Gardening Hobby Thread - For growing vegetables, flowers, fruits, houseplants, and more - General

No, I just clean my gutters more frequently than necessary. I probably ought to, but in the 5 years that barrel has been there, it hasn't been a problem.

I only really get leaves on the opposite side of my house, but all the same i dont want any bird poo getting in there and growing bacteria and stuff. Especially cus i have white barrels and the sunlight could grow algea in it. Ill see if i can find some brown paint for them too.

Built my own grow light stand using only some PVC pipe. Ended up a lot cheaper than most of the commercially available ones, and it's easy to disassemble for transport! https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/290988297440722954/432314319376744459/20180407_180146.jpg Pretty excited to put it to use.

Managed to find time today to do some gardening finally. Kind of behind for the season, but today was a good catch-up day. Planted some Atlas Tomatoes: https://i.imgur.com/6BKaYKE.jpg Cleared the straw from the strawberries, who are flowering like wild https://i.imgur.com/RFAbuCQ.jpg Here's an oregano plant that had died last year, but miraculously come back bigger and better than ever: https://i.imgur.com/FHmWfYj.jpg Leeks I planted earlier haven't done too well I think. They've barely grown any over the past month since they've been transplanted. Not entirely sure what's going on, this is my first time with leeks: https://i.imgur.com/gVnJ3Qi.jpg And found a "little garden buddy" as my fiance called him : https://i.imgur.com/4yZ6dAU.jpg

I plan on doing some Kratky method outside, and I was wondering if anyone could give me a list of sources for it. Basic/hopeful plan is growing quiet a few vegetables. Plan of, "why do I torture myself" is trying to figure out whether or not it'd be feasible to grow saffron via the Kratky method, and what it would take to mass produce.

My habanero is freshly transplanted and doing quite well considering it's under a desk lamp. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/111080/eaaec2b1-4f02-4d39-8bd6-a14f35b6d5c4/image.png Bonus pic: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/111080/1baaf0b9-ebbc-481c-983a-cf43f5b6d9e8/30425369_1848268065203508_8640730271316675839_o.jpg

i got some plants in my house but they keep dying, how do i tell them not to? i'm assuming someone here speaks plant?

What kind of plants? How often do you water them? What is their access to light like?

there's a whole assortment, but the ones i wanted to focus on are a mint plant, and some chili plant (i'd have to look up what exactly that one is, it was a gift) water them every day. they're indoors in an apartment, so access to light isn't great, but they get some direct sunlight every day, for a few hours. i plan to check on roughly how long that is, at some point this week. any basic tips on what to do with soil? i don't think we changed or added anything in ages. i know nothing about gardening, but it feels like it's been there too long.

This could be a possible problem. You don't necessarily have to change the soil, but adding fertilizer once or twice a year helps. There are little fertilizer sticks for indoor pots you could buy. You stick them in the soil around the plant and as you water it, they dissolve, mix in with the soil and the plants get their nutrition. Are the plants withering, or do they gain colored spots on their foliage before dying? Since you water every day, it could be that they're actually getting too much to drink and are drowning somewhat, but that depends on how much water you give them each day more than the fact that you water each day. For that solution, I'm not entirely sure since that depends on each kind of plant and you may want to look it up how much water they need.

Yo anyone have any tips on keep moss indoors, I've decided to try and grow some in one of my flower pots and I have no idea how well the moss is doing.

Chilli plants love long dry days, you'd need to get it under a lamp or something for it to be happiest, likewise don't water it until the substrate is almost entirely dried out. If in doubt, lift the pot and feel the weight between waterings or stick your finger into the soil, if its still damp up to the first couple joints of your finger, don't water it. As for food, any cheap tomato nutrients should do the trick or an occasional scattering of fish, blood and bone mix.

I went over my fiance's house yesterday and checked on the garden there. All the tomatoes are dead - eaten down to a bare, 1-inch tall stem. Anyone have any advice on how to fucking get rid of rabbits?

https://www.amazon.com/Redeo-Repellent-Repeller-Ultrasonic-Squirrel/dp/B07B3W6H8B/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1526041014&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=rabbit+repellent&psc=1 ? Good fencing is also key. Sorry about your tomatoes though.

Ah wildlife... If you've got the space and can get ahold of enough timber and compost then big ole raised beds are the best long term solution but if you're keen to keep things at ground level then as the last poster said, fencing, just make sure it's at least 1 and a 1/2 feet below the soil line too. Or sit waiting with an air rifle and make some tasty rabbit stew.

Unfortunately those are illegal in my state, though it would be cosmic justice to eat some rabbit meat with lettuce.

Can I post my cannabis plants?

Yes so long as it's fine with the mods

Dude those looks really really good!! Is that all from seed?

