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Post by scarfguy on Aug 29, 2023 12:49:40 GMT -5
Oh, you've got lots of room! In addition to your grow room, you have a kitchen, a bathroom, a bedroom, a living room, a dining room and, probably, a basement!
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Post by lynnee on Aug 29, 2023 12:58:15 GMT -5
slw, the AGs basically draw the same power as a lamp, so you can connect quite a few without overloading a circuit. I have some of my AGs plugged into wall outlets, and some plugged into battery backups. My garden room currently has three Farms, five Bounties, a Harvest, a printer, a floor lamp, a table lamp, an Amazon Echo, and a desktop computer, and isn't triggering the 15-amp circuit breaker. The room also shares the circuit with the master bedroom and the bathroom lights. 
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Post by slw on Aug 29, 2023 13:54:18 GMT -5
Well that’s a bummer. I was going to get the Aerogarden cukes from the new sale that started today but of course they are out of stock. The green papers are still out of stock too! -- I was just on the AG website and it looks like the cucumbers are back in stock. |
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Post by slw on Aug 29, 2023 14:02:24 GMT -5
scarfguy -- Haha, I'm trying to keep 'em all corralled in one area to keep the "Las Vegas Strip Lighting Effect" to a minimum!!! I'm sure the neighbors are curious about our house glowing at 2 a.m. And no basements in Houston; the water table is too high so we are "slab city." I wish I did have a basement because I have a lot of stuff I could jam in there.
lynnee -- good to know about all the gardens you are operating in your grow room. I check the outlets and wiring occasionally to see if any of them feel warm to the touch; I don't want to burn the house down!!
Garden update: I tossed the Iznik out into a backyard flowerbed so maybe the raccoon who's dining on my poblano peppers will enjoy it as a snack. It has about 10 finger-size cucumbers still attached so if he hurries they might still be edible, lol.
Then I moved the 3 tomato plants (2 mega-cherry and 1 patio) to the Bounty where the Iznik was and started an AG cucumber in the Farm. Whew.
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Post by slw on Aug 31, 2023 13:41:37 GMT -5
Today I moved stuff around to figure out spots for the 2 Bountys coming this week. One of them arrived yesterday and I decided to move two small (3") patio tomato plants into it once I got it set up.
The herb seed kit that came in the box with the Bounty was all smashed so I took those pods out and put them in other boxes. I noticed that the nutes bottle has a new addition (or new to me)... a small green measuring cup that fits on the lid! Nice!
I also decided to add another pod of AG cucumbers to the Farm so I will be growing two vines in there. I need to get the new Farm trellises out and figure out how to install them.
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Post by swimmom500 on Aug 31, 2023 16:23:43 GMT -5
Today I moved my strawberry crowns from my Farm 12 XL to two Bounty Elites. (The Farm will get a cucumber.) I've had the crowns for seven days, and they got their first rinse and refill today. The looked nearly dead when I received them through the mail, so I'm happy they've perked up and grown leaves. These are actually on top of my cabinets, providing overhead light for the whole kitchen! I had a couple of strawberry plants that weren’t liking the heat outside so I potted them up and moved them inside. They were fine at first but now they look unhappy again. So I got this bright idea to wash all the soil off the roots and put them in my Aerogarden. I was trying to figure out how you did yours. When I put them in baskets with no sponges, the roots weren’t even in the water. So I shoved them down further into the baskets so they would get some water. That doesn’t seem right either! How did you do yours? Do you have them in a sponge or are they just in the basket? |
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Post by lynnee on Aug 31, 2023 18:21:57 GMT -5
The herb seed kit that came in the box with the Bounty was all smashed so I took those pods out and put them in other boxes. I noticed that the nutes bottle has a new addition (or new to me)... a small green measuring cup that fits on the lid! Nice!
Those little measuring cups used to be included in every seed pod kit. It would be lovely if they're bringing them back! |
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Post by lynnee on Aug 31, 2023 18:28:00 GMT -5
swimmom500, when I was growing strawberries, I slit the sponges to get them around the roots, and threaded the roots out through the pod openings so they could reach the water. This way the crowns could stay at deck level, and the sponges kept the roots moist. Your strawberries may be too large for that, though. 
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Post by lynnee on Aug 31, 2023 18:36:24 GMT -5
Today I did an R&R on four Bounties and two Farms, and relocated four teenage tomatoes in the Slicing Tomatoes project. Boy am I tired of carrying water! I also ran a Bounty through the dishwasher so that I can plant new lettuce tomorrow.  |
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Post by scarfguy on Aug 31, 2023 19:38:27 GMT -5
TODAY.. I did a little customization of one of my "scarfguy farm" frames:
I thought about this a long time before I came up with something that was fairly cheap and simple to construct.
This is a marconi red pepper that is outgrowing the frame. I knew they would grow fairly large.
SO... I added an additional foot to the height of the frame to give him some breathing room.
You only need some 1" diameter dowels:
You need 1 36" dowel but you have to buy 2 and you need 2 12" dowels but you have to buy 10. You can do much better at Home Depot I'm sure.
You also need the little T connectors.
