PaulG
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Simple is beautiful and functional. From the looks of your
plants, I'd say you are doing something right.
Good luck going forward.
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Simple is beautiful and functional. From the looks of your
plants, I'd say you are doing something right.
Good luck going forward.
Nice Phill. The plants look nice and healthy!
[sub]Not bad for my first real try I guess. Should have about another month or so before I can start taking them outside so hopefully they are plenty big by then. I am a bit worried they are growing a bit slow, the bigger ones are roughly a month old.....[/sub]
[sub]Yikes, don't know where the small text came from....sorry.[/sub]
[sub]Yikes, don't know where the small text came from....sorry.[/sub]
Hi all,
im from Germany. I will show you my new Growing frame
This frame can have place up to 700 Plants
I have this year 450 in it
The front is now open, normally it is a foil curtain at the front
Empty Frame: Date: 10 January 2012
Filled Frame: Date: 18 February 2012
and the last Pic from 11 March 2012
one more
Regards from Germany
im from Germany. I will show you my new Growing frame
This frame can have place up to 700 Plants
I have this year 450 in it
The front is now open, normally it is a foil curtain at the front
Empty Frame: Date: 10 January 2012
Filled Frame: Date: 18 February 2012
and the last Pic from 11 March 2012
one more
Regards from Germany
to the Hot Pepper
Here's a couple old pics:
2010-01-06 08.16.42 by Hot Pepper Daddy, on Flickr
2010-04-13 08.11.33 by Hot Pepper Daddy, on Flickr
Today I'm going to build an extension onto one side and add a temperature controller and some fans. My basement is pretty cold and keeping the temps in the right range for germinating is a pain. I'll post pics when it's done.
2010-01-06 08.16.42 by Hot Pepper Daddy, on Flickr
2010-04-13 08.11.33 by Hot Pepper Daddy, on Flickr
Today I'm going to build an extension onto one side and add a temperature controller and some fans. My basement is pretty cold and keeping the temps in the right range for germinating is a pain. I'll post pics when it's done.
They look pretty damn ghetto at night...but like all Christmas lights they look WAY more ghetto by daylight. I'll try to post a few pics if I make it home before dark tonight.
Here are a few daytime pics...this doesn't show half of what I got going on...but you get the picture 
I took some of my 5 gallon containers and rigged them with Xmas lights through the drain holes and grocery bag.
Gets pretty warm in there. It was almost 70 degrees in there last night when it was 40 degrees outside. Pretty amazing how much heat those little bulbs put out!
I took some of my 5 gallon containers and rigged them with Xmas lights through the drain holes and grocery bag.
Gets pretty warm in there. It was almost 70 degrees in there last night when it was 40 degrees outside. Pretty amazing how much heat those little bulbs put out!
I'm currently rigging up something to harden the plants off in... don't know how well it will work, but I'm too lazy and cheap to drive to the hardware store to pick up more wood, so, here goes nothing... will post pics later.
Decided to put them on the concrete this year. The temps are cool enough currently that they shouldn't cook during the day, and the concrete blocks and patio should help keep them a bit warmer into the night. Stuck some pvc pipes in the openings, stabilized it a bit by tying on a scrap piece of wood, then tucked plastic under one edge of the blocks and secured the other side with clamps. During the day the ends can be clamped open to allow for air flow. Plastic is thick enough that I shouldn't need to worry about burning the plants too much- this will be the intermediary between shade and direct sunlight.
Haha, most of the baccatums are already too tall for it. Oh well, I think they'll be fine at this point.
I stuck my head inside of it and notice already that it's a few degrees warmer than the surrounding air. Should work out nicely...
Decided to put them on the concrete this year. The temps are cool enough currently that they shouldn't cook during the day, and the concrete blocks and patio should help keep them a bit warmer into the night. Stuck some pvc pipes in the openings, stabilized it a bit by tying on a scrap piece of wood, then tucked plastic under one edge of the blocks and secured the other side with clamps. During the day the ends can be clamped open to allow for air flow. Plastic is thick enough that I shouldn't need to worry about burning the plants too much- this will be the intermediary between shade and direct sunlight.
Haha, most of the baccatums are already too tall for it. Oh well, I think they'll be fine at this point.
I stuck my head inside of it and notice already that it's a few degrees warmer than the surrounding air. Should work out nicely...
So how long are those pieces of pipe? and how far apart are the ends at the bottom?
This wasn't very scientific... let's see... the 1/2inch PVC is 5' I believe, there's a little over a foot and a half of space between the cinderblocks with about 2 feet of clearance in the middle. I'm sure it could be scaled up, I actually like cinder blocks for building ghetto raised beds, at least in cooler areas.
Sync, from my experience doing almost this exact same thing a couple of seasons ago, watch out inside the frame for hot spots. I don't know what your lighting setup inside consists of, but my plants went from being under fluoros to a frame with plastic sheeting. I figured since the sheeting would block part of the light it would be a easy transition. It worked for the most part but I developed hot spots where the sheeting wasn't pulled tight enough and actually focus the light like a magnifying glass and burnt parts of plants to a crisp.