EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Fire Ant Farm]

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At least you collected some of it! My experience has been roughly 1 gallon of water per tomato plant (more as they get bigger), only once per week (as a deep watering) - this is best for deep/extensive root development. This assumes planting tomatoes that are right for your climate, of course. So, you can do the math for that, but for me, that's March through October, or 8 months = roughly 32 weeks x 1 gallon = 32 gallons per tomato plant per summer if it NEVER rains.... (And there's still cucumbers, zucchini, edamame, eggplants, peppers...) So I'm going to start off small to make sure I like these things, and maybe daisy chain them as well...

- Ant Farm

 

[Pensmaster]

It is a four plus foot Tupper. Did you use it without a lamp? What is your inside temperature like when you do/did?

Barn temps were 40 to 50 *

It's bigger than it looks. It will use the whole rope. Be sure to put the plastic cap on the end so chicks don't get it dirty. As much as you can don't overlap. mines is overlapped now and not causing a problem. It takes a bit to get up and warm. So I'd keep heat lamp going till they get used to it.

I used a light for the first few nights to get them used to the water and feed. After that it's on a timer. Not a heat lamp. There was a lid to the box and I had a shipping blanket over the whole thing as an insulator. My down fall was lack of proper ventilation once I got that squared away it went much better.

 

[Pensmaster]

At least you collected some of it! My experience has been roughly 1 gallon of water per tomato plant (more as they get bigger), only once per week (as a deep watering) - this is best for deep/extensive root development. This assumes planting tomatoes that are right for your climate, of course. So, you can do the math for that, but for me, that's March through October, or 8 months = roughly 32 weeks x 1 gallon = 32 gallons per tomato plant  per summer if it NEVER rains.... (And there's still cucumbers, zucchini, edamame, eggplants, peppers...) So I'm going to start off small to make sure I like these things, and maybe daisy chain them as well...

- Ant Farm

I'll see if I can get a picture of my set up. 3/4 pvc connecting each in a run. I meant to get more barrels from the guy putting them at the garden and siphoning the hooked up barrels down to them. Never happened. There's so much water coming down now I could have filled 10 more easy and that's only attached to the smallest run of the gutter.

 

[daxigait]

Barn temps were 40 to 50 *

It's bigger than it looks. It will use the whole rope. Be sure to put the plastic cap on the end so chicks don't get it dirty. As much as you can don't overlap. mines is overlapped now and not causing a problem. It takes a bit to get up and warm. So I'd keep heat lamp going till they get used to it.

I used a light for the first few nights to get them used to the water and feed. After that it's on a timer. Not a heat lamp. There was a lid to the box and I had a shipping blanket over the whole thing as an insulator. My down fall was lack of proper ventilation once I got that squared away it went much better.

I am going to have a mhp with the rope. I just can't find any uncoated welded wire here.
@Fire Ant Farm you use uncoated right?

BTW I'd you are interested I have a great article on these raised beds with pond liners and buried PVC pipe. There is a cap on it, and my sister and her husband built some and can go more than a week without watering. Then you just fill it, cap it and let the roots get what the plant needs.

 

[Akrnaf2]

can anyone name this duck? (I'm guessing it is a duck)?

It is an Egyptian goose
Read this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_goose

 

[Akrnaf2]

Sorry didn't see your answer!

 

[Pensmaster]

I am going to have a mhp with the rope. I just can't find any uncoated welded wire here.
@Fire Ant Farm you use uncoated right?

BTW I'd you are interested I have a great article on these raised beds with pond liners and buried PVC pipe. There is a cap on it, and my sister and her husband built some and can go more than a week without watering. Then you just fill it, cap it and let the roots get what the plant needs.

I think my brother told me something like that. Just never showed me. Do you have a link. I may modify what I have with some of it.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Not sure I know what you mean by uncoated. There's no PVC coating on it. It's just the regular stuff that fencing is made out of, nothing fancy. You could use anything lying around that was a scrap of fencing if stiff enough. If non of that, others have used oven racks propped on blocks of wood or other jerry-rigged stuff like that...

- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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I should add - yeah, I've seen that sort of garden (blanking on the name). I went to a class and saw it as one method of water saving (along with hugelcultur, etc.). Looked interesting...

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Yeah, I really need to get serious about collecting this water. Do you treat it once stored (or plan to)?