How high can the lights be raised above the growth medium? I think that will be the limiting factor.
Peppers and tomatoes generally grow quite tall. You can find dwarf varieties of peppers, and some determinate varieties if tomatoes (Roma, San Marzano). Cilantro is a good one too.
I think you could easily grow a variety of lettuces, spinach, romaine, spring onions (multisown). Radish are another vegetable that grows quickly and can be multisown too.
You can also top tomatoes and peppers, forcing them to branch instead of go for columnar growth, it does take a few attempts to understand when works best, but it definitely works.
18 inches maybe? I canāt remember off the top of my head. What impressed me in the video was the things the guy was trying out and succeeding with.
Thatās advice Iāve seen online, generally, to go for dwarf varietiesā¦
I also might end up starting some in the aerogarden, and then moving to a container outsideā¦
Thats a good strategy for giving tomatoes and peppers a good headstart before putting them outside. Some critters like to chew up fresh seedlings but generally leave peppers alone once the stems turn woody.
Given the heat in your neck of the woods you may want to grow your lettuce indoors (or a shady spot). Hot weather will make it bitter and go to seed. The aerogrower would be handy for cropping lettuce indoors
I ran across a Micro Tom tomato plant at the local garden center. They are supposed to be quite small, 4-7 inches. The one I have is being munched by something so it isnāt doing too well
We had stormy windy weather last night, so I put the sunflower seedlings in what I thought was a safe place to keep them from getting blown over. This morning three of them had been freshly nipped off at soil level and then JUST LEFT THEM THERE 
It has to have been a chipmunk; the rabbit would have eaten the leaves at least.
I planted several of the survivors today. I hope that little shit of a chipmunk or its kinfolk in the front yard donāt find them.
Just cleaned my aerogarden and āreplantedā with new things - mostly tomatoes and some peppers. I mixed in some herbs, which might not do as well, but I think I might move things to a container outside once they are goingā¦
Day 135 since I started my tomato seeds. I just did some major cutting back, and I could maybe do a little more. Iāve gotten only a handful of ripe tomatoes so far, but there are plenty of green ones.
Day 47 for these autoflowers. I donāt remember what strains.
What is the growing setup youāre using for your āflowersā? Iām curious about the lamp more than anything else
So this is the light Iām currently usingā¦
SONLIPO SPC2500 LED Grow Light
Iāve used it for a couple iterations of autoflowers. Itās plenty bright, and puts off enough heat so the plants are happy, but not so much that the exhaust fan canāt keep up. It has a veg and flower mode, though not really necessary for autoflowers. The outer banks of lights pivot, so you can gat a little light on the sides of the plants. It has a timer built-in, but I use an external one that I can program on my phone.
Now that is squash!
Me, every five minutes looking at my aerogarden for sprouts, even though Iāve only put new seeds in 3 days agoā¦
So, one thing, veg and flower mode are not what triggers flowering, even in plants which are not ruderalis crosses, they are triggered by light period, the amount of sunlight hours in a day, not the type of light.
That said, you should use the flowering mode on your flowering plants, because it provides more of the red spectrum, and should enhance production and resin growth.
Itās been my experience that autoflowers are going to do what theyāre gonna do, regardless of any outside action ā that after about 45 days or so, theyāll begin to flower. But I didnāt know about the light quality and the terps. My last grow was disappointing, but I had that chalked up to the general chilliness of the season. I didnāt bother switching the light. I will now.
Yeah, the autoflowering plants are ānormalā photoperiod flowering plants crossed with ruderalis hemp plants, which are from northern europe (Russia maybe?), and they start flowering at a set age because they grow so far north, by the time the days are short enough to start flowering in photosensitive plants, thereās like 2 weeks to the first frosts, if the plants arenāt already ice coatedā¦
The only problem with autoflowering plants is theyāre hemp plants, so they do bring down the potency of the overall strain a bit.
Been reading a bit more, some places say red during most of floweiring, and to switch back to blue (vegetative) for the last week or two to maximize resin, might be worth trying a round both ways, I definitely think more red will help with yeilds though.
Yeah, but itās worth for the convenience and short life cycle. And everything that Iāve grown has been plenty strong enough.
The roses grew a lot after pruning and now they are blooming
Maybe it evolved?
Iāve read they can turn into climbers in ideal environments but didnāt think amended clay and partial shade is ideal. Itās also possible the kid swapped the Darwin and the Teasing Georgia. They are very similar 'cept Teasing is a climber. But the second bush is also climbing. Iām happy with it though
