2023 our new gardening adventure

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Do dwarf plants also mean dwarf produce? Must be a huge well to supply your whole community with water.

No regular sized produce just a more compact plant. 

If I remember correctly, it fills a huge tank from a very deep aquifer - it serves our neighborhood as well as the next one down the road east of us as well as the those outside who have been here much longer than our neighborhoods who now draw from it as well instead of their private wells they originally had.  Nice though that it never put those rust marks on our houses like many wells do.

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Tested today before Maintenance was done and got an 8.5. 

in 1qt of warm water I mixed up our nutrients and added in 1/4 cup of phDown. After several cycles of watering, I retested the ph, 6! We'll take it! Now we'll see how long it takes it to go back up. 

I trimmed the roots a bit. I could tell the ones I trimmed last week have gotten much more bushy - I think that is a good sign so far. 

Going to grab some week 3 photos for the record. I'll not post them since I recently posted them. 

So far - happy!

Awesome, 1/4 cup to bring it down to 6 sounds pretty good. How expensive is that PH down?

We got our new phDown from Amazon for about $30 for a gallon of it. It's made by General Hydroponics. 

Today's test after 2 days of cycles was at a 6.5. Still more buffered than what we were using before. 

Wondering, if water temperature would make difference in the germination/growth rate? We tend to keep our house toward the chillier side - 68, so we'll see once we start warming if our plants really take off.

6.5 that's not too bad. Hard to say if temps above 68 would make a difference but I guess it might. That's the same temp we keep our house in the Winter, Summer it's 78 degrees.