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SadisticPepper's (aka Elcap1999's) 2013/2014/2015 Oceanside glog update

Unfortunately, about half of the trays I had set up got shriveled up on account of a nasty wind storm drying them out. Oddly enough all the plants I had potted up already made it through without a problem, so I've spent the last couple of days redoing the ones I had seeds for, and the ones I didn't I just swapped them out with ones I recently got from PepperLover. Here's a couple pics:
 
Here's the trays I set out yesterday and today
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On the left (going top to bottom, I have Red Brain strains, Red Morugas and Yellow Morugas. The middle group is Chocolate Morugas, Red Bhuts and White Bhuts, and on the right is Purple Bhuts on one half, and orange bhuts on the other half of the first tray, and Red Butch T's on the 2nd tray
 
Here's a little color coded legend I put together to keep them all straight. The color for the chocolate moruga didn't quite come out too well in the printer.
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Great to see pods already this year.  Keep this pictures coming, as I need my pepper porn fix!   And good luck with the White Ghosts, last year I great some abd they grew a boatload of pods compared to many of my other plants.  I think only the congos out produced them.
 
bpwilly said:
Great to see pods already this year.  Keep this pictures coming, as I need my pepper porn fix!   And good luck with the White Ghosts, last year I great some abd they grew a boatload of pods compared to many of my other plants.  I think only the congos out produced them.
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smallzi said:
That's insane having pods in march.   It's going to be more than a month before i can even start hardening off.
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Thank you gents, and I just finished with putting the landscaping fabric over the area I'll be using for the majority of my pepper plants. Here's pics:
 
This when I was about halfway done...
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These two are the finished one. Each strip is 4 feet wide
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And here are pictures of my new seedlings:
 
Chocolate Morugas
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Red Butch T's
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White Bhuts
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Red Bhuts
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Red 7Pot Jonahs
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Overall shot
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Another Red Bhut
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Hey Cappy, well done on getting that back yard covered for the new seedlings your going to put there... Can't wait to see all that empty space full of lush green and full of pods...
 
Portuge said:
Hey Cappy, well done on getting that back yard covered for the new seedlings your going to put there... Can't wait to see all that empty space full of lush green and full of pods...
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I was pleasantly surprised by how little time it took. That whole area took me perhaps an hour, maybe an hour and a quarter? But yeah, it'll be plenty of space to do at least 120-150 plants. Chances are, I'll do 1/2 GPH drippers, but run them for a little longer than my 1 GPH drippers for the Morugas I'll currently have, especially since the in-line fertilizer connector I'll be using eventually, can handle, at most, 120 GPH of flow past the connector.
 
OCD Chilehead said:
Looks great. I can already visualize a field of peppers. I love glogs.
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Thank you!
 
sicman said:
you better give your mother a big hug,for letting you kill her fancy grass.    
 
 
everything is looking great.
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Thanks, sic! My mom's known my intentions for that area since before I even moved in, so it's not like she hasn't gotten fair warning about it :) That, and she loves gardening more than I do!
And just to give everyone perspective. Each "lane" (for lack of a better word) of fabric is 4 feet wide, so that area is just shy of 16 feet wide, since I overlapped each lane of fabric by an inch or two, and it's about 45 feet long :)
 
At long last, my first Moruga is ripening and changing color! If this one's changed color this fast, I can imagine the rest that are on the plants now should do their color change quickly in the next week or so :)
 
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Thanks gents :) I'm hopeful the rest will change color in the next few days, so I can finally sell them to several people who have been (very patiently) waiting!
 
Penny said:
That's great, hopefully it works out....again I love the space. ;)
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Thanks again :) I spent most of the morning/early afternoon placing 40 or so of the 5-gallon Home Depot buckets on top of the fabric as a decent wind undid the work overnight. They did a very good job of keeping it down despite the continued wind, and the stones I put in the buckets helped :) Plus, each bucket can handle a full 40-pound bag of topsoil and seeing as I'll eventually have at least 120 of them (possibly 150 if I space them correctly), you do the math.
 
And since the spigot is there in the back, I'll lay down the drip irrigation lines in the very near future, probably around the time I get the remainder of the buckets and the soil, but it'll cost me a pretty penny. All told, the whole setup will set me back (let me do the math here assuming 150 plants) just shy of a thousand dollars, but I figure it'll be well worth it, and by July or so, the first of the pods should be appearing on the plants :)
 
Ladies and gents, I present my first harvest of Moruga peppers. Thus far, the first ones to have ripened were my yellow Morugas, and took some pics. I had exactly enough for a SFRB of peppers, and Sm1nts2escape has been patiently waiting for a month to receive my first box, so the box goes to him :) After that is Brain Strain Chile Head, who gets the next batch of ripened peppers, which shouldn't be more than a couple weeks away at the most.
 
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OCD Chilehead said:
Congrats on the chiles. They look nice and healthy. Did you get a chance to try any yet? I miss warm weather.
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Thanks, but I'm sadistic, not crazy! Especially considering I've used liquid worm castings, as well as seaweed/fish emulsion, both of which several people on here swear by the fact it increases the already significant heat in these guys ;)
 
Thanks! And more pods are to come, since this was only a minority of the total peppers on the plants as a whole! With the number of peppers these plants are pushing out, I can only imagine how many the plants will be pushing out come June/July...
 
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