Nice setup. What you got sprouting?
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what are you most excited about this year
Habanada Nadapeno peppers - a non-spicy jalapeno. I will get to enjoy jalapeno taste even when cooking for family members who find mayo spicy ;-)
Also the 40+ fruit trees I've planted last week, but I'll have to wait 2-3 years for the first fruit from those.
We'll need another post to know more about those fruit trees as well
The property came with a dozen or so enormous (>6m / 20ft) apple and cherry trees planted about a century ago and all but 3 of them are barely alive, so this spring I've cleared some space and added:
- 4 peach trees, 2 varietals
- 4 apricot trees, 2 varietals
- 2 Japanese plum trees (technically not a plum)
- 8 cherry trees, 4 varietals
- 3 plum trees, 2 varietals
- 10 apple trees, 5 varietals
- 4 pear trees, 4 varietals
- 2 pear-shaped quince trees
- 2 Japanese quince bushes
- 6 currant bushes, 2 varietals
Assuming most of them survive I'll be set as far as fruit I can grow in my zone are concerned. Well, I could use 2-3 asian/american hybrid persimmons to have a full set, but they are very hard to find and expensive - I'd have to pay more for 2 than I've paid for the 40+ listed above..
Habanadas are non spicy habeneros. The non spicy jalapenos have another name I'm forgetting.
I grew habanadas last year and really didn't like the flavor, which was disappointing since people really love them.
Nadapenos. I have those too - brain fart mixed it up
Why are you using florescent lamps? Aren't LEDs much more efficient?
Those are LEDs
Okay second question, why do they look exactly like fluorescent bulbs?
This looks awesome. No weed?
I've been wanting to build something like that in my basement. Did you buy or build the stand? If the latter did you follow any plans that you could share?
I've built them myself. Material list is in my last year sprouting post https://lemmy.world/post/27013007
Lol I'm way behind you, though happy I at least got started during march this year. Not that it really matters since my plants are indoor, but I just restarted them all after getting tired of dealing with the infestations the previous plants had.
Not going to be buying random plants to add to my collection anymore.
You have no where to use the sun I guess? Looks nice
The combined area of the 3 racks I use for sprouting is almost 8m^2 or 85ft^2 - I'd need a lot of south facing windows to have that much of unused windowsill area available
Edit: Also light directly above is better for sprouting
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