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The failed EvergreenGarden of 2012.

Currently Germinating

Organized by the tray they are in. Details on start dates &c coming once ClintonEbadi is unlazy enough to double check the labels on the germination trays. I seed everything in increments of ten cell peat pots.

• GT₁: Two kinds of onions (BtTempleton has to fill in details)

GT₁ GT₂ : unallocated

Seedlings

First waterings are noted here, but subsequent are not (I was under the impression that it'd have to be done less often than basically daily ...)

• ST₁: CHAOS (repotted!) Leftover Sweet Banana Pepper, Orange Habanero

  • 2012-03-03: Watered
  • 2012-03-03: Fertlized lightly
  • 2012-03-05: Watered
  • 2012-03-21: Thinned seedlings
    • Fertilized lightly
  • 2012-04-13: Fertilized lightly, zapped with tiny bit of pyrethins (yech, low air circulation = gnats)
  • 2012-04-20: Fertilized heavily, moved to main hood (turns out I've been underfertilizing!)
  • 2012-05-01: Repotted
    • Saved 3x Cayenne, 7x Habanero, 7x Bannana Pepper
    • Kept remaining Habanero/Bannana Pepper cells that were alive just in case
    • Fertilized heavily

• ST₂: ... CHAOS (repotted, numbers are inaccurate). Sweet Basil, Oriental Basil

  • 2012-03-05: Watered
  • 2012-03-09: Thinned all basil
  • 2012-03-09: Fertilized lightly
  • 2012-03-20: Fertilized lightly (and thinned Oriental Basil more)
  • 2012-04-13: Fertilized lightly, zapped with tiny bit of pyrethins (yech, low air circulation = gnats)
  • 2012-04-20: Repotted
    • Culled weak plants, repotted 8x Sweet Basil, 7x Oriental Basil
    • Kept ~20 semi-strong seedlings (ten of each)
    • Fertilized heavily
    • Moved to unhooded rack, beginning hardening off process

ST,,0,, and ST,,3,,

Actual situation is messy. It's late, I needed to record what I did, will reorganize &c later -- ClintonEbadi 2012-04-20 08:16:38

• ST₀: CHAOS (repotted, numbers inaccurate) 2x Chicory, 3x California Wonder Bell Pepper

  • 2012-03-03: Chicory dried out during the day! Bottom watered 3 cups
  • 2012-03-03: Transplanted first tray of Bell Peppers with significant germination
  • 2012-03-03: Fertilized lightly
  • 2012-03-05: Last two Bell Peppers germinated (also fertilized when transferring)
  • 2012-03-07: Thinned Chicory
  • 2012-03-19: Thinned peppers (note: third pepper tray has really low germination rate, bummer)
    • Fertilized entire tray lightly
  • 2012-04-13: Fertilized lightly, zapped with tiny bit of pyrethins (yech, low air circulation = gnats)
  • 2012-04-20: Repotted
    • Killed half of the peppers (weak, didn't germinate)
    • Repotted 6 Cal Bel Peppers
    • Thinned weak Chicory
    • Fertilized heavily

• ST₃: CHAOS (repotted, numbers inaccurate) 1x Lavender (1 died), 1x Parsley, repotted parsley

  • 2012-03-05: Parsley has germinated! (way, way early)... in the windowsill since I'm out of lights in the main hood after bumping the peppers out

  • 2012-03-20: Thinned Parsley
    • Lightly fertilized
    • Lavender not germinating too well
  • 2012-04-13: Fertilized lightly, zapped with tiny bit of pyrethins (yech, low air circulation = gnats)
    • Reasonable success germinating lavender
    • Parsley is looking a wee bit sickly
  • 2012-04-20: Repotted
    • Culled almost all parsley, half lavender
    • Thinned lavender
    • Repotted 6 parsleys that looked the least sickly
    • Fertlized heavily

After repotting and thinning, ST₃ and ST₀ were mixed-and-matched. Everything still in a seedling cell went into ST₀ under the main hood, and the repotted seedlings moved to the unhooded shelf in ST₃. These are not ready for hardening off and will remain indoors for the time being Plans are hardier than I thought; a quick test in the sun and then a few hours proved that sunlight benefitted even the weak plants!

• 2012-05-01: Fertilized heavily (sweet basil + pepper/oriental basil seedling trays)
• 2012-05-07: Fertilized heavily (everything that has been repotted)
• 2012-05-15: Fertilize heavily (everything that has been repotted)