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Regenerative Agriculture podcast
Has some good info, just the very first two episodes are packed with nutrient discussion, you’ll learn a lot.
A majority of the seeds have sprouted, only one type of tomato hasn’t yet. That one may be a little trickier. Some just sprouted overnight. Today is a decent temp and the sun isn’t harsh. It’s much easier to harden plants as soon as they sprout. If it’s summertime, then start it out in a lightly shaded spot or a cloudy day.
Tomatoes: Brandywine Red, Cherokee purple
Peppers: Carnival (like bell, but multiple colors in the packet of seeds), Anaheim, Hallows Eve
Purple basil
Also got a succulent recently, the roots were perfectly ready to transplant immediately.
The Hallows Eve weren’t doing so well for a little bit, had to prune most of the leaves twice since past posting. A new pot and fertilizer helped. Going to use neem oil for spray and for a watering soon, the grasshoppers are coming about. I would get preying mantis nests going now, but I’m going through foreclosure and auction is next month, so no point. Most of the new plants will be given away or sold.
There’s also a pineberry strawberry that was found at the right moment to be transplanted. Going to let it’s root system get healthy for wherever I end up. It’s a perennial, so can save it until next year.
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Wow everything is looking really good…best of luck
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Second year with firefly petunias from light.bio
I don’t have the equipment or editing skills to make a photo that is accurate to real life. These things are awesome, but unfortunately the marketing material, and really any photo is going to be misleading.
They are very dim, needing both a dark environment as well as 10min of dark adaptation for your eyes to really see them. Nearby street lamps can easily wash out the glow. If you had one outside, and looked at it with non-dark adapted eyes, you won’t see anything.
The opened flowers and foliage have a brightness similar to moonlight shining on white flowers. The new closed flowers do have a more easily notable green glow (though not as bright as in the photo. Mentally reduce the glow by over half). Usually the foliage is hard to see except in complete darkness, but the glowing ebbs and flows with growth, and sometimes veins and newer stems can be slightly less bright than the closed flowers.
The first photo is my plants from last year outside. Photo is 10sec of exposure with iphone camera. Not sure what the red is, I think it’s reflections from a street light across the street, and wasn’t irl visible.
Second photo is new plants I got this year inside under my grow lights, needing repotting.
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You said they are not bright but I think they are still hella cool. I just hope they are alright to be in nature, not that we discover adverse effects in ten or twenty years. That would suck a lot.
Its been a while since I last saw a real firefly back at our old house.
Yeah I loved seeing fireflies while growing up.
I currently live in the Pacific Northwest, which basically doesn’t have typical fireflies, only some very rare glow worms and a couple non-lighting firefly species.
Apparently though fireflies everywhere aren’t doing so great. Light pollution disrupting them is pointed to as a cause, as well things like habitat loss.
I love things that glow, so among the too many hobbies I already have, like keeping some bioluminescent dinoflagellates and messing around with plasma lamps, I’ve given serious consideration to raising fireflies.
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10x Apple Trees
- Redlove Odysso
- Goldrush
- Ben Davis
- GravenStein
- Tasty Red Urban Columnar
- Blushing Delight Urban Columnar
- Golden Treat Urban Columnar
8.Scarlet Sentinel(Columnar) - Golden Sentinel(Columnar)
- North Pole(Columnar)
Not my picture but columnar apples look like this.
Mine are all short and new, the intent is to have a bit of a living fence, that gives me food.
2 Fig Trees
2 Red Lake Currants
4 Blackberry plants, and 3 Raspberries on my other fence
Can see my dwarf apple trees and then the raspberry blackberries along the fence.
2 Honeyberries
1 Blueberry(the other died)
2 Strawberries.
Rosemerry
Basil
Thyme
Oregano
Sage
Then a whole bunch of native plants in my front yard with my Oak tree.
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So one of my spider plants self pollinated and i didnt think the seeds would be viable, but they did sprout.
No green so far, which worries me
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Tomato. There might be two different kinds and I don’t know the names because the text on the painter’s tape has washed off.
Parsley.
And some kind of chilli.
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Your chili looks like the small red ones. Not sure though
Chilly nights around 50f are starting to happen, but still within an acceptable range.
Next time bigger pots or an SIP made from a 12+ gallon tote will be used. Going to attempt to overwinter these when the time comes. Saving some seeds for next year as well.
Trying to think of what kind of hot sauces to make with them. Open to suggestions. One of them will probably be mango related.
Had a bunch of blooms lately after it trying for a while.
The plant to the left has longer and smoother pods.
Some on the right plant are starting to be angrier and turn orange/ripen:
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I am envious of your spicy trees!
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One day I will have tree sized pepper plants.
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It looks like its full of spicy hate 
You wouldn’t be wrong. It almost makes my insides feel like my outside.
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My greenhouse chilli jungle. I believe there are 34 chilli plants crammed in here along with nearly a dozen tomato plants, a couple of cucumbers and two tamarillos waiting to be potted up.
This is about peak mess in the season as the toms and cucumbers will be mostly removed over the next few weeks. The chilli plants tend to keep fruiting until late November and then get pruned back ready for some to be overwintered.
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It was a good tomato season for me but that plant is donezo. My chiles (potted outdoor) are on their 3rd blossom of the season. Historically the 2nd runs right on the verge and are runty fruits. that may be the case this year for this 3rd. Or they may just not fruit. Its been moderate and stable weather this grow season for me.
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