[suziequeue]

So do you water it from the top DitW?

[deepinthewoods]

yes, and feed into a potnoodle pot with the bottom cut off and pushed into the top of the bag.

[suziequeue]

Doh!!! Yes - of course.... I have some empty soup tins..... no pot noodle I'm afraid...

[deepinthewoods]

my guilty secret.heehee

[Sudanpan]

Barging in to this thread 


We have 3 cucumber plants in the polytunnel in big pots. They have all grown really well and are now producing baby cucumbers 


BUT - the plants and cucs are a really pale green...... are they deficient in something?? 


Any suggestions gratefully received 


Tish

[deepinthewoods]

nitrogen probably, refer to above....

[suziequeue]

Here is what mine looks like. I don't understand why the sheep poo and nettle tea - neat - doesn't provide enough nitrogen....

[deepinthewoods]

lack of nitrogen sq. have you made the feed according to my recipe above? the cucumber has used all the nutrients in the gbag.

[suziequeue]

I don't think I could get together that quantity of chicken sh1t.... we've only got a few hens. But I will have a go when I get back this weekend. In the meantime I have given strict instructions to feed the cukes ONLY the sheep poo and nettle tea undiluted.


I have a plan to make a deep feeder system to get stuff past the surface but well down into the roots

[deepinthewoods]

just stick a pot in it, a couple of inches deep. having seen the leaves i would defo only feed and see if that helps. when a plants got a rootsystem that size, (and it should be filling the bag) it will take serious feeding, its relying on it, to fruit.
whatever amount of s..t you can find,including sheep, stir up and drench the plant with it. itll either die or thrive!!

[suziequeue]

I have instructed OH to start collecting the chicken poo. He seemed happy to oblige as we have separated the cockerels now into a smaller enclosure and they are messing it up quite fast so......


Yes - the root system is throughout the whole bag because I saw one peeping out the bottom at the weekend.


We will continue with the sheep and nettle. We've got loads of sheep poo so I'll tell him to mix that in.......

[deepinthewoods]

the thicker the better!

[deepinthewoods]

so how are your cues doing? ive had 4 good ones so far.

[suziequeue]

Well - we are getting masses of cukes but haven't managed the chicken poo side of things yet.
 
We are feeding them neat sheep poo and nettle tea but the leaves and some of the cukes are still show quite alot of chlorosis.
 
I can see why the chicken poo would be superior to sheep poo because the chickens excrete their urea in their poo rather than wee it out so the poo will have a much higher nitrogen content than sheep's poo (you can see I've been giving this alot of thought  )
 
I am thinking of getting a high nitrogen feed. I can get a box of granules and I was wondering if I could just crush the granules and dilute them to make a liquid feed becasue the liquid feeds are sooooo expensive.
 
What do you think? I won't rest until I've got the chlorosis under control.

[deepinthewoods]

   thats would do it!
i put trays under the chooks perches and collect it, then let the trays dry out and store it in 'cakes' in a box!!