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seacowboy 2014

Getting a late start on the glog here as was the case with starting my seeds as well.  Definetly learned a lot from last year and have tried to use that to make things better for this year, minus the later than planned start I am optimistic with how things are looking right now.  Just like last year I will be using my backyard garden for in ground plants along with some air pots and bags, then another batch of plants will be down at my hunting camp.  Differences for this year are using all Pro Mix HP in containers along with digging out each hole for all the in ground plants with a post hole digger to about 12" deep and mixing that in to the soil. Here at the house I have done away with other veggies since the deer demolished them just as they were getting good so its just going to be peppers, onions and corn here with ironically all the other stuff the deer love down at my hunting camp but they have so far (knock on wood) left our garden alone and just mow down the other farmers soy beans once they go in the ground.  Soil at the house was amended with 100 lbs of lime and 40 lbs of 10-10-10 and tilled in back in the fall then tilled again before planting out.
 
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Have quite the variety in the list this year from getting lots of pods for members here and ordering a few seeds from different places.  This is what I have and in no particular order, some are singles but overall I had good germ rates and only lost a couple to damping off while I was gone, all were seeded in groups of 4 starters with several seeds per when numbers allowed with thinning happening once things popped up and survived.  Soaked 2 trays in Myco Blast for 24 hours and another tray I did not soak for comparison, very easy to see the difference it made.  Had 2 mistakes with labeling so there are going to be a few Mystery plants too.
 
Red Brainstrain                           Yellow Brainstrain                     Yellow Fatalii                      Red Fatalii                  Fatalii x Cleos Dragon
7 Pod Red Large                         7 Pod Yellow Congo SR           Primos                               Jonah                          Infinity
Fish                                             Goat                                          Douglah                             Scotch Bonnet            MOA
Chocolate Hand Grenade           Manzano                                   Brown Trinidad Scorpion  Chocolate Habenero   Serrano
Red Douglah                               Tepin                                         Bubble Gum                      Yellow Bhut                 Peach Bhut
Jalepeno                                     Jay's Peach Ghost Scorpion    Chocolate TS x Butch T    Datil                            Brad's Bahamian
Madballz                                     Carbon Bhut                             Trinidad Scorpion              Peach TS                    Douglah x Trinidad Scropion
 
Seeds started on 3/12/14
 
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Have 45 plants here with room for another 11.  Used 3' spacing on each in the row and 3.5' between rows with them offset to give a bit more space, if and when I need to I will trim to keep room to walk the rows. No topping or pruning has been done so far since they haven't gotten big enough, would have liked to have done that but with my late start it is what it is and they had to go in the ground before I returned to work for my next 21 day rotation. These went in 4/25 and were given a healthy dose of Fish/Seaweed Fertilizer, Myco Blast, Soil Blast and Humic Acid once they went in and are not showing any signs of transplant shock, a little sun burn on a few but overall the plant out seems to have gone great.
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13 Pots so far and they already look like they are doing better than the in ground stuff and it hasn't even been a week.  Have a few more pots to add as the seedlings get bigger and I harden them off later in May when I am back home.
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The row on the right is the pepper plants, 32 planted in there again with 3' spacing on each side, with a row of sunflowers planted to the right.  On the left is 50 some tomato plants, then a few rows of potatoes left of that with beets between those rows and 2 rows of onions on the far left, squash, cucs, watermelon are planted on the far right, with several rows of beans planted in side garden.
 
So thats about it, will get updates from the wife while I'm gone and a friend down at the hunting camp to see how things are going there.  Wishing everyone lots of luck with their grow and if anyone wants to swap some seeds from the above listed plants I can let you know if I have extras.
 
pier_man0909 said:
pretty work man.  thats a real nice looking bbg there.
Lucky for you hooked me up with these plants.

Made it down for some pepper picking and jungle clearing, I mean potato digging. Wound up with a pretty good pull. Taming the over growth tapped out the fun meter long ago. Next year were going
to try one of those pre-emergent weed and grass killers, I will also be using a weed cloth over the areas with the peppers for good measure. Pretty sure the plants would have done a lot better without the competition and stealing of the nutrients. The potato patch has chest high grass and weeds that makes finding the rows bad enough but digging them is a constant fight. Dude next door has been too lazy to bush hog it even though he used tractor yesterday right across the street he didn't take the 5 mins to do 3 maybe 4 passes to get it somewhat cleaned up, can't wait for the chigger bites to start showing up.

