Next to My Chair Again

Baby plants again!  Down on the floor again next to my chair in my little library.  Here's how it looks right now.  I've got seeds in the germinator moving to cups every day now, will end up with another dozen or so seedlings under the light.   
 

 
I'm scaling back from the 20+ plants I had last year to seven or eight plants, some in Kratky containers of various sizes, others in fabric pots with dirt.  The list: 
 
10G D - Sugar Rush Peach - WDC
10G D - P. Dreadie - CD
5G D - JPGS - WHP
5G D - 1208 Red - UE
5G K - 1208 Red - UE
5G K - 7 Pot Jonah - WHP
32G K - Haskorea - PtMD989
1G K - Rocoto Arequipa Giant Red - CD
Bonchi start - 7 Pot Yellow - BB
 
Kratky will be Botanicare CNS17 Grow and bottled spring water at first, tap water later.  Dirt will be a mix of pine bark fines, potting soil, and perlite with fish pellets.  Dirt will occasionally be watered with Kratky solution. 
 
I'll be growing out on the deck again on the north side of my house.  I'd love to have a wide open space with southern exposure, but this will have to do. It works. I've got a decent means of hanging shade cloth ready to go. I'm good. 
Thinking about sticking a plant in the ground over where the ill-fated Siv's Plant once made a valiant effort to survive a completely unfair transplant, too..  Will see.
 
Any and all comments or criticisms are very welcome and I thank you all most warmly for having me and schooling me and reading my noodlings!

 

[PaulG]

Great looking soil mix, Unc.
 
Those plants should really flourish in that!
 
 
 
Forgot to include Edit:

 
Did you notice he's wearing the 'barking dog' mask?

 

[Uncle Eckley]

Great looking soil mix, Unc.
 
Those plants should really flourish in that!
 
Did you notice he's wearing the 'barking dog' mask?

 
Thanks, Paul!  I hope they will.  Pass or fail, I'll be posting my results! 
 
So glad you remembered Edit! Honestly, no, I didn't notice the mask at first, but I know the meme and can see Edit's mask. Thankfully, I still have to look for it. 

 

[Devv]

Good to see those gals outside, may the weather hold!

 

[Uncle Eckley]

Good to see those gals outside, may the weather hold!

 
I can schlep them all in if need be. Sure hope I won't have to, though. 

 

[Devv]

 
I can schlep them all in if need be. Sure hope I won't have to, though. 

I used to haul them all on to tables on the back side of the house. Got real tired of that, as it's like 50 yards to the shop...and uphill. Now I have one of those wagons with the big balloon tires (wifey idea), and the tables are right outside the shop. Someone used to tell me all the time: "Work smarter, not harder". I think getting older (pain) made me smarter...LOL

 

[Uncle Eckley]

I used to haul them all on to tables on the back side of the house. Got real tired of that, as it's like 50 yards to the shop...and uphill. Now I have one of those wagons with the big balloon tires (wifey idea), and the tables are right outside the shop. Someone used to tell me all the time: "Work smarter, not harder". I think getting older (pain) made me smarter...LOL

 
I'm exaggerating. Most of them would move six feet to the other side of the sliding glass door.  

 

[Devv]

 
I'm exaggerating. Most of them would move six feet to the other side of the sliding glass door.  

You funny!
 
I'll fly up and help!

 

[Ghost Pepper Revolution]

Bonchee pepper looks kool. Like the list bro 

 

[Uncle Eckley]

Bonchee pepper looks kool. Like the list bro 

 
Thanks! 

 

[lespaulde]

Looking good unc, hopefully soon no more schlepping at all!

I'm with Devv too, this year I'm keeping plants indoor for longer to ensure no evening luggings - no fun carrying 12+ plants in and out over 100 yards twice a day and I'm not even 40 yet... xD

Potting mix looks nice and light, should give room to some monster plants!

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[Uncle Eckley]

Looking good unc, hopefully soon no more schlepping at all!

