Indoor Garden Update - Ripening Tomatoes And More!
Hello Everyone,
There's a lot going on in the garden right now, and one of the most exciting things happening is the ripening Cherry Tomatoes!
I've never grown tomatoes before, so I can't say for sure if this is an impressive plant for growing in a tent, but I think it is!
It's even growing huge under the table as well!
I have a few different types of tomato plants growing right now, one is the cherry tomato vine and the other types are larger varieties, some of which I took out of tomatoes grown locally and one tomato plant that's called a Cherokee Purple that I ordered on the internet.
Isn't it cool that you can get plants on the internet? I think it's super cool.
Aside from that, my sunflowers are blooming and looking super beautiful:
Here's a shot of some of the plants in one of my vegetation areas:
I have all kinds of things growing in here, a pink sunflower just starting (next to the box of green onions).
I have never tried growing green onions from seed before, usually I would just replant green onions I bought from the market, but they aren't producing great and wanted more green onions. So far they love it in this trash bag lined cardboard box.
I have a couple of cannabis clippings in here and some small unknown strain cannabis plants, also the Hungarian Pepper plant can be seen there. I already harvested them and ate them both at the same time whole. The heat was indeed a little stronger than a jalapeno but I loved it and want even hotter.
So now I have some cayenne peppers on the way and I think they will probably be more painful than the Hungarian Yellow Wax peppers, which is nice because I like to experience pepper pain. It releases endorphins and gives a euphoric feeling during the immense feeling.
Here's one for my canna peeps:
No signs of sex today but I'm looking forward to it.
What are your favorite plants in futuremind's tents?
I would love to read your thoughts in the comment section below!
Thank you for stopping by,
Have a great day! -@futuremind
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That is a lot of stuff going on! I absolutely love that sunflower too. It reminds me one time I was at the Singapore air port during a transit, they got a huge sunflower garden as the outdoor smoking area, and their sunflower even taller than me 😁
That thumbnail photo, if I do t pay attention to what you wrote, I would have commented something like what are going to do with that ping pong 🤣
Thank you for the compliment brother, the sunflowers are indeed super happy in that tent :)
If my cherry tomatoes look like ping pong balls I'll take that as a compliment 😄 They are pretty large for growing indoors, must be what I feed them :D
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You're welcome. You're doing great with indoor gardening. Keep up the excellent work.
You're garden is fruitful as they bears fruit and flowers. Keep it up and for sure you will reap what you sow in due time.
Thank you so much @jenthoughts!
Cannabis and tomatoes go together like peas in a pod;)
I'm realizing that now! :D
Pepper pain releases endorphins? That's news to me. Explains the addictive qualities of them. Could be worse than being addicted to something as nutritious as a pepper. Love those tomatoes.
Thank you @owasco, the tomatoes are super delicious!
They sure do release endorphins, as a natural defense mechanism in the body to combat the extreme pain,
in fact the creator of the worlds (recorded) hottest pepper recovered from drug addiction by trading drug addiction for capsaicin addiction.
Interesting! Will watch it soon.
Vas a disfrutar mucho de esos tomates, ojala sean bien jugosos. EN su momento tuve una planta pero si mal no recuerdo solo pude disfrutar de una colecta de sus frutos.
Growing vegetables and plants at times outside their natural seasonal growth is extremely demanding. They don't really want to grow in winter and it takes a lot of trickery and intensive care to get them to do so. Since we recently have a winter garden, I notice that the summer plants are all dying. It's too cold and not sunny enough for them, as we don't heat the conservatory. But even in summer, the care is a challenge and I find it really difficult to grow a green thumb for every plant.
So I am even more amazed that you have a sunflower and tomatoes and they are thriving. I imagine it's difficult to have different types of plants in the same tent that need different conditions, for example. Are the succulents therefore used to the same conditions as the sunflower and tomatoes?
My aloe vera seems to be the only plant that doesn't mind the cold at night, maybe it's a desert plant that can withstand strong temperature fluctuations...
I missed your re-entry and see that you are blogging energetically again. I'm glad you're finding the time again.
Greetings :)
Hey @erh.germany!
Thank you for the compliment, I'm trying my best here! :)
It's very challenging to grow these types of plants indoors during the winter, especially if heat levels aren't consistent or very high in the home.
Aside from giving them a lot of love, it requires some pretty demanding environmental factors. By demanding I mean extreme light intensity and warmth, utilizing enclosures. The lights I use are commercial grade and very powerful, utilizing light emitting diodes that are specifically dialed in for optimum light spectrums for plants.
I grow those sunflowers, aloe, succulents and pepper plants in a single tent with a two hundred and forty watt light panel. My bigger tent boasts a six hundred watt commercial grade LED (light emitting diode) light. This probably accounts for the vibrancy of the plants.
The lights themselves also generate a lot of heat, which is helpful during the winter season.
Seasons are emulated/controlled by light cycles with timers that turn the lights on/off at user specified time intervals. Most common cycles are 18/6 for vegetative growth, and 12/12 for flowering plants. Some plants of course will flower no matter how much light you give them, one example being the sunflowers.
My sunflower tent is running twenty four hours of light currently, where the bigger tent with the six hundred watt light is running twelve hours a day to support flowering plants that flower during season change.
If you're growing next to windows without grow lights, a crafty way to help them would be using something like a painters plastic (semi see-through) to make somewhat of a greenhouse enclosure, trapping heat and moisture, but other things could be utilized to make these enclosures. It may dampen the light they receive, so this could come with some drawbacks and may only be useful for certain plants. It's amazing your aloe doesn't mind the cooler temps, you must give it so much love.
I hope this helps, it certainly brings joy into the home to maintain plants like this. :)
Greetings from New York my friend. 🤗
You put a lot of effort into it, after reading exactly how you do it, it's even more remarkable. I must honestly confess that I don't have anywhere near your enthusiasm and experience in this regard and have rather always made it easy for myself by owning exactly one single plant and even that ended up in the dustbin thanks to a nasty neighbour because he couldn't stand me putting it in the stairwell in winter as it found it too warm in my flat.
Now that I have to deal with up to fifteen plants at once, I see how much effort you have to make to see each one and give it the right care. You seem to be really good at that.
Aloe vera seems to me to be quite a resilient plant. LOL - I've been hard on it the last few weeks and then made up for it. It has recovered from the damage caused by the move. In the new house and staircase I saved a whole box of aloe vera, remaining there while the owner long gone, all of which were already so dried out and almost dead that I didn't have much hope of reviving them. But it succeeded! Unbelievable, this plant!
I hope it doesn't eat too much into your electricity bills as you really need a lot of light. On the other hand, it certainly warms up the room and you probably don't have to turn up your heating as much as without the lights.
I will spare the effort an be the evil gardener who just witnesses which plants can make it by themselves and survive the harsh conditions in the wintergarden. So I will get used to which plants that might be and which I will not purchase. They will get watered and also I put nutrients in the water but apart from that I think I won't put too much effort in this. Priorities are elsewhere;)
I hug you back!
Hey @erh.germany,
Thank you for your kindness.
It's not all peaches and cream everyday with the plants, sometimes they get sick or just aren't doing well. Some days are more vibrant than others. I can say I've been fortunate lately to have more vibrancy than struggling plants.
The electric costs haven't been terrible in my new apartment, but I think the electric company just did a meter reading, which I was not looking forward to because my current costs reflected the last tenants usage, which was pretty cheap :D
This sounds a little sadistic but I'm finding it funny 😂