You need 4 of those but I had to buy 10. These are really nice ones. Amazon has a ton of them in various qualities and prices. I'm sure a cheaper one would work just fine also.
Once constructed, it seems pretty stable. The bar that forms the top of the A frame needs to be screwed on tightly.
I was concerned that the bar would cast a shadow but it didn't. It does seem to reduce the light output by about 10% though.
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Post by swimmom500 on Aug 31, 2023 19:38:56 GMT -5
swimmom500, when I was growing strawberries, I slit the sponges to get them around the roots, and threaded the roots out through the pod openings so they could reach the water. This way the crowns could stay at deck level, and the sponges kept the roots moist. Your strawberries may be too large for that, though. Let me try and put them in the sponges tomorrow and see how they do. They all look on the verge of dying so I feel I have nothing to lose. Also put them in my filtered RO water. We recently moved and it seems a lot of my plants don’t like the water here. |
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Post by slw on Aug 31, 2023 19:44:22 GMT -5
Those little measuring cups used to be included in every seed pod kit. It would be lovely if they're bringing them back!  That's weird. I have been buying their seed kits for years and never seen those little green measuring cups. Of course I also had never gotten any of the black spacers for open holes on the deck until a few weeks ago.  |
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Post by lynnee on Sept 1, 2023 14:41:34 GMT -5
Yesterday I terminated my Merlot lettuce head and disinfected the Bounty it was in. Today I started another Merlot pod along with two Veranda Red pods. The VRs will go into another Bounty soon, because my two existing VRs are nearing the end of their natural lifespans. |
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Post by slw on Sept 1, 2023 21:09:24 GMT -5
I started Tatsoi in a Harvest Elite today. I have grown it in the outside raised beds but not in the AG, so I'm excited to see how it progresses.
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Post by scarfguy on Sept 1, 2023 21:57:02 GMT -5
Last year, I grew a pod of tatsoi and a pod of mizuna in a sprout. They both grew very well but the mizuna quickly outgrew the tatsoi and smothered it.
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Post by slw on Sept 1, 2023 22:27:05 GMT -5
I planted 4 pods of Tatsoi in a Slim Elite, so I was able to space them out a little. I read that many of you recommend thinning the seedlings to one plant per pod so hopefully it won't be overcrowded.
I forgot to mention that I started a single pod of the Dwarf Awesome tomatoes. I put it in a Bounty with a couple of other tomato varieties so I'm excited to see what happens there.
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Post by slw on Sept 2, 2023 14:57:01 GMT -5
Today I decided to do some re-arranging and then started another Iznik in a regular Bounty. I might move things around again when it sprouts and put it in the Bounty Elite but I need to stop changing my mind and having to reset gardens.
I gave all the gardens a dose of hydrogen peroxide and watered. |
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Post by swimmom500 on Sept 2, 2023 16:13:04 GMT -5
I did an R&R today on my Aerogarden Elite 6+. I have one Hungarian Wax Pepper in it. I keep getting lots of flowers but don’t see any peppers. When I dumped out the water I was surprised how warm the water was. Maybe I need to keep adding ice and it will do better.
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Post by lynnee on Sept 2, 2023 16:28:40 GMT -5
I did an R&R today on my Aerogarden Elite 6+. I have one Hungarian Wax Pepper in it. I keep getting lots of flowers but don’t see any peppers. When I dumped out the water I was surprised how warm the water was. Maybe I need to keep adding ice and it will do better. One of the things that Koolbloom is supposed to do, is help with fruit set. If you're using Koolbloom and getting lots of flowers but no fruit, you may want to cut down on the Koolbloom. If your pepper plant has lots of leaves and branches, you may want to prune it to improve air circulation and encourage pepper production. The warm water isn't helping, either. You may need to move the AG to a new location. Also, check for drafts in the room. I had a Poblano that would set fruit but drop it while it was still very small. Turned out that it was getting too much air from an overhead furnace vent located across the room. |
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Post by swimmom500 on Sept 2, 2023 18:27:32 GMT -5
I did an R&R today on my Aerogarden Elite 6+. I have one Hungarian Wax Pepper in it. I keep getting lots of flowers but don’t see any peppers. When I dumped out the water I was surprised how warm the water was. Maybe I need to keep adding ice and it will do better. One of the things that Koolbloom is supposed to do, is help with fruit set. If you're using Koolbloom and getting lots of flowers but no fruit, you may want to cut down on the Koolbloom. If your pepper plant has lots of leaves and branches, you may want to prune it to improve air circulation and encourage pepper production. The warm water isn't helping, either. You may need to move the AG to a new location. Also, check for drafts in the room. I had a Poblano that would set fruit but drop it while it was still very small. Turned out that it was getting too much air from an overhead furnace vent located across the room. I have been using Aerogarden nutes and CalMag. I don’t have any kool bloom and have never had this problem before. Let me check out the kool bloom and see if that might help. I only have a few tomatoes on my mega cherry tomatoes too. The disgusting Mighty Minis had tons of tomatoes. I did R&R on that the other day and used my RO water instead of tap water to see if that would help. Once again I have tons of flowers but not much fruit. |
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