The Red99 Gardening Blog

[Tomatoking]

Hi pals ! :)

Today i went to lowe's , home depot ( And then back to lowe's ) For various supplies and both stores are now having a kick off spring sale.

They are selling miracle grow gardening soil for 3.33 a cubic foot, thats right 3 bags for 10 bucks !

Thats 30% off

I would love to see pics of your plants and gardens in this thread as spring rolls in , dont be shy if your plants arent doing well we can help and talk about it !

I will post a pic of my latest project a full tree graft ( From a producing mango tree to a non producing tree ) and 5 White fig branches that were flown in from ny 2 weeks ago !

I personally dont care if you are growing cannabis ( Staff might ) But we will leave it up to them, Growing any plant is A+ in my book as gardening is bad ass.

And since i cant post a gardening blog without a pic

Heres my 41 day old pac-man broccoli , yes you heard me ! 41 days old.


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[Lemons]

those places sux, they dont sell promix.

[Giovanni]

This one year old spider plant practically shouts just pull the plug and let me die every time I water it.

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[Lemons]

wont link pictures of my plants, just my dogs.

http://i.imgur.com/lSPjoWe.jpg

[Lemons]

thug life

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[heartbrand]

petitioning agatha for real life dog photos

[Loli Pops]

our dogs win

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[Tomatoking]

spider plant has a magnesium defeciency , looks like you are over watering it : (

also , FEED IT ! looks hungry !

[Swish]

Listing what I grow in one thread is way too long, but I'm sure you'll agree my plantation is FABULOUS! :)

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[Tomatoking]

luls dogs look sad , they need a computer so they can troll like daddy !

[Rettii]

lol Grimtoadsz

Lemons thats a comcast controller? ur east coast rnt u?

Lulz y u have 4 puppy piss mats on the floor?

[heartbrand]

spider plant has a magnesium defeciency , looks like you are over watering it : (

also , FEED IT ! looks hungry !

looks like being over watered so feed it

[Lemons]

i live like 10 houses down from hugs.

never met the guy. so ya, south florida :P

[Holey]

Listing what I grow in one thread is way too long, but I'm sure you'll agree my plantation is FABULOUS! :)

http://zyngablog.typepad.com/.a/6a01156fcaccc3970c0147e3282992970b-800wi

HELLO RICKY

[Tomatoking]

no digital farm shit , REAL plants

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[Sirken]

wont link pictures of my plants, just my dogs.

http://i.imgur.com/lSPjoWe.jpg

i see an e-machine :P

[karsten]

these gardening threads are by far the best threads on p99

[Swish]

Bunch of hippies tbh, go and play City of Heroes as Captain Planet.

[Galacticus]

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[Bardalicious]

heh heh heh

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[Lemons]

poppies are dank, i want to try to grow my own heroin. but i hear even to get like a couple grams of shit worth you have to grow quite a bit

[Vamael]

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[Tomatoking]

nice vam , yours?

healthy girls

and jibekn , stop being so mad

[Zozo]

oh wow. fuck the elements tho

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[Smedy]

this shit ruins my immersion, link pictures of your computer screen which displays everquest pixels please, this shit is unclassic

[Zozo]

So blue it hurts

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[Vile]

hs so much fun... i miss the pixels bros

[Nirgon]

That VP clicky staff grows some big pixels in the hands of a strong gardener

[Tomatoking]

zozo you cant use just sodium lights , other spectrums are entirely abscent other then pure red.

They run too hot and use too much power , throw in a flourescent with a large range of bulbs , its very worth it.

[Zozo]

Those were hand me downs, but I'll do some research. Sounds worth considering.

[Tomatoking]

Lighting Types
Also see Light Cycles for more information on plant life cycles.

So its time to pick a light. Before you begin to scour the internet lets help you decide which light is right for you!











There are quite a few types of lights available today we will talk about incandescent first.

