taz - I'm lucky I don't have your rocky soil problem. Anyway, good luck. rain frog - Thanks for the tips. I'll keep them in mind, if I decide to add some supplemental indoor lighting for cold days. For now, I'll probably just use what I have, since it worked out alright last year. But if I have a long cold spell this year, I might reconsider. Or I might try adding some heat to my tunnel. I've read that stringing up a few of the old incandescent bulbs can keep things from freezing, if the temp isn't too far below freezing. And I also don't want to keep them out for too long in really cold weather, because I think it can stunt their growth.

I know quite a lot about electricity and have even wired may fuse boxes and a lot of outlets and indoor and outdoor lights. My brother in law had me wire his playroom and bar with color lighting. He even bought an older style well used pinball machine and juke box that I had to fix and get running again. 200 lights inside and many relays and switches. Luckily it came with schematics. I even added power to my glass green house, as it uses PVC plastic electrical boxes and PVC tubing to carry the wires. Also a GFP has been added. The house fuse box has a main fuse block that is two 100 amp cartridges and that fluse block is removed and replaced with a modified one I wired with a big long heavy cord which goes to 10 gauge wire. I also added a 220 volt neon lamp indicator to visually show me that regular power has been restored. Even for that, if regular power is back on, it can't get to my fuse box as the modified 100 amp fuse holder block as no fuses inside, so no power can get past that block and into the buss. I took courses in school for electricity and electronics. Always got straight A's every year. After a while the teachers wouldn't even call on me to answer questions, as I always knew the answers. My biggest wiring job was a 440 volt 3 phase box with 6 gauge wires. The power was boosted through a big transformer outside the building to give us 200 amps and higher 440 voltage. Use this for creating a 100,000 volt X-Ray device. There are a devices you can buy that will allow you to switch to an external power source. A friend of mine has a diesel powered generator that self starts within 1 second of a power loss and then monitors the incoming line for it to return. Right now, I use a UPS for my computer and also have a big 1400 watt one for my sump pump that runs 24/7.

Hi everyone. Thanks for the help. Still have no clue what this is. Ah yes, important to mention that these things, whatever they are, are completely stagnant and unmoving. Otherwise I wouldn't take my sweet time to take pictures, they'd be in a few layers of plastic bags, stomped on, and promptly eradicated (sunflower included)! :P Here are the macros: These photos are in no particular order. See how they are somewhat porous?? Never have seen anything like it. As for the sunflower--I planted it in the last few days of February when we had around 3 feet of snow and I was begging for some early springtime. We've had record-breaking weather this year. I don't think it's a good time to put it outside yet--I'll do that in a week or so, or whenever I know the soil is above 60 degrees. That's why it's in such a large plastic jug that I can just cut away when it's time to plant it.

Habjolokia I went and bought cups like that too for mine lol. They got too big and I had to go to larger breathable bags at Walmart. They're only fifty cents per bag. The person who posted this IMPROVED THEIR PEPPERS SO MUCH!!!! thank you for the update photo, they are looking great! Something they could try when watering them is put a little water in a tray or even bathtub if you don't mind cleaning up a Lil dirt. Then just sit your plants in there for about a half hour and the roots will suck up what they need through the bottom assuming there's good holes in the bottom. Then stick em back to where you store them in light or under a grow lamp.