Thanks Tim! Here is the completed scrog screen. It’s just under 5’ square. I heavily cheated and used metal corner brackets to secure the frame. The important quality is that the screen is taught.
The screen is now installed. It’s not very pretty, but it’s strong and can be disassembled and put away quickly if need be. Most importantly it will help me have a fantastic garden.
Yeah, I keep my eyes open and my hand truck close by. I have a lot of decent to very nice furniture that people have just put out on the sidewalk. It’s how we recycle in a city. The festool sanding system I have absolutely rocks! I bought it because I want to refinish a lot of this reclaimed furniture and because I have asthma. I’m also a big believer in not making a mess, as opposed to cleaning up a mess. This system creates very little sawdust to clean up. It also works fast!
I built a central dust collection system in my last shop. I ran hard pipe to all machines then flex the last few feet from my slide gates. I had a remote control clipped to my belt that turned the dust collector on and off. I also made a 24"x24" downdraft sanding table for sanding smaller projects. I still had coarse wood dust to clean up too. But, the finer dust the harms us was all removed from the air.
Thanks! I’ve used this fencing since my indoor scrog days as well as a trellis for my last window grow. Very useful stuff.
So beans are in their wee lil pots. I have 20 seedling pots with 30 seeds in them. All of this seed stock is around 15 years old, during which the storage integrity fluctuated wildly. These days I use lil jam jars from hotels to store my well organized seed stock. I have some rare, pure sativas in there and a bunch of indica/sativa hybrids from outdoors in Northern California. My goal is 3-4 females and a few males. I’m very keen on getting the pure sativas to produce some seed for me.
All those flags makes me think were joining in on the seedling olympics. That's a cool way to label them.
The March of the Tiny Seedlings! On my last grow I realized that short plastic tags were problematic.
First bean has popped! So 7 days after plopping them in the fine organic compost I have nurtured. And it’s one of my sativas! Happy daze! A bit earlier than expected, but the weather here has been mostly sunny and nice.
Oh yeah! Two more beans have popped for a total of three now. Another sativa and one of the Blueberry cross breeds. The weather has been very warm and sunny. The two sativas:
The germination rate is so much better than last year. Last year my first sprouts appeared after 10 days. These three have appeared on days 7 & 8. I’m also in the dirt earlier this year than last, my trellis is in place now as opposed to August of last year and I have a lot more beans in the dirt. This is going to be a rockin grow season!
So the two sativas on the top right, the indica bottom left. Showing typical growth characteristics. I’m repotting the two sativas very early as there are 3 beans in that pot and I don’t want the roots entangled.
I use to pack as much compost as possible in my pots. Last year I created very well drained bases using lava rock and pumice. Also seen is my personal succulent compost (on the left) with my standard personal compost mix. I mixed the two together in a roughly 1:3 ratio. I like well drained compost.
And transplanted into their 3/4 gallon pots. If female they will go into 3 gallon pots. If male they will stay in these pots and be moved to the backyard.
And the struggle continues. So, 17 days after dropping beans in the compost, I still only have 3 sprouts out of 30 beans. insert sad face here So I added a 2nd round of beans today by just adding more to each unsprouted pot and labeled the tags accordingly.
So my lil garden continues to struggle. I discovered a forgotten stash of seeds, so I’m going to put them in the compost very soon. But meanwhile no new sprouts and the 3 that are there seem to be struggling a bit. I’m not certain why, unless it’s the angle of the sun in the sky. Which would fit with why I was able to do so well last year, despite starting late. As such they grew really fast. This year they seem to be growing more slowly. Days have been a mix of overcast and cool-cold, with several days of bright sunshine and temps in the mid 70sF.