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Post by lynnee on Apr 4, 2024 9:39:08 GMT -5
How many days for your Aconcaugua pepper, scarfguy?
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Post by scarfguy on Apr 4, 2024 9:44:02 GMT -5
How many days for your Aconcaugua pepper, scarfguy ?
84 days
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Post by scarfguy on Apr 5, 2024 13:38:42 GMT -5
TODAY...
I have pics of my yellow taxi tomato. This was the first tomato plant that I grew a few years ago. I liked it so well, I decided to try it again (now that I know a bit more of what I am doing).
It seems to be known by a variety of names "taxi tomato", "yellow taxi", taxi cab". It grows about 30 inches and produces a plethora of baseball size yellow meaty tomatoes. It's a little small to be called a "slicer" but the texture, sweetness, and flavor is perfect as a garnish on your hamburger.
This time, I added calcium early and liberally and only the very first tomato had a bit of blossom end rot.
As you can see, I have more tomatoes coming than I can count. If all goes well, I will soon be passing out bags of tomatoes to my friends and relatives. (that's the problem with determinates - ya get them all at once!)
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Post by LoveSalads on Apr 5, 2024 18:31:31 GMT -5
TODAY...
I have pics of my yellow taxi tomato. This was the first tomato plant that I grew a few years ago. I liked it so well, I decided to try it again (now that I know a bit more of what I am doing).
It seems to be known by a variety of names "taxi tomato", "yellow taxi", taxi cab". It grows about 30 inches and produces a plethora of baseball size yellow meaty tomatoes. It's a little small to be called a "slicer" but the texture, sweetness, and flavor is perfect as a garnish on your hamburger.
This time, I added calcium early and liberally and only the very first tomato had a bit of blossom end rot.
As you can see, I have more tomatoes coming than I can count. If all goes well, I will soon be passing out bags of tomatoes to my friends and relatives. (that's the problem with determinates - ya get them all at once!)
As Far as Slicer goes for Hydro if you get baseball size Toms and, at quantity that qualifies in my book. They look great. If I were in your neighborhood I would be happy to score a few of those.
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Post by lynnee on Apr 5, 2024 19:24:21 GMT -5
Your Taxi tomatoes are doing well in a Bounty, scarfguy! They ought to work in my Farms, which have more space for roots. Baseball-size would be large enough for my purposes. What's the wattage on your lights?
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Post by scarfguy on Apr 5, 2024 19:42:31 GMT -5
Your Taxi tomatoes are doing well in a Bounty, scarfguy ! They ought to work in my Farms, which have more space for roots. Baseball-size would be large enough for my purposes. What's the wattage on your lights?
The bowl in the bounty isn't full of roots. There is still quite a bit more room.
The first time I grew these was in a farm. They acted a little bit "indeterminately" in the farm and gave me a couple of small second harvests after the large initial harvest. I think they would have lasted longer but that was the time I learned all about THRIPS!
The lighting is two AG 45 watt LED panels side-by-side for a total of 90 watts.
I've had great success with this setup. By using two panels side-by-side, you get a broader surface area (18"x20"). That allows the plants to get wider and fuller.
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Post by scarfguy on Apr 6, 2024 11:39:27 GMT -5
TODAY...
I harvested the second and last bush bean crop. Green beans are definitely winners in an AG!
Last time I planted 3 plants in a bounty. That turned out to be way too dense. They crowded each other and didn't produce any more beans than 2 plants in a bounty.
THIS TIME... I planted 2 plants in one bounty and 1 plant in another bounty.
My experience this time is that 2 plants do not crowd each other and produced twice as many beans as the single. My recommendation is to plant 2 plants in a bounty for maximum yield.
Of the 3 plants I got 2 harvests about a week apart. I harvested the single and some of the other two for a first yield of 14.6 ounces of beans. The second harvest today was the remainder of the beans on the two remaining plants. It yielded 17.2 ounces.
SO... plan on getting a little less than 3/4 pound of beans per plant. Plenty for a side dish for two.
They grow fast in a bounty as the time on the bounty reads 45 days (plus you need a few days for germination on paper towel) SO... if you dedicate one bounty to just growing beans. You can have two meals of beans every 6 weeks!
