Started Some New (to me) Micros

[AKgardener]

That’s Awsome I to just started all new micro’s 3 new varieties to me looking forward to trying these ones I also started the baby micros as well
Good luck and enjoy
Inkspot
Tiny totum
Snegirjok

[GoDawgs]

The Baby is here. LOL! It poked up last evening, both seeds, so all six are up and running.

[CrazyAboutOrchids]

I am excited to see and read about your micros!!! I just posted asking about them yesterday....

I am growing seed from Renaissance Farms in a 9 pod Aerogarden; 3 pods containing 2 varieties. I had planted 2 seeds of 3 varieties but one burned out when it was tiny so I transplanted a healthy start from 1 pod to another. I didn't start until beginning of December, ordered this Aerogarden after Thanksgiving. I didn't know how things would go so I don't really have notes on anything. I eagerly check a few times daily. They are currently around 4" tall and the healthiest looking things! If I get fruit from them, I am eager to repeat again next year but will start in September as my 'real' garden is loosing steam so we don't have a big break in getting fruits. I am growing Hahms Gelbe (yellow) and Window Box Red which are supposed to both be 8 - 10 inches tall.

[GoDawgs]

Brand new little babies!



It turned out that five of the six had both seeds pop up. Don't ya know there's always one in every crowd that's just got to be different.

[AKgardener]

All 4 of my inkspot germinate last night still waiting for the others

[AKgardener]

Got 4 more this morning of the Snegirjok still waiting on the baby and tiny totums

[AKgardener]

Just my small update so far so good except the middle row

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[GoDawgs]

Here are the new micros 15 days after sowing. Left to right with current height: Mohamed 3", Pigmy 1.5", Venus 1.5", Florida Petite 1.5", Baby 1" and Monteka .75". Mohamed sure is winning the "fastest growing" prize. Descriptions say 7-8" for that one and it seems to want to get there in a hurry.

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The most stocky little micro is Pigmy with a very stout stem already compared to the others.

[AKgardener]

Looks good and strong

[rxkeith]

i planted my first micros this year last thursday. hardins minature, and monteka are now poking up.
black patio, and premus are also planted. last year i waited until february 2nd not having grown micros
before. i decided to get an earlier start this year, what the heck. i might have ripe tomatoes by the end of april.
waiting to plant later will be venus, jochalos, totem, and pygmy. these came to me last year from gary. he sent them
extra early last year to give me something to do while the snow was piling up.
i plan on taking some of them into work again for eye candy for the customers to see. my co workers enjoyed having them
to snack on during the day. might be an minor income stream
for me. i have given away hundreds of plants over the years, but have not sold any to date.


keith

[GoDawgs]

Here are the new micros 15 days after sowing. Left to right with current height: Mohamed 3", Pigmy 1.5", Venus 1.5", Florida Petite 1.5", Baby 1" and Monteka .75". Mohamed sure is winning the "fastest growing" prize. Descriptions say 7-8" for that one and it seems to want to get there in a hurry.

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Here are the micros yesterday, one week after the above photo was taken. They are arranged in order of size. Mohamed is now 7" tall having doubled in size. The rest range from 2.75" (Pigmy) to 1.75" (Monteka). Right to left: Mohamed, Pigmy, Florida Petite, Venus, Baby, Monteka.

[AKgardener]

Lookin good I just put mine in there new homes

[GoDawgs]

This is a pic of the Pinocchio Orange which I think is my favorite of the six micro dwarfs currently producing.



The six were seeded in two sets of three, one on Aug 22 and the other three on Sep 18. The thought was to stagger them but it seems to not have made much difference. They are all still producing although slower now and I think the cherry tomatoes are smaller too. The Pinocchio Orange has just put out another round of five flower clusters! The others are still making flowers too. I'm thinking that the description of "determinate" doesn't really apply to micros. Good! Because we've been enjoying these in salads all winter.

These have been pretty easy to care for, just watering and an occasional snack of Miracle Grow. I also prune off any old foliage that is thinking about yellowing and that's mostly the oldest branches. Tomatoes being vines, that would make sense and the smaller varieties are now hanging over the edges of their pots. Red Robin is the only one standing tall (with help). The micros have been a nice winter play thing.

Today I will be potting up the Mohamed into one of those white pots. Someone is going to have to make way for it under the lights and I think it will be the Red Robin, the tallest of the six. Robin put out a good round of cherries the first few tines but has been slower than the others after the fact.

[AKgardener]

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Wellll since we’re all sharing pictures haha these are mine the tiny totums never germinated out of all the 10 seeds I had but hey I have something I also have 6 baby growing as well th

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is is just 2 of the 6 they all look the same

[AKgardener]

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@GoDawgs what kind of light are you using? I just put mine under the blue red ones the other day and they literally grew over night I’m doing an exsperment on lights

[GoDawgs]

@AKgardener , I have a regular old T8 fixture and right now I'm using two different tubes in each one but they're nothing special, just plan old kitchen/bath fluorescents. I put one 3000k and one 6500k in each fixture to cover light spectrum. The only thing is that the plants will slightly bend towards the brighter tube so I turn the trays around every day while I'm checking to see if they need water. I'm happy with it and the plants seem to like it too.

What are blue red lights?

[AKgardener]

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These are my grow lights I’ve grown all my micros under them for years now and they really like it I put them under shop lights to see if there were a difference in growth

[GoDawgs]

@AKgardener, those are some interesting lights. What kind of light does it produce?

The first flower buds are showing up on the new micros. This is Day 33 after seeding. Height x width given.

This first one is Monteca, now 4" x 6".



This is Baby, 4" x 5"



Venus is also showing buds but the photo was poor quality and I didn't feel like retaking it and running it through Imgur tonight. A bud is a bud is a.....
Venus is 6" x 6".

Pigmy (not shown) is 5" x 7" and Florida Petite is 4.5" x 8". Both are thinking about buds with maybe the very first evidence of those thoughts showing.

I did pot up Mohamed to it's final home and made a space for it under the other lights with the producing micros. Mohamed got planted deep to shorten it a bit so it's now 9" x 11" with no buds yet. Not even a thought.

[AKgardener]

@GoDawgs its mainly the red and blue spectrum but I really don’t know much about it other than the plants really like it. So glad you got flowers that was pretty quick

[GoDawgs]

This is 'Baby' pre-potting. Amazing how many buds there are on this 4" plant!



Yesterday afternoon I potted up into one gallon nursery pots all of the five remaining micros.
LtoR: Baby, Pigmy, Monteka, Venus and Florida Petite



After potting they went back to the light shelf where the light is up as far as I can raise it. The old micros under the tall lights haven't finished ripening the latest round of greenies so it's a race between ripening the last ones and the newbies getting too tall for where they are.



Originally seeded on Jan 5, here are the current sizes:

Baby - 4x7" with five flowers and fat buds
Pigmy - 6x9" with the first two flowers
Monteka - 6x8-10" with tight buds
Venus - 7x9" and the first four flowers
Florida Petite - 6x11" and tight buds.

Mohamed was repotted about ten days ago and is now under the tall lights as it had outgrown the light stand. It's 13x15" and no sign of buds yet. I'm wondering if what's in the pot really is a micro!