Awesome to get the kiddos trained to grow some food! Those are nice containers. Never seen any like them before.

Freakin’ precious memories Skinnerback!! Your plants are doing great!

Greatest container garden I've ever seen, and doesn't get any more precious than having little ones, involved!! Congrats Skinnerback!

Thanks guys. My plan was to have everything transplanted into big containers by now, but ran out of funds so is what it is now.

That wind yesterday morning beat the heck out of my garden, broke a couple of my pepper plants. I've got some black jalapenos that are almost ready, looking forward to trying them out. The Satan's Kiss peppers are right behind them, can't wait to try them too.

They are calling for 33 Tuesday night. I should probably cover my tomato plant, right?

Yep.

Wow - thx for mentioning; I almost thought we were done with frost.

At my place we get frost even if it doesn't quite make it to freezing.
Gonna be covering up my tom, peppers, & cucumbers.
Unfortunately my sweet-corn may take a hit - oh well, not too hard to replant.

Well it got down to 33° this morning and everything I covered up still looks good. Turns out we had enough of a frost last week when it got down to 36° that I lost about 7 tomato plants. I will be replanting those spots this week. I will get the rest of my stuff planted next week.
When I checked my outside ride this morning the south facing parts were solid frost covered. Hope this is the last one this spring.

Sure glad I took the time to cover everything last night. They missed the forecast low of 36. Hit 31 at 6:15
Everything looks good!

x3

- It was a pain, but I got everything that needed it covered up:



Dang good thing I did too - this pic at 8:15am today:



So far my corn looks good too; only 6" high, too much to cover it up, but I hit it with fertilized water yesterday - IMO the boost always helps. we'll see.

Covered mine pretty well. Hoping to make it home at lunch and uncover everything to see how they did.

What about Maggie and Tank? Did they sleep in your room/bed last night?

They are living the high life in the garage holding box until tomorrow. They don't seem to happy about it.

How big is the root system on these?

I would say if they've been in those pots at least 2 weeks with sun, tips of roots would be touching edges of pot by now.
Still small enough if you need to 'replant' them - they'd do fine.

I just put them in those pots, I have some bigger ones and wondered if I should have gone with a bigger pot after I planted them.

Oh - ok. They'd prolly be fine in that size at a minimum (looks like you have great soil mix with moisture-holding capacity ).
A bigger pot would make them a little more hardy/ drought tolerant especially if they will get all-day direct sun (12hrs+ = max production) or if you have to 'ignore' them several days in a row.
Could always put 'maters in the bigger pots!

BRRRRRR

Payne, I thought you weren’t crazy bout them peppers?

I'm not and I won't eat any most likely. I was at the feed store and saw those two. I've never grown them so I thought I'd give it a shot.

Where the hell is Professor Pepper, I need to know how big the root system is...

Probably giving Maggie & Tank a bath...

I’d say a full grown hab plant root system is 2-3 gallon pot size? Let’s see if I’m right

It's extensive. They will easily send roots through the drain holes into the native soil. My pots are 14x14. Not sure the math on that but it's like a 4 gallon pot. Don't waste space. Fill the potting mix all the way to the top. Roots will be fine if you want to dig them up and transplant. I'm a hard core root pruner trans planter. I start in 4" round pots and have tons of circling roots. I aggressively break those up, a lot get broken off. No biggie they'll be fine. I actually do that with all transplants, vegetables, flowers and or shrubs, whatever. Most plants are not root prune sensitive, they will absorb NPK pretty quickly and form new ones. If you transplant and chop some root you can give them a foliar boost of 4oz of DEF (diesel exhaust fluid) teaspoon of blackstrap molasses mixed in a gallon of water and spray them down every other week and rock on. Plants and grass uptake foliar apps very quickly. Within a few hours. You can bypass crap soil that way. Your planting mix it on point, so the occasional foliar feeding will be fine, if any. Peppers are forgiving. You'll be fine.

That's an eight and a half inch one-gallon pot, looks like I'm transplanting tomorrow..

Read they like the sulfur

Thanks

Was looking for root size of habs and then read they like sandy conditions. I’m like . . .