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A few plants showed quite a bit of variation in pods, will grow out a few of each for next to see what comes up then. Not a bad pick, grabbed a good many that weren't quite ripe but will let turn while tucked into paper bag with other ripe ones for a few days. Managed almost 2 bushels of red taters and a few more than 3 dozen ears of sweet corn.



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Great harvest Jason,
 
Great varieties on the peppers and nice turnout on the taters, weve been planting those for a few years now and the kids love diggin em up. Looks like taters and corn for dinner what time should I show up..haha.
 
Meant to ask you who waters at the camp or do you have on drip system?
 
Should have a surprize in the mail tomorrow! 
 
Come on over! 
 
Actually no one waters the garden, wish I could put a drip system in but our hand dug well is about 25 yrs past its usefulness, get just enough if were lucky during the winter for everyone to use the head and maybe shower every couple days. Nice huh?  Other guys won't pony up the money to have a new one dug, but fortunately so far knock on wood we haven't had any issues.
 
Got my ghetto shade cloth up in what seems like just in time if the weather is going to finally give us the normal mid to upper 90's that are common during August and September. So far though it has been quite a mild summer.
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No ripe pods on this Brown Moruga, found several this morning that should start turning soon along with the this node. 
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See if they all stick.
 
Had a good morning picking pods, about 3 gals worth with more to get later on when it cools down.
 
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Found this shapely pod while processing pods for sauce, supposed to be a Red Fatalii, came out bubbly and had a stinger too.
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Made up 4 separate mashes; small batch @ 1 gal of Sriracha style sauce that will get bottled  later tonight, 2 gals of Chocolate TS, Kraken Scorpions, Jamacian Hot Chocolates and a few Douglahs with Black Cherries and few Sweet taters, 4 gals of a MOA, lemongrass and carrots and 5 gals of mix peppers and Peaches.  Give them a couple months and see how they turn out.
 
Thank you guys. Glad things have come together so well this year, just hope it holds for a bit longer. Hearing lots of doom and gloom about our winter coming with lots of snow and lower temps than last year. Maybe it will be short lived and let the plants keep cranking pods out for at least another month or so.

Still feel I was late in my start this year so I need to get into prep mode on getting things going earlier for next year. Will continue on with more soil prep and revamp my organic mix for my pots in the off season that has already made a noticeable difference. Can really tell between in pots which were amended and the ones that were not.

Again thanks for checking in.
 
Devv said:
One can never feed the soil enough ;)
 
You will be rewarded for your efforts!
Roger that. Think I may shut it down a little earlier than planned this year to get a cover crop in and started before the temps drop. See if its not to late with what their forecasting for an early and bitter cold winter. Will give it till the middle of October then start pulling plants out of the garden and let the pods go as long as possible. Last year I made it till the start of November before the plants start showing the effects of some cold nights. Will strip plants and hang them to get as many pods to ripen once they are hacked down.
 
All of mine except 3 plants have been pulled, mulch added and Crimson Clover was planted this last Friday. Been keeping it wet and hoping for a nice cover crop. Once the clover gets a foothold I'll hit it with some rye seed, and maybe some oats. Then till it in and plant again, hoping I have the time for all of that!
 
Temps are already dropping back at the house but you wouldn't think it being down here on the Gulf. Been roasting between New Orleans and Tampa the last week. See if temps stay high enough to get the a cover crop in this year or not.
The picking continues even in my absence. Pierman swung by Friday and picked @ 3 gals worth, the Sunday my wife took advantage of the cooler temps and picked 5 gals of peppers to go in the freezer for sauce and powder. Proud and very thankful she has helped out so much.



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I bet that picture sure brought a smile to the boat.  Good to see your season continuing, I'm sure you will still have time to plant that cover crop your planning.  Have you decided what crop to go with? I'm assumig your just doing the cover crop at the house and not the camp? Keep the pics coming Jason and stay safe out there buddy
 
Nice haul Jason, and it's great when the wife takes an interest. If it wasn't for my wife the garden would look horrible. She does all the weeding (she can still squat).
 
Still hot down here but no longer 100's, we're seeing 90-91° lately, and next week 80's. That WILL be welcome!
 
Around here if it's dry early and we then get some rains they flip from Oats to Winter Wheat. They say they germ better when it's cooler. I used to hunt on a ranch where the owner planted 10,000 acres (different ranches) in Oats. Normally  they would complete planting around today. If they did a December Wheat planting, the temps would range from mid 20's on up.
 
I'm thinking you'll be OK if you get things going before long.
 
Have a great week!
 
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