Recent content by slowrolling

Hi THP,   I have a confession... It's been a loooooong while since I've last posted.  Ever increasing family responsibilities killed off my gardening time in the recent past years.    However, with the 2020 pandemic cancelling my normal plans, my kids sporting events and other responsibilities...

Welcomed a new baby boy into the family on Friday, and with the start of my paternity leave today the new contenders for "even later start 2012" are: Butch T Goat Weed Brain Strain Douglah Red Scotch Bonnet Orange Peach Rocotto Pimento Heritage Big Jim Cayenne I have several seedlings and...

I was getting such great results with these outdoors I kept bringing them out as much as possible in an attempt to make up for lost time. Was working great, but I left them outside on a hot weekend day and went for a walk with my daughter. The walk went way over the amount of time I planned to...

Just wanted to throw in a quick update while I remember. This past weekend it was mid to high 80's and I put one group of my heritage big jims outside in the shade from ~11am-5pm with a clear plastic ventilated dome over them(at the edge of the shade so they were hopefully getting indirect...

Well I have great germination on my heritage big jim's, so I'm going to do a little experiment this weekend. Take half of them out in the shade once it gets to the high 70's/low 80's, and put an vented dome over them to save moisture. See what happens... if they all die I'll still have the...

Well since I'm not sure how much exposure asking this question in my grow log will get, going to ask it here. I got a super late start to germination. Just got some seeds to sprout on 4/18 and 4/19. I put them under generic fluoro's (not T5 or other hi output) today 4/20 and they perked up to...

Think I could get away with taking the sprouts out in the sun when its in the 80's during the day? I'm thinking not till they are a little older right? I have an old dual tube fuoro shop light lying around in the garage, so took that + some reflective space blanket cut it up and ghetto rigged...

Well, sometimes life gets in the way... Got child #2 on the way here (due in 2 weeks) so with all the crazyness of getting ready for that all of my best laid plans during the fall were out the door by christmas. Anyhow, I managed to get a cheapie hydrofarm germination plastic bin and lid set...

Well so much for keeping this log up to date... taking care of my overwintering peppers went out the window unfortunately also. Life gets in the way sometimes. so here's the cliff notes version of the overwintering attempt: One of the hottest driest winters on record here and I wasn't able...

Very close, they are the last of the "Super Marzano's" still alive and kicking.

Figured that would be important, so I bought a wireless thermometer with 3 wireless probe base stations. One for ambient, one for the hoophouse and one for the future germination area.... just need one with email alerts next time ;)

This is a log of my first attempt to overwinter anything, so should be interesting. Since I am in a fairly mild winter climate (high 30's low 40's av. dec/jan low) with usually only a handful of nights below freezing I decided to attempt to do an outdoor overwinter. So far I have: Built a few...

Wow sounds like this is super popular. Patrick you may be elected pepper prom king :). Will drop you a line later about the Jonah / SB cross if there are any left, very cool of you.

Been busy after work this week getting things ready since it actually broke into the mid/high 40's at night this week. I put a raised bed over my in ground peppers without digging them up, then hacked back my peppers pretty significantly except my hab which had several peppers on it still...

Read through the whole thread, great source of info. Just wondering if you published a specific guide somewhere or if you were just referring to the thread as a whole? EDIT: found it stickied at the top of forum...