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Rambo John J

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Those don't look like 7 gallon pots unless they are much taller than they look. That said, with autoflowers all you need is 3 gallons from my previous research.
They are 7 Gs
Myphone camera perspective is way fucked...I think I might have it on some fisheye or other odd ratio
At least I am posting images lol...
 

Papi Chingon

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First the Bed got turned and fertilized
Then I transplanted some thriving sweet pea starts under a piece of vertical sheep panel(out of view) at the far edge of that bed.

Lady transplanted some kale and various lettuce and greens that were growing in random beds in the garden. IView attachment 159061
Later some pole beans or other beans will climb the 8 foot panel behind the bed after the sweet peas give up. Probably just grow greens in the empty spaces in the bed this year.
Are those deep red/purple ones solar flare? They are really deep in color like the merlot variety, but looke shorter in stature like solar flare. I like that your wife chose varieties with different texture. Mixed green salad, or even toppings on sangwiches or tacos are always better with various textures. I don't always grow tango since it's short and gets shaded out by most lettuces, but when I do it really adds something nice to a salad.
 

Rambo John J

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Those don't look like 7 gallon pots unless they are much taller than they look. That said, with autoflowers all you need is 3 gallons from my previous research.
Yes
As I said this is experimental only
Are those deep red/purple ones solar flare? They are really deep in color like the merlot variety, but looke shorter in stature like solar flare. I like that your wife chose varieties with different texture. Mixed green salad, or even toppings on sangwiches or tacos are always better with various textures. I don't always grow tango since it's short and gets shaded out by most lettuces, but when I do it really adds something nice to a salad.
I have no idea really, I do enjoy a nice salad
she is always seeding a bed to see what grows
purple leaves could be because of the frost/cold? or the variety you speak of, she has hundreds of seed packets
 

Papi Chingon

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Yes
As I said this is experimental only

I have no idea really, I do enjoy a nice salad
she is always seeding a bed to see what grows
purple leaves could be because of the frost/cold?
No, not with lettuce. It's not like marijuana. The variety is green, blush, or red, or anything in between. Seasons don't matter. Solar flare is a variety. I bought it a few years ago from Baker's Creek. Yours looks the same.
 

Rambo John J

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Tomato Bed
2 types of San Marzano
Goliath
Beefsteak
Darkstar
Chef Choice Orange
Early Girl
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Pepper Bed
2 Peach Ghost Pepper
Chocolate 7 Pot(one of hottest in world, can season 7 Pots)
4 jalepeno
sweet italian
2 Bell pepper
Etc..20250511_182041.jpg
6 types of cucumbers in that row next to the asparagus line
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Zucchini, Lettuce, 2 Zinnias in right low20250511_182127.jpg
 
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Papi Chingon

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Tomato Bed
2 types of San Marzano
Goliath
Beefsteak
Darkstar
Chef Choice Orange
Early Girl
RomaView attachment 160109
Pepper Bed
2 Peach Ghost Pepper
Chocolate 7 Pot(one of hottest in world, can season 7 Pots)
4 jalepeno
sweet italian
2 Bell pepper
Etc..View attachment 160110
6 types of cucumbers in that row next to the asparagus line
starting to rain nowView attachment 160112
Zucchini, Lettuce, 2 Zinnias in right lowView attachment 160111
Perfect timing, right before the rain.

The 7 pot isn't as hot as it's namesake. No way anyone is seasoning 7 pots with 1 pepper. I grew it out a few years ago and was so scared I only used 1 chopped up in a pot of speghetti. Didn't even notice any heat, so I had to spice it up after the fact. Having said that, they are spicy and I use them (I have a bunch frozen still) in cooking. I would never play with one raw.
 

Rambo John J

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Perfect timing, right before the rain.

The 7 pot isn't as hot as it's namesake. No way anyone is seasoning 7 pots with 1 pepper. I grew it out a few years ago and was so scared I only used 1 chopped up in a pot of speghetti. Didn't even notice any heat, so I had to spice it up after the fact. Having said that, they are spicy and I use them (I have a bunch frozen still) in cooking. I would never play with one raw.
Just a test for fun. I don't love the super hots.
Ghost pepper is good enough for me, and I love the flavor of peach ghost. Been using the dried ones from a plant 3 years back and loving it.
Every pepper plant can produce a slightly different pepper, I will report the 7 pot results.
 
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Rambo John J

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Put a Chile De Arbol in the pepper bed
I plant a garden for a disabled vet(covid shot clot leg got amputated) and put it on a dripline complete with a timer, and I pick his garden for him once a week. He didn't want the Chile De Arbol so I tossed it in my bed at home.

Hot lil bastards and they grow a shitload of them per plant

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Rambo John J

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Cannabis plant in freshly made round bed, I use cardboard or straw for the outer edge.
Pot of strawberries, big ass plant in pot, and Full bed of Garlic(12 kinds) that will be harvested in about a month or so and be enough garlic for the year.20250511_182118.jpg

I use the wire mesh and cardboard or straw portable beds to add a small garden bed or two or four around the garden in back or out front. Can make that bed in any shape you want, round, curvy, long, square... They last a few years or refresh every year, straw brings seeds which can be annoying.


Cannabis plant is pissed I planted it too early, rain and cool cloudy right now after a fake start to the summer.
 
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sparkuri

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Not much going on here this year, I got some tomato starts and bell pepper starts and a few other peppers and different kinds of stuff.
My kale is doing well and spinach & errugula and collard greens are popping.
Black berry bushes are coming along and I'm about to build a trellis for that.
Found a peach tree and it's doing well and 4 apple trees are doing alight.


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Rambo John J

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Not much going on here this year, I got some tomato starts and bell pepper starts and a few other peppers and different kinds of stuff.
My kale is doing well and spinach & errugula and collard greens are popping.
Black berry bushes are coming along and I'm about to build a trellis for that.
Found a peach tree and it's doing well and 4 apple trees are doing alight.


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Looks great

Get a chesterberry bro, get it in the ground this year. No thorns, amazing larger juicy berry with a longer season and shelf life.

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Rambo John J

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I could send you one next spring if it comes to that, bareroot or in a 1 gallon.
I get 20+ replants each year, but have gifted all away from this spring
Best Vine Berry I have had to date
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