Jobu's 2014 Grow: Update 11-8-2014 - It was a good season

Good morning All,
 
Here is my 2014 grow, coming to you from NY.
 
Seeds were started in Oasis horticubes, nutes were the Masterblend (check mhpgardener on youtube for more info).
 
180watt UFO LED and home-made CFL lighting rig ala Praxxis
 
4x4 sq, ft garden with plants spaced every 16 inches for a total of 9 plants. I did every 12 inches last year for 16 plants and everything was quite cramped.
The garden and containers are organic with;
Worm Castings
Composted Manure
Espoma Biotone Plus
Jobes Organic Plant and Veggie
Mykos at planting
 
Weekly feed with GH Floranova Bloom and GH Vitamino mixed with collected rainwater.
 
If the leaves look bubbly, I foliar feed with some CalMag Plus.  
 
 
Hydro Naglahs and two starter pots

 
Hydro 7 Pot Bubblegum

 
Plants from CCN for me and some other friends that grow.

 
Hydro 7 pot Bubblegum ready for transplant

 
Hydro Naglahs ready for the Garden and Containers after surviving the greenhouse flipping over

 
Garden was planted 6/1/2014. 
 
6/10/2014

 
6/18/2014

 
6/28/2014

 
7/5/2014

 
Some big leaves

 
Hydro Bubblegum filling out nicely.
http://i1321.photobucket.com/albums/u560/Jobu_Beer/2014%20Pepper%20Grow/10526071_500910090042561_5390258625040813414_n_zpsf314dca7.jpg

 

[Runescape]

Awesome pics, dude... Those things fuckin exploded lol...

 

[Trippa]

Awesome starts. Shows what a good starting root structure does for your plants once they settle into some good organic substrate!!. Very cool growth and plants ... nice work

 

[Jobu]

Thanks for the kind words.  The plants are starting to put out flowers. Here's the list of what's growing;
 
Pots
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Naglah 
Reaper 
Naglah 
7 pot Brown 
 
Sq.Ft. Garden L to R by Row
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Yellow Brain Strain, Naglah, Bubblegum 
SE Reaper, White Habanero, Bubblegum
Reaper, Naga Viper, Reaper
 
Cheers.

 

[Jobu]

Update 7-14-2014.  Flowers and some pods. Must be patient.
 
Update: 7-14-2014

 
Yellow Brain Strain Pods

 

 

[Jobu]

7-29-2014 Update. Lots of Pods and Flowers.  
 
Pepper Garden;

 
A few Reapers;

 
Lots of Yellow Brain Strains

 
Container Brown Naglah

 
Brown Naglahs

 

 

[Jobu]

So many Pods ready to pick (except for the Reapers).  Enjoy!
 
Yellow Brainstrain

 
Bubblegum Pods

 
One Red Bubblegum

 
Brown Naglahs

 
Dark Chocolate Fudge Stripe Naglah

 
Reapers

 
Not Just Peppers

 

[Jobu]

First batch picked.
 
Pepper Harvest

 
White bullet habs - this plant is dwarfed by a Reaper plant and a Bubblegum plant.

 

 

 

[Jobu]

Update for 9-12-2014
 
Square foot Garden

 
Bubblegum

 
Yellow Brainstrain

 
Naga Viper

 
Reaper

 
Brown Naglah - Container

 
Some pods harvested before dark

 

 

[Jobu]

Lots more to pick!
 
Square foot garden

 
Reaper unknown pheno

 
Bhuts - container grow.

 

 

[Devv]

Nice grow Jobu!
 
What part of LI? I was born and raised there...

 

[Jobu]

Nice grow Jobu!
 
What part of LI? I was born and raised there...

 
Hey Devv,
 
Suffolk County, Islandia/Hauppauge/Smithtown area. Cheers!

 

[Spicegeist]

First batch picked.
 
Pepper Harvest

 

 
 

 
 
Love how dark these brown pods look... what are they?

 

[Jobu]

Hi Spicegeist,
 
Those brown pods are Brown Naglahs (Naga jolokia x Douglah), seeds from Buckeye Pepper Co.  You could say they are a cousin to the bhutlah.  Cheers!

 

[Devv]

You did really well this season, congratulations!
 
Me, Smithtown, Saint James area by the old East High School.

 

[Jobu]

Naga Viper

 
Reaper

 
Yellow Brain

 

[dlsolo]

Great grow!!  So, for your square foot garden, would you do it again?  Same size? Or would you entertain Two Foot Square garden?  Just wondering if you thought they grew too close to each other.
 
Nonetheless, those Yellow Brains look fantastic!

 

[Jobu]

Disolo,
 
Thanks for the compliments.  This is the second year I have done the square foot garden (it's a 4 x4) and will do it again next year. First year I did 16 plants, this year I did 9 plants and the spacing was much better.  For my needs, One garden is enough and maybe supplement with a container or two if so desired.  Cheers.  

 

[slade122]

I'm using the same beds as you, but I stacked mine double height. This was my second year using it, and it has only improved with time.
 
Great grow, you really got a decent amount of peppers from 16 square feet! I generally plot my 4x4 beds in a 3x3 planting format like you did this year with most of my larger crops.
 
I found 4x4 planting is too dense for most crops for me as well, although with broccoli it seems to be working out fine.

 

[Jobu]

Hey Slade122,
 
Indeed, this was my second year with the raised bed. Amazed at the results.  No room in the freezers, made at least a gallon of mash, mostly from peppers and the dehydrator has been working overtime.  Cheers.