Outdoors season finishing, time to focus on indoor growing!

Irene has made ravages on the east coast (and broken some of my plants!). Not as bad as everyone expected, but surely bad enough to destroy crops!

Either way, the temperature has been cooling down and days have been getting shorter, which indicates that the outdoor growing season is close to its end...

I've harvested more cherry, roma, beeksteak tomatoes and peppers of all kinds, cucumbers, than I know what to do with! Thankfully my friend owns a restaurant and I give him the surplus. Gives a bit of market feedback and helps bring his costs down a bit...everyone wins

I've finally taken those cuttings and they are rooting at the moment for soon to come indoor planting. I'll be growing 10 cherry, 10 beefsteak, 10 various peppers, and I've also taken so raspberry and grape vine cuttings for test purpose, and for my personal pleasure :P

Enjoy the pictures and stay tuned for more!

Guilty...

Guilty of not having delivered the pictures as promised....

But in my defense, I have had a hectic week, so my grow room isnt even reorganized yet... Im gonna hire some help this week to handle the indoor growroom since I have to ensure everything is kept up with..

Our vertical farm project is on track and we are getting lots of investment offers. But not accepting any for now, I want this to stay private for as long as possible.

What do you think of vertical farming? Is it economically viable? How about Dickon Despommiers concept? Do you believe in it?

above is a picture of this morning's harvest from outside...lots of cherry tomatoes and delicious veggies, miam!

Stay posted, I've saved the best for the last!

A day of propagation...

Today is the day we propagate. Today is the day we bring new life into my indoors grow room. See I've been running this little room of about 10X10 in my basement as a little lab. It's set up with supplemental lighting and some -basic - environmental controls, mainly a window ac unit, a dehumidifier and a standing fan.

I originally planted a blueberry, raspberry and mulberry (dwarf) trees. I also one lettuce, 4 cucumbers, 1 tomato plant, some strawberry plants, and 2 bell peppers. 1 cucumber and 1 bell pepper are grown hydroponically, the trees, tomato, and 1 pepper are in organic soil, and the rest of the cucumbers are in Pro Mix, which is a soil less medium made of perlite, vermiculite and peat moss.

I recently also added a bunch of herbs and edible flowers to the mix. Basil, lavender, thyme, pansies, oregano...They are all growing in Pro Mix as well.

The reason for all these different mediums is that I'm trying to determine which one is more productive and easier to deal with. My previous experience with ProMix makes it a strong competitor, but so does my experience with hydroponics.

See, most commercial greenhouses grow in large rockwool slabs, using drip irrigation lines. It's effificient, quite simple labor wise, and is scaleable on a vertical level, so we may end up using just that.

So today we are streamlining the grow room a bit. And this starts with 5 new tomato clones, 5 new pepper clones,a big cleanup of the strawberry buckets. I will post pictures later today of the old vs new setup, so stay posted!