Strawberry

24 grams. Soil grown. It tasted ok...

Tomato Trees

Full view of the yellow pear cherry tomatoes. The biggest ones are ~4 feet tall and have loads of fruit and blooms on them. The other two are not doing as well and are just now rebounding from having their tops cut off.

Mulberry Update

Mulberry tree with tons of healthy new growth. Hopefully, the fast growth will continue through the transition to a drip system in grow rocks. This will happen once the new water pump arrives.

Assorted Tomato Seedlings

Tote that will house 4 different types of compact tomatoes and tomatillos. The back row is tomatillos with verde on the left and purple on the right. The front row is Black Trifele on the right and will have Black Krim on the left once the seeds arrive.

New Strawberry Clones

Today I attached some of the runners from the hydro strawberries to rapid rooters in cups filled with grow stones. Once the roots reach the liquid we will sever the umbilicals. All of the excess runners (and one flower bud!!!) were trimmed in order to encourage more foliage growth after nutrient burn forced us to remove quite a few leaves with burned tips. The effect of the high nutrient levels can be seen in the under-curling of many of the bigger leaves.

The plant at the top of the image with light green leaves is our spare spaghetti squash that, despite serious nutrient burn, is still out growing the one with its own bucket. We should toss it since we don't have room for any more vining plants, but we can't help wanting to see if it will keep going. It may end up with a bucket of its own as well.

A close up of the clones pinned to rapid rooters using extra bobby pins I had laying around.

We should also note that we almost lost an air pump today. After nutrient solution leaked back into our air pumps and onto the floor a few times, we purchased back flow stop valves, but added them a few hours too late. One of them stopped working but Chris opened it up, found where the circuit had been broken due to corrosion and fixed it!! For now, this resurrected pump will serve as a back up and the strawberry and tomato totes will be run off the same pump.

Pomelo clone

We started this clone close to two months ago without any root growth. We took the cutting off a lemon tree's root stock. Cutting at a 45 degree angle. No scarring. Just a little cloning hormone. Last week, we replaced the rapid rooter and scarred the tip and within a week there was signs of root growth.

New Strawberry

The first strawberry we harvested from our mother plants growing in soil. Unfortunately, the fruit was still unripe at the top even though the bottom was already starting to break down. In addition, the strawberry was rather tasteless. This might indicate a potassium deficiency, so I will be increasing the concentration of Foliage Pro that I am using to feed them.

A close up of the bottom the strawberry where it is starting to become mushy.

Chamomile cuttings/clones

10 cuttings of chamomile, which will go im a single bucket if/when they root. Using Rapid Rooter and cloning powder.