for growth agreed days for seattle for western washington so you know you take your normal formula high for the day low for the day and any gain above fifty degrees is a growth of those gross degree days and i early no beets or cabbage or broccoli wraps i found that you know even those don't grow that fast in the spring when those days are cold by the time the warm weather m but even still you know there's no roots in the ground at the chickens get down with it and that we need to start more cover from the chickens been doing good still continues to and it's just been fabulous unless you know i've had sex once before and they were bigger furthermore bread is a dual purpose so i guess it depends on the hatchery you're going through obviously this black star the black sex line and the golden were bred for lane you can tell sunlight starting from the back corner and coming up you know you can actually see who got how much sun through this the dabbled light of the cherry tree in the obstruction from the house in the greenhouse in the beans in front of them it's just a good demonstration of you know if your plants are growing real good and they've been watered real well and properly and they have plenty of food you just can't figure out why they're not growing l there is one that is particularly flattering then the other is wider than the others so you know take notes choose the varieties that i want and of course grow next to each other you know they don't always grow out the i believe in the hybrid you know the sex link chicken basically a purposeful hybrid an f one hybrid from parent stock and i am breeding for stability i'd like to know what happens next year but i don't really care the ones without bleach i actually found them really bad i let them get disgusting collateral damage in the basement it was awful but this one was like right next to that slimy mess and didn't get affected you know and you know those mold spores are you know jumping ship with every little puff so great keeper leach and that's one of the things i'm off after  four vines from that package of seed that turned into these which at the time were you know yellow like the pink banana squashes and it then it had this turquoise star that was the you know sort of a you know star on it that has a right and out of it that is really cool squash good quality nice nice size you know not too big a great grower so i actually did not save seed from these guys because they grew next to an italian squash they wasn't too and planted all those of these plants to produce these and try to isolate you know let them cross pollinate you know there's each plant sort of a mutt right now let them cross pollinate and then i'll start the selection for these qualities next year i'm really pleased with the results they're all pretty much look good in that way you see the little stark here you see that shape you know they're not green like the hubbards although this one might be  pollination it won't start to swell like this that the female flower here's a here's one that's just close and see it's got that little you know oval the the squash at the base of the flower the male flower does not and the this female flower doesn't get good pollination you know the bumblebee doesn't come by then it will actually abort her and produce another one up a little higher because you know the goal for the plant is to produce seed  and at this stage they're very delicate even to the point where the bristles on the leaves you know any abrasion will start to put little scars or any time you mess with them like i did say every little thing you try to do to make them better screws much more so carefully just putting a little foam you know this without actually came up with a new way of doing i put all slit in each other things just you know it makes a nice of squash i think they grow bigger and better if they're not you know if they don't have that obstruction you know they'll get a big line where they get something like this the japanese were actually experimenting with growing melons squash that sort of thing in boxes for shipping they might still be doing it i don't know but if you can i've also seen you know garden novelties where you can phosphorus source the reason you want to properly water it is you don't want these these leaves can get a little crispy cuticle can dry out and get brittle due to desiccation in these hot summer days and obsolete as the plant grows you can see em kind of handling and not waving this thing around because it is going to look at it carefully have no my cilia and that's probably the start of the season right there and you can there's powder in there is downy powdery as in powder snow on the mountains downy as in down under sadam he's going to show up under here it likes the cooler weather conditions and and the i've always so instead of throwing the bait on the lactic you know the lactose on the leaves and waiting for some random lactic eating bacteria show up i'm going to catch the chase and introduce lactic culture into the milk solution so for mel you know starting with a random starting point i had i found seventy five milliliters sterile probably distilled can afford to use it i can afford and when you're working with a culture like this you want to you know since this is sterile and this isn't but solution but somewhere in there ok so there is or that's our food for what we're going to introduce a fairly hygenic eye dropper has been prepared and then we've got last year and i went ahead and put them in a heavy brian solution you know float the eggs in the brine this is what you do when you're producing a traditional firm ended dill pickles and it's you know you don't use vinegar a salt solution and the culture of the bacteria from the skin of the cumbers can tolerate that salt words others other bacteria can't and so they take over kind of eat the lactose out of the that careful with hygiene you do see i've got a little dust filter over here little paper towel you know triple paper towels so it can breathe a bit stuff's not fallen in there there was a mold layer since you can see typical when you're doing this kind of thing if it's for human consumption you peel that off every day until your pickled sauerkraut will do the same thing this is in process so we're going to reach in here and pull from the bottom let's face it this one isn't sterile to start growing i hope and i think you know it's in here and give it a week check it out next week it smells bad throw it out if it smells like food  vinegary sweet even if it's a little tang eat it it's probably working and what we're going to do is we're going to see if this works we'll do it on a larger scale i suppose although we're going to use it diluted you know we'll take this once it's you know we've got a concentrated colony colony in here then we can take this is a starter batch maybe put it in the tender one milk spray spray the plants with that and see what happens you know we will do a half and half paris full your diseases sat by now isn't going to ripen it'll it'll you know get this size or bigger and it will be green you know but it will be green at the end of the year so what we want to do is right than the ones we've got  probably won't ripen i'll leave him on you know shoot the moon but really from about here down is where you're going to get your meaning for at this point you know we're you know we do everything we can get as much wind much for  by about this time of year let me go for another week probably you know like itself to these ones are on the rough but i'll let these go for maybe another week and then start to everything you know sucker snow leaders no nothing ahead of the calendar is your only defense at this point i do have to still have the sidearms that have been allowed to split once into you know to the stronger ones with three times  but so those six you know not at the top those are allowed to continue growing for another week or so and i need to use a lot of longer ones to kind of extend you know the area of the cage so they can hang off and not crowd want good air circulation