here we are springtime in the great northwest that's my poem for the day marches in like a lion out like a lion around here down i've got a compost to monitor you know so it's about an eighteen inch probe and it's reading fifty as well so the ground you know if the deep throwers ring forty you know just a week or but now now is the time to keep things in the ground if you're direct sewing some of the cooler weather crops so a little early probably for them things like squash its cumbers squash that sort of thing those are usually starting dorce anyway they'll be coming up soon right now it's more the longer know she's got some of that some black feathers back here little black tips very subtle that she'd never had before so i think she might have snuck in a little stealth molt of some sort  couple months off last winter and rosie took a month off last winter but other than that this is the bird to write home about it's just been lamb like crazy since stirred production early healthy happy birds here this is a little hybrid i've got going it's a cross between a cordon bleu and black prince i think although i notice they've got some potato leaf varieties you know i see a seed from last year and i know some of the seedlings are a potato lea momentarily and one of the things i wanted to point out is all tomato plants are going to have the same morphology basically this in many ways they're going to come out of the seed they're going to form the coddling these are the first two leaves you know there oriented kind of the same of the colleens are going perpendicular to the first leaf more or less and that's true on both plants and you get the second leaf third leaf you can get fourth fifth and then it will split  six and that's and we're going to prune multiple leaders on these that node one two three four five six splits and we're going to let each of these split into two and each of the split split into three for a total of eighteen i usually take a couple off couple of the weaker ones off get down to sixteen because my cages are all smaller than the originator of this technique so anyway what's what i'm going to do when i'm cutting this is i'm go wind these plants up so that the cotton leans a point same way and the first leaf is pointing the same way and cut along the same axis on both plants so it's time hard for me so i'm going to be cutting at an angle and so it's a good going to be cutting in an angle about try for about a twenty five thirty degree probably i don't like too steep because  it's too steep you know that thing wants slide off pretty easy throw that on the floor because you don't want to mix these up you don't want to be growing this because the root stock in that moon is going to death plant it's going to hold that vascular tissue apart so that it's good on the other thing you can do is put the clip on on the root stock and then just kind of use it as a tube clip and just stuff this down i find using the clips a little less damaging to the tender side stock so that is a little floppy though so i'm going to put it through the clip here days they want to be warm humid and dark for three to four days and i found out best way to do that or in my case is a cooler keeps a consistent temperature right now running about seventy you know i just worked three at a time kind of you know didn't have these monday in half on tuesday i am experimented with more of a commercial you know when they're doing these commercially for selling to the public you know they're they're not going to be hotting these up right away they're going to be doing whole flat's you know so that you'd have these six cell or nine still flats you know in a standard nursery and these guys are going to be coming in and super stick stick stick stick stick so it kind of was experimenting on what that would be like it sucks it's hard to work in this little thing but you know i had a little three left i thought well kind of scraps but i thought well to experiment and as you can see i still have them sort of in a transition environment because i pulled them out fair they spent a little longer in the dark than they should have because i was gone on sunday and they didn't and they kind of got an extra day in the dark  branching and they're produced in the roots and oxen's are the you know quote unquote rooting hormones those are produced in the tip so when you cut off the cytokine in part you get extra oxygen in the plant that's going to stimulate rooting and particularly in the warm humid environment it's almost like a almost like an arrow panics operation in there because it's so humid so you said well you know i'm waiting for this graph stood out some roots see if i can find some water nutrients and so that's what he's doing here as you can see they're already starting to die back a little tips are turning brown they're not you know now they're in the non humid environment less humid environment and there's going to just die back and you know you can so here's one that still clipped and this morning he was he was all droopy and i thought well he's going to lose these leaks but he looked all right on the tip and now he's all happy again so soon he's healed up we're going to take the clip b just gently you know hof you don't want to be in a rush to do it but you also if you leave them on to long it starts to you know girdle the plant and then it will kind of grow into the clip to you know so they can get all sticky pulling that off if you wait too long again you can cast see this guy tried to root he's trying to put out some little advantages roots a long stem all these tri combs all the hairs along the tomatoes stem her potential roots that's why a non grafted plant you'll plant them deeper because they'll root all along in fact if you take that cutting and just stick it in water they were very well as a cutting and within days i'm not quite sure why do that but it works great but when you plant these do not plant them deep you've got to keep that graft as far above the soil lines you can and when i pot up the root stock i've got it just as high as it was in the in the six so maybe even all i'd rather see a mound than any lower i've got the number two chick grit just to keep everything clean and you know these guys are these guys are ready to come and i've come up with some interesting genetic combinations last year was great jamie but an eye ball are really coming through for me  number one and what we're going to do is we're going to plant kind of dense i only need eight plants and i've got a fairly diverse genetic pool here and i want to see if a number of plants come up so we're actually going to do a little nursery down in southwestern into mexico a long tradition of using them in mexico for chili very and that sort of thing so small seeds fact that's too deep for these you know general rule of no because they they are really aggressive plants are great clean up your tomatillo fruits at the end of the season or you have a lawn of tomatillos in that bed the next spring it's really kind of using and i've got a several morphologies in habits going here this looks like what i'm after a nice strong pepper these are all planted at the same time and you can see the strong ones and the weak ones  or what appears to be yes like well this is you of course inferior yeah but actually the small stunted ones tend to be my the ones with heat with a little smaller pepper a little wilder pepper those have the heat so i'm still trying to get the qualities into the one strain that i'm after so what we're going to be doing real soon here probably not this week but next we're going to start potting these up because i'm not going to go to the ground until i get a consistent overnight temperature of sixty soil temperature of sixty degrees so we've actually a ways for him to go before there in the ground they spend you know they'll probably spend the rest of april down here and then out in the greenhouse during the day and possibly during the night during may now he's going to see some might be a little early i like to see a little more root on these guys but these are nice healthy roots anyway and actually i'm might benefit from putting them up at this point because sometimes the soil starts locking up and such a small cell  up here i take that mix at about a quarter you know twenty five percent more compost and then a little more  start making your picks and you know in the you drop one the slugs get one you know things happens always does have that will back you know the insurance policy oh we're out of time you can email me if you want the real