jekylnz
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Looking like they're taking off with a roar..how old are these ones..they look pretty big for their age Wall?
2014 Knucklehead Grow Blog
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Talk about not fair. I have a grill down there too. I can fish, cook fish, eat, and watch the patch while smoking home grown hand rolled stogies. lol
jekylnz
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That's nice of you to offer your place as ftt's international home base.lol
The four trays in the front were seeded Feb 24. The single tray in the back room was seeded March 2. My earliest ones are 9 days behind BAMA's.
78 varieties and they were all over the place in terms of how long it took to germinate.
Hey, you got a good point there. All in Favor say "I". ROFL
jekylnz
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I can see knucks sitting there going..w.t.f.!!!..checking back through his posts..what did I write.
jekylnz
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Those are big for a month old..hows your plan going as far as the weather at the moment where you are? Is it going to be warm enough to put out when they get to the size you want indoors?
The highs were in the 70F's the past two days, supposed to rain tonight and cool off again. Low for Tuesday night is 28F (4 degrees below freezing). The temps just keep going up and down. When it steadily stays above 40F at night, I'll permanently move the trays to the tailgate of my black truck so I can shove them under the camper shell when it rains. For awhile, I'll shove them under the camper shell at night until it warms up even more. That black truck and camper shell retains heat for quite a while. Worked real good last year.
I'm shooting for the last week of April for transplanting into the patch. That single late flat will go in first week of May.
jekylnz
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Springheal just bought some of these pet blankets cheap..they look like they're do the trick.
http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/6032845626.html
http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/6032845626.html
That's how it is here. Everything you get, we get. You'll have a nice day or two, then it's cold again. I am starting to get a little nervous thinking about the rain when the plants are in the ground. About five years ago I purchased a truck load of drywall at Home Depot. They gave me some thick plastic to cover it. I've been thinking about that plastic lately. Up until they get about four or more feet high, I thought about staking down the row and cover them up before it rains. It'd have to be over row by row rather than all of them. That might just cause for a bigger problem - like the whole row falling over. Yeah, I'm getting nervous thoughts. I can see me now when it rains...
I paid more for this one http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/292745296.html
but my peppers was satisfied.
You have two settings. I think he's over heated. Red light indicator. Try with lover temperature, first position on your knob.
BTW, your grow log is full of everything. Your photography rocks.
Indianamac
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Look'n good there Knuck.
Red light indicator? Do you mean his eyes? Lol. You're the joker. That's funny. Only a wild and crazy swingin' Slovenian could come up with that one. As we say down here in the South, "boy, you ain't right". lol
Boboro
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That dog looks cooked.
If he was still in Mexico he would be. They make great tacos.
jekylnz
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And in the umu in the islands..mmmm dog
Is that the oven made out of lava rocks, like a hangi?
Hahahahaha....to much Bourbon...
Picture day.
Equipment first. During the off season we sold the J.D. Mean Green Baccy Machine and bought a rice burning Kubota. I'll say this for it, it's seems like it's about four times as fuel efficient as the old tractor. I've been running it for days on one tank of diesel. You can see the hickory stick I'm using for forward, reverse, and brakes until I can fabricate some permanent hand controls. I dropped that sucker today and had to reach down and work the pedals with my hand until I could maneuver around beside the stick so I could crawl off and get it back on the tractor.
Also during the off season we bought a used five foot tiller driven by the tractor PTO (power take off). I tried it out yesterday and broke a shear pin in the drive shaft. I thought it was unusual because I hadn't really hit any big rocks. So I went back to house and my father had a bolt just like the one that I took out. Made a couple of passes and it broke. That's when I realized I'd never seen a shear pin that was threaded the length of the bolt. It was just too weak and kept breaking at a thread. So I went back to the house and rummaged in my stash of left over bolts from stuff I've taken apart and put back together. It's scary how big that bolt stash has gotten. Anyway, I found a bolt of the right diameter with a solid shank that would go through the two parts, but with enough thread to be able to tighten it up. Bingo. I tilled the patch twice today with no further hickups. I still have some fist sized rocks to pull out, but I got all the big ones I turned up with the cultivator. The first ones were as big as Boboro's head (boulders), it was all I could do to pick them up. Then I got down to normal sized head rocks, and now I'm down to the fist sized ones. I'll be hauling horse poo in a couple of days and may add another load of it to the patch. It's three year old stuff. The patch was a little moist for tilling but I gave the tiller a good shake down and will do the next tilling when it's good and dry.
The patch after tilling a couple of times. It got that straw, sawdust and cow manure worked in really well.
Close up the dirt so far.
Side view. The Pear and Red Bud trees are in bloom but the Dogwood haven't bloomed yet. My wild plum bushes are leafing out. Spring is almost here. Well, almost, it's supposed to get down to 28F Tuesday night.
Equipment first. During the off season we sold the J.D. Mean Green Baccy Machine and bought a rice burning Kubota. I'll say this for it, it's seems like it's about four times as fuel efficient as the old tractor. I've been running it for days on one tank of diesel. You can see the hickory stick I'm using for forward, reverse, and brakes until I can fabricate some permanent hand controls. I dropped that sucker today and had to reach down and work the pedals with my hand until I could maneuver around beside the stick so I could crawl off and get it back on the tractor.
Also during the off season we bought a used five foot tiller driven by the tractor PTO (power take off). I tried it out yesterday and broke a shear pin in the drive shaft. I thought it was unusual because I hadn't really hit any big rocks. So I went back to house and my father had a bolt just like the one that I took out. Made a couple of passes and it broke. That's when I realized I'd never seen a shear pin that was threaded the length of the bolt. It was just too weak and kept breaking at a thread. So I went back to the house and rummaged in my stash of left over bolts from stuff I've taken apart and put back together. It's scary how big that bolt stash has gotten. Anyway, I found a bolt of the right diameter with a solid shank that would go through the two parts, but with enough thread to be able to tighten it up. Bingo. I tilled the patch twice today with no further hickups. I still have some fist sized rocks to pull out, but I got all the big ones I turned up with the cultivator. The first ones were as big as Boboro's head (boulders), it was all I could do to pick them up. Then I got down to normal sized head rocks, and now I'm down to the fist sized ones. I'll be hauling horse poo in a couple of days and may add another load of it to the patch. It's three year old stuff. The patch was a little moist for tilling but I gave the tiller a good shake down and will do the next tilling when it's good and dry.
The patch after tilling a couple of times. It got that straw, sawdust and cow manure worked in really well.
Close up the dirt so far.
Side view. The Pear and Red Bud trees are in bloom but the Dogwood haven't bloomed yet. My wild plum bushes are leafing out. Spring is almost here. Well, almost, it's supposed to get down to 28F Tuesday night.
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