big bully back in the real garden to those who decide she's the dominant chicken and she's been a terror  i guess the lesson here is you know chickens and sense weakness and amongst the flock you know the dominance that you see of dominance change like that they can be a signal that you know maybe a chicken isn't feeling well chickens have a natural instinct to hide sickness you know for predatory and flock dominance reasons so kitty being picked on might have been part of this you know first she told him oh she looks so bad i started giving her a little medicine cox he had doses i think that's kind of what got clear she had had a bout with it a couple years ago and it would recurring now and then really looked bad i really didn't think she'd make it through the day and when i got home she was still up and running it was a couple days ago and she still can float perkier so i'm continuing the course of medicine so also in full isolation birds we're just picking are too much so if they're not supervised directly like i am doing right here either she's in and they are out or you know i have adult tool time where she's out so i do i use negative feedback in the form of you know quick swat or  but she's grown some new pins back there and having a good time  from morning till night and i was coming didn't want to put them out in that condition you know they've been down the basement under mild fluorescent light spent sixty eight degrees not much stress going on right there  so but the past couple days have been cloudy and a little fog in the morning burns off nicely by the time the fog burns off during a dappled sunlight so they spent the past couple days hardening off in the greenhouse and now they're ready to plan t this is the first second maybe one of the third round of graft vs sitting here i have them all up on the table spread out because as i said this gives the illusion primo one of the things that you know has talked about a tomato plant real quick and we've got the disease resistant root stock grafted onto an heirloom cyan and i want to things i'm looking for primarily to begin with because you need roots you need shoots need and that leads to fruit so the first say i'm going to start with is the root root stock make sure you've got a nice strong stump on there good graft that's you know nice and clean healed up well and then after that i'm looking for some diameter it's not necessarily the tallest one that's the best in fact this one started you know i'm looking at pick this one's even better example i'm looking for short intern for short increments here and this guy started getting you know a little ahead of his time there he was looking for a little more sun and with those fluorescent lights he's kind of bolted a little bit and i want that skinny long top if i can help it so i'm counting the leaves and these are all at the same stage they're at the right about when they're going to split the top usually six or seven nodes and then the at the top this is a typical example of that one two three four five six seven and then he's about split up so i'm kind of counting the leaves looking at how far apart they are looking at that stem diameter and then i'm looking at just the overall vim vigor happiness of the plant you know are the leaves nice and flat a very good color or are they curling up yellowing you know i'm not much of that going on here but i can see you tomato and then we've got what i believe is a quarter blue with possible cross with black points from a few years back so we're you know nice trunks on these guys real healthy fairly short in or no and for instance this guy like because it's one two three four five six and he splitting on the seventh he's putting up a nice strong second leader here which we're going to use we we're going to use a multiple  leader pruning technique lot of people go with a single or double leader on a single string for instance this is a slightly different technique and it's well suited for the sort of hyper vigorous rootstocks that we use only kind of lets the energy dissipate into more branches and i think get more fruit off of it than the single is so it's going to be a late season plant this is mainly for canning and  so i don't mind i'm just writing in september can i'm all up kind of at the end of the season i think i've got a bunch of extras of these graphs and i think i might have an extra bed we might plant a variety of pruning techniques you know to see if we can get earlier better or you know see what we can do with the various you know single stem techniques or you know look the mythical of roumanian grandfather technique of only leaving three leaves at the top and something like that so here's the tomato bed the cages are sort of i'm just kind of started to gauge where they're going to go i gave him a nice new coat of rust proofing paint not only does this preserve the material topsoil some as a result of that in carbon that's why we do that we're just going to likely corkery this the carbon charcoal you know it's not going to do that much this year i've got to once we get these planted we're going to put a reform which is sitting over here this is a wonder wing which sits on top of the cage just the it's simple frame some conduit also use the vinyl stuff that you know the stuff last forever though and so that's going to go on  obviously these plants are going to take a while to get out to the outside of these you know they've got to grow and stretch their arms so i also put the comes the smaller columns you know the regular tomato down you can start dividing the branches you know into two years and train them out to the outside they do so pretty readily and they're always searching for that sun trying to get away from the main stem all right you know during while the growing so i'm going to get my whole going here kind of the shade is that way and that way so i'm pulling as far back as far back as is humanly possible is poi pruning along the stem so we're not going to do that because you want that scart of the above link above the soil level they think you know some of these weak little sprout wings here they go in princes off now the right kind of nice healthy root system it's not worth bound these the timing is perfect on these and i'm not going to tease these very much and it's made us do like a little group abuse however i asserted thinking about it and now that they're going in the big bad world i don't want to injure those roots and allow any particularly the few sorry i'm fungus to get in and root injury can be right s get after i painted the cage that he nasties are sealed in tuned under the paint know the thing you can do is clip through here and it still plenty strong better thank you and so that we're going to go on top of these boats when they're both wrapped and in the daytime what i'll do is i will sort of give it a little t v then down here for bottom and then rush you know it's sitting on top of this there's a good chimney effect so they don't overheat but do put a thermometer in their little indoor outdoor thermometer so you can monitor the temperatures and bent more if necessary don't fry em for a lot of time you can email me if you want the real garden at yahoo dot com that's all one word  here based on chickens all kinds of good stuff check it out we'll see you next week