2nd year in a row that almost all my outside plants died due to shitty weather and not enough sunlight on my porch, so I've decided to toy with indoor hydro growing.
I got something similar to this for Christmas and threw some seeds I had laying around in it and ended up with a fucking shit tonne of thai basil and mint, and I grew it in fucking Winter. It's awesome. No aphids, no worrying about weather or sunlight or temperature or anything. So I ended up building a DWC bucket for a ghost pepper plant that I've been nursing and it's going pretty well. Had to deal with some water leaks and shit which was not fun but it's a learning process.
Moving to a new place soon where I'll have a lot more room to experiment, plus a backyard that I can do whatever I want with which should get a lot more sunlight too :party-cat:
I'd love to build something like this in my new basement for some leafy greens like spinach, arugula, and lettuce.
Here are my growing aspirations for the coming year(s):
Outside (mostly frost resistant plants):
Blueberries
Gooseberries
Blackberries
Apples
Okra
Inside (hydro):
Hot peppers
Herbs (cilantro, thai basil, mint)
Leafy greens
Strawberries
Sugar snap peas
Passionfruit (if I can ever get one of those FUCKING SEEDS TO GERMINATE :agony-consuming: )
That's what I keep reading. I've seriously tried two years in a row to germinate passion fruit seeds - dozens of them - and not a single fucking one has sprouted.
I've tried soaking them, sanding the sides to get rid of the shell, everything I've read on how to improve germination rate. NOTHING.
No, in my childhood home every year it simply growed, clinged to the algarrobo, and shaded it almost completely. Flowers were pretty but nothing compared to some species/varieties. Never tried the fruits.
2nd year in a row that almost all my outside plants died due to shitty weather and not enough sunlight on my porch, so I've decided to toy with indoor hydro growing.
I got something similar to this for Christmas and threw some seeds I had laying around in it and ended up with a fucking shit tonne of thai basil and mint, and I grew it in fucking Winter. It's awesome. No aphids, no worrying about weather or sunlight or temperature or anything. So I ended up building a DWC bucket for a ghost pepper plant that I've been nursing and it's going pretty well. Had to deal with some water leaks and shit which was not fun but it's a learning process.
Moving to a new place soon where I'll have a lot more room to experiment, plus a backyard that I can do whatever I want with which should get a lot more sunlight too :party-cat:
I'd love to build something like this in my new basement for some leafy greens like spinach, arugula, and lettuce.
Here are my growing aspirations for the coming year(s):
Outside (mostly frost resistant plants):
Blueberries
Gooseberries
Blackberries
Apples
Okra
Inside (hydro):
Hot peppers
Herbs (cilantro, thai basil, mint)
Leafy greens
Strawberries
Sugar snap peas
Passionfruit (if I can ever get one of those FUCKING SEEDS TO GERMINATE :agony-consuming: )
Lol passionfruit is a weed here
That's what I keep reading. I've seriously tried two years in a row to germinate passion fruit seeds - dozens of them - and not a single fucking one has sprouted.
I've tried soaking them, sanding the sides to get rid of the shell, everything I've read on how to improve germination rate. NOTHING.
Got any tips lol?
No, in my childhood home every year it simply growed, clinged to the algarrobo, and shaded it almost completely. Flowers were pretty but nothing compared to some species/varieties. Never tried the fruits.
The soil were it growed was an always-wet ditch