It has been a busy summer preparing for our apiary opening next spring. Add that to a record drought in Texas with over 90 days of 100+ temps and lets just say the outdoor greenhouses didn't see a lot of action.
The strawberries have rebounded nicely and are actually producing fruit again -that's right, fresh strawberries in December! The blackberries are putting on veg again slowly, blue and raspberries just didn't make it through the drought.
We are starting up the TreeHouse with three autopot systems and we are going to attempt to grow some Endovia trees from seed. They need to germinate in some cold temps so we think they will do well. We have wanted to use the autopots (thanks for the suggestion Zach) for a while now using coir as a medium and we are getting our chance. We may toss in a few other flowers to beautify the house a little. We expect the autopots this weekend so we will prove some video and updates next week.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Change Those R.O. Filters !
In the words of my daughter, "like OMG" !
Our Tall Blue pre-filter and Merlin Garden Pro have been doing a great job giving us water for our greenhouse and grow room. We have a system on each due to the physical locations. The grow room has been serviced for a little over a year now without a filter change so I thought it was time. I normally change the filters in the house every 6 months due to the heavy use.
Well, I think I will be going to a 6 month cycle on the grow room as well. When I pulled the filters out, set them in the sink, and poured the excess water out of the filter housing about two inches of "scale" material came out of the housing. The filters weighed about 10 lbs, some I am sure was water, I can only imagine how much was particulate mater taken out of our municipal water system.
Moral of the story - CHANGE THE FILTERS!
Our Tall Blue pre-filter and Merlin Garden Pro have been doing a great job giving us water for our greenhouse and grow room. We have a system on each due to the physical locations. The grow room has been serviced for a little over a year now without a filter change so I thought it was time. I normally change the filters in the house every 6 months due to the heavy use.
Well, I think I will be going to a 6 month cycle on the grow room as well. When I pulled the filters out, set them in the sink, and poured the excess water out of the filter housing about two inches of "scale" material came out of the housing. The filters weighed about 10 lbs, some I am sure was water, I can only imagine how much was particulate mater taken out of our municipal water system.
Moral of the story - CHANGE THE FILTERS!
New Tomato Grow - Grow 7
The configuration changes in our room are complete. The new Stealth Grow LED Veg and Bloom lights have replaced the HIDs and the Monster Ebb n Grow is now the home of a few tomato plants. We are a little behind on posting updates to our blog due to another project we have been working on here at the ranch.
We started Grow 7 about a month ago. Several new tomato plants were started from seed including some of the hybrids tried in a previous grow as well as a few new ones. We are really looking forward to the "ice" tomatoes which are basically white cherry tomatoes. We wanted to start a new grow with the new LED lights so we could assess the full impact on the plants from seed to fruit. The plants did incredible under the Stealth Grow Veg LED and now they are under the Ebb N Grow system (small pots)
We transplanted three of our 9 month old plants from the PowerGrower into the Monster Ebb n Grow system. We had issues with the PowerGrower and large tomato plants with root creep clogging up the plumbing. With the tomatoes all transplanted we are hopeful that the aggressive pruning we did (literally hacked them down to an 8 inch stalk to start new growth) will allow them to continue to produce. So far they are putting on new leaves and looking well.
We started Grow 7 about a month ago. Several new tomato plants were started from seed including some of the hybrids tried in a previous grow as well as a few new ones. We are really looking forward to the "ice" tomatoes which are basically white cherry tomatoes. We wanted to start a new grow with the new LED lights so we could assess the full impact on the plants from seed to fruit. The plants did incredible under the Stealth Grow Veg LED and now they are under the Ebb N Grow system (small pots)
We transplanted three of our 9 month old plants from the PowerGrower into the Monster Ebb n Grow system. We had issues with the PowerGrower and large tomato plants with root creep clogging up the plumbing. With the tomatoes all transplanted we are hopeful that the aggressive pruning we did (literally hacked them down to an 8 inch stalk to start new growth) will allow them to continue to produce. So far they are putting on new leaves and looking well.
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