How many weeks has it been since sowing from seed? And what is the temperature in the room? Wish mine looked as good!
It is a bit early to start seeds where I'm at (Zone 6a), but I wanted to give it a shot anyway. This is currently under some T12 lights, 18 hours of lighting a day. Got some tomatoes/hot peppers among other things.
For some reason, I just don't seem to be making as much progress as some other pictures I'm seeing on Reddit. The paper lantern pepper here is running on week 6, and the yellow pear tomatoes are well into week 2 past sprouting.
Is it because I don't have a heat mat? If I don't use a heat mat, will that damage the sprouts or will things simply happen more slowly?
What's the approximate temperature in your office? Did you use a heat mat to help with germination/seed starting?
I've never once used a heat mat for any of my ~20 plants. I germinate as low as 65°F with zero issues whatsoever.
My office stays between 65 and 72 depending on the weather outside.
Thank you! It certainly looks fantastic so I'll give it a go too!
Has there been adjustment for splits/inflation?
They look so happy and healthy! I always thought that you're meant to keep the light farther from the plant leaves (at least that's what the instructions say).
It depends on the strength of the light. With a weak one like what OP has, you want it close.
Now that explains why my indoor pepper plant is stagnating. Thanks for clarifying!
I’ve had this VFT since earlier this year. It was growing on my back deck in full sun and I moved it under my grow lights a few months ago when it started getting cold outside. This is my first VFT and I didn’t realize that they need a period of dormancy. Should I try to put it into dormancy now, and how do I do that at this point? It gets 8 hours under the light every day and has been putting out lots of new traps.
I’m in central Georgia, zone 8a. The weather is colder than normal here for this time of year (low of 25F) but will be moving back up to a low of 35F or so once this cold snap passes.
I'm in the same boat -- bought a new VFT during Black Friday sale, and for some reason, this one was exceptionally lively and refused to go into dormancy. My other VFTs that I've owned for longer have happily gone to sleep right next to it in the garage.
Did anyone catch Donna saying "That's good" when Trebek ruled Natalie's response wrong for that first clue? I thought it was incredibly rude; all in all, I found Donna's constant need to interject rather disrespectful and annoying.
What do you do for lighting? And what is the temperature in your office? This looks so amazing!
I had just sprayed it, they don’t usually stay that wet, and I only do that a few times a day. It is in a tray, filled with rocks only half full of water (to keep up the humidity), so the bottom of the pot is not touching water at all. The spot showed up yesterday, and seems to be getting bigger :\
Wow that sounds like a lot. I only water from the side about once every three days. Getting the leaves wet sounds like a bad idea.
My local SiJCP can never seem to scan anything. They need to enter in everything by hand via the barcode serial. Not sure if that's related...
Don’t open anything until it gets to room temperature, but I don’t think it will hurt anything. Is there anyone you trust that could pick it up for you?
Thanks! Good advice, I'll let it warm up for a day before opening.
I think it would be okay. I would be worried if you were in a warm climate, because heat can melt the products/evaporate water in them and change the formula. I'm not an expert, but I would think you can just bring the stuff inside and wait maybe a day for it to get back to room temp to use them. You can also look into getting it forwarded to the post office for you to pick it up later.
Thanks! Unfortunately calling the post office/UPS would not have been an option because when I got the email from Sephora, the status was already at "Out for Delivery". I'll just keep my fingers crossed -- glad that the prevailing opinion here is that cold weather should be ok in general.
Dormancy! Make sure not to keep them too wet during dormancy!!
Can you elaborate on what you mean here? I have some VFTs going through dormancy as well, sitting in my garage. Should I water it less?
Generally in dormancy they don't need as much water. If it's freezing temps the soil could freeze, or you could give them root rot if it's too wet
All through summer I'll have them in standing water, but winter comes they get watered like once every two weeks.
I see, thanks!
Did you grow from seed? If so, perhaps leaf curl virus (yes, that's a thing) may be unlikely. Well not this past summer but the summer before, my outdoor tomatoes got leaf curl virus. I had bought small plants from a Big Box store, so the disease maybe spread from one of them. This past year I grew some in buckets with fresh bagged soil, and they did okay, but the buckets weren't really large enough to support the mature root system. I put in several tomato plants in a different section of the garden -- left last year's diseased soil alone -- and they did fine. If this is what has afflicted your plant, get rid of it along with the soil in which it is growing... Or could it be that the pot is too shallow?
Interesting. I did grow it from seed; in fact from a fairly healthy plant that I had growing over summer outdoors. I didn't realize that shallow pots would cause issues that manifest in curly leaves -- I thought that the end result of shallow pots is just root-bound issues.
I'm an amateur when it comes to growing food indoors. Thought there'd be no harm giving cherry tomatoes a try. The leaves are curling rather awkwardly. Any suggestions on why this may be? Can I save the plant?
