Frostick Zero's Garden

[FrostickZero]

Hi all I picked up these 2 lights up yesterday and thought I would give them a try out.

----- LED 1 -----
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Wattage - 3.5
Lumes - 280
Life - 10,000 hours
No Rediated Heat
Mercury Free
Lumes per watt - 80
Colour Temp - 6062K
Cost per month on a 24/0 for 30 days - $0.15

----- LED 2 -----
View attachment 1574042
Wattage - 3.5
Lumes - 201
Life - 15,000 hours
No Rediated Heat
Mercury Free
Lumes per watt - 57
Colour Temp - 5692K
Cost per month on a 24/0 for 30 days - $0.15
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[FrostickZero]

Day 7



I took 3 to 4 clones per mint strain that I have growing. I am using the LED 1 look at the post above and that is the LED light that I am using and what its specs are.
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[mcpurple]

that led kinda looks like a cfl a bit.

 

[FrostickZero]

that led kinda looks like a cfl a bit.

It does. But I found out the hard way to never took right at it when its pointing right towards you eyes it feels like its stronger then a 200w to 400w HPS when you look at it.

 

[FrostickZero]

Well I was looking at my indoor garden and my strawberry plants have started to flower but I read the box to pick the flowers off till June and July. I had a couple people telling me that I don't have to but I would like to know what you guys think.

Also doing some math and I probably spend around $500 to $600 to get my indoor garden started up with the plant food and such.

Sadly I need to buy a new circular saw and that's gonna cost around $200 to $300 not including around $20 for a fine tooth circular saw blade to build my garden setup.
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[mcpurple]

i just leave my flowers, i read if you pluck them you will have fewer bigger berries and if left a bunch of mid sized berries. i just leave mine though, i have some that produce from now till the end of summer and then i have some that produce now and then some time round june again

 

[FrostickZero]

oh. Well mine aren't suppose to produce any till June or July. I'm thinking its starting now because they were put into pots so their roots have places to go and its starting to flower from that.

 

[FrostickZero]

Little Update



I am still fighting the fruit fly hatch-ling problem but I have killed all of them the first round and a few here and there have been coming back but in less every thing I do a kill off of the live ones.
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[mellokitty]

are you sure they're fruit flies?
fungus gnats are a common 'plant' problem, and they look like tiny little fruit flies.
(hint: fruit flies are kind of reddish brown. fg's are mostly black)

looking good though!

 

[FrostickZero]

Update



Hey all. Sorry for the lack up updates and pics but I haven't been feeling well and not much has happened but I have harvested pepper seeds from Orange and yellow Sweet Bell Peppers. The mint that I cloned have started to root from just above the rock wool top. I lost 1 mint clone due to it not being down deep enough but that's ok. I took a look at my mint plants that I have been having fruit fly problems with and it looks like I took them out so that is awsome news. I have to dry out the pepper seeds before I start them so there's not gonna be alot going on till they are germinated.
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[mellokitty]

just scored a really cool mint, "corsican mint". it's a creeper with teeny tiny leaves, spearminty smell. very cool.

 

[FrostickZero]

That sounds really cool. My mint clones are partly rooted so I took the dome off and 4 of them wilted. 3 of them was the chocolate mint and those have roots. =(

I found some Bell pepper - Chocolate, Thai Dragon - Pepper, Sweet Pepper - Red Bull's Horn, Red Habanero Pepper and Hot Pepper - Ancho Green that I want to buy in seed forum maybe some Watermelon - Crimson to.

 

[mellokitty]

try wiping any excess moisture and putting the dome back on; when i make clones i find that they like to be domed until they have *good roots. (but don't forget to let them breathe a few times a day either.)
don't worry about the wiltage, i think mint is pretty hardy and they're likely to perk up again for you.

another thing you can do is put the domes back on and prop them open a couple inches with something (best of both worlds)

i have some sweet baby bells (red and orange) and thai dragons too! AND i just kept the seeds out of a ginormous red bell we ate yesterday..... grown in canada so it should be acclimated too (although a LOT of the local peppers are hot/greenhouse grown).... i did jalepeno's and some other hot thai pepper i forget the name of last year, but i put them upside down in the bottom of my hanging baskets so i'm pretty sure they didn't reach their full potential. they both produced about a dozen peppers each, though, and people just LOVED the look of them.... (let's see if i can find you a pic).....

 

[FrostickZero]

That sounds awsome. No I had the dome off of the clone tray for a good portion of the day it was fine but then I saw that they were wilting so I gave them some water and misted them and put the dome back on, changed ther LED light toa CFL.

 

[mellokitty]

i'd forgotten about this one... i did as a gift; it's the 'azian flav' basket (viet coriander, chives, and peppers on the bottom) (and yeah yeah it's sideways but i'm lazy)

 

[mellokitty]

thanks!
i don't think i'm ever gonna do another hanging basket without something hanging out the bottom (other stuff that works: tomatoes (duh), strawberries, okra, basically anything that can hold up the weight of its fruit. (so like, no pumpkins lol)

 

[FrostickZero]

hahaha I'd love to do a hanging basket but at the moment I need to get a circular saw so that I cna build things. I might get creative and find a way to do a Lucky Bamboo LED grow into a custom et-center or computer desk. Or I might do a little seedling setup in a comp desk or et-center. =) I like being creative.

Good news my mint plants that were wilted have perked up some. It might have been because it was a little cold in here or that I had the dome off to early before they were close to ready to be planted.

 

[mcpurple]

is all mint good to use to make tea? and is their other uses for it? if you know, you seem like the mint man to ask

 

[FrostickZero]

is all mint good to use to make tea? and is their other uses for it? if you know, you seem like the mint man to ask

The mint that I bought can be used in teas and such. Yes mint can be used for other things. If you have to proper stuff and time you can make mint extract out of it and that can be used in baking or used to flavor coffee and such. You can also nibble on them to if you want.

 

[mellokitty]

mint has a surprising number of medicinal uses, the best known being as a stomach remedy: upset stomach, indigestion, colic, the pain from kidney stones even.
slightly less known uses include: skincare (it's said to help/prevent acne and dandruff), external pain relief (essential oil on arthritis pain, for instance) and as an emmenagogue (you can use it to regulate your period and/or bring on childbirth; preggos are often recommended to steer clear of the stronger mints like peppermint).

i just hacked my "bowle's apple mint" to bits and replanted it as 2 plants; both seem to be doing fine. and i was right. its roots had TOTALLY suffocated its neighbouring lemon balm. which is funny because in my neighbour's yard, her lemon balm seems to have killed its neighbouring pineapple sage.


sorry about the constant threadjacking, there's just not a lot going on in my garden right now because we're expanding garden beds and my man says i might as well not do any tilling by hand 'cuz he's gonna get a guy with a *machine* in there... soon. <- i hope.
so for now i'm still the mother of a bunch of seed trays and 4" cups.