My window, balcony and garden: 2025

[johnny108]

New seed starting lights have made a world of difference for my seedlings!
And giving full strength triple-20 after the 1st true leaves appear seems to work just fine!

 

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Upper shelf:
Left side black pot: Herzegovina Flor
Left side brown pot: Bursa
Big green tray (back): PY KY-171
Small green tray (left): Prilep
Small green tray (right): KY17
Small green tray (end right): Samsoun Orient

 

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Lower shelf:
Small green tray (back left): Italian basil
Small green tray with 2 brown pots:
Bursa (left), and Virginia Gold (right)
Small green tray next to basil:
Xanthi
Small green tray next to Xanthi: half Jaffna, half Virginia Gold
Small green tray (middle front): Bursa
Small green tray (right front): PY KY171
Small green tray (right back):
Herzegovina Flor.

 

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The Samsoun Orient and Herzegovina Flor will be in containers against the hedge and garage wall I used last year.

The rest are for the garden house grow space….

 

[ShiniKoroshi]

Looks awesome!

 

[johnny108]

Xanthi was outgrowing the seed tray.
Transferred 8 to 6” pots. Ran out of coconut coir. Hydrating more now. Will finish the last 4 tomorrow. Placed the 8 on the balcony, which is sheltered from the frosts.

 

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Put some Hyang Cho and Baffra Basma seeds in pots, and put them on the heat mat (back ups).
Waiting on a tiller rental for the garden plot…

 

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Herzegovina Flor transferred to bigger pots from the seedling trays.
Moving them to windowsill light, now that I have space.

 

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Transferring the Herzegovina Flor freed up a seedling tray, so 12 more Hyang Cho were moved from the sprouting pot into the freed up tray…

 

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Up-potted 6 Virginia Gold and 5 Jaffna.
On the windowsill for hardening off.

 

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Also seeded a pot with Tranzon-2, and put it on the heat mat.
Chose it as a back up variety because of its fast maturation time.
Always. Plant. Backups.

 

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The first balcony/windowsill plants have been placed outside.
Hoping the metal pipe will keep the Virginia Gold in the large pot warm, and the garage wall with morning sunlight will keep the Bursa warm.
My final frost date isn’t until mid-May, but no more are anticipated, and the local old ladies have been asking when my “interesting plants” will come back…

 

[johnny108]

“Samsoun Orient” from Tabakanbau (https://www.tabakanbau.de/de/shop.php?id=33628).
Easily managed seedlings in small trays. I grew it based on an old post from the description by FTT forum user Planter.
Hopefully it makes as nice a cigarette as it does seedlings!

 

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Garden patch, rototiller rental, day one:

 

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6 Prilep were transplanted (early- one month old, 2.5” tall, above the soil line, 1.5” buried) to 8-10L brown pots, and placed next to the Bursa against the garage wall. 3 more were repotted into 2”
square pots and kept inside.

 

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Garden patch, rototiller rental, day two:
Finished.

 

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Samsoun Orient transferred to square black pots. Windowsill for the next 2 weeks, before final potting up, and setting outside.

 

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Herzegovina Flor transferred to 10L pots, and placed against the garage wall.
Prilep was moved to the hedge side of the yard.

 

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5 Jaffna volunteered to be the test pilots for the native soil in my garden. The soil is VERY heavy clay, lightened up with 300kg of course sand (not close to enough).
The ground was tilled, then each plant was placed into a 6 gallon hole about 3 feet deep, dug out and broken up with a shovel.
Later plants will likely receive more compost and other amendments.
They are at 60cm spacing between them.

 

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Up-potted twelve KY17 burley seedlings that were way too crowded in the small green trays. Moved to windowsill to harden off, because the greenhouse hasn’t been assembled yet.