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| Author: | CRTreeDude [ May 10th, '08, 05:32 ] |
| Post subject: | When to get rid of plants |
I have a weird problem. I know I won't get any sympathy, but my plants don't seem to be dying and I don't get frost (not even cool weather) so I don't have an end of season to kill everything off. So, when do the plants get too old? To give you an idea, peppers here will generally live for 5 or more years, I figure in aquaponic, that could be a tree I could cut down for firewood...  Some of you have greenhouses, or perhaps live in mild climates - any hints? |
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| Author: | Jaymie [ May 10th, '08, 05:50 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: When to get rid of plants |
do they stop cropping at all? Maybe after that if you want to plant something new. |
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| Author: | TCLynx [ May 10th, '08, 06:56 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: When to get rid of plants |
There are probably a few different methods you could use, most likely a combination depending on the particular plants and such. 1-when they seem to stop producing. This could be due to age, disease, pests, weather etc. 2-When you need to put something else in that place. 3-When the plant has just gotten to big or overbearing for it's, yours or the grow beds own good. 4-When it just starts looking bad 5-when you feel like it. You have the unique situation that you can probably do whatever you want. You might decide to pull out a whole grow bed worth and re-seed or you might selectively harvest or remove some plants throughout the system and put new ones in or different ones in. |
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| Author: | timmy [ May 10th, '08, 06:57 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: When to get rid of plants |
if they stop producing and won't likely start again, i pull them out. |
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| Author: | Outbackozzie [ May 10th, '08, 07:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: When to get rid of plants |
When they stop producing a viable crop, and they are taking up space you need for strawberries, pull em out 
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| Author: | earthbound [ May 10th, '08, 08:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: When to get rid of plants |
One thing to keep in mind is root mass. Sometimes the longer you leave things there the larger the root mass, and big root masses can be a bugger to remove.. |
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| Author: | CRTreeDude [ May 10th, '08, 08:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: When to get rid of plants |
earthbound wrote: One thing to keep in mind is root mass. Sometimes the longer you leave things there the larger the root mass, and big root masses can be a bugger to remove.. We actually have to run a cleaner through the pipes once a week to keep the drainage cleaned out or the autosiphons stop working. The roots are something I am wondering about. |
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| Author: | Sleepe [ May 10th, '08, 09:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: When to get rid of plants |
Before just pulling them out try pruning them and see if they regenerate esp the toms and peppers. ie cut off the sickly leaves and straggly branches. |
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| Author: | Jaymie [ May 10th, '08, 10:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: When to get rid of plants |
CRTreeDude wrote: earthbound wrote: One thing to keep in mind is root mass. Sometimes the longer you leave things there the larger the root mass, and big root masses can be a bugger to remove.. We actually have to run a cleaner through the pipes once a week to keep the drainage cleaned out or the autosiphons stop working. The roots are something I am wondering about. how much does that poor child get paid? |
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| Author: | KudaPucat [ May 10th, '08, 11:45 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: When to get rid of plants |
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| Author: | veggie boy [ May 10th, '08, 11:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: When to get rid of plants |
I agree about the root mass thing. Some plants I've grown - including chillis have got so big that the root ball takes up about half of the 2 square metre grow-bed. This is hardly practical in terms of use of space and also is a pain to remove. Then you remove the plant either all the media comes out with it and the roots, or you leave the roots in there - which is not good. Something I have noticed with AP is that the roots of some plants, if left in the grow-bed, seem to survive for months after the plant is removed (ie they don't just decompose). It is just unfortunate they don't throw up new plants like a running plant would. |
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| Author: | gokul [ May 10th, '08, 18:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: When to get rid of plants |
Yes I found inch long pieces of root that were still white, and it was in an area of the growbed where its completely bare. I'm sure they are at least a month old. (that was when I last pulled out plants from that area.) |
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| Author: | Chappo [ May 10th, '08, 18:10 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: When to get rid of plants |
What's a pepper? |
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| Author: | gokul [ May 10th, '08, 18:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: When to get rid of plants |
In this context, some vareity of a chilli? The thing that burns - has capsaisin or something which is the cause of the burning feeling. The other pepper is also a spice, small round 5mm balls. Also hot to taste. (That salt and pepper thing) |
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| Author: | gokul [ May 10th, '08, 18:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: When to get rid of plants |
(I double posted the above post so I have deleted this text) |
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