Wall O Water? Not familiar.
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Screw growing maters.......
If 99 Cents Only is going to keep selling these
If 99 Cents Only is going to keep selling these
rusty_tlc
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Probably not much use for your climate, other than starting tomatoes in December.
Cool idea. It could be way helpful here, assuming I can find plants in the winter. Maters are tricky here, they don't survive either temperature extreme, so we have two very short growing seasons. On the few years that they've survived through the winter, I've grown huge bumper crops.
rusty_tlc
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Probably not much use for your climate, other than starting tomatoes in December.
I believe you can propagate indeterminate varieties by taking cuttings and rooting them. Maybe you could start some 1 gallon plants from cuttings in late fall and grow them inside the wall-o-water over the winter so they were decent size in the spring? Get a jump start on the season.
There are ways, but most are a crap shoot. When I was in a condo, I grew them under a covered patio and had good luck growing them over the winter. In the open yard, it's about a 20% proposition.
Spring plants are gone by June, so no cuttings. About the only option is propigating from seed inside. I keep meaning to do so, but never get around to it.
I got the bright idea a few years ago to start seeding trays in a pop up greenhouse. The results were comical. Desert nights are cold enough to kill most seedlings, but even on a warm winter day, about 70°, the heat build up in a small greenhouse, was enough to kill everything and warp the trays.
One of my maters has suddenly turned yellow and doesn't look like it'll survive. I've added some generic fertilizer, ironite, and small amounts of ammonium sulfate and epson salt. I tested the soil, it's neutral. Am I missing anything?
There are two other plants in the same area that are both healthy.
There are two other plants in the same area that are both healthy.
rusty_tlc
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Same varieties?One of my maters has suddenly turned yellow and doesn't look like it'll survive. I've added some generic fertilizer, ironite, and small amounts of ammonium sulfate and epson salt. I tested the soil, it's neutral. Am I missing anything?
There are two other plants in the same area that are both healthy.
No but everything around it is thriving.
This is a first, there's a clove growing in the middle of the stem.
Cut it out. It's a baby garlic with 3 cloves. It was growing about 4" above the soil.
surfpig
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I've seen those. Maybe it's a scape that couldn't escape!
surfpig
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BTW I'm trying to figure out when to get my garlic ready to harvest, as in when should I start cutting back the watering, etc. I never quite seem to get it right.
When the stems start to get flexible, it's time to pull them. I don't cut back on watering.
That's a good rule of thumb but I find that garlic doesn't all mature at the same time. The small ones mature early while some of the largest ones can take an extra month.
rusty_tlc
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I think it works better for northern climes. Sacramento (where Surfpig lives) is more temperate, he should harvest the same time they do in Gilroy. In AZ who the F knows? You guys just gotta do what you gotta do, I'd probably just pull them as the tops died down.
Not a big difference with garlic other than they mature a little earlier. If I wait until the tops die I either lose them or they split. When they start to lop over, it's time to grab the trowel.