So far, I have growing tomatoes, India Mustard Greens, Red/Green Romaine Lettuce, Carrots, Basil, Cilantro, Chives, Spinach, peas and leaf lettuce. As you can see from the pic, they are all doing really well so far.

We have been watering with a special water mixture that my fiancee concocted: containing RO Water, Black Strap molasses and bat guano or fertilizer of some sort, mixed in a 5 gal. bucket. We then let this water mixture sit for a few days with an air tube and air stone (aquarium supplies) sitting in the bottom of the bucket. This is definitely a key factor in raising great natural/organic plants.

As for the pics, I'm sorry they aren't good ones. They can only get better, as I'm a beast that learns from my mistakes ;)

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Last night I watered the plants with a tea (as I call it). The tea consisted of: Guano, worm castings, molasses, liquid karma, and kelp powder.

Lesson learned: India Mustard greens are VERY spicy. It was like eating a very strong lettuce that had very strong effects similar to horseradish. This lettuce really doesn't go with anything that I like to eat - including sandwiches and salads. I will be pulling this lettuce up this weekend & finding somebody that wants the remaining seeds.

Tomatoes look larger everyday. I am getting really excited to eat some fresh ripe tomatoes.

Looks nice. Those 1000W HIDs are nice, not everyone gets to play with them. Are you having any issues with heat?

You've got a great selection of plants, looks like fun!

Wow that's a nice set up...keep posting to let us know how things are progressing.

Exciting News, First Indoor Tomato Plants Ever, and I have my first tomato ever!

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Well, Actually I have at least 2. As you can tell, its kind of hard to see, but thats the fun of it right??

Tomato Plant Problem: Definitly have a small infestation. Leaves are curling up, yellow spots, and white residue on the bottom. I'm pretty sure its a bug, not a disease. I'm new to this, so research is half the battle.

The rest of the plants are doing great. I highly recommend growing lettuce indoors, as I've never had anything taste even slightly this fresh or strong flavored. I can just tell the nutritional difference.

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Usual Waterings contain: RO Water, Bat Guano, Molasses, Kelp and probably others I'm not remembering. Fiancee is in charge of the contents. In the future, I will try to document more thorougly for others.

Thanks for looking :)
Jenny

Jenny, your garden looks great!
Do you have a fan blowing on your plants? The tomato problem could be caused by lack of air circulation because your plants are all quite close together. I had that problem in my greenhouse this year.
keep the photos coming! I'll be starting my own indoor garden soon and the pictures are giving me inspiration.

Greetings Jenny! Its always good to see a fellow proponent of organic gardening. A few questions that may lead to possible suggestions: Have you taken full advantage of microlife? You are using organic ferts which is great, but to get the greatest advantage of organics over salt ferts you need to have strong microlife living in your growing medium (dirt). This includes beneficial aerobic bacteria (which you most likely have covered due to your ingenious oxygenated organic teas) and most importantly Mycorrhizae fungus. The fungus lives symbiotically with your plants by making a mycylem network throughout your grow medium and then fruiting directly on the roots themselves. The fungus chelates all of the minerals to make them more readily available to the plant and in exchange is fed with excess carbohydrates that are shed from the roots as a normal byproduct of their growth. The fungus also buffers your PH and acts as a front-line immune system. If you get a good and diverse set of microlife going it can even keep down multi-celled pests. Bugs like gnats, whitefly and the like all have a part of their life cycle where they fly down to the medium and plant some sort of egg. The eggs will be attacked and digested by particularly vigorous microlife before they get a chance to hatch. Getting this kind of microlife while heavily employing unnatural salt ferts is virtually impossible. If you haven't employed something similar already, I would highly reccomend Hydro Organics Rooter's Mycorrhizae Super Pack as a great source of dormant spores to give your micro-life a kick-start. A less advanced but easier to find alternative is Espoma's Bio Tone Starter Plus, which is an organic fertilizer mix (4-3-3) that contains a small variety of Mycorrhizae spores and dormant aerobic bacteria. You can find it at Lowe's, its great stuff. You also mentioned using an aquarium air pump and stone to oxygenate your tea which is an awesome idea, but have you considered that similar pumps and stones may work even better when aerating your growing medium constantly? This kind of setup supercharges your microlife and provides huge quantities of oxygen to your plants' root systems, allowing them to take up nutrients far more readily. Getting it right is a bit more complicated then an old-fashioned pot of dirt, but is nowhere near the complexity of hydroponic setups from which the concept is stolen. I've outlined the process to a fair degree of detail in my own grow diary over in the tomato section, I've included a link to it if you are interested. Oh, and one last thing. Something that gave me trouble and could be effecting you under that massive 1000 watt HID lamp: I found that my growing medium tended to dry out quite rapidly under these sorts of powerful lamps. A good way to lock in moisture and reflect a lot of that energy is to put a 1/2 to 1 inch thick layer of pearlite on top of the medium. However, your rapidly expanding foliage may soon make it a moot point :) Good luck and happy gardening!

Here is a link that might be useful: My indoor tomato diary

Looks like you're doing really well Jenny. It really is amazing the difference in taste when you grow it yourself!

You might want to play with a little hydroponics, for the lettuce in particular. I've tried a lot of methods and the hydro lettuce grows so fast it's crazy.

Looks like you're having a great time !!
There are other people with pictures... ME.
Just posted here "My Simple Method...." you may enjoy.
Have FUN !!!

Patsi