The first lighting cycle was extremely wasteful in power consumption and put out almost no lumens.

incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light which produces light with a filament wire heated to a high temperature by an electric current passing through it, until it glows (see Incandescence). The hot filament is protected from oxidation with a glass bulb that is filled with inert gas (or evacuated).

More information about incandescent bulbs can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_bulb

These type of lights are rarely sold anymore and you almost never hear about them being used for growing.











The next type of light we will talk about is flourescent. Probably the most versatile type of light on the market most ballasts can swap out almost a dozen different spectrums of light bulbs.

These come in all different sizes, some bulbs are short and usually go up to 48" Long and can have up to 12 bulbs per ballast!

A fluorescent lamp or fluorescent tube is a gas-discharge lamp that uses electricity to excite mercury vapor. The excited mercury atoms produce short-wave ultraviolet light that then causes a phosphor to fluoresce, producing visible light. A fluorescent lamp converts electrical power into useful light much more efficiently than incandescent lamps. The luminous efficacy of a compact fluorescent light bulb is about 60 lumens per watt, four times the efficacy of a typical incandescent bulb. For conventional tube fluorescent lamps the fixture is more costly because it requires a ballast to regulate the current through the lamp, but the lower energy cost typically offsets the higher initial cost.

More information about florescent bulbs can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flourescent_bulb

An inexpensive solution that does not use much power and does not generate that much heat these are the preferred lights of almost all agricultural growers for indoors.

These bulbs do not have a specifc spectrum because you can buy a specific bulb of any spectrum and make your ballast have the assortment you would like.

Agromax is an excellent bulb choice and here is an example of their gallery




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As you can see the picture is straight forward with spectrums. Any combination can be chosen depending on which cycle your plants are in.

Plants like greens and wheat grass never leave the grow spectrum ( 5400K / 6400k ) This is the common vegetative cycle for first stage of plant life.

Flowers and fruiting plants will enter bloom spectrums when triggered ( 3000k ) This light mimicks the summer and has a red glow that helps develop fruit, flowers and buds in plants.

The finisher or purple spectrums are designed to polish fruits and provide the supplemental light that is entirely missing from High pressure sodium and metal halide systems.













HPS or High pressure sodium.

A sodium-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light. There are two varieties of such lamps: low pressure and high pressure. Low-pressure sodium lamps are the most efficient electrical light sources, but their yellow light restricts applications to outdoor lighting such as street lamps. High-pressure sodium lamps have a broader spectrum of light but poorer color rendering than other types.

More information about high pressure sodium lamps can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_pressure_sodium_lamp

These lights pump out alot of raw lumens but use a good amount of power and generate considerable heat. These lights require ventilation unless used in greenhouses or cold environments.

They mimic 300k Red spectrum light ( Summer ) And are typically used as flowering lights for plants entering fruiting cycles. These lights are also capable of using a metal halide conversion bulb. Basically a metal halide bulb thats backwards compatibile with this fixture.



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These lights also require a Ballast ( they do not just plug into the wall )





Metal Halide Lighting

A metal-halide lamp is an electric light that produces light by an electric arc through a gaseous mixture of vaporized mercury and metal halides[1][2] (compounds of metals with bromine or iodine). It is a type of high-intensity discharge (HID) gas discharge lamp.[1] Developed in the 1960s, they are similar to mercury vapor lamps,[1] but contain additional metal halide compounds in the arc tube, which improve the efficiency and color rendition of the light

More information on this type of light can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_halide_lamp


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Metal halide light bulbs also use a ballast and a reflector like high pressure sodium.

These lights are commonly used in the vegetative state of plants. With a strong blue spectrum and very high output they are the industry standard greenhouse light.











LED Lights

By far the most innovative light type. These lights use a very very small amount of power, have an almost unreal bulb life and generate almost no heat.

The drawback is cost. Fixtures powerful enough to grow plants are expensive and not an option for most hobbyists.