I'm with Devv too, this year I'm keeping plants indoor for longer to ensure no evening luggings - no fun carrying 12+ plants in and out over 100 yards twice a day and I'm not even 40 yet... xD

Potting mix looks nice and light, should give room to some monster plants!

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Thank you! 
 
Yeah, 100 yards is way too far. 

 

[Uncle Eckley]

JPGS in custom 3D-printed net cup, 1G Target cookie jar. 

 
Haskorea bound for the 32G is coming along nicely. 

 

[Devv]

Before I retired from a school district, they had 3 or 4 3D printers; each new one was better than the last. That and they had 2 CNC machines. One was a plasma cutter unit, write up the program in CAD, it cuts the metal. The other a laser cutter for small thickness materials, ie. 1/4" plywood, balsa, etc.
I could get lost in that stuff, especially the laser unit. I have way too many hobbies, building, crashing flying RC balsa planes is one. I would love to build my own kits.

 

[PaulG]

Wow, Unc, you have got it dialed in, brother   
 
Beautiful specimens! That Haskorea will be the
Sequoia Redwood of pepper plants in a 32-gallon
Kratky(?)

 

[Uncle Eckley]

Wow, Unc, you have got it dialed in, brother   
 
Beautiful specimens! That Haskorea will be the
Sequoia Redwood of pepper plants in a 32-gallon
Kratky(?)

 
Thanks, Paul! 
 
Yep, Kratky for the Haskorea. Waiting another week or two for more confidence in the weather before I move him up. 

 

[HeatMiser]

Good looking plants as usual Unc,
 
How are you liking the cups? I think you're going to need longer support pipes once that Haskorea makes it to the 32 tank!

 

[Uncle Eckley]

Good looking plants as usual Unc,
 
How are you liking the cups? I think you're going to need longer support pipes once that Haskorea makes it to the 32 tank!

 
Thanks, HM!
 
The cups are working just fine. They do very well with a little ribbon strung between the pipes to support the plant in the wind.
 
I actually cut away the net pot attached to this lid and set a separate six-inch net pot in the hole so I could remove the plant easily come time to move it to the garbage can. I've got a large wire cage to sit on the garbage can. 

 

[HeatMiser]

 
 
 
I actually cut away the net pot attached to this lid and set a separate six-inch net pot in the hole so I could remove the plant easily come time to move it to the garbage can. I've got a large wire cage to sit on the garbage can. 

 
Oh nice! I didn't notice that at first - I thought you were just going to pull a Peter Stanley and put the whole lid on the garbage can. This is a much more elegant solution.

 

[Ghost Pepper Revolution]

Very kool looking plants and I must say: do ya have a pic of the 3D printed net pot? I’m curious what a 3D one looks like opposed to regular 

 

[Uncle Eckley]

Very kool looking plants and I must say: do ya have a pic of the 3D printed net pot? I’m curious what a 3D one looks like opposed to regular 

 
Printing in progress. The lower cylinder is a thin web the printer builds to support the flange that will sit on the mouth of the jar. 

 
After the supports were removed. The hole pattern is turned over 45° on the sides so we wouldn't have to clean out support web from the holes. The printer can do up to a 45° overhang with no supports. 

 
On the jar. I was lazy and never painted it.  The net cup portion is much shallower than commercially available cups of similar diameter. I'm using this jar because it's nice and squat, letting me keep the light lower. The shallower cup increases relative volume avaliable for nutrient solution. 

 
Another angle. The high walls are meant to allow more Hydroton to be piled up around the stem for better support since the net portion is shallow. I've had a second one made with walls only half as high for the Naga Smooky Rainbow I've got coming up for my chair plant. I really enjoyed keeping one plant over the winter. 

 
This was designed in sort of a hurry. I wish I'd taken the time to include threads to screw it onto the jar. I'm using rubber bands. They work, but aren't pretty.