 Hi there, welcome to the channel. I just thought in today's video we would do some cleanup in the grow tent here and do some succession planting get some more things going. I have started this in I think about mid-Septembers when I started growing things in here and we've been enjoying cucumbers, strawberries, tomatoes and one pea and we've got peppers coming and the cucumbers are starting to kind of die out so I got some more started so I want to get some more going so we can get some succession planting going there with the cucumbers and I don't know if you can see my indeterminate tomato here. This guy is growing all the way up to the top of the grow tent and I tried to put another light on it here to see if I could keep it alive because it's gone way past the the lights here I put another light in but it's kind of dying out it's taking up a lot of space and not really producing much anymore. So in today's video we're going to remove this big guy out of here carefully I think there's a few other cucumbers and tomatoes all intertwined so it's going to be a little bit tricky getting this out and I'll give you kind of a close-up on the peppers that are coming and we will plant up a couple different cucumbers and get them ready to come into the grow tent. So as you can see here in the far corner of the grow tent this indeterminate plant is growing way back here it did get some blooms on it but like I said I set up another light here but I think it just wasn't enough to keep it going you can see that it's starting to wilt and die so I'm just going to start at the bottom here and try to remove this plant and I'll try to keep the camera going here so you can kind of watch me and we'll just chat about the grow tent here while I do this. So this is my second year of using this grow tent last year I did some peppers and tomatoes in here and a few cucumbers but I was a little bit you know a novice didn't really know how much I could grow in here and I had a bit of success with most of it but this year I've really gotten into it I love my grow tent if you want to do indoor growing during the winter or even year-round I guess I highly recommend investing in a grow tent I believe this is a three by three and with the light here I got it from Mars Hydro online can't remember if it was a sale or not but it was around $300 so it was you know a bit of an investment but for the amount of harvest that I'm getting out of here you know and this thing will last for years so I highly recommend grow tent gardening so I am going to start I think I'll just start hacking away at this it's the only way you can get it out of here just probably just cut it up and it's got some fairly thick stalks on it too but I got two other tomatoes growing behind here they're Determinant beef steaks and I really want them to be able to you know maximize the light here and get growing and I think this guy's kind of been hogging a lot of space we did get lots of nice little cherry tomatoes off of this one I don't think I would do it indeterminate in the grow tent again it's just too hard to manage there's so many great Determinant varieties that don't grow too big that you can just succession plant you know throughout the winter or throughout the whole year if you like to indoor garden year round so we got this cut out now just have to figure out which where the rest of this plant went to so I had it strung up with some of these little clips and strings tied to the ceiling it worked out really good to keep it secure should be able to pull this right out of here my cucumber looks like it might be a little bit hooked on it right now oh there's a cucumber didn't even see that there we can see that on the camera so this will have to just get chopped up and sent to the compost pile now yeah that's really gonna open things up in here nicely for these other tomatoes so the two other tomatoes that I have going here is a bush kind of a bush beef steak like I say this guy's been just hiding in the background and being ignored but it has got lots of blooms coming I thought yeah some coming down here and a whole bunch here so I can feel it's pretty light too I think it needs a good drink this other one I don't know this is a tomato that I grew outside this summer that did not do well it seemed like it was kind of diseased and I thought I would try growing it indoors and as you can see it's really not a happy plant so I don't know I feel like maybe the seeds were just not healthy there's hardly any blooms coming on this so it's and it's big and gangly so I don't know this thing might get the axe here so as you can see on this tomato there's no blooms anywhere on this maybe a couple coming at the top here but it's already growing past the light so I'm probably gonna have same issue I had with that indeterminate one so I think this I'm gonna just remove this tomato plant it's just basically taking up space and maybe we'll get some new tomato seeds started so I'll go through my tomato seeds and see which ones are the fastest growing that we can get another batch going we're just at the end of December here right now so we still have a good four months of indoor growing time okay so now I'm just down to the one determinate tomato beef steak here and as I said it's feeling very light let's check the roots here just a little bit of liquid left in the bottom you can see it's got nice healthy roots so I've just mixed up a batch of my hydroponic nutrients that full strength and I'm just gonna add in I usually just top up my containers here with two or three inches of water it