A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor light source.[4] LEDs are used as indicator lamps in many devices and are increasingly used for other lighting. Appearing as practical electronic components in 1962,[5] early LEDs emitted low-intensity red light, but modern versions are available across the visible, ultraviolet, and infrared wavelengths, with very high brightness.

More information about LED Lights can be found here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode

Most of the smaller panels that are for sale for less then 30 dollars are incapable of growing a plant and do not put out enough lumens. LED Lights usually have an adjustable knob that lets you change the spectrum of light they are omitting depending on the stage of your plants life.

[Lemons]

i have done side by sides 5 years ago with metal halide flowering, and hps flowering, MH grow cycle works out great the nodes/budsights are far more and closer together, but when usig MH for flower the plants dont yielf or grow as big of buds. i do 14k watts flower and 7k watts MH grow for this reason.

[Tomatoking]

well yes sodium is red , red is for flowering, but you are only getting red so you have to supplement halide, you know this obviousley because growing is a big deal for you /wink

but alot of people just grow with a sodium bulb , gotta have one blue spec light on always even if flowering , and honestly if you throw a t5 in a room with white then use purple last week of flowering to kill your leaves you will have he - man nuggets

Everything is an art and practice makes perfect just like anything else


tomorrow ill be posting the pic of what i did outdoors today

Not enough plant pics on here guys start growing shit and post your pics !

[Tradesonred]

This is my current setup, barring a couple of pots:

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It looks better during the summer a bit

You even got a shot of my trusty ole 2 wheeler

[Tradesonred]

I call him rusty

[Tomatoking]

A For effort at least you are trying , sure hope those puppies are dormant !

I bought a patriot blueberry bush in november and it still hasnt come out of dormant yet , hope its not dead

[Jenni D]

no garden here, just a balcony patio with a pool view and bkk skyline

[Tomatoking]

tina , i love you but , ,

buy a plant , and post a pic !

[Nirgon]

lold @ trades post

[Tomatoking]

This message is hidden because Nirgon is on your ignore list.

Get out of my thread crybaby

[Nirgon]

You know more about gardening than I thought

[Tradesonred]

So can i use the same soil i used last year, and like putting some fertilizer in straight off the bat or do i absolutely need some new soil?

[Tomatoking]

new soil , everything good has been washed out , and using stale old media isnt the best idea , i cant remember if you live in canada or the us , but lowes and home depot are having a 3.33 for a cubic foot of miracle grow gardening soil sale

Also try to dig a trench and lay your soil and grow in the ground , pots dry out very fast and have no side drainage, most people who grow in pots have problems with plants drying out too fast or being too wet and not drying. Theres no happy medium like growing in the ground.

[Tradesonred]

I wouldnt eat anything that came out of that ground, really, looks totally trashy

The tomatoes fared well, so thats gonna be a repeat, 3 full pots of cherry tomatoes instead of only 1 this year.

Anything else thats easy to grow?

thx for tips

[Galacticus]

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[Tradesonred]

Lol doesnt the electricity bill just makes the veggies cost more than what it would buying organics at the farmers market =P

I mean, its a fun hobby too

[Stasis01]

This one year old spider plant practically shouts just pull the plug and let me die every time I water it.

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ahaha

[mwllowyellow2]

our dogs win

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Dog has no swag like these

[Galacticus]

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Dog has no swag like these

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Dog aint got no heat like this monster.

[Tomato King3]

3 weeks

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[Tomato King3]

Mango margaritas 2 weeks bros

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[Tomato King3]

Cucumbers round 3 smilin hard as hell , peep my vinyl fence too !

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[Tomato King3]

Get ready for the best broccoli ever

its so soft you can eat it raw ( not even kidding ) ate 2 plants already

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[Tomato King3]

Spring is here , get growing ! post your pics here !!!

( I dont care if its weed )

[Casey II]

This is really gay. Play everquest.

[Swish]

Been growing my own plants in the sand lately...

