Your set up resembles the set up I used on my Marisol Clementine. Your trees think they are growing in heaven. Keep on top of the little details. The optimum air temperature for promoting growth with the type of trees you have, is between 76 - 86F. At 95F or above, the trees will discontinue growth (foliage and roots), so keep a watch on the temperature level. - Millet (593-)

Praise from you is very comforting Millet! Thanks!!
I am trying to keep all temps below 85. I may have to put the heat mats on a thermostat because the roots are definitely fluctuating between 80 and 85.
However, i keep hearing that heat is required for really sweet fruit. Is 80 enough??

Al

Its odd reading all the comments about fear of pot growth. I tell people I have a hydroponics setup and they always think of pot first and still even after I tell them I'm growing basil, tomatoes, chives, etc.

I had a surprise inspection by the landlord about a month or two after having my grow lights on. Here's the odd thing - I'm thinking of getting a mylar tent just so that it can hide the grow lights and trees even though I shouldn't have to hide anything . . . .

What I don't get is people tell me the medical marijuana stores are common - not sure why as in this stare there was only about 4 medical conditions approved for marijuana usage. I guess I'm just behind the times. Maybe I should be growing pot just because everyone thinks I am???

And as far as that shooting neighbor man that is something you had better deal with one way or another cause that is scary how careless some people are and he is going to cause a major accident.

Big al, God, whichever,

Sounds like you are having entirely too much fun! This has been an entertaining thread to read. Pilot, firearms guy, and citrus freak. Awesome. Love it. I wish I had stuck with the kit plane I had, but it became incompatible with career and family, at least for now.

I doubt I will have cops called on me because my greenhouse is out front, clear as glass. It does get drivers to stop, stare, and even back up or turn around for another look at our yard. It's crazy. Then again, having a tropical forest of citrus, banana, papaya, mango and more in the Seattle area... also crazy.

ahhh one of the few perks of living in small town.. all my plants go outside during sumer and the cops stop and visit just to see how things are going.. so my winter setup never gets a second glance.. but then who in their right mind would grow illegal stuff in a big picture glass window where everyone can see?? But then I work in community garden with one of the retired local PD and I would consider most of the PD here good friends.. So when they stop in for a visit it is honestly to see how things are going not to see if there are any illegal things among my tropical garden.. though if any ever ask I'll give them one of the unknown peppers I'm growing.. Hubby eats Habenerro like they are candy but he is scared of these peppers!!! they are small but pack a big punch!! I've had blisters on my fingers just from picking fruit and taking off old leaves!! I wear gloves when I do ANYTHING with it now.. I can't imagine what it would taste like if I was able to grow it in some place like Mexico where it would be able to get a fuller flavor..
You have a nice setup!! I'd love to be able to do that during winter here..
Gina *BabyBlue*

Correct me if I'm wrong as I don't know much about pot. But, don't a lot of plants look like pot when its younger? I think my catnip must look a little bit like pot. I can't imagine that cops would know pot from mint from anything else. Besides I would imagine that its the DEA that gets any training on identification. Its shocking some of the things cops arrest people for only because they are so ignorant.

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but then who in their right mind would grow illegal stuff in a big picture glass window where everyone can see??

Years ago my friend's 74 year old uncle would walk through the woods every morning to visit his 76 year old sister (my friend's mom). One morning he happened across what must have been some local kid's "garden" in a small clearing. He dug up a "pretty shrub" for his sister the next morning on his way through, and together they potted it up and placed it in a prominent position in her bay window. When my friend visited her mom next, she told her that she had to get rid of it, telling her what it was. She refused for about a month because it was a gift from her brother! Finally, she was convinced to throw it out.

Barbara

A funny...
I grew up in New Mexico. One day, there was a story all over the news. Some state dept decided to burn a ton of confiscated pot in the middle of nowhere...well, the wind shifted and blew a bunch of "Happy Times" right into a native american community. The radio stations yukked it up for a week.
On a side note...
we Legit indoor growers pay for the misdeeds of others contantly...
we legit gun owners pay for the misdeeds of others constantly...
hmmm....
I look at it this way... like it or not, the illegal pot growers, and the idiot gun owners are part of our micro communities. I choose to try to educate them when i can...I often fail, but I keep trying...

Thought I'd post pics of the Minnesota indoor winter staging area. Forgot to attatch pics in tha other post...from right to left Pickering mango, Page, Wash. navel, Kishu, Gold Nugget, Cogshall mango, and Trovita (the windows facing are east, and the windows to the right are south)
Room 68 degrees, soil 64 degrees

The Variegated lemon is in my sons south facing window. He is 4 yrs old, and really attached to that plant.

I love the quality of the four winds plants overall. Also, here is a plant in the other pic I do have consistant success with. A Carrie Mango. It is at the office plant nursary, and when I got it 3 months ago, it had only one leaf. it looked like a flagpole!
Looks so much happier now. It is being tested in the Tapla gritty mix I hear about from time to time. It seems to like it.

Lovely collection of citrus you have there. Maybe when I shut down one of my large sw reef tanks I can divert the MH lights to growing citrus indoors in the winter.

As for strange "pot" stories:

One of my friend's sent her husband out one night to pick up some aquarium plants called Java moss. The guy picks it up in a small ziplock bag and throws it on his dash for the drive home. He, of course, gets stopped by the local PD just randomly (Murphy's law at work) and the officer asks to see the baggie. He hands it over and tells him its Java moss. The officer doesn't believe him or thinks "Java moss" is a new street name for pot. Asks him "Why's it wet?"
Tells my friend's husband to stay there and walks back to the squad car where he hands it over to his partner who also opens the bag, pinches a bit to smell, and asks "Why's it wet?" Took them about half an hour to finally conclude it was NOT pot and to let the poor guy go.

Needless to say, on BCAquaria (the fish forum I moderate), that guy's name is now "Moss-man"

Whenever we see him, we hand him a bag of Java Moss and ask him to drive it home. Again, needless to say, he refuses.

Anthony