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Candice's 2010/2011 grow season

Hi all

Well this season I would have to say has been my worst season yet mainly due to extremely hot weather (the hottest it has been on record for over 33yrs and no rain for like 2 months). Unfortunately it was the year that I also decided to grow the most. So results are not what I expected but thought I would share some photos of the best outcomes so far.

I decided to grow about 1,000 for plant sales through my business Wildfire Chilli (all sold out now), about 500 plants at an organic farm for fruit for my products (sauces, dried chillies, purees ec) and to offer some for sale to customers and as well as my own garden for pleasure and also other plants at home with isolation tents for seed sales.

Here are some pics from my home garden to start with.

7 Pot
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Trinidad Scorpion Cardi Yellow
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Douglah
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Yellow Bhut Jolokia
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There are also heaps of pics on my Facebook page Wildfire Chilli facebook
 
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megamoo said:
Nice photos, except the one of the catepillar. :hell: Some of your scorpions have rounded nubs not stingers, do they grow out pointy later? My lone trinidad scorpion plant is a tiny green stick with three sad looking leaves left.

The weather was nasty hot, but the heat has lingered on when it normally would be geting cold. Has that extended the production period from your experience? My first season so I wouldn't know. I noticed today one of my plants has just put out a mass of new buds.
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Thanks. Yeah that first strain of Scorpions mainly stays like that with the odd one having the stinger. They are a little bit bigger than the second strain I have just put pics up of and still extremely hot. I prefer the look of the second strain myself, more bumps and almost all of them consistently have stingers. Yeah a lot of my plants are sounding like yours too :( I had a big infestation of spidermites which completely defoliated my plants leaves. It was too hot for me to go outside and spray so they are pretty much gonners now.
I think that the season will go a bit longer than usual unless there is too much sharp differences in weather (cold temps and rain) but still doesn't make up for the fact that it was such a bad start.
If you keep your plants nice and warm when it starts getting cold you should still get some pods ripening at the start of winter. Last year I had some plants in pots under a patio that is surounded with metal fencing half way up and shade cloth the rest of the way with clear sheets on the roof. I was still getting pods in August believe it or not whilst the ones in the garden were sticks!
 
Nice pod porn Candice, sorry for you spider mites and hotter than normal weather but all your pods look great. In my mix bag of 7 Pods seed there were about an 80% of BS with some Jonahs also. The Scorpion #2 with the tail is very nice and I like how you can identify Naga Morich by the dark green tip the they get while ripening. Save some seeds from you favorite pods and do it all over again. Thanks for sharing.
 
megamoo said:
Nice photos, except the one of the catepillar. :hell: Some of your scorpions have rounded nubs not stingers, do they grow out pointy later? My lone trinidad scorpion plant is a tiny green stick with three sad looking leaves left.

The weather was nasty hot, but the heat has lingered on when it normally would be geting cold. Has that extended the production period from your experience? My first season so I wouldn't know. I noticed today one of my plants has just put out a mass of new buds.
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Your plants look really nice Candice. I really like those gnarly pointy red 7s.Hopefully you have a kinder season next one but you still did bloody well from the looks of it.
Not really Moo our season usually goes to mid May, The hot weather was pretty kind to me. .
 
Pepper Ridge Farm said:
Nice pod porn Candice, sorry for you spider mites and hotter than normal weather but all your pods look great. In my mix bag of 7 Pods seed there were about an 80% of BS with some Jonahs also. The Scorpion #2 with the tail is very nice and I like how you can identify Naga Morich by the dark green tip the they get while ripening. Save some seeds from you favorite pods and do it all over again. Thanks for sharing.
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Hi Cappy
Those Brain Strains are awesome. I really wanted to isolate some seeds and grow again next year but there is a suspected virus in the soil at the farm that killed a lot of my plants so don't really want to save any seeds in case it passes on the disease. I was thinking of taking some clones from the nice looking plants but not sure if they would still carry the disease also, I'm guessing they will?

Thanks everyone for your kind words, even though there are some nice pics I only got about 30kg of pods off 500 plants which is why I don't consider it to be a good season. Most of my plants at home I only got about one picking from and then they went to crap. But thats ok because it's hard doing all this stuff in the garden with a big pregnant belly so it has given me a bit of a break that I have needed :cool:
Still I'm happy I got to try a few new varieties this season. About to try a Goronong today which I'm looking forward to.
 
Here is the first lot of produce I got from the farm.
A big bowl of Nagas and Scorps. Can't find the pic of 7 Pots.
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Yesterday i picked up mainly Yellow Bhuts mixed with some Fatallis (can be a bit hard to tell what is what with some of them), Red Bhut and some Choc Bhut.
 
My sister in law just had a baby. She had a mild chilli dish at a restaurant. When she breast fed my new niece she thinks it must have passed on and the baby was crying and nuts for a day.

And talk about bad weather.... It's raining right now :cry: The extended summer is finally over! :tear:
 
sorry to hear about your season Candice,
you have some great looking pods in the end though,
I hope that this next coming season goes crazy for you
 
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