JoynersHotPeppers 2013 GLOG

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 15, 2013

I also like to make sure the flavor and color remain intact so having an accurate temperature control is very important. Between the wife and I we go through one of our 1/2 ounce jars monthly!

PeriPeri · Sep 15, 2013

Incredible glog! Really loving the plants and pods and variety... heck, everything lol Nice one!

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 16, 2013

PeriPeri said:
Incredible glog! Really loving the plants and pods and variety... heck, everything lol Nice one!

Thanks PP, as you know it is a lot of work and I have been very blessed to be so lucky this year taking into consideration the craziest weather I recall on the East Coast in decades.

wahlee76 · Sep 16, 2013

Those are great harvests again. Tasty, colourful an dangerous

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 16, 2013

wahlee76 said:
Those are great harvests again. Tasty, colourful an dangerous

Agreed, the hottest will get plucked today and I'll do an overall shot. Season will quickly be coming to and end so I am happy with decent harvests still! Thanks for stopping by.

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 16, 2013

Couple plant and pod shots from harvesting time today.

Mainly all Thai peppers in this area.

All pepper square foot garden - must be 500 pods in there!

Trinidad Scorpion Yellow Cardi

Trinidad Scorpion Yellow

Infinity Monster

7 Pot Red

7 Pot White

Billy Boy Douglah Yellow

Scotch Bonnet Red

Noah Yates · Sep 16, 2013

Pardon me... but without me having to go through the whole glog, I would like to know what your fertilization routine is... including the soil amendments you add. Would you be so kind as to reveal? :pray:

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 16, 2013

Bhut Jolokia Caramel

Bhut Jolokia Chocolate

Tabasco

Other square foot garden

Bhut Jolokia Red

Jay's Ghost Scorpion Red

Noah Yates said:
Pardon me... but without me having to go through the whole glog, I would like to know what your fertilization routine is... including the soil amendments you add. Would you be so kind as to reveal?

Let me know if you can see this album on FB.

https://www.facebook.com/chris.joyner.3994/media_set?set=a.4596230468171.1073741827.1364504895&type=3

Noah Yates · Sep 16, 2013

I can XD It looks like you do a great job of amending the soil. So do you give any other nutrients through the grow... or do you just provide water until the end?

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 16, 2013

Noah Yates said:
I can XD It looks like you do a great job of amending the soil. So do you give any other nutrients through the grow... or do you just provide water until the end?

Until recently I had only watered twice all year due to crazy amounts of rain. I sprayed twice all year with fish fert and recently as in yesterday with CalMag. I think the original soil is the main reason for the success. My other in-ground areas I use all the compost we collect throughout the year in 2 55 gallon bends. I also amended with fast acting lime and crab shell.
Carolina Reaper

Sun is brutal now and for last 2 weeks.

Chiltepin Amarillo

Bahamian Goat

Billy Boy Jonah

Mostly C.chinense haul

wahlee76 · Sep 16, 2013

Your update keeps amazing me. Is the climate in Delaware that good, or more the nutrients and soil? As you just mentioned, you've had a lot of rain. You're a bit more south than we are in the Netherlands, but the difference in plants is huge!

Jeff H · Sep 16, 2013

The sq.ft. garden of chinenses is huge. What are your thoughts on repeating that next year? As huge as the plants are, I would think they could be bigger if given more space. What do you think?

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 16, 2013

Jeff H said:
The sq.ft. garden of chinenses is huge. What are your thoughts on repeating that next year? As huge as the plants are, I would think they could be bigger if given more space. What do you think?

I am going to switch the 2 next year, the 8 * 4 will be all super hots and the 4 * 4 will be things we eat including a few peppers. I think the fact the space is so tight forced them to grow massive and reach and fight for sun. I also have a wind tunnel in my back yard so having them close together is actually a huge help. If everything in the 4 * 4 gets to ripen, the yield will have made it worth while for sure!

wahlee76 said:
Your update keeps amazing me. Is the climate in Delaware that good, or more the nutrients and soil? As you just mentioned, you've had a lot of rain. You're a bit more south than we are in the Netherlands, but the difference in plants is huge!

We have a pretty good growing climate in DE and this was just an off year, hard to tell by the plants however!

Noah Yates · Sep 16, 2013

Yeah... if you feed the soil... water will take care of the rest. I plan to amend the soil this fall so that my plants will only need to be fed supplementary nutrients a few times next season. Currently I have 350+ gallons of home-made worm castings and approximately the same volume worth of "hot" compost to till into the soil along with gypsum, dolomite, azomite, various organic meals, and microbiota. I will then cover the entire garden with 6 inches of tree leaves. Throughout the winter I will probably continue to add mulch and leaves to the surface, occasionally spraying fish fertilizer onto the leaves/mulch to aid in the composting process that will be taking place.

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 16, 2013

Noah Yates said:
Yeah... if you feed the soil... water will take care of the rest. I plan to amend the soil this fall so that my plants will only need to be fed a few times next season. Currently I have 350+ gallons of home-made worm castings and approximately the same volume worth of "hot" compost to till into the soil along with gypsum, dolomite, azomite, various organic meals, and microbiotics. I will then cover the entire garden with 6 inches of tree leaves. Throughout the winter I will probably continue to add mulch and leaves to the surface, occasionally spraying fish fertilizer onto the leaves/mulch to aid in the composting process that will be taking place.

All sounds great. I was and am very pleased with the test results of shoving 16 plants into such a small space. Some of the pods I am pulling from there are massive as well. A few will be sent out for review soon, looking forward to an Infinity Monster and Trinidad Scorpion Yellow ripening.

Noah Yates · Sep 16, 2013

Lol... it is amazing how well peppers can do when crowded in together. Even before I really knew a quarter of what I know now about pepper cultivation, we had grown cayennes and jalapenos with great success. I would grow the plants very close to each other in rows... We pretty much determined that peppers love to support each other. Solitary plants, which, theoretically, should receive more sun, and are staked, dont seem to be as happy as plants that are positioned in in "interlocking rows."

108Mob · Sep 16, 2013

Nice just Nice ! those amirillos sure are nice

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 16, 2013

OMG - I just found this in my square foot garden - It belongs to the Billy Boy Douglah Yellow

Spicegeist · Sep 16, 2013

Very freaky!

Devv · Sep 16, 2013

Now that's a happy plant!

Tried to go to the facebook link, but I don't have an account. So it hates me ..LOL

Anyways, great grow this year! I sure hope the season lasts long enough for all of them to ripen.