Yep, all from seed. I've since topped that habanero and it's turned into a small bush. I'm now also growing a Carolina reaper in a 5-gallon bucket: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/111080/e00e9d29-a384-4405-b075-b3d0a906e641/20180513_090250.jpg

These are some Green Crack clones. They are ~2 weeks since cutting from mother plant. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/244395/2ce28b23-078f-4200-a04a-a0272bd3b212/20180513_002539.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/244395/3385669b-7a69-47b8-9157-a0633da4df10/20180513_002536.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/244395/9c925d4e-38ad-4f35-a5b5-a7d2bbbbeca8/20180513_002524.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/244395/211c7a34-87e2-49e9-8d4e-01b5f5459c58/20180513_002519.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/244395/bbac63fa-6881-411c-a2d5-430dc00a1cbe/20180513_002514.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/244395/2a9ac8f7-53ae-4e07-9a1d-e92d48c064f7/20180513_002508.jpg I've grown from this mother plant before and it always turns out fire

I built this box for my grandma-in-law to start out her tomatoes and flowers and I'm not sure whatever else she grows. Might have gone a bit overboard with it. Soldering the LED lights and wiring the damn thing overall took forever. The LEDs I bought off of ebay and they're full spectrum 3w modules, the drivers are 30-34v and run 10 of those. There's 30 per bar which is 90w per section of cabinet. They run really cool, I made custom heatsinks for the lights out of 1/8 aluminum. The heatsinks that I was able to purchase straight from the same place as the LED lights were not as good, they run almost too hot to touch. I still kept them due to all the wiring already done on these bars and there being ample airflow between the heatsinks themselves. Heatsinks from the supplier https://photos.app.goo.gl/txnzzCfGQ39AMooo1 Heatsinks I made https://photos.app.goo.gl/fQTLG6C6siLwmnrL2 How the lights came https://photos.app.goo.gl/2RJPafv3ZhEjvu3p1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7fgZgUncCI I used a welding helmet when I was staring at them and the dimmer turns on. Sunglasses are not enough.

I don't really do much gardening. I'm hoping to change that though, I've moved house and I've got a completely bare and sterile deck out back. These are some house plants we've got that haven't died. I'm not really sure what many of them are. https://i.imgur.com/AqVx0op.jpg

is there an app to help manage growing stuff (alerts/logbook)? had a tent about a year but my dad kept falling through getting me some cuttings

update from my last post: these are now 28 days old. in 20 gallon bags. contemplating removing the tomato cages. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/244395/27469720-0fea-4635-81f0-5c5e05400336/thousands of years ago before sigorney weaver.jpg feels good to be legal (:

Packets of four Carolina Reapers were on special last week at the shops so I grabbed them with the intention of growing the seeds. I should have worn gloves, for about three or four days afterwards my hands would start burning whenever they warmed up. I'll try sprouting them a bit further into winter. It don't have the space inside for a lot of plants so they can only be indoors when they're little.

Update on my garden. Some are going well, some not so much, some are going great. Spent the past few weeks getting ready to get married, getting married, then going on my honeymoon so I didn't have a whole lot of time to do weeding. That'll get done soon, though. Potatoes: https://i.imgur.com/gIzAm8J.jpg https://i.imgur.com/gj2TfVq.jpg Blackberry bush finally has some leaves on it. Been nearly 2 months being just a stick: https://i.imgur.com/P5JNuJV.jpg Same goes for our grape bush as well. The website promised "fruit in the first year" but I sincerely doubt that: https://i.imgur.com/03Q5HmT.jpg The oregano has exploded after 3 straight weeks of rain: https://i.imgur.com/Rvl1vXK.jpg?1 And then I dried + ground the oregano for cooking: https://imgur.com/g1UQs8j And for the grand finale - the strawberries exploded: https://i.imgur.com/DuilNE6.jpg https://i.imgur.com/SEFE9hr.jpg https://i.imgur.com/RR5jcCB.jpg We got well over 3 pounds of strawberries, and that was just picking the ones that were absolutely pristine. Probably would have doubled that had we picked the ones that had little rot marks or were pecked at by birds as well. And there's still more ripening. My wife and took 2 pounds of it to make strawberry jam with, and the rest for snacking.

Congrats on getting married, and nice job with the strawberries.

Ooh just discovered this thread! I'm growing pepper plants. Left is a Carolina Reaper and right is an Aji Dulce: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/150278/81adc6c7-184c-4d5f-a255-8c988905635f/image.png First time growing these and conditions aren't optimal (started a bit late). I have 6 others (Chinese 5 Colour and Habanero Super F1) but they are even smaller. One of them also is a bit yellowish, which I suspect is due to a lack of nutrients (I am careful with water as well). I fertilized them carefully with some 5-5-10 fertilizer.

i have a viperspectra 450 do you think its worth modding the fans for some quiter pc fans?