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DIY Aero-Hydroponics Houston Meetup

ProZachJ — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:27:21 +0000

I know its been quite some time since my last post, even this one is just a catch up. I am working on moving a lot of the Super Cropper content on to it’s own YouTube channel and trying to booste up the UHGU content here. Since I’ve moved to a new home I have [...]

Spring Greenhouse 2011 and Raised Bed

ChuckieD — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:59:04 +0000

With the seeds we germinated a month ago and then moved into a super cropper for 2 weeks, the weather in texas has been just perfect for getting an early start on the spring season. After the fall’s moderate success with Roma and Juliet tomatoes, I decided to try 3 different and unique varieties. Sungold [...]

Fall at UHGU’s Greenhouse

ProZachJ — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:20:12 +0000

I had intended to take this video and do a voice over describing things, but after a week on youtube I realized I was never going to get around to it. The Roma tomato plants appear to have put on so many fruits that it is struggling to bring them to size. After growing 4 [...]

Super Cropper harvest 10-23

ChuckieD — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:14:50 +0000

doing a lot of work around here related to gardening, so i figured i’d share some pics of what we got this week from thinning out our herbs and starters growing in the original super cropper. You can see we had 2 of the backup juliet tomatos still growing in here, but theres no room [...]

Sunday Video Blitz

ProZachJ — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:37:54 +0000

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygPVvddOz9c

Super Cropper v2.0

ProZachJ — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:52:41 +0000

A while back we did some rebuilding of the original Super Cropper system and created a Super Cropper 2.0. It has an improved manifold, spray-lines and anchors for the net-cups. We have been growing with this system for over a year now and the versatility and ease of use is just amazing. We have also [...]

UHGU Greenhouse #1 circa 2010

ChuckieD — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:30:33 +0000

We are taking a major step forward this month and starting a Greenhouse! After looking at several options, we decided the best value and most exciting way to go would be to build our own greenhouse vs. kits that are on the market. The basic plans we used can be found here: http://www.buildeazy.com/greenhouse_imp.html Anyone thinking [...]

A whole ‘nother level II

ProZachJ — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:17:52 +0000

So we got motivated today and went even further with Charles’ shade house. We got the frame finished and got some tan shade cloth hung ofter half of the roof. Charles still has to make a decision on the other half. We are thinking maybe some polycarbonate paneling would be nice. Just wait till we [...]

a whole ‘nother level

ProZachJ — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:16:52 +0000

I haven’t yet talked a whole bunch about the vision that Charles and I share for UHGU. So even some of our regular readers may not be aware of what we mean by “pioneering distributed urban agriculture”. More on this coming very soon. While indoor LED growing for apartment dwellers like myself plays a huge [...]

Major pepper harvest #2 & Sugar Snack Tomato Update

ChuckieD — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:49:18 +0000

Well, Today i decided to pick the next batch of jalapenos, mainly because its time to make some more pickled peppers! Hook me up with some recipes! to my surprise, I found a few of the Thai peppers have started to ripen. I thought this would never happen!. I would say that the total weight [...]

Stonehenge 2010

ProZachJ — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:36:00 +0000

Well, yet another new garden is being designed and constructed. Although it is a typical soil based outdoor garden, we believe in utilizing as much space as we c an get our hands on. The task for today was to take a massive pile of leftover stones from the construction of my parents new house [...]

Sugar snack tomato fruiting

ProZachJ — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:43:00 +0000

Great news, and many new posts coming your way in the next week! We finished planting at Josh’s house, and transplanted the three pepper plants from my second tent in the soil. More on this later, but with this post I wanted to showcase the first truss of baby tomatoes forming under the LED ufos [...]

First pepper harvest

ProZachJ — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:08:00 +0000

peppers getting bigger, and first thais!

ProZachJ — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:01:00 +0000

First Peppers Growing!

ProZachJ — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:05:00 +0000

Pepper Update – ChuckieDan

ProZachJ — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:28:00 +0000

Hey guys, its my first official post, thanks Z-Bone for keeping everyone updated. Ive finally gotten a few minutes to post some pictures of my now flowering jalapenos, and soon to flower Thai Peppers.

Peppers Peppers Everywhere

ProZachJ — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:06:00 +0000

After seeing the ten or so pepper seedlings that I had germinated Charles found himself unable to sacrifice any of them. The little thai and jalapeno pepper seedlings gripped his heart so firmly that he made the decision to become the “pepper man” for UHGU. Check out the pictures he sent me of his two [...]

History – LED General Organic Cucumbers

ProZachJ — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:06:45 +0000

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu68gxQjAmk