My Indoor Vegetable Garden Glog

Hello,
I love growing indoors, and am always trying new things. I'll keep this thread updated with what is going on in my garden.

I'm waiting on seeds to sprout. Two tubs of Tom Thumb Lettuce and one of Romaine.


Radishes, Cherry Belle and Crimson Giant

Green Beans

Peppers and chilies

In the totes I decided to go with about a 40/60 perlite/coco mix. I drilled holes in the bottoms for runoff and lined it with 2" of Hydroton, then set them on their lids to use as drain pans.

A couple more peppers going in.

Just for fun I'm going to do watermelon and cucumber, too.

Defoliated some.

Wow. Crimson Giant taking an early lead already.

I used to grow alot of veggies, herbs and flowers inside for fun. Just a tip, don't try broccoli. I babied one for like 4 months under a 1000w mh with fancy weed nutes and ended up with one small head of broccoli that tasted exactly like from the store lol

Basil is really easy and you can clone it to start fresh again. I remember really liking calendulas indoors too they bloomed all the time.

I really wanted to do onions. Yellow, white, and green. I'm not because it will stink up the place.

I never tried anything that grows underground. I imagine they want alot of space for roots etc. Chives might be good, you could toss them off to the side in a shadier area. Kale and chard are good for that too.

Looks like a great garden, nothing beats eating (or smoking) your own stuff!

Get the zesty italian, its salad time!

Big Perm said:

A couple more peppers going in.View attachment 4232456

Just for fun I'm going to do watermelon and cucumber, too.
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I tried cucumbers outside, and Just didnt really get them to vine very well. I was a total amateur though, and still am. I planted a few plants inside, and now I'm pulling down more cuces than I can pickle and eat!

Its been a great experience. I would like to do a sauce variety of tomatoes, so I can start making my own pizza sauce to put on my scratch pizza crusts.

reallybigjesusfreak said:

I tried cucumbers outside, and Just didnt really get them to vine very well. I was a total amateur though, and still am. I planted a few plants inside, and now I'm pulling down more cuces than I can pickle and eat!

Its been a great experience. I would like to do a sauce variety of tomatoes, so I can start making my own pizza sauce to put on my scratch pizza crusts.

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My cucumbers started out great, but went bad quick. We had a lot of rain over a few weeks including one that was 10" and my soil doesn't drain well, so they never came out of it. Next year I'm digging it out and putting materials in to allow for better drainage. I was also toying with the idea instead of running outdoor hydro in something like a DIY 4" pvc setup with lots of sites.
These indoor cuces are going to be all over the place I think, so that will be fun. I'm also thinking about suspending the watermelons.
I am doing a lot of itailian romas to do canning. Do you have a recipe for the pizza sauce?

Day 6
It's time to transplant the tomatoes. Finally the fun gets to start.

I used coco to sprout them. After the tap root is about 1" long I'transplant them. When the plants get established, this hydroton is small, but at this stage, they are boulders. The small roots need to be touching the hydroton or they will dry out. I sort them out and try to just use the small ones for this part. These are 2" netpots.



I mixed up a week 1 solution at 150ppm pH 6.0 and soaked the hydroton for a few hours so that they can absorb the solution.


I then sat the plant in the hydroton and filled in around it. I put the net pots in a tray and filled it up about 1" with the week 1 solution.

The hydroton will wick this water up and feed the plants, so all I have to do is keep water in the tray. They aren't drinking much right now, so I shouldn't have to do anything to them for a few days.
The roots aren't in the water, they are above it. They are feeding though capillary action from the hydroton.

This is a stage. the next stage is when the roots start to show. I will then move them to 6" net pots. That will be their last pot, and after some growth they will go into the RDWC.
So now we just watch for roots.
Everything else is coming on strong. Still feeding week 1 at 1/3 strength.

Big Perm said:

A couple more peppers going in.View attachment 4232456

Just for fun I'm going to do watermelon and cucumber, too.
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watermelon and cucumber both get BIG...just how much room do you have for expansion?

Big Perm said:

My cucumbers started out great, but went bad quick. We had a lot of rain over a few weeks including one that was 10" and my soil doesn't drain well, so they never came out of it. Next year I'm digging it out and putting materials in to allow for better drainage. I was also toying with the idea instead of running outdoor hydro in something like a DIY 4" pvc setup with lots of sites.
These indoor cuces are going to be all over the place I think, so that will be fun. I'm also thinking about suspending the watermelons.
I am doing a lot of itailian romas to do canning. Do you have a recipe for the pizza sauce?

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suspending watermelons won't work, too heavy, they'll pull themselves off the vine eventually. unless you're growing some kind of dwarf variety
everything looks good, just hope you have a lot of room dedicated to it

Roger A. Shrubber said:

watermelon and cucumber both get BIG...just how much room do you have for expansion?

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I'm going for my master's in defoliation and HST, lol

Roger A. Shrubber said:

suspending watermelons won't work, too heavy, they'll pull themselves off the vine eventually. unless you're growing some kind of dwarf variety
everything looks good, just hope you have a lot of room dedicated to it

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I didn't want to say it, but I'm going to do it in a 4x4 with 1000w hps cool tube vented. 4 romas, a bell pepper, anaheim, cucumber and watermelon. 8 plants in rdwc. It does sound nuts.
I'm going to cradle the actual melon in a hanging basket or something. The plan is to get probably two going, get them hanging in a basket, and just keep cutting back just enough growth to grow those two out.
I have 16sqft to work with, and I'm going to use every inch...and more. I plan on trellising up 3 walls, and run a scrog. I'm going to squeeze everything I can out of it. I'll just have to do a little trimming here and there, lol.
It should be fun, that was the idea.

good luck, you can grow a lot of stuff in a small area with a little thought to the layout...keep posting, let us know how it goes