've used cheap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_blanketas reflectors. I were going to try foil but I got the tip to use emergency blanket from dave2000 (another user at thp)

Was thinking of using normal kitchen tinfoil as thats what i have on hand but will look into the emergancy blankets if they are easy to get hold of, thanks for the tip!

newril · Apr 11, 2015

Trident chilli said:
A formidable jungle of healthy plants .... love the emergency blanket tip ... what variety are you most looking forward too

Thanks, hard to choose.. guess all of them :dance:

PaulG · Apr 11, 2015

Another great looking northern grow! Your grow
box set-up is awesome; some intense lighting there!

I don't think you can hurt the plants too much by
trimming; they seem to take most things (except
aphids!) in stride. Hope you got a handle on
those suckers.

How long are your summer days there? I'll bet
plants grow like crazy in the long days.

newril · Apr 12, 2015

PaulG said:
Another great looking northern grow! Your grow
box set-up is awesome; some intense lighting there!

I don't think you can hurt the plants too much by
trimming; they seem to take most things (except
aphids!) in stride. Hope you got a handle on
those suckers.

How long are your summer days there? I'll bet
plants grow like crazy in the long days.

Thank you!

may 16-18

june and july about 18h

august 16-14 h

So lots of light but its pretty cold here

PaulS · Apr 12, 2015

Every thing looks bra!
Your grow box looks like you have three theater lights illuminating the stars of the show

PaulG · Apr 12, 2015

"So lots of light but its pretty cold here"

So, I guess a greenhouse or poly tunnel would be in order,
or do you grow indoors all season? Maybe your apartment
has a balcony?

newril · Apr 12, 2015

PaulG said:
"So lots of light but its pretty cold here"

So, I guess a greenhouse or poly tunnel would be in order,
or do you grow indoors all season? Maybe your apartment
has a balcony?

Yep, would get a greenhouse if I lived in a house, but I got a apartment. I do have a little balcony where i'm going to place some plants.

Most of the plants will be grown indoor all the time though.

newril · Apr 17, 2015

Still no signs of new aphids in the grow box. My ow bhuts and reapers still had lots of aphids (i didn't release any lacewings since those plants don't fit in the grow box).
I decided to move them outside and let them die.

The pruning seems to work aswell, can see some new growth.

Lower grow area

Upper

I also harvested my purple jalapenos ( some are over ripe others not ripe, but i wanted to harvest all of them so that the plant can start flowering again)

PaulS · Apr 17, 2015

Sucks you had to kill all those plants

Looks like you have lots of nice ones in your grow area though.
I hope you've got rid of the bugs for good

newril · Apr 19, 2015

My grow box is full, but I couldn't resist buying 5 35liter pots.

2 tomato plants
1 big jim
1 jalapeno mucho nacho
1 unknown (messed up the labeling)

sowed some marigolds as well, so that I can feed my adult lacewings

newril · Apr 28, 2015

Hi there another update.

Made my veryfirst sauce

I'm not that good at recipes. I usually just mix things that i like when i cook

Made somekind of pineapple salsa with

lime
garlic
pineapple
onion
coriander
vinegar

Another picture on the 35l pots

Our cat had cought a little mouse (he didn't kill the mouse). We saw it behind one of the big pots. Then it ran away and we couldn't find him/her again.

Saturday morning I heard something in the growbox. We removed everything from the bottom floor.

After sometime we managed to catch the little mouse.

We released it in the woods near our house.

bonus (the cat who couldn't finnish the job)