Farm 24 XL

[Shawn]

I havr done that so many times LOL

[Sher]

It's a good thing that the Farm's lights are bright enough to keep the plants going even when they are too high!

[maskedsonnet]

The cucumber liked the lowered lights!

[Sher]

It really did!

[maskedsonnet]

It already grew into the light and I had to raise it!! Little concerned about the brown-speckled bottom leaf. Looked it over very carefully and didn't see any bugs at least.



Also seeing teeny cucumbers on here already?! Should I pinch them off you think? The plant's still pretty small to be fruiting I think, there are a few of them...

[campingcorgis]

I've grown cucumbers, but only outside and not for a long, long time.  To tell you the truth, we didn't pay much attention to them.  Just planted them & tired to keep up with harvesting them.  They went nuts...along with the zucchini we used to grow.  We would give away to neighbors and whatever we couldn't give away around the house, we would take over to the American Legion.  

So, sorry!!!  I'm not much help.  My gut says, you are likely right, take them off and let the plant mature.  But wait for someone else's input!!!  

[Sher]

No, campingcorgis, don't pinch off the babies

As for cucumber leaves the bottom leaves often look bad.

I have not been successful growing cucumbers in an AG but others have. Do a search to see their projects.

[maskedsonnet]

Went to add nutrients and my naughty cucumber had grabbed hold of a pepper plant!!



I gently unwrapped the tendril and gave her something else to climb, then added nutrients:

[campingcorgis]

Glad you caught that!  

[Sher]

Yes, they are greedy little climbers that will latch onto anything.

Glad you caught it in time.

[campingcorgis]

Do you think you should put up a barrier between the two sides?  Cardboard or something prettier?  At least until they find other stuff to latch onto? 

[maskedsonnet]

It probably wouldn’t hurt, just to make sure she doesn’t misbehave like that again. I have some nice cloth that I could hang there, I bet that’d be enough to keep it off the peppers since I’m now providing other things to climb up.

[Shawn]

I remember when I try to train my tendrils to grow a certain way. They had a mind of their own and said nope I am not listening LOL

[maskedsonnet]

So far the cucumber is behaving herself without the additional barrier between garden sides. And she's blooming on the ends of the tiny cucumbers, so some of them at least may go ahead and mature! I'm going to have to order more of those trellis lines though. That'll just be if this is a raging success all the way through the growing/harvesting process, planning to just tie twine between the posts for this round when I need more space for the vine to climb. If I decide I want to do cucumbers again for sure after this I'll order additional trellis material

[campingcorgis]

How fun & she really is growing!!  

[Sher]

It looks like she is reaching for the sky!

[lynnee]

Sept 1, 2021 18:28:16 GMT -5 maskedsonnet said:

The sweet bonnets were up enough to thin to one plant. Cucumber plant continues to amaze me!! And today they ALL amazed me, because I realized that the lights have been ALL THE WAY UP this whole time!! So I lowered them and hopefully everyone will do even better than they already are!!

You make me feel better about my pepper garden discovery this a.m. I've been wondering why the two plants weren't forming more blooms, and finally looked inside at the water level. It was way, way down despite showing "Full" on the touchscreen. If I have time today, I'll see whether I can clear the roots out of the float! 🙂

Your cucumber progress reports are fascinating. Cucumbers are something else that I need to try. What kind of cucumber is it?

What I'd most like to do is grow spinach, but my research indicates it isn't really possible in an Aerogarden.

[maskedsonnet]

I’ve done that a few times too! Always a sad surprise to find an empty water tank when the sensor shows full

[campingcorgis]

You could try Perpetual Spinach (Swiss Chard).  Not spinach, really, but you may like it!  Sher recommended it to me.  

[Sher]

lynnee, I have read of people having success growing spinach by pre-sprouting them between 2 wet paper towels in a zip lock bag. Then when the seeds sprout, transfer them to a well soaked sponge.

If you really want to grow spinach, it might be worth a try.