 Hi there and welcome to Little Garden on the Prairies. So it is the first day of September here on the Saskatchewan Prairies and it is an absolutely gorgeous day and the weather outlook for the next week or two is looking nice and warm so so far no risk of frost coming. So this gives you know some of my garden crops a chance to keep growing and producing my tomatoes. I still have a lot of green tomatoes that can ripen on the vine and peppers are coming along great and those potatoes that I planted early July might have a good chance of getting a harvest off of them before it gets too cold. So even though I have lots of work left to do here on the outdoor garden space I'm already starting to think about my winter indoor gardening. So I want to try and bring in some of my plants from the outdoors inside and either by taking cuttings or replanting them using my hydroponic method and see if I can keep them growing over the winter. So I will be taking cuttings from a variety things different flowers, herbs. I'm hoping to take in some cuttings from my favorite tomato and pepper plants and get them rooted and see if I can grow them using my hydroponic method. So growing tomatoes indoors is one of my favorite things to do and I've been doing it for the last two or three years using the hydroponic crap key method and also using my arrow garden. Most of these tomatoes that I have grown outside this year have done pretty good but my favorite one was these they were called the little Napoli. It's hard to see them on the vine but they they produce a small Roma type tomato and it's a determinate plant that I think might do well indoors. So I'm gonna probably collect seeds from these that I can just say for next year or use to plant indoors but I also want to try taking a cutting from this plant here see if I can get it rooted and set it up in a crap key system indoors. So it's kind of challenging to zoom in here and show you exactly what I'm going to do but I'm trying to find some type of sucker that doesn't have too many blooms on it and I'm going to take a cutting or two or three cuttings and we'll see if we can get them to root up. So I'll take a cutting couple of them and show you what they look like. So here's a sucker that I just cut off from my tomato. I just want to make sure that there's no blooms on it anywhere. So we'll try that for one. I'm gonna take three or four and see how they make out. So this pepper here is called the sweet Italian frying pepper and I really like the looks of these peppers. I prefer sweet peppers for fresh eating. This is my new puppy Jacks that is really making my video making very challenging because he's in to everything. You'll probably see him in my garden quite a bit now. Anyways some of these I will be easy enough to collect seeds from. I'm just going to leave some of these on here to ripen fully and then collect seeds but I thought I might also try just cutting off some cuttings and rooting them. See if we can get them going that way and then I would set them up in my crab key system. Trying to cut branches that don't have too many blooms going on them. So we'll take a few of these take them indoors and see what happens. Oh no somebody just bit into one of my peppers here. So maybe we can see if Jacks likes peppers. We just want something to chew on. There's a nice close-up of what these peppers look like. They're all starting to turn a nice red color and because I have looks like I'm gonna have some warm days here for another week or so I'm just gonna leave them on the on the plant and see how many I can ripen right on the vine here. Okay so here we have our pepper cuttings. These are taken from the sweet Italian frying pepper that I was showing you outdoors. So I'm going to just try to cut these back a little bit. Just try to cut on a 45 degree and cut off any excess flowers here. You don't have to worry about having any nodes or anything along the stem but you do want to make sure that you have some leaves at the top just for photosynthesizing and so that the plant can root. I'm going to cut even these bigger leaves away and I also if you see any small peppers or flowering on the pieces that you cut off make sure you take them off as well. So I'm going to do two or three here so that we have a good chance of getting a good root system going on one or two of them. My only plan on growing one of these indoors I have several other peppers that I want to try growing indoors so I have to keep myself under control and stick with one one plant. I think I have about four or five different peppers that I want to grow indoors this year. Okay so I have three pepper cuttings set up here in the water. So when you're using when you're looking at containers I always try to go with a clear glass container simply because you can keep track obviously and watch the water level because you want to make sure that your stems are staying under water they will suck up you know quite a bit of it as they are trying to root themselves and you can also you know watch how the rooting is going when you have the clear containers. Okay so next we're going to get some tomato cuttings into water here. So as I said this was one of my favorite outdoor plants that I had growing this year it's a Roma tomato called the Little Nepoli and again you want to cut away as many of the small branches as you can and this was I hope a sucker it was kind of hard to tell because my tomato plants have become so bushy but you want to get a sucker from your plant that doesn't have any flowers growing on it. So I'm going to chip away all of the extra leaves and stick it in the water. I would suggest stick with you know the dwarf or the determinant type tomatoes for your indoor growing. So there I have three cuttings taken from my tomatoes and we will keep an eye on those. They should start shooting out roots within seven to ten days. So if you are new to growing indoors using the hydroponic crapkey method I just wanted to give you a quick view of what that system looks like. So this is a time herb that I pulled from the ground and with roots and everything. I've set it up in this net cup and this container is full of hydroponic nutrients so the intention is that these roots will start feeding off the nutrients in this water solution and this herb will continue to grow and I'll be able to harvest fresh time throughout the winter. So I will be doing a whole series of videos on indoor growing using this method so don't forget to hit the subscribe button and the notification bell so that you can follow me along on these videos coming soon. I also have a whole playlist of indoor growing videos that I will leave the link to in the description and at the end of the videos you can watch them. So I think these cuttings that we have going here can make a really nice addition to your home decor. They look pretty. At least to have more greener in your house whenever possible. So these should be kept out of direct sunlight and I've been just using tap water. It's treated city water but what I do is I just fill up my watering can here let it sit for 24 hours and check on them daily to see if any of them are low in water. Just make sure you keep them topped up so that their stems are in the water. So this is the start of my collecting plants from outdoors to bring in for the winter. I might try to grab a few more herbs if I can. I'm going to try maybe a couple more varieties of flowers taking some cuttings and rooting them and just planting them in soil and keep winter as a house plant and then in early spring I will start taking cuttings and get a bunch more going so that I can move them outdoors. So I hope you enjoyed watching how I bring in some of my garden plants from outside indoors for winter growing. Please stay tuned for more videos on how to use the Krakki hydroponic method to grow your own food indoors. Thanks for watching.