Was told that you guys might like this: Germinating Havana Tobacco [X-post for /r/gardening]

is-serp · 4 days

I am an amateur gardener myself. Basically I bought the tabacco seeds (they're really small... got 1000 off ebay for about EUR 3), and some peat pellets.

I put the peat pellets in water until they absorbed enough water and expanded to their full size. You'll know that they've fully expanded since the net surrounding the peat will look fully stretched.

Then I put the seeds on a piece of white paper (so that I can see them) and pressed my finger against them. This way I would pick up a lot of seeds since they are tiny, and sprinkle them in the peat pellets.

I put the seed loaded peat pellets in a plastic container, put in about 0.5cm of water at the bottom, and covered it with cling film. The aim of the cling film is to keep the moisture in and therefore helping in germination. I put the container in my terrace as it's quite warm outside, but out of direct sunlight. Every other day, I would check the container, and if the water at the bottom has evaporated, I would add some more.

It was quite an easy process so far. This is my first time starting something from seed. If you have any questions, I will do my best to give you and answer, but your best bet would be /r/gardening.

is-serp · 4 days

lol apologies for the brain fart :). I am based in Malta, EU

is-serp · 4 days

At the moment they are in a jiffy pellet, but will eventually move the seedlings to a biggish pot.

is-serp · 4 days

A peat pellet similiar to this

is-serp · 5 days

Making cigars is my target. I don't actually smoke but would love to be able to produce one. Will probably smoke it then as well :)

is-serp · 5 days

Ok I'll try moving it. Thanks for your input

is-serp · 5 days

I have no idea whether the plant was dormant over the winter as I bought this at the start of the summer. Thanks for your input

is-serp · 5 days

I got mine off ebay from a Spanish seller (I'm based in the EU). If you're interested I can post the link to his ebay shop. Didn't check about legality to be honest :)

is-serp · 5 days

Planted these on the 9th of May :)

is-serp · 22 days

These seem to have an elongated shape. Mine's more rounded.

is-serp · 22 days

From the pics it looks very similiar. Thanks for your input.

is-serp · 22 days

Mine seems to be more rounded than the peppers in the picture :)

is-serp · 22 days

Yes the stems has a little bit of purple, but only in the last part where it connects to the flower. Regarding the colour of the peppers, I have no idea whether they all ripen to red since I got this plant last Sunday.

TroyDowling · 1 month

An for those that don't want to sign-up to the course, but are interested in the lectures, they are available online here.

arcticmailman · 2 months

Hey man thanks for the video, however the JAR file that you point to in the YouTube page just contains the .class files.

nonporous · 3 months

me too please :)

is-serp · 3 months

I don't know about going directly to Spring. Although I use Java and will switch to C#, I am a low-level guy at heart so am much more comfortable knowing how stuff works under the hood so I can debug when I have problems. I guess it's up to you and your level of expertise and what you want to achieve. You can maybe grab the Spring in Action book I mentioned above follow the example application to get some hands on experience.

The good thing about Spring is that it encourages good software practices such as low coupling etc. so you should be good.

I would assume that a Spring app will be able to run on Heroku since it's just a standard app with an IoC (and more) container set up.

is-serp · 3 months

If you want to build GUI applications in Java, well don't :)

If you want to do the same as what you're doing at the moment (i.e. MVC applications) I would recommend learning Spring MVC. Documentation is pretty good.

If you want to learn Java from scratch I would recommend the Oracle Java tutorials, these book for learning Java from scratch Core Java Vol. 1 & 2, and then this book to learn how to use Java properly Effective Java. Once you get familiar with the different java technologies (so you know what's happening under the hood once you get to the more high level stuff) such as Servlets, JMX, JDBC, etc. I would recommend you start getting familiar with Spring Framework, either through their documentation or else this book Spring in Action. For CRUD operations, my suggestion would be to learn JPA 2 (maybe this book) and use that in your code (so you don't really depend on a specific library), and then choose an implementation such as Hibernate or Oracle JPA.

Other stuff that you should look at are the Google Guava library, and most of this Apache Foundation Java projects.

If you have more specific questions, feel free to ask, either via PM or here :)

coder0xff · 3 months

Another software engineer here. Will try to put in a couple of hours if something comes up.

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