I just received an envelope with 7 different varieties including some that I don't have in my collection. I sent those seeds back just to help you out, without expectation of payment at all. Very kind of you. Thanks.
Got a lot more sprouted since I took this, but didn't take pics today, so you get several day old pic..
We have sprouts in about 20 trays now.
Will have updated germ % on everything in a week or so. (maybe a little longer on brown moruga, kinda goofed and forgot to put any water in that tray until I lifted it today and went WTF.. so seeds were just sitting in dry media for a week lol)
I just seen your thread for this year. I'll be sending in my extra Tekne Dolmasi, it's only like 12 seeds, but form those 12 thousands can grow. Also including those Khang Starr Lemon Starrburst I mention to you last year.
For about 15 minutes, at sunset, we had a pink snowfall a couple nights ago.
Past them evergreens is the 4.5 acre certified organic field on the new homestead.
The lane coming up to the house isn't even visible, even though I'd driven over it an hour before this pic. We didn't get a ton of snow but what we did get came fast.
Inside this building is our cannabis potency grow. The back part of the building contains our laying breeder hens (28 of them) and 2 very lucky roosters.
Out at the other farm, the loft has turned in to a mother room
We did manage to squeeze some seedlings in up there, though.
Our biggest challenge at this point is controlling aphids - spending about $200 a month on live ladybugs to keep them in check. They never quite seem to reproduce fast enough to maintain a balance on their own.
Took some lids off today and turned the lights up over those trays. Still have a few trays of no sprouts, valerian, lavender, and the fatalli yellow seeds haven't sprouted yet. The fatalli yellow seeds concern me, a little, didn't have many of them (most of our seed harvest were fatalli reds), looks like they might be sterile?
Should hatch 90 a week, if everything works out. We have a couple of buff orpington roosters mating the hens (leghorns, buffs, rhode island reds, black concords).
Will be fun to see what "outcrosses" we get.
Also I wasn't specific enough on instructions for sowing pepper seeds, and the first round of chinense got seeded too deep (some, i found, were an inch down!).
Lots of problems from that.
We re-started pretty much all of the trays last week, at correct depth...