Ikea lights for winter...my setup - here ya go Mike...
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Comments (9)Mantorvillian: I think i would prefer east window to the cool floros, they are pretty weak. The smaller colocasia I would not let go dormant, some colos cant be allowed any dormancy as they produce no bulb, most do tho but need a good sized bulb to make the winter stretch. A short dormancy wouldnt hurt them, maybe a month or less. Any EE's that fill a 3-5 gallon SHOULD be ok to let go dormant. Likly the same spot you had them last year, with the light OFF and let to go pretty dry, would be just fine. You can always wake them up a bit early if you think they are weak or struggling to make the dormancy. Be careful with chem for mites tho, u Must use a miticide or you are wasting your time, and exposure to nasty stuff... If you have mites again use a no pest strip, you can order them or get em at lowes, walmart etc. they work best in small areas and I dont like being around them. THEY KILL MITES. Full extermination. You can also make a nice spray with vinegar lemon juice epsom salt and and just a bit of baking powder and dawn soap. So satisfying to watch em melt, but u have to wash it off your plants. Lomodor: I wonder where in zone 6 you live. Theres many opportunities for naturalizing elephant ears in zone 6, colo. "pink china" is hardy here with no protection... Im in KY our winters arent the best for overwintering tropicals outdoors but its certainly not impossible, and quite rewarding when successful. I also like to mention that your storage method may not be the best for everyone. Honestly it just screams infestation to me. Clearly it works great for you if you are owerwintering thai giants that way. They are finicky. Bringing non-sterile material from outside, wetting it and containerizing it...Ewww...Sorry to pick on ya, but I would not feel comfortable packin my babies away that way. I used to store all my bulbs in large wooden gun shipping crates, gun stores get em from time to time and usually trash em. You can get em for free, and all sizes. I would first dig or unpot all the bulbs, clean them best I could and wash them, I always left the babys on if I could. Id let em dry a few hours layed on the shady porch or wagons. Id fill the bottom with some dry peat moss, lay the cleaned bulbs close but not touhing, and add more dry peat every layer, a few inches. Until its full. I kept them in a cold basement, It worked great for decent sized bulbs, smaller ones needed to not be cleaned and packed with some moist soil. Since then Ive become considerably lazier, and just dig and repot the ones in the ground, and just let them and the potted ones go dry and they stop growing. It turns out that works fine too, Now its all I do! Its so much easier. Once spring rolls around just add water and away they go. any I need to divide, are fully dormant when i repot and that part actually helps me and the plant too i think. Hope this helps :D...See MoreWhat do you think of my setup?
Comments (31)To each their own - there is no "best" way to grow plants. "Most" growers recommend using a fan for at least 30 minutes a day and not just after seedlings are transplanted. Again, "most" growers remove the humidity dome when the first seed germinates and breaks through the media. If I had my druthers, I would germinate seeds in a room where the temps were 85 degrees and once transplanted, put them in a room with a huge overhead fan but where them temps stayed at 55 degrees. They would get 2,000 FC of light and be bottom watered with rainwater mixed with Tomato-tone fertilizer, with some multi-purpose vitamins mixed in. YMMV, Mike...See MorePost your LED light setup, veg and effective coverage!
Comments (39)These are three DIY LED spotlights with different lens and reflector systems: http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/LedSpotLights.jpg Left to right: 1. Eight "3W" 660nm LEDs with 20mm reflectors. http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/LED20mmReflectorAndLens.jpg Spot projected 100 inches on ceiling with tiles 4.375 inches apart: http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/LED20mmReflectorAndLensSpot.jpg I calculate the beam angle to be approximately degrees 2. "10W" "full spectrum" LED with 90mm reflector a. without lens; http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/LED90mmReflector.jpg Spot projected 100 inches on ceiling with tiles 4.375 inches apart: http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/LED90mmReflectorSpot.jpg I calculate the beam angle to be approximately 35 degrees b. with Fresnel lens: http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/LED90mmReflectorAndLens.jpg Spot projected 100 inches on ceiling with tiles 4.375 inches apart: http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/LED90mmReflectorAndLensSpot.jpg This is the most uniform of the spots. I calculate the beam angle to be approximately 15 degrees. 3. "10W" "full spectrum" LED with 44mm reflector and lens: http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/LED44mmReflectorAndLens.jpg Spot projected 100 inches on ceiling with tiles 4.375 inches apart: http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/LED44mmReflectorAndLensSpot.jpg I calculate the beam angle to be approximately 27 degrees....See MoreMy trees are going outside this weekend!!! Yippee!! Anyone else?
Comments (164)Summertime is great if not for severe storms... it's been 90-93*F here the last few days, and today the pattern finally shifted. We had storms with 80 mph gusts come flying through that blew the vast majority of my trees over, despite me putting numerous bricks on the pots before I left for work this morning. The only trees that didn't blow over were tied to my deck fence! The winds even took a local radio station offline (it's still off 3.5 hours later)! I have a suspicion the tower got blown over... Here are a couple pictures I took from the drive home... (leaving the installation gate facing W-NW) Phone camera started entering nighttime mode, so it looks brighter than it was. That lawnmower guy was high-tailing it to his trailer. I don't blame him. (facing W) The brownish haze on the left hand side of the image is field dirt being disturbed by the 80+ mph gusts. (facing W) Dust being blown across the road in the thick of the gust front. A little past that, there was a portion of a roof resting on the left hill... wasn't a good sign! (facing N) Here's the base reflectivity return, after I forgot to add it in my initial post. The dreaded bow-echo (house location is the blue star): Unfortunately, I was too preoccupied to take any pictures of my deck in favor of rescuing my trees from their horizontal position.... and salvaging as much spilled soil as I could from my deck before the rains inevitably washed it all away. I did move my grafts inside before the hail hit, though. I'll be able to survey the damage tomorrow evening when it isn't pouring rain. No matter how you look at it though, it could have been a lot worse! Summertime is here! -Tom...See Morekcandmilo
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