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HM-PuFFNSTuFF:
I read in the other thread that you planted your pepper seedlings. Did you seed them yourself? I seeded some peppers in my greenhouse three weeks ago. But down to the present day no success. Not the tiniest leaflet even though it was most of the time above 25-30°C in the greenhouse... How long do pepper seeds take to leaf out according to your experience? Any tricks?

They can take a while, don't give up. (btw haven't forgotten to send you those seeds)

You might want to try to germinate some in a folded paper towel. Wet it completely then press the excess water out. Put the seeds in between the folded paper and put it in a sealed ziplock bag.

I'll try the wet towel method. If it works you can call me the german germinator.

Any other gardeners here? I have a small container garden on my back deck. 5 varieties of hot peppers, peas, beans, carrots, tomatoes, golden beets, corn and ground cherry.

I tried my hand at growing some vegetables in my garden last year. There was a big supermarket chain that gave out these little paper cups with a round tablet of dried soil and a randomly selected bag of seeds. Just add a bit of water to the dried soil tablet and it would suck it up and become workable soil. Put the seeds with the soil in the paper cup and water it until green sprouts appear. Then replant as necesary.
You got one of these cups for each €10 you'd spend on groceries. It was quite a hit actually.

I heard mostly stories of failure from friends and family but I was relatively successful in growing my own carrots, tomato's, scallion, various types of salad and some herbs. I must admit my strawberries, broccoli, eggplant and paprika failed horribly, the latter mostly due to snails. At one point my paprika plant was downgraded to the snail-honeypot in hopes it wouldn't spread to my other plants. The strawberry seeds appeared to be duds. Nothing happened.

This year they had the same promotional stunt again but I skipped on it because it was a lot of work getting stuff to grow, despite my hilariously amateurish approach.

Mention of strawberries above: I am recalling the days I used to pick them in my early teens. A long time ago for sure.
I was actually picking strawberries in the paddock when man first landed on the Moon

The farm boss yelled from the packing shed, "Come up now, they're coming out and the door about to step on the Moon". You've all seen the grainy black & white TV pictures of the event.

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OT: I live in a high rise apartment so my gardening is limited to maintaining pot plants and not the smoking type of weed
I do have some herbs in the kitchen, parsley, mint and coriander 'cause I love fresh herbs in my cooking.

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:Any other gardeners here?

Does it count if all I'm growing is weed? I just finished setting up my grow room and I'm about ready to plant my seeds once my lights arrive.

Depending on the type of pepper you're trying to germinate, the number of days before first sprout can range anywhere from 3 days to 100 days (even a bit longer). Hotter peppers take longer. My bhut jolokias took roughly a month to germinate.
It's also important that the medium you've planted your seeds in stays within a temperature the plant is comfortable with in its usual environment; I was using a heating blanket to keep my bhut jolokias consistently warm day through night.
Something to watch out for is mold which will destroy your little seedlings. This happens pretty easily if you don't keep your environment sterile. I've tried rockwool cubes and moist paper towels in ziploc baggies - I've had most success with the paper towel method.

Another interesting thing is that pepper plants, in particular, seem to have an adverse reaction to being planted in mediums containing peat.
My best peppers thrived after sprouting when planted into a mix of coco coir and compost made mostly of cedar shavings and manure scraped from my chicken coop during cleaning.

Gardening, yay! Not so into it myself, but my missus loves that stuff.

Some of our plants were infected by plant-louse, which can really fuck a plant right up. There's a load of folksy remedies for it, but she ended up ordering a little bag of ladybug larvae online. Just open the bag, it said, and throw your tiny new pets all over your plants - and so we did.



But ye gods, look at these little monsters! They start out as scorpionlike demons that immediately rush towards the nearest aphid and start sucking them dry - they've been going for two weeks now and they've eaten so much lice that they now have a food shortage, which has caused about half of them to die of starvation. Problem seems solved though, lols.

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Transient wrote:Does it count if all I'm growing is weed?

Sure it counts.

Some pics of my garden. It is leased and I took it over from the previous tenants three weeks ago. Still quite rank and lots of work to do. But on the other side I don't like those hyper-groomed and nail-cissor-trimmed sterile looking gardens...

Blue lilies:


Blue ilies and yellow poppies:




Some different sorts of potatoes I planted, already sprouting. First row to the right "Red King Edward", still a bit shy, side by side with "Reichskanzler"...


Welcome to the greenhouse. Still a bit empty but it should fill up in some weeks with tomato and pepper plants...


Seedlings of some sorts of tomatoes, melons, some herbs, peppermint, koriander, etc.:


I hope climate will be warm enough for some grapes...




Show your gardens if you like...

K chopov wins this thread.

damn. looking good chopov

Transient wrote:

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:Any other gardeners here?

Does it count if all I'm growing is weed? I just finished setting up my grow room and I'm about ready to plant my seeds once my lights arrive.

I'm guessing you won't post pics of the seedlings How many plants are you planning to have?

chopov wrote:Some pics of my garden.

i love gardening !

i'm into evergreen trees ey, junipers, cedar, pines spruces

i love them!

Hey chopov, we're gonna crash at your place during the zombie apocalypse

ToxicBug wrote:

Transient wrote:Does it count if all I'm growing is weed? I just finished setting up my grow room and I'm about ready to plant my seeds once my lights arrive.

I'm guessing you won't post pics of the seedlings How many plants are you planning to have?

I'll start with 6, but VT law prevents medical MJ growers from having more than 2 mature plants, so I'll have to kill a few girls at some point. LOL that's a weird way of putting it.

I'll post pics as the project comes along. I've already sunk $700 into this endeavor, so I might as well document it.

Captain Mazda wrote:Hey chopov, we're gonna crash at your place during the zombie apocalypse

I'll be putting up the mother of all potato cannons and load it with my "Reichskanzler"- -potatoes to blow some brains out. So let the zombies come...

Ohhhhhh, a garden thread! I'm excited to get home and see what my garden has been up to since I've been gone. Updates coming...

I got some wondering Jews growing in my back yard... ...

wandering

U would know... ...

Yes I would, it's called being educated...

lol...