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Hello everyone!
A little about myself and my family. My family and I are currently on our 5th year in our newest home and have been building up our garden year after year, I work my best to keep it as a permaculture, but stick with organic at minimum, our main vegetable garden is 40x80, a new 30x 10 vegetable plot an additional 15x15 raspberry bush plot (well established) , a 10x 10 blueberry bush plot with 2 year old plants still living but not doing as well as well as we'd prefer, (4 plants), then I built 2x 3'x3'x3' raised hügelkulturs raised beds for raspberries (they had other plants in mind when built). when we moved into the home we planted 2 Havana peach, 2 dwarf Havana peach, 2 Honeycrisp apple, and 2 cocktail fruit and 2 nectarine fruit trees I also grow.... other plants but ill keep those to the forum I am a moderator on regarding those, although they relate to some of my ambitions and questions with edible plants. we Just purchased 4 more blueberry bushes on their way now, and plan to pick up 2 cherry trees, 2 more honey crisp apple trees, 2 more nectarine as well as additional blueberry varieties. With the "other" plants i do indoor and outdoor and over the years i have accumulated 1x 4x8 tent, 2x 4x4 tents, 1x 3x3 tent, 1x 2x4 tent and 1x 2x2 tents all set up and ready to use as needed. Some tents were fully sponsored but contracts have completed and can now be used for other projects,  one of my goals with some of these tents will be to use as propagation and cloning tents.

The 2x4 tent i use mainly for microgreen treys, (i also have 50 zinnias started in it as well) along with some aloe plants.

i have a fairly large amount of successful cloning experience with... the other plants and can achieve a 95-99% success rate over the years.

I typically start twice as many seedlings as i plan to use, (currently have approx. 450 seedling started and germinated for this season. I generally use Johnnysselectedseeds.com as my preferred seed supplier and have always had excellent results from growth to disease resistance as well as overall yield) these are started on a 2x4x8' rack utilizing 2 sets of 4' 8 bar sets of 20w barrina grow bars i will share pictures of in my next post.

Our excess seedlings and excess vegetables beyond what is needed for canning and freezing get sold at the road (seedlings as well) and over the years we have built a small, but consistent customer base for both we talk to our customers frequently and we probably give away more than we sell (we like to help others). I have been wanting to get into cloning and selling blueberry bushes and raspberry bushes and would like some helpful tips and hints on the best soil mixes, feeds, container sizes etc. to achieve the best success.

We live a "homesteading" life as it pertains to vegetables and would like to expand on the fruit aspect of it, meat is bough at local ranches, my wife has been baking and selling sourdough to a small close knit circle for years and we get notes left regarding out vegetable seedlings and vegetables we sell at our roadside stand. I feel we can do more for our community by propagating and cloning berry bushes etc. and am very ambitious to get the project going, all the tents mentioned above are up, have lights, humidity and temp controllers, are all carbon filtered and have various high end lights ready at the flip of the switch, which id like to utilize to begin the berry bush farm goal. 2 of the tents have 30 gallon pots (2 in the 4x8 and one in one of the 4x4's, one 4x4 has a 60 gallon pot, all are organic based utilizing mainly build-a-soil amendments and soils, all have 200-400 worms in them (a worm, farm may be in the works as well)

If anyone is interested in discussing any of the ventures I mentioned above please leave a comment and your opinions, questions and any ideas you may have that could help. I am excited to start my journey in this community! i have many homesteads around me and i live in the heart of the fruit and grape vineyards in my area in western NY, i am surrounded by them in 30 miles in every direction and we love it. We have a large well known creek and dam in my backyard known for its salmon and trout runs down below the dam. My backyard is a very sandy loom mixture in the back end along the "ancient" creek bed, and when one side was converted to the large garden a 10" layer of dark leaf organic compost was used to establish the main garden, we use a heavy woven plastic sheeting used for landscaping in the garden (yes plastic, we know lol), as a weed barrier for our main vegetable garden areas which have worked excellent over the past few years.

Please leave any questions that may help our venture to begin cloning and propagating berry bushes and any beginner tips you may have, especially relating to indoor grow tent cloning! For any that read this all I thank you!


 
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A pic of one shelf of the current seedlings started for this season
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A few older garden pics from the past few years
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