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Post by richardw on Aug 29, 2018 14:41:43 GMT -5
Welcome marc, not growing hops myself but i'm sure someone here will be
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Post by richardw on Aug 24, 2018 17:14:26 GMT -5
Yes, good work Moloch.
joeyd - i know how you feel, yet to jump that hurdle personally myself
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Post by richardw on Aug 24, 2018 14:39:05 GMT -5
I took three cutting off a red fleshed clone last autumn, these will go out in about two month which by then they will be a large plant. Such a major downfall with these NZ Kumara clones being a long season strain. I'll be kicking these out the door when i found a better short season replacement
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Post by richardw on Aug 23, 2018 22:58:20 GMT -5
All sown, one seed per pot, 53 seeds in total, now grow ya little buggers
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Post by richardw on Aug 23, 2018 21:57:19 GMT -5
Got the seed home again, now about run out to the tunnelhouse and sow, i'm not quite set up like you are Joseph so i'll go with reed's idea, dont normally have problems sowing seed the way i do. The daytime indoor temps are getting up in the mid 20C so it should be warm enough.
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Post by richardw on Aug 23, 2018 15:27:57 GMT -5
Seed arrived yesterday from reed, thanks again, it wasn't intercepted on arrival so i'll take that in today for inspection and so the end of the day it will be tucked up inside some screened soil and compost, or would it be best to add some sand to that mix?
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Post by richardw on Aug 18, 2018 0:20:27 GMT -5
Had 10mm of rain yesterday which is the first rain for a month, winter is the wettest time of year but the last two months have seen 30mm, bit over an inch, June saw average rains though (54mm)
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Post by richardw on Aug 17, 2018 0:40:02 GMT -5
The volunteers who traveled over to help are gaining wonderful experience in fighting your fires, though the scale of the fires are far far greater in intestacy than they will ever see in this country, NZ native forests are low in inflammability, thank fuck. It all goes round, there were quite a number of folks who came over here from the US to help us with the Christchurch earthquakes.
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Post by richardw on Aug 15, 2018 0:47:05 GMT -5
When you think that tomato seeds can travel all the way through a city sewer system, end up in the solids at the treatment plants and still germinate when the solids are dumped, so no surprise it can be fermented for a long period. I normally do about three-four days till it has a black mound layer on top.
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Post by richardw on Aug 14, 2018 15:06:14 GMT -5
Got another grower coming to join our seed co-op this summer, she calls herself 'the mad tomato lady', she recently sent me some tomato seed on paper, i'll have to make sure the seed she supplies for the website is fermented, as Joseph has discovered not ideal to be sending seed on paper out to people.
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Post by richardw on Aug 14, 2018 14:36:58 GMT -5
No i didn't plant them, ive not touched the bed so hoping they will grow seed soon during summer.
btw- how on earth did a photo of my tomato plants end up in my post above, that's a head scratchier
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Post by richardw on Aug 13, 2018 3:00:57 GMT -5
My Amuri Red bulbils came through winter really well this year.
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Post by richardw on Aug 13, 2018 2:58:05 GMT -5
On paper is a pain in arse, fermentation is easy enough though ive never tried the trisodium phosphate with bleach method.
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Post by richardw on Aug 13, 2018 0:42:33 GMT -5
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Post by richardw on Aug 12, 2018 0:22:38 GMT -5
The pine trees are shedding there pollen which is a month earlier than last year and two month earlier than it used to 20 years ago, and we still have 3 weeks of winter left.
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