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I plan on restarting small. I ordered Chocolate Reaper seeds from Matt's Peppers (ETA Tuesday 2/14) and will be using my patio to grow the plants. I measured it out, and with the 5-gallon Home Depot buckets from my previous venture, I should have space for 24 on the balcony, using drip irrigators and a fertilizer injector.

I'll be sure to post up pics soon when I begin the seeding process.

Update 2/14/2025: Here's the first pics. Thanks to Matt's Peppers for the quick delivery and the freebies included in the package. I'll be starting my grow this year with Chocolate Reapers.
 

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Well, this sucks. I just got a letter today from my HOA. They told me that the plants in my Home Depot buckets constitute balcony clutter, and I have 7 days to remove it. I also have to take down the tarp.

They said I have to replace them with formal planters. Thing is, I'd like to replace them and figure out how to also prevent the water from spilling over the front of my balcony, but at this point, I'll have to postpone things indefinitely until I can get some planters that won't leak all over the place, but still not cause root rot.

Edit/Update: I checked on Home Depot's website, and they have a 16-pack of 10-gallon planters for $155, which I can try to get in a couple of weeks, provided I'm not on the receiving end of any more "surprises" in the next month or two. Between those, and the soil I plan on getting (don't wanna re-use the soil I have already as I don't want to risk cross contamination with any bacteria that may have started up), I should be good to go.

Plus with the new seedlings I started recently, I should be good, despite the recent setbacks...
 
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The tarp I can understand, but objecting to the plant containers you use? That's crazy business. 🙁
Unless they complain about the actual plants, which is even worse. Anyway, I hope you can reach an agreement with the HoA that works for all parties.
 
Ohjay said:
The tarp I can understand, but objecting to the plant containers you use? That's crazy business. 🙁
Unless they complain about the actual plants, which is even worse. Anyway, I hope you can reach an agreement with the HoA that works for all parties.
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As a matter of fact, I spoke this morning with my next door neighbor who's on the board, and he agreed that while the tarp does need to go (he guessed that whoever filed the complaint thought the tarp being up was some kind of permanent construction thing), he was just as mystified as I was about the Home Depot buckets being mentioned specifically in the complaint. He guessed it was one of the two "HOA Nazis" (his words) on the current board.

He did agree that regular planters, exactly like the ones he himself uses and what I showed him would be perfect, and to buy them. As for the issue of drainage, he liked my idea of putting a wood board at the bottom of the railing to prevent the water from falling over the front of the balcony. He also mentioned that in all the years he's been on the board (he's lived here since the neighborhood was built in '06 and has ben on the board almost as long), he's never once seen anything in the bylaws that restricted the number of plants one could have on their balcony.

So that being said, as soon as I'm able, I'll buy a board to fit underneath the railing to prevent drainage to the front of the balcony, getting the planters, using the same basic no-frills soil which I had excellent success with the last time I successfully grew superhots (link to the soil, obviously I won't get 65 bags of it, but just enough for the new planters) and the plants which will hopefully begin sprouting from the new trays I started the other day.

And for a nice shameless plug, here's pics of the new trays. Thanks to @CaneDog for the recommendations on what to do for this round of trays.

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The TV that was in my bedroom years ago, and it conked out, so I moved the one that was in the living room up to my bedroom. When I get the chance, I'll be buying a new(er) TV for my living room, but right now, money is kinda tight, on account of me crawling my way out of a mountain of medical debt...

My plan is to wall-mount the new TV once I get around to buying it. Hopefully that will be a reality sooner rather than later...
 
What about grow bags? I had the same issue with the old property manager here. In her words I was allowed to grow whatever so long as it looked nice, and NO BUCKETS. 247garden has some tall 5 gallon tree bags that are almost identical to the size of 5 gallon buckets. Available in a few colors too. When I bought all of mine they were around $2.50 each.
 
DementedWelder said:
What about grow bags? I had the same issue with the old property manager here. In her words I was allowed to grow whatever so long as it looked nice, and NO BUCKETS. 247garden has some tall 5 gallon tree bags that are almost identical to the size of 5 gallon buckets. Available in a few colors too. When I bought all of mine they were around $2.50 each.
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That was discussed, and my neighbor on the HOA was pretty specific about pots/planters just to make sure I stay on the good side of the other HOA board members as well.
 
DementedWelder said:
*smh*
30 years ago Jupiter was full of crackheads. Now Plants in buckets is clutter. HOA's ruined the place.
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I don't disagree. The vast majority of the neighborhoods in Jupiter have HOA's now, and the ones that don't are usually cheap, old houses. I co-owned a place with my dad ~20 years ago a couple blocks from the corner of Indiantown & Alt-A1A, and I kinda wish I still had it. Even though it was in a lower-class neighborhood, the place was 3 bedrooms, had a pool, and still enough land space for a decent back yard. I kept thinking over the years how I could have had at least 100 or so pepper plants in that space, definitely several times more than I would be able to fit on the balcony.
 
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That thing could have been worth $600k by now with the market the way it is. Accross from the walmart and pepboys I saw some 2/2's going for $350k before I left FL.
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Right now, it's hovering at about $500k, but I bought it in 2019 for $285k. Everyone I know said I bought it at the perfect time.

ahayastani said:
An idea in case you'd need a new fence...

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Don't tempt me LMAO!
 
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