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Slow, slow seedling growth, mildew gnats?
Comments (10)Jasmine, I noticed that the lamp reflector in your picture is round. Can you tell us more about the light you are using? In other words, is that an old-style incandescent? A cfl? Something else? One bulb? Many? A saying I've seen many places is that "You are not a gardener until you have killed something." Congratulations, you are now a real gardener. If you want to try something that doesn't require additional light, read up on WinterSowing. There's a forum here, with detailed FAQ's. Wintersown seeds are planted in covered containers outdoors and don't sprout until the weather is consistently warm enough. I start many plants that way, but I grow indoors under lights too. Most wintersown plants in my zone wait until April or even May to sprout. I get desperate to see green well before then. So every year I start seeds for something that needs long months of indoor care, so I have something to nurture / torture through the long winter. ;-) I second the use of mosquito control products for fungus gnats. I keep a metal tea ball in a watering can. The tea ball holds a few of the mosquito "bits" or a quarter of a "dunk" and keeps the crumbs from clogging the spout. I replace the dunk periodically. I keep the watering can filled and use that to water anything that needs a drink, all winter. I ask about the light because I suspect you haven't got enough light on your seedlings. I don't think that western window is going to be enough either. I've killed many seedlings thinking that winter sunlight filtered through window glass would be enough. With what you've invested in seeds, potting mix, trays, and time, it makes sense to get proper lights. You'll also want a timer and a power strip. Look for a timer that accepts a three-prong plug. Plug the timer into the wall, the power strip into the timer and the lights into the power strip. Now you can run up to six lights synchronized on one timer. My preference is for fluorescent tubes. So far the plants are happy as well. Two of the two-bulb shoplights, or a single four-bulb fixture, are necessary to light a standard flat of seedlings. A single shoplight isn't wide enough and the plants at the edges will stretch and lean in. With four of the 4' bulbs side by side you can light two flats. I learned the hard way that if I have room for two flats, to only sow one flat with seeds. Half a flat would be even better. I'm working on my restraint. Once the seedlings in the first flat grow and need to be potted up into larger quarters, that extra space is necessary to keep them all lit. I use the 4' size because they're easy to find (I got a pair of fixtures free through Freecycle) and the 4' bulbs come in at the lowest price, most options, and most readily available. Fluorescent tubes come in different diameters. T stands for Tube. T12 is the fattest, T5s are the skinny sort found in many "grow lights." I use T12s because I already have the fixtures. If you're light-shopping, T8s are highly recommended on the Growing under Lights forum. "Cool White" bulbs work fine. Get them very close to your seedlings as digdirt said. You'll need to be able to adjust the height of either the lights or the trays as seedlings grow. If your household includes anyone with waggy tails, poking paws, or grabby fingers then you will want the lights mounted securely and both lights and seed trays out of reach. If that's not an issue, you can carefully prop them on something, but remember you're dealing with thin glass. Do check the temperature as well, and check it against the preferred ranges for each plant you're growing. Any accurate thermometer with the correct range will do the job. Good luck! Edie...See MoreHow do you slow down flowering on a pummelo tree?
Comments (4)To me it sounds like a good problem to have. I'd just try selling them or even taking them to a local produce store and either sell them or maybe even trade them for other fruits. I don't know about down there, but by me pumello's usually cost $3 each at the farmers market and even more at the grocery stores. I just topworked most of my grapefruit over to pummelo last season and the scions probably grew 6 feet sine april. Hopefully I have as good of a crop as your parents. You could always try topworking most of the tree to some type of orange or lemon. It is so easy even I could not screw it up. With the pummelo being so vigorous you should get a very good take on your grafts. I added a link that shows a step by set instruction. You would probably have to wait until the spring when the tee is actively growing though. I did my grafts on branches that were up to about 3 inches in diameter. Here is a link that might be useful: grafting....See MoreSlowing Down?
Comments (7)Hi, I'm a bit of a newbie here, but I love to crochet and try to do some year round, mostly every day. Lately I'm working on purses, but because of DH's work we are going to be moving soon. So, today I had the fun task of trying to organize and pack my yarns and unfinished projects. I wish I could find a better storage method, for some reason I had several ends of threads all knotted together in the middle of a basket (it made a very colorful knotted ball), and if I had more time I would probably have tried to unravel it all, but in my rush to pack I was forced to take scizzors to it :o(. Any one have any yarn/project storage methods - lol. I was working on doilies (remember those? - may be someday they'll come back in fashion) but for some reason a few of them are still unfinished (just the last few rows to do on each). I've finished a few purses I could post in the gallery if I get time tomorrow (posted one already), and I am working on a cotton bedcover for my DD's bed (I've calculated that the rate that's going, it will be about 2+ years to finish) - it's a pattern I found @ crochet pattern central called the Stafford Bedspread. BTW I admire any one that can make socks or other garments, I used to try and make simple slippers but I don't have a steady tension in my work and inevitably first slipper's bigger than the second. Well, I will keep on checking in here, I am inspired by all your ideas and advice, and hope to help others as well if I can. Liz...See Moreslow... slow food, slow life, slow bicycle... slow
Comments (30)Also older than ... and glad to be above rather than under the ... dirt. Anyone remember 78 mm. ... no, that was r.p.m. ... records? And the needle being on a circular disk that one lifted off of the record and put up, over and back to be held in place above the arm that swung back and forth over the record but didn't move up or down? Our "Party line" phone was a big brown wooden box on the wall with a metal thing like a tulip sticking out of the front into which you talked, and a line with a black tube on the end that hung on a yoke sticking out of the side of the phone, that lifted when you took the receiver off to listen, which connected the phone to the line, by making the contacts with the large batteries inside. If you wanted to call some other person on your line, after listening to see whether the line was busy, you turned a crank on the right side to make the double bells on the front of the phone ring, in a code of short and long rings, which rang in everyone else's phone on the line, and the ones whose code it was answered ... sometimes others did, as well (almost always remaining silent while doing so). If you wanted to call someone on another party line, you pushed a black button on the left side of the phone and turned the aforementioned crank on the right side, which silenced all of the bells on your line and sent a signal to the operator on the central switchboard and she connected you to the other line and pushed a button or turned a crank to ring the code of the person to whom you wanted to talk. ole joyfuelled ... who liked eating at the dining room table ... in the large kitchen...See Morenicethyme
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