The lights are a 18W LED that shine about 10 hours a day. The plant also get sunlight from a west facing window.
I water only once a week at most because the soil seems to stay pretty moist. The top layer of the pot is some leftover spaghnum moss I had from something else.
Is that moss on the soil?
It is. I had some extra spaghnum moss lying around and thought I might just cover the soil so that it doesn't dry up so fast.
What is your lighting setup and schedule?
Pretty basic lights as you might see. 18W gooseneck LED lights bought on Amazon -- 10 hours a day, broken up into 5 hour chunks since the instruction manual suggests no more than 5 hours of usage at a time. Supposedly it's good enough for tomatoes, but that could just be marketing.
Thank you for all your replies. I'm going to try putting them in water and see if they can recover. The King Henrys look really limp, but I think some of the rhizome might still be intact. Will let you know if anything comes back to life.
And many thanks for the suggestions regarding chipmunk/squirrel protection. I've been using an ultrasonic animal repeller, but given that it is ultrasonic, I can't tell if it's basically a sugar pill. Certainly isn't discouraging anyone from coming onto the deck. I'll try getting some essential oils.
I've put a bowl of water near the plants and thought that the chipmunks/squirrels (if they're doing this because of thirst) would just go for the water. Who knew. Now I will feel much less sorry for the little bits of roadkill I see in our neighborhood...
This seems to be the time of year when chipmunks are really active on my deck. I think they did this. Obviously the one that's been shriveled to pieces is unsalvageable. Do you think my Akai Ryu is still possibly alive? Any tips for keeping chipmunks at bay going forward? Thanks :'(.
It wasn't pollinated. Try hand pollinating the next one.
I honestly never saw the bud open. Should I force it open?
That won't do anything, whether it went unpollinated or rotted beforehand. If it rotted before opening, could be due to stress. Powdery mildew or pests or something.
Thank you, I'll keep an eye for the next one.
Thanks all for your suggestions! Got this from my local CSA which grows tons of them. They do have habanero-level heat, so it doesn't surprise me that they're paper lantern habaneros. I gotta say these are just perfect for stirfries (after seeding them of course).
...did it work? Ain't stupid if it works.
Not enough data to show, neither on the effectiveness nor on whether birds are to blame for a few nibbled tomatoes!
You might notice that this is in the tomatoes area of her garden. TBH, she has found several unripened tomatoes damaged by some sort of animal, but she can't even be sure it was due to birds. Her secondary line of protection are these plastic bags that she's covered the tomatoes with. I definitely don't think the plastic bags are a good idea because then the tomatoes would get really hot.
Your histograms are just univariate displays of each variable. They tell you nothing about how the two variables relate to each other. Correlation is a measure of the latter, that is, when one variable tends to be high, does the other tends to be low/high? For that, you'll more likely want to look at a two way table of the two variables.
And then what's the difference between a pdf and pmf?
A pmf is defined for discrete distributions -- think anything that is modeled by counts: # heads in coin tosses, # people passing through a checkout line in an hour, etc. Evaluating a pmf at x = 3, for example, actually gives the probability that the random variable takes on the value 3.
pdf's are defined for continuous distributions. Therefore, the value of the pdf at x = 3 tells you nothing -- you have to evaluate areas under the pdf curve between an interval (a < x < b) to obtain the probability that your random variable takes on values between and b.
At a crossroads again since recently got a ton of silver/bronze fodder for pretty good officers NOT in my squad.
Currently working to build LLQ + Zhang Fei + Xiahou Dun. Is this a good decision? Should I keep an eye on any of the other fodders (e.g. save them with an eye for the future)? Currently crunching through Chapter 7 hard, stuck on hard 7-9. Thanks!
Definitely recommend building up Xu Zhu. Deals massive damage.
Then replace XHD with Xu Chu? Is that worth it given XHD's legendary skill?
Weather data is pretty readily available at airports because aviation control really needs this info. The NOAA provides it for free online.
https://data.noaa.gov/dataset/global-surface-summary-of-the-day-gsod
This means that I want to get a rate which determines how often and by how much they are deviating (both positive and negative combined) from their average
As to "how much they are deviating", variance/SD would do.
"How often they deviate from their average" is not particularly well-posed. They'll probably always deviate by some amount. You could set up a threshold (if there is a meaningful one) and ask what proportion of times do their values deviate from +/- threshold of the mean.
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Ivy League University, non-tenure track | East Coast | PhD + 3 years
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Bonus: "Work" remotely ~5 months of the year when class isn't in session; but then weekends aren't really weekends the other 7 months of the year.
Lots of opportunities to do side consulting gigs.
non-tenured track? damn man that's harsh :(.
I mean, it's by choice -- tenure is a ladder that may lead to nowhere!