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[Tomato King3]

swish your sig is blowing my mind , and i have no idea whats going on in the sand with the torch
but as always A+ dude

[raka]

3 weeks

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nice gold mound in the back.

[tarran]

watch out for them mang0s cuh they ne'er stop growin

[Tomato King3]

gold mound?

[Kimm Barely]

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[Tomato King6]

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[Nirgon]

Gardening is woman work

[Vile]

i like your lake brew

[Andis]

Gardening is woman work

[runlvlzero]

That broccoli is awesome. Wish I could garden like that.

[Infectious]

Lemons. Get a grow tent and co2 bag and watch that thing grow. Waste of time doing it that way. You will end up with stringy flowers at the end. Also with lst and what I posted you can triple what you get out that thing. Alot of potential there still. Whoever posted that outside garden get yourself some chicken wire and sea of green that shit. By the green on the fans they are gona come out tastey. And tomatoe I cant belief you get them results from useing miracle grow. I got a nice recipe for organic soil. With a couple teas I use every 1 1/2 months to 2 months you will never have to flush anything. I have never grown veggys so I dont know how they come out with miracle grow though. You have to flush them before eatting?

[GoodGuyAmes]

Drown yourself in that lake immediately.


Lol what part of FL are you in? My brother lives in Del Ray beach and he has to put up a fence like yours around his backyard because there are alligators that get into his complex sometimes. I could never live in a place that I might possibly be eaten by a fucking alligator while swimming in my pool. He loves the weather down there though. Its been raining for days in NYC.

[Tomato King6]

Drown yourself in that lake immediately.


Lol what part of FL are you in? My brother lives in Del Ray beach and he has to put up a fence like yours around his backyard because there are alligators that get into his complex sometimes. I could never live in a place that I might possibly be eaten by a fucking alligator while swimming in my pool. He loves the weather down there though. Its been raining for days in NYC.

First year I moved here I was mowing my lawn and on the far shore I watched a 14 footer storm out of the lake and eat a maltese in 1 bite.

The gator was never caught.

[Infectious]

Damn... I would have got some chicken and invited some people over. In nj we have deer and squirrels. The meaniest thing out here are the mosquitos.

[Clark]

Drown yourself in that lake immediately. lmao

why do you grow so much lettuce man, need some vegetables you can cook

setup does look like though

[Pitborn]

My freshly planted garden ( First time in my new house/yard ) has half my plants turning yellow. ( Pumpkin, Zucchini to name a couple. ) Some info says iron deficient.. some says underwatering.. ( unlikely, but possible i guess )

HALP GARDEN PALS!

[Tomato King6]

My freshly planted garden ( First time in my new house/yard ) has half my plants turning yellow. ( Pumpkin, Zucchini to name a couple. ) Some info says iron deficient.. some says underwatering.. ( unlikely, but possible i guess )

HALP GARDEN PALS!

Unless you have wilting it isn't overwatering.

If the yellow is blotchy its nitrogen not iron

If yellow is on NEW leaves and old leaves its iron

Nitrogen deficiency will never make new leaves yellow.

Has it been raining a lot near you? If it has it can be magnesium but regular fertilizer will fix that. If you are growing food I recommend miracle grow organic plant food from home depot. Its 26$ A bag but its properly composted safe chicken poop and it is very very good.

Post pics vayden

[Tomato King6]

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Harvested today due to 2 96 degree days in a row

about 1/4 of full grown size, still a massive amount of lettuce I stuffed myself on salad and ate 1/8th of it

Shits legit

[Tomato King6]

wheres all the plant pics

you guys have nothing to bring to the table? literally?

[p-niner]

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[Loli Pops]

This is a lake bro.

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[mtb tripper]

I got some peas and mustard greens, little bit of squash and chineese okra as well

[Nirgon]

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[Tomato King6]

nice sausage fingers

I have no gardening pics to share its very very hot here in florida and considering the weather I don't grow until next month.

I have lots of figs to pic but nothing else noteworthy