The Prepara Powerplant Mini; Week 5

January 2, 2009

The plants are healthy and growing! Hope everyone had a good holiday break, and decided what New Years resolution to break this year. After a four day trip to my motherâ€™s and a blizzard that buried our car in 4 feet of snow, and Iâ€™m back to let you know how the plants are doing.

The basil is starting to look like basil now, the leaves have started to get that ruffled shape around the edges, instead of just the perfectly round leaves they were last week.
One of the pepper plants have begun to sprout a few new leaves and is well on its way, while the other 3 seem to be doing just fine.

Now that the system is in full swing it seems like Iâ€™m getting nowhere near the amount of light that I should be for proper growth, which to be honest I expected. The plants could definitely benefit from some extra light, and have shown that they are somewhat light deprived. The entire row of plants have been creeping more and more towards the window to soak up all of the available rays, so I flipped the system 180 degrees so they will have to bend back towards the window. I have a bad feeling that if I get sloppy and let them plants touch the window, the cold from our -20 degree winters will kill them off in no time.

In this picture you can see the plants bending towards the window.

Prepara has been watching my progress with their system and recommended that I give their grow light for the system a shot, as it should help with the plants growth significantly. I agree that the light is needed, the short daylight hours of Prince Edward Island in the winter donâ€™t exactly inspire fantastic windowsill growthâ€¦.

Happy New Year from everyone at the Hydroponics Dictionary!

Matt

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