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Lego Creator 31010 & 31025
"Detailed" Plan and the Progress (This is an old photo before I'd started on the 3rd row)
I picked up one of these windowsill greenhouses from ikea it's been great for transplanting my seedlings into once they have out grown the propagator. Inside it this month are the Chilli's that have grown too big and one cucumber that I'd transplanted to a tetra pak to free up a cup for more Chilli's. Hopefully once the sweet peppers have grown big enough I'll be able to place some of those in there too. The Chilli's I'm growing this year are Apache Jalapeno Twilight I mainly picked these because they were all mentioned in a book called Crops in Pots that I received for Christmas which is full of great ideas.
My indoor crops have been growing really well thus far (in normal Tetra Paks with the tops chopped off and drainage holes in the bottom). An issue (at least I think it's an issue) I seem to be having is that some of the tomatoes and the cucumbers are starting to bud, whilst the crops are still quite small. I'm still fairly new to this and this maybe what is supposed to happen I'm just not too sure. Originally I thought that it might be because the house was getting too warm, but I seem to remember that last year my cucumbers had grown quite a bit taller before they had started to bud and they were in the potting shed which during the summer months (I planted them much later last year) would have been much warmer than in the house which rarely exceeds 18C in the evening and during the day the heating is off completely. My concern is if they're budding too early then this will effect their overall growth as they will put more energy in to flowering ...
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