doesn't have to be filled up too much and see we've got some good blooms here we've got some coming here and here sometimes I just like to snip off the odd branch just to kind of take some of the weight off of it and you know they're just sucking up nutrients there's no blooms on any of these branches so so far I haven't had to trellis this which is nice but I see the cucumber you can see that cucumber here is attached to this tomato so we need to do some maneuvering here so I as you can see here I have strung some rope just across the the tent here just to give the cucumbers something to climb along and keep them under the lights and we're just gonna take out a few plants here just so I can get in here better this is what I love about my Folgers containers they're easy to move around they've got these nice little handles you can just grab them get them out of the way okay so we have a tomato cucumber oh that's not too bad as you can see there is a cucumber coming here so I'm just gonna try and train it up this rope here wrap it around a bit so it hangs on it's got some something to hang on to so I still have three cucumber plants going here and I've started a couple more one that I have taken a cutting from this diva variety and have it rooted and it's ready to go into a container so we're going to set that up and I've also got a new cucumber seed called the Socrates that I just purchased and it's supposed to be a good one for indoor growing as well so all of these are the parthenal carpet variety of cucumbers which means they only produce female flowers so you don't have to worry about pollination so that's why these are good to grow in an indoor grow tent so you can see some of the leaves on these cucumbers are starting to look a little brown and it seems like plants are starting to slowly die off but like I say they're still shooting out new fruit and every once in a while some of them don't live some of them die and just fall off but as long as it's still producing I'll just let them keep growing here so I just wanted to show you my pepper plants that are coming along I haven't we haven't got any fruit on them yet but they are blooming like crazy this is the the serrano pepper so it's hot pepper so like I said whenever they get super light and feel like there isn't much water in there I'll just show you the roots sometimes they have a little bit of algae a little bit of light coming through but seems to be okay this here is a baby bell pepper plant and it's getting so big I should have maybe trimmed it down a bit but try to show you here it's got such a nice strong stalk on it and I spotted a pepper somewhere so there's the first pepper I've found you can see that there's a little pepper coming there lots of blooms that are just starting to die off so there should be more peppers popping up here and there but every week or so I usually have to top up the the nutrients on all my plants now I don't really worry about refreshing or removing I just mix up the batch at full strength and top everything up and it seems to be working I just also wanted to show you my sugar snap pea plant that this was the latest thing that I started growing in the grow tent it's been in here for I think about a month we did have one pea pod come off here that Henderson I got to share so I've topped up this water with some stronger nutrients because it's starting to get to that flowering stage so hopefully I can get some more peas off of this so I managed to rescue that cucumber from behind the screen over there so we should be able to enjoy this tonight for supper so now it's time to go plant up some new cucumber plants and go through my tomato seeds to see which variety we should try starting okay so now we're going to get the diva cucumber set up here in the cracky hydroponic method and this is what it looks like so I took a cutting from the diva cucumber that I have growing I've had it in water for about a month now and as you can see it's got some pretty good roots there I've never tried this method before so I'm not sure if this is gonna work but we're gonna see how it goes so as far as the nutrients I got my three-part solution here that I mixed up at the early vegetative stage so it's very you know diluted not too strong and also my cowl magic is in there as well so I'm doing this a little different usually I start my seeds in the rock wall in a net cup like here so this is my other cucumber that we're gonna get planted up and then you know you surround it with some clay balls and you have a hole cut to the right size for the net cup so for this cutting I'm gonna try something a little different and I purchased these locally but I'll leave a link to these below these are okay remember what these are called so as you can see you can wrap it around your stem really nicely it holds it secure so this is the way I want to try growing it this way because I don't need a big hole to fit the a net cup I just made a small one so that this root will go right through and this little cap will just sit on top and stay secure then you just want to make sure that your roots are going to reach the water which they are so I have a good look at it here and we will come back in future videos and check and see if this is gonna work so I also got my Socrates seed going here you can see it's got a little bit of a root system so I've got it set up in the cracky method as well a couple tomato seeds are started so if you enjoyed this video please hit the like button leave a comment and don't forget to subscribe thank you for watching and happy gardening