Skafidr
Well-Known Member
Hello!
I'm starting this blog and hopefully I'll be able to keep up with it.
As usual, I'm starting later than I should so I won't expect the best results. This is my third season growing tobacco.
I've received a few new varieties through trade with a fellow user on another community so I'll go with this this year, along with "refreshing" the seeds of one of the first varieties I received:
- Harrow Velvet (new)
- Wisconsin Seedleaf (new)
- Alask Bear Dragon (new)
- Obourg ('old')
The full 32 cells are not occupied by tobacco as I don't have room/time to grow that much: I plan on end up growing 17 tobacco plants.
The other cells are occupied by vegetables (fruits?) and herbs:
- Three varieties of chili peppers
- Bell peppers
- Tomatillos
- Lemon Balm (the big pots on the right; I'll just take the pots out directly when the weather will allow)
- Basil (the smaller pots on the left)
Setup notes:
- The smaller pots are filled with Miracle-Gro's seed starting mix
- The bigger pots contain 'left-over' soil from previously dead plants (recycling the soil); I added a scoop of acti-sol's Pure hen manure in each, then added a thin layer of the Miracle-Gro's seed starting mix (the leftover of what didn't go into the smaller pots)
- Heat mat under the cell tray
- Light cycling: 15-16 hours lights on; I plan on taking those out around June 8, so I've set the lighting time according to the outdoors' lighting pattern at that date.
- Plastic film cover; AFAIR, I'll likely have to move this up a bit to allow more air to move when there will be mould forming
I'm starting this blog and hopefully I'll be able to keep up with it.
As usual, I'm starting later than I should so I won't expect the best results. This is my third season growing tobacco.
I've received a few new varieties through trade with a fellow user on another community so I'll go with this this year, along with "refreshing" the seeds of one of the first varieties I received:
- Harrow Velvet (new)
- Wisconsin Seedleaf (new)
- Alask Bear Dragon (new)
- Obourg ('old')
The full 32 cells are not occupied by tobacco as I don't have room/time to grow that much: I plan on end up growing 17 tobacco plants.
The other cells are occupied by vegetables (fruits?) and herbs:
- Three varieties of chili peppers
- Bell peppers
- Tomatillos
- Lemon Balm (the big pots on the right; I'll just take the pots out directly when the weather will allow)
- Basil (the smaller pots on the left)
Setup notes:
- The smaller pots are filled with Miracle-Gro's seed starting mix
- The bigger pots contain 'left-over' soil from previously dead plants (recycling the soil); I added a scoop of acti-sol's Pure hen manure in each, then added a thin layer of the Miracle-Gro's seed starting mix (the leftover of what didn't go into the smaller pots)
- Heat mat under the cell tray
- Light cycling: 15-16 hours lights on; I plan on taking those out around June 8, so I've set the lighting time according to the outdoors' lighting pattern at that date.
- Plastic film cover; AFAIR, I'll likely have to move this up a bit to allow more air to move when there will be mould forming