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Post by lynnee on Apr 6, 2024 15:44:16 GMT -5
My Fairy Tale eggplants that were growing for a year and a half or more (can't remember exactly how long) behaved just like your beans, scarfguy. Two plants produced as much or more fruit than a single, so I kept the pair and terminated the solo. I''m going to think about setting up a 90 watt AG arrangement. Maybe that would work for H's favorite Green Zebra tomatoes, which are indeterminates.
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Post by lynnee on Apr 6, 2024 17:07:57 GMT -5
Today I did the overdue R&Rs on 3 Bounties (merlot lettuce, veranda red tomatoes, ditto) and a Farm 12XL (Home Slice and Vivacious tomatoes).
It was high time for the Farm, because the new leaves of the tomatoes were yellowing from lack of nutrients. They should green up now that they got a shot of CalMag.
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Post by slw on Apr 6, 2024 23:15:48 GMT -5
I terminated my parsley/cilantro garden. It was getting pretty iffy looking and sad. I need to start some dill so that it will be ready when my outside cucumbers are mature for making pickles.
These are my first pepperoncini pepper plants; I have 2 in this Bounty and 2 (culls) in another Bounty. I'm excited to see how these will progress.
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Post by swimmom500 on Apr 7, 2024 7:14:03 GMT -5
Those plants look so nice! Are they Italian Pepperoncini or Greek Pepperoncini? This makes me want get get my seeds out and start some even though I have 6 different peppers in my Earthbox and another half dozen inside waiting to be moved outside!
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Post by slw on Apr 8, 2024 12:33:12 GMT -5
Those plants look so nice! Are they Italian Pepperoncini or Greek Pepperoncini? This makes me want get get my seeds out and start some even though I have 6 different peppers in my Earthbox and another half dozen inside waiting to be moved outside! I have no idea; the package just says "sweet pepperoncini". I think I got these from Amazon last year in some "pepper assortment" deal.
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Post by swimmom500 on Apr 8, 2024 14:20:41 GMT -5
Interesting. All I have seen are seeds labeled as Italian or Greek and both packs say hot on them. Let us know how they are!
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Post by lisatnp on Apr 9, 2024 15:03:09 GMT -5
I terminated my parsley/cilantro garden. It was getting pretty iffy looking and sad. I need to start some dill so that it will be ready when my outside cucumbers are mature for making pickles.
These are my first pepperoncini pepper plants; I have 2 in this Bounty and 2 (culls) in another Bounty. I'm excited to see how these will progress.
those are beautiful, i just planted some as well but they are still seedlings
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Post by slw on Apr 10, 2024 13:10:23 GMT -5
Three power blips so far this morning (two yesterday). I am really getting tired of resetting AGs.
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Post by scarfguy on Apr 10, 2024 13:38:52 GMT -5
Three power blips so far this morning (two yesterday). I am really getting tired of resetting AGs.
14 kilowatt whole house backup
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Post by LoveSalads on Apr 10, 2024 17:46:32 GMT -5
Three power blips so far this morning (two yesterday). I am really getting tired of resetting AGs. It is a pain in the !@#$%^ to reset many gardens. I have one on a battery backup so I don't have to go find my phone. At least that's base time to set the other gardens. How much more could it cost for AG to put a 5 or 10 year replaceable battery in the garden to save all the settings (dreaming).
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Post by lynnee on Apr 11, 2024 9:13:19 GMT -5
slw, You can reset/sync your wireless AG garden clocks with the Android app (but not the iOS app).
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Post by slw on Apr 11, 2024 9:22:11 GMT -5
slw , You can reset/sync your wireless AG garden clocks with the Android app (but not the iOS app). I have an iPhone and I always use the app to sync the gardens that are wifi connected, but I have several Bounty Basics and Harvest Elites that I have to manually reset.
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Post by lynnee on Apr 11, 2024 9:24:30 GMT -5
slw , You can reset/sync your wireless AG garden clocks with the Android app (but not the iOS app). I have an iPhone and I always use the app to sync the gardens that are wifi connected, but I have several Bounty Basics and Harvest Elites that I have to manually reset. The clock set button doesn't appear when I use the iOS app with an iPad.
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