Re: Jamie's Maties 2023
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2023 7:29 pm
Our biggest change is the Buena Mulata simply got too big for the aerogarden and is trying out life in potting mix. It's definitely complaining. I hope it pulls through, there's some flower buds and I wouldn't mind having a few early indoor chilies.
The spicy globe basil (in the background with the other herbs) is losing a few leaves but not enough to be super concerned yet. I have a jar of props just in case though.
There's so many tomatoes on this thing. I have been pruning suckers that get too far away from the light and twist kinda awkwardly around and I don't even feel that bad about it, it's doing so well. Kratky genovese basil still chugging along, nothing notable here.
Kratky Quick Snack cucumber is looking good! Kratky Vilma tomato is also making progress.
The Aji Charapita spare plant got moved in to the Buena Mulata's old spot, maybe it'll like it there. In Khang Starr's recent live, he talked about it being prolific, and I'm pretty sure he mentioned it did well in hydroponic.
Various micro tomatoes and pinata chilies, only major note here is we lost one of the pinatas. It had been struggling for a while and I accidentally let it dry out once early on, and it just never really grew much, I let it dry out too much again and while the other seedlings in coir weren't phased at all, it fainted and never recovered. So I have 10 total seedlings that seem vigorous enough to make it to adulthood.
Oregano is a slow grower holy moly. It needs a kick in the pants or something. One of the Aji Charapitas looks odd, but the other two are growing well. I've had to start plucking flower buds off the pinatas, the two largest have started trying to flower.
Ground cherries are slowly getting more green in their true leaves. I've been watering sparingly, they were pretty dry though so today I bottom watered with some leftover water with aerogarden nutrients. I topped one of the Buena Mulatas, and FIMed another to see how I like it vs. two naturally growing plants.
I planted a new round of seeds in the cells that never germinated for Baby and KPP since I had only one plant each so now I've got backups of those. Plus, one of those Baby tomatoes has 3 cotyledons! Only other notable thing I can think of is the TastyWine drop their cotyledons really fast. Kind of odd!
Now I'm realizing I forgot to include a picture of my Spoon tomatoes. I'd seen reddit threads where people say they have weird shaped leaves, lots were concerned about disease or something, idk. But mine are definitely curly-weird shapes. Different from everything else. They seem to like less water like the Ground Cherries too.
I think that's all for now, everything's still mostly growing well. The sun is starting to hit the rock patch around my patio, which is where I'll be placing my tomatoes for the summer. I was starting to get nervous that there wouldn't be enough sun exposure to grow anything even though I know my pepper did just fine last summer (until the bugs got it, that is...). It was a degree away from hitting 80 a couple of days ago.
), I made 3 jars of hot sauce and 1 infused pepper vinegar. I will probably grow one Sweet as Linda tomato, which ended up being my favorite out of all the tomatoes I grew. I just got in my 3 new pepper varieties for this coming year, and started 2 of them in kratky jars. Sunday I might set up my aerogarden with 1 or 2 pinatas or micro tomatoes of some sort--sky's the limit!!