Case of Wite-Out marker pens for 21 trays of Stuewe MT38 pots.
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I caved after reading hours of Amazon reviews and bought more of their pots as well. Now i have 4-5 sets instead of just 2 
What kind of bottom warmer do you have there? Does it do well with the pots setting on top of two different trays?
I bought some luxbird pads of Amazon that came with a thermostat that they plug into. The one I used in the bottom of a 10 gallon fish tank (so direct contact with and surrounded by my mix) did great. The one I just used to set pots on struggled to do a few degrees above air temps. The thermostat had separate probes so I was looking at both simultaneously. I’m guessing the mat didn’t direct the heat up very well.
Would be cool to have something I could just throw stuff on top of though. The fish tank is kind of a pain since my prop chamber is an old fridge.
I’m not using one at present. It’s really only necessary for rooting at my location in December and January. Two months ago I was using a standard Superstarter seedling mat (see above).
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Ah, ok. So I suppose that’s probably a scale they’re sitting on then. I see where you mentioned weighing to gauge water use.
I thought it was some super special heat mat lol.
So do you prefer rooting with higher ambient temperatures and no bottom heat? I saw in the post referenced you mentioned you prefer late winter rooting, but I didn’t know if that was for temps or other reasons. I know once we move outdoors your climate is so different from mine we wouldn’t have much overlap in best practices. I’d assume that, with the exception of best time to take cuttings, I could learn a lot from your rooting practices though.
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I have the highest success rate with lignified cuttings taken in March. Also, the nighttime temperatures at the indoor corner of the sunroom where I’m rooting cuttings will drop into the low 60’s F in December-January. So I used bottom heat during that period. For the rest of the year the low temperatures in that corner are in the 70’s.
For most seeds it is a different story – I use bottom heat year-round.
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For the variety experts on here. Is “Negrone” the same as “Petit Nigri” and/or “Violette de Bordeaux” ?
I ordered “Negrone” from Harriman’s last year. They have replaced the listing for Negrone with Petit Nigri and a very similar description. I plan to call and see if it’s a substitution, correction, or they’ve just dropped one and begun to carry the other.
I am also seeing “Negronne” on figbid advertised as “Violette de Bordeaux/Negronne”
I apologize if it’s a stupid question, but I know there are synonymous names, same name different plant, and other complications in the fig world.
Thanks!
Negronne and VdB are often used as synonyms.
Petit Negri is similar but a more dwarfed plant.
Then there is Nero 600 which is the same as Valle Negra. This is also different from the above 2.
But all are so similar it’s unlikely you can tell the difference unless you compared them side by side.
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Last frost date is around the middle of May for me, is it too early to start my fig cuttings indoors? I am planning on using the fig pop method to root them (if that matters).
I start mine indoors about January 10’th to get them outdoors early March.
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Ok, I think I might start mine tonight or tomorrow. I have a little bit of what looks like mold on a few of them. I am assuming that if I soak them in a 3% bleach solution for, what(?)… 15 minutes and gently wipe them off, they should be ok.
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Vinegar kills mold better than bleach. Bleach can’t do mold that well so if i were you, i would stick it in vinegar for a few minutes, scrub, rinse, then bleach solution. Never straight bleach and never mix bleach with vinegar unless you want chloroform
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Two cases of small binder clips arrived today. I’m using them to attach microtubing with spot spitters to MT38 pots.
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Never knew that! Just verified it with my favorite AI
I typically scrub with soap, then soak in bleach for about 10 mins. I guess you could do white vinegar but I don’t have experience with that.
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Duh… I did happen to know that, lol. Thanks for the reminder and recommendation. 
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Yeah bleach doesn’t get all mold unfortunately and i love bleach it’s cheap, it works, it disinfects, it cleans. Just doesn’t work on specific things sometimes but vinegar will usually take out what it can’t.
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The 6% all purpose works great. There’s cleaning vinegar as well that you can get at stronger levels. Make sure you use gloves/ppe with everything. It can and will eat your skin
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Water disbursable elemental sulphur works better and costs far less per dosage.
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What is causing the mottled appearance on my Giacomo Rao cutting leaves? The photos are two different individuals in different pot sizes and under different lighting. Does it look like a care issue to you? My Teramo cutting also has it, but mittica and yellow long neck look fine.
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