Rooftop Greenhouse Grow Amsterdam

barring the odd few drags while wrecked i've been off them since crimbo

Sweet garden DST! That is some cold ass looking weather. I would love to make it out to CO in April - I have family there - and the new MJ laws are very promising

I will try to meet Subcool this weekend and give him some of my Mulange.

Sweet. If you go and I can also make it I'll bring my Frankie Goes to Hollywood LP for ya!!!

Quick update on the veggies and shtuff.
Covered the tulips up again as we drop down to minus degree temps.



Old skool air pots, lol.

Icey greenhouse roof

Some trinkets in the g-house to keep the plants happy.



Dolce Rosso clones

Tatties


My wifes first avocado

And the other avo's...having some issues with them.



Peace out,

DST

Hey DST,
Avos like iron and can get N burn really easy. The Avo in the back yard has leaves that are almost black from all the N it got when it drank the MJ leftovers last grow. I will take a pic of it tomorrow for you. Found my 73 micron Malawi IWE in my grow room! So good - made my lips numb and now I won't sleep ;P

Thanks for reminding me - i need to get my bulbs in the ground

Cheers,
Mo

Im glad this thread is back in action everything is looking good, all I have planted atm is garlic and onion. Im very familiar with those tomatoes, did great for me, I hope they do well in your climate

My taters are getting eaten alive by the earwigs. I need to find a preditor for them or try a beer and soap trap.

Thanks for the Iron info, Mo. I will tell the wife. We have been stumped, ph, too much water, not enough nutes....The best they got was when I gave them a micro wash which has iron in it so I'll give that another try. Any recommendations for adding Iron? I just ran our of Diatomeacious earth which has iron in it, I am sure.

Feel free to throw up pics anytime whodat.

Adn these dolce rosso seem to do well. the 2 clones are taken from last years plants, which were clones of the previous year. Here's a pic from the 2nd harvest from last year.

whodatnation said:

Im glad this thread is back in action everything is looking good, all I have planted atm is garlic and onion. Im very familiar with those tomatoes, did great for me, I hope they do well in your climate

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found a cool article on avocado defficiencies.
http://www.avocadosource.com/journals/saaga/saaga_1991/saaga_1991_pg_67-71.pdf

interesting technique they use.

The old timers around here will drive nails in the trunk of an Avo tree to get it to grow fruit. I have seen it work. Steel wool soaked in vinegar can produce a nice start to a soil ammendment that adds iron. Used this on the gardenias.

I have one tenth the number of posts as you! Trippy!

Yet you grow plants 10 times the size I do.....

Mmmn re nails. That is a choice the fine lady must make. Thanks though Mo.

Yet you grow plants 10 times the size I do.....

Mmmn re nails. That is a choice the fine lady must make. Thanks though Mo.

I just meant that the number of posts you had were 17760 and I had 1776! Kismet

I know I was trying to pen a smart retort.

Hey DST - Sorry it took me so long to get these up. I have been in this house for 12 years and I lost two trees before I got a good one and now I have two! They are still babies. My first Avo was a dwarf which apparently do not hold their fruit (WHY WOULD ANYBODY WANT ONE?). Tree two was doing well and I asked my gardener to move it and he killed it! It the the dead stick behind the Avo tree in these pics. It keeps popping shoots and then dying off. I will pull it this year. The Avo tree is from HomeDepot.

About five years ago my daughter and I were at the farm store and we saw this giant Avocado on the counter. I asked about it and the guy next to me said "That is mine, I gave it to them" in a mean sort of way. So we proceded to load up the car with organic soil and we were getting ready to drive away when there was a knock on my window. It was the farm store guy and he gave us the Avocado! So we planted this giant Avo seed in a trashcan full of organic soil and watered it daily. One day when I walked over to water it there was a big hole in the dirt and the seed was gone! I was so pissed!

A couple weeks later I was pulling weeds in my garden and there was a half eaten giant Avo seed under the Gardenia. I put it back in the trashcan/planter and kept watering it. It sprouted! It is now in the ground and is growing like a weed!

Here are some pics:

Avo 1:

Sept 2011




May 2012




Aug 2012




Feb 2013








Avo 2 Giant

April 2012




Feb 2013






Tangerine:





Blueberries:







Cheers,
Mo

I love the half eaten avo story!!! how cool. I have the biggest avo seed sitting on our table at the moment, it came from a really nice organic avo we had, so I thought, we got to try this one. The store avos (or supermarket ones) always have quite small (or smaller) s33ds I find.
Your big avo (no. 2), kind of looks similar to some of the ones we got. Seriously though, how long did you wait for them to fruit, and do we really have to wait 10 years? Thanks for the pics as always! I got a blueberry plant but at the moment it looks more like a twig! I made some muffins last year with ours. yum!
Peace, DST

A little update on things. Not much change apart form the tatties going boss, and we got pumpkin babies!

One of my dolce rosso clones. Getting all nice and hairy!!!

Funny, I gave a friend a dolce rosso clone for her birthday and she started freaking out because she wasn't sure what to do with it, she called my wife and said, what should i do, it's got hairs growing all over it, lmfao....
This is out best looking avo...

Random taiter shots.



ickle baby pumpkins...not sure why my wife planted 2 in one pot...


And that's me. I was thinking today, I might go with an Engineers Dream for my outside. It would be funny comparing what Mo could get outside with an ED and what I could get outside with an ED here in sunny Amsterdam...not a competition, just a comparison eh! I don't want to get made to look too stupid

Peace, DST

been pondering over my own tommy choices this year. still not sure. some form of cherry variety probably i'm really wanting baby plums.

avacado's look great man. i might try this cocktails in seeds in cups, owt i need to know about it? frying the kernel removing all the fruit?

The dolce rosso are cherry toms crossed with roma's. Super sweet but bigger than a cherry tom.

What what? frying the kernel, not sure what you mean lad. You talking about starting an avocado? If so, we just dry em, stick some cocktail sticks in them and suspend them over a glass of water. They will crack, then a root will apear and then the shoot. Then we planted them witha bit of the stone above ground (not sure if this is correct or not but it worked).