Polarbearforge 2011 grow log

Avon Barksdale · Feb 23, 2011

are those alpacas?

Avon Barksdale · Feb 23, 2011

oh, and nice grow list. :cool:

muskymojo · Feb 23, 2011

Nice list and good looking setup. Those fertilizer machines should produce plenty!

polarbearforge · Feb 23, 2011

Avon Barksdale said:
are those alpacas?

Four of them are alpacas. The brown and white one is a llama.

Jamie

Avon Barksdale · Feb 23, 2011

polarbearforge said:
Four of them are alpacas. The brown and white one is a llama.

Jamie

They are some nice looking animals, do you sell the fur?

logchief · Feb 23, 2011

Nice list there PBear. Wife looked over the shoulder and saw the Alpacas and started in. She dearly wants a couple of them, but we need place with some land, which is in the cards

EatingOutFresno · Feb 24, 2011

polarbearforge said:
amish bush

Heh

polarbearforge · Feb 24, 2011

Avon Barksdale said:
They are some nice looking animals, do you sell the fur?

Thanks! We have sold the fibre before. Alot of it is used here at home. It's spun up and knitted into hats and socks and things.

Jamie

polarbearforge · Apr 9, 2011

So I haven't been good about updating my growlog.

Here are a few pictures from 3/23, just 2 monthes after I first started my seeds.

I usually have the lights closer, but I was in the process of rearranging. Some of them are over 2 feet tall at this point. I've had to pinch off many buds and flowers so far. I had to remove a few light bulbs to free some plants, they had grown up and around the bulb in the fixture!

They are getting a bit big for either seed starting shelf.

Jamie

RedtailForester · Apr 9, 2011

Very nice looking set-up! You babies look like they are kicking the proverbial buttocks!!!!!

polarbearforge · May 15, 2011

So my beans, I mean my peppers have been growing rather well

These are the smallest ones. They were usually the ones I found shaded from the other taller plants.

These are part of the ones I'm keeping for myself. I'll be trimming them down a bit or they won't survive the wind we get here. Some of them are over 36 inches tall.

These are allocated to people who wanted some plants. Once again, some tall ones in there.

I've removed about half of the peppers that where there. It was quite a dense clump of plants.

Another dense clump of plants. Some of them are knocked over at the time of the picture. I was pulling a few more out.

A couple plants have fully developed peppers on them. In the process of pulling them out of the shelves, I discovered a few wasps flying about. Hopefully I'll be able to get most of them hardened off this week and into the ground this weekend, although I still have some tilling to get done first.

Jamie

Yaotzin · May 16, 2011

You got some cool varieties growing there man!! Nova is sending me a few Barrackpore seeds which may have to grow one or two of late in the season!! cant wait :dance:

polarbearforge · May 30, 2011

So due to schedule and weather delays, I finally got about half of the plants in this weekend. It's been nice and calm (well, calm for us) the past few days. So last night the wind comes up. It's been 25-30 mph winds since then. My poor plants are getting whipped about, even though they are somewhat sheltered. I'm really glad I stake them upright. I always hate this part of planting.

Jamie

Dot Com · May 30, 2011

The only grow-space I have outdoors is prone to high winds too. Maddening!!!

polarbearforge · Jun 19, 2011

So after the whipping winds, we had cold weather, followed by record highs. Everything seems to have pulled through.

This is a picture of the gardens. Each of the three square plots have 25 pepper plants. The fourth square is filled with dye plants(weld, woad, lady's bedstraw) and will be allocated for peppers or other garden veggies/fruits next year. Once they go to seed this year, they'll be harvested and setup in a different location. The red solo cups are temporary name markers. Each support has a small metal plate screwed onto the back with the name of the pepper etched into it.

These are my overflow peppers. If the dye garden is cleared out soon enough, I'll probably move some of these.

I am trying grow bags for the first time. We'll see how they do for me. I decided to try them after going through several other options. The materials to make them cost less than $.50 per bag. It just took me a little time to develop a pattern that was the right size, cut out the pieces, and then sew them. If they didn't bulge at all, each bag would be approximately 1/2 cubic foot. For reference, a standard 5 gallon bucket is .668 cubic feet.

An almost ripe super chili. The fruits were already forming when I transplanted it into the garden.

An almost ripe cherry bomb. Once again, the fruits were already forming when I transplanted it into the garden.

The strongs winds ended up breaking off a lot of leaves. This poor plant (assam) had all but one leaf torn off. There's plenty of good new growth.

Thanks for looking!

Jamie

Dot Com · Jun 19, 2011

Coming along nicely. I like the grow-bags too.

SRBII · Jun 20, 2011

Looking good
Way to go on making your own growbags very nice.
:cheers: