Overview
My drip system is fully functional now. I just started increasing the nutrient strength a couple days ago. With the exception of the timer and fert injector, all of my drip parts came from Drip Depot. I’m working on a video now that will show how I built my system and suggestions for making your own.
I still need to get some Kratky totes filled and placed, and also setup my nutrient comparison between Masterblend and Dyna-gro growing habaneros.
Video
Video Transcript
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Hi this is Peter Stanley, welcome to my channel
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today I want to give an update on
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my plants, umm it’s June 10th
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and it’s been two weeks since my last update
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mostly what I’ve got in here are herbs
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I’ve got a
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pepper cutting there
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some more cuttings of rooting herbs
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this is the Orange Manzano plant
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That Susan Garza
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Susan Garza gave me
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it’s putting out some new growth
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I just need to figure out
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where to move this to so
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it can really grow
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but I was kind of giving it a little transition period
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in the AeroGarden
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this some Purple Sage
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looks really good
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I took down my Jamaican Hot Chocolate and these are some cuttings
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I’ll to get it going for next year. I was having some problems with the roots
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uh, this is really neat and
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could do this for peppers too, but these are all
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herbs from cuttings, I’ve got some Pineapple Sage
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and Lemon Balm
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Mugwort, and they’re basically little
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little wick cups
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new design
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little eight ounce cup with some slits
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cut out around
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the corners
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and this is just one of the
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those plastic salad containers
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from the grocery store
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really cheap and easy
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this my herb garden
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most of what I’ve got left in the basement
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and this is eggplant
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another eggplant
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some tomatoes
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some basil
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I’ve got my Malagueta pepper here
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that Jayden Ling sent me the seeds for
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I need to put that outside, and also
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got a Geronimo pepper
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and this is my drip system
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I think the plants have adjusted
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and they’re starting to put out new growth
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leaves are a little yellower
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than I’d like but I started out with a weaker
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much weaker solution
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so I started ramping that up, so this
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two weeks from now in the next update they should be
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more filled out, the only plant that
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really has trouble
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is this Blue Christmas
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and
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seems like when it’s warmer
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it really looks bad, but in the evening
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and the mornings the leaves perk back up
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I’ve got some ripe pods on here
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I need to pick
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I’m getting some fruits on
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quite a few of these
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Here’s my Chocolate UnReaper
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peppers back up in there
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Brazilian Red Olive has
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has some little pods on it
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This is my Stravos
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This Queen Laurie
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looks good, it’s a really fast grower
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Sugar Rush Peach
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has a lot of fruits on it
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bunch in the back there
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Cereja da Amapa has a, I just noticed
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has a flower, I mean a pod
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and also my
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7-Pot Yellow
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Chaguanas yellow has
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some peppers too
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this is my umm, I don’t know really what to call it
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the seeds were labeled as Jay’s Red Ghost Scorpion
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but the pods were not the same pheno
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but I loved the plant because it was super
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super productive and the pods were really hot
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but it’s got
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some fruits on it
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Mako Kokoo has
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a lot of fruits
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the Aji Painapple’s been dropping
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a lot of
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hoping it straightens out, it’s got a
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some fruits set
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so I hope they
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do okay
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my Datil has a pod on it
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this is a Jay’s Peach Ghost
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7-Pot Olive
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this is my Puerto Rican Yellow
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It looked really rough
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initially but
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putting out a lot of nice new growth
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has a lot of peppers on it
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they’re on the small end, I think they’ll
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get bigger, and the next wave should
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look better once the plant
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grows, but just from what it is
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it’s produced a lot
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Kpakpo Shito cross
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has one pod
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and this is my Chocolate Bhutlah
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it was looking pretty rough
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but all the new growth
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looks good, there’s something eating
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eating on my plants but
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it’s not too bad
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and my Black Bhut looked pretty rough too
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but it’s putting out a lot of new growth
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it looks good
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these are my sunflowers
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it’s actually getting, some of these are the Mammoth type
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I’ve got em all kind of mixed up
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but they’re growing a lot, I mean
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just from the last update, I think they’ve grown three feet
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there in like two weeks
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these are a little shorter
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and a lot of blooms
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and I’ve also seen a lot of pollinating insects
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on these already
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seen some honey bees which is great
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I really like how these look
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Here’s my Chinese Red Pepper
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Tien Tsin
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it’s got some, I’ve already picked
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few ripe pods, It’s got a
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a bunch of fruit on it
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as well as this Thai Dragon
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this is a Thai Dragon, all of the fruits point upward
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it looks very loaded
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with peppers
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this is my Aji Painapple, the original
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mother plant
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in a wick bucket, it’s starting
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to look better
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greening up some
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and my Chiltepin Yellow
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is doing really well now
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also
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and these are still ones that need to be moved somewhere
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here’s a basil plant
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tomatoes
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various things
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these are my two White Devils Tails
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and they look really healthy
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this is the wick bucket one and
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this is the self watering container
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and I think the self watering container one
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actually looks a little better
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fuller
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this is my Helios Hab in the
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low pressure aeroponics
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setup
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it’s got a lot of growth
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a lot of flowers, I don’t think it’s set any pods yet
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and
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these are my two CARDI Yellow Scorpions
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this is the wick bucket
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and this is the Hempy bucket
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the hempy bucket one overall
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looks healthier
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has fuller, bigger leaves
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the wick bucket
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is not as full, but it has a lot
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of fruit
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there’s more on the other side too
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I think part of the reason it’s
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I was talking to Matt Garver
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I think he shared a similar experience but
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the res level’s pretty high
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it’s just below the
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net pot
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I think if I use a lower
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reservoir and kind of let these grow down
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like a Kratky system would
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to get more aeration for the roots, I think the
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plant would do better, which
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is how I’ve got
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this wick bucket
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has a lower reservoir
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somewhere down here
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so I’ll see how, that kind of gives me another
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comparison
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and also want to do
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these are some
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nursery plants
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this is a Mayan pepper
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Peach Habanero and
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and these are all Orange Hab
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and I meant to already have done this but
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I want to put two of them in a comparison grow between Master Blend
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and Dyna-Gro
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to see how they do in a wicki
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no wicki, in a Kratky tote
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each in a 27 gallon tote
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so I need to do that
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but anyway, so that’s my grow
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on June 10th, 2017
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hope you liked that
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thank you for watching and
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