Click here to see the original article on the three seed kits in our warehouse during the first two months of their growth
These shots were taken on 03/06/2008
The tomato plants are now at full height – even with the extended lamp height which is shown elsewhere in the blog. We are now cutting back and pinching the growth at the top to encourage the plants to bush further down below. They have started to flower and we hope that we’ll have shots of the tomatoes at some point soon. At the moment it is not the prettiest plant. Customers can clearly see why we only have three active pods.
The salad greens are continuously growing and being eaten by people in the warehouse. The height of the lamp is at the tallest default setting for the Aerogarden.
The Chilli peppers are now at the heighest extended setting. As with the cherry tomatoes they need cut back and pinched on a regular basis to ensure they are bushing out. The flowers are all over the plants and we expect to start cropping soon.
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We have been running with three aerogardens in our warehouse for four weeks now and we thought that it would be worth showing some pictures of the plants at this stage. Neither the tomatoes nor the chili peppers have started started bearing fruit as yet but as you can see the salad greens have been intensively used by around four people for the last week as sandwich filler. If we hadn’t touched the salad leaves they would be at least double the size.
The tomato plants – as you can clearly see – need the spacer pods between the three plants. The plants are remarkably robust for such a young age and we intend to plant them out once the weather is a little hotter on a regular basis.
We are hoping that the salad greens will provide us with a fairly continuous source for sandwiches – as they currently are.
The chili peppers have all grown at a fast rate. You can see in this photo the effect of natural light on the plants. The window is on the left hand side of the photo and it is clear that these plants are larger than the ones on the left. Again there are no signs of peppers as yet.
Updated Photos – 29/04/2008
Aerogarden Products cherry tomatoes, Chili Peppers, photos, salad greens, seed kits
