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OF1's 2014 grow.

SO after losing all my overwinter pepper plants from the last few years it has been a rebuild year. My grow list is the best assortment this year as it has ever been and the plants are thriving so far.
 
Grow list as of now
 
chinense
3 7pot bubblegum
3 7pot yellow
1 7pot primo
2 reaper
3 jigsaw  (baker pepper)
2 moruga scorpion chocolate
2 fatalii
3 bhut jolokia 
1 habanero hot
3 habanero ?
1 Cheiro
1 peruvian serlano
2 wild brazil
 
baccatuum
1 inca surprise
2 lemon drop
 
frutescens
2 tabasco
 
annuum
1 piquin lg black
2 serrano
1 thai hot
2 yellow pepper from mexico
 
other species
2 cobincho  (exile)
 
Most of my grow is going on in pots and in greenhouse so long season here in the northwest for me. Have a few trays of seed starting right now so list will grow more still.
 
 
 
 
Here are a few pictures of my peppers. After much thought I am using a fert mix of bat and seabird guano, kelp meal, worm castings and other goodies for the soil/plants.
 
bubblegum
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Primo
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Jigsaw   (bakers peppers)
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Reaper  ( bakers peppers)
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One of these first 4 plants pictured above will be given away as a prize at our northwest chili fest this sept. I will continue to post update pics of them as they grow out.
 
Here is a picture of some of my plants starting to bloom and set pods.
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Some of the young plants from ChilePlants.com
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one of my bhuts
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Here is a lemon drop
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onefowl1 said:
 
Here is a over two foot thai chili loading up on pods as it keeps flowering. Notice the four fused pod forming in center of cluster.
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That's pretty knarly....
 
Here are a few more pics showing growth of plants.
Bhut both the top and the bottom growth of the plant. In a #7 squat pot I believe and at this rate will need to be potted up to a larger pot like maybe a #15. Both the top of the main stem and the bottom growth are about 2 ft wide and hogging the other plants out.
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So here are the two newly potted about two weeks ago peppers that kicked off my glog three days ago to show growth in the timeframe. The Primo was topped during shipping to me by my guess rough postal handling but all is good. The BBG7pot is stretching its stem between nodes even on the growth from before I had it and potted it up.
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Here are better pics of some pods on my plants.
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And a not so clear shot from a young Fatalii plants first pod. I only let the one plant of my two set one fruit and picked the rest to let them grow more first. Just about three days since flower petal drop.
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Here is a shot of my new round of seeds started, Got to love having a yr round heated greenhouse for the winter time.
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Primo update.
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BBG7 from the top view then side.
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cobincho  (exile) with first pods
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A bakers peppers Jigsaw fatalii. when I got these a few weeks back they were like 4 to 6 inches tall but are growing like mad.
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and here is a reaper from bakers peppers as well, only time will tell if they are what they are supposed to be.
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This is a large black piquin from chiliplants.com
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This is a new flower on a pepper gave to me as a Boonie pepper. It is still a yellow flower like the flowers that were on it when I got it.
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Here is an update of a thai mutant pod I have on a plant.
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Here is a non pepper plant in flower that I grew this year. It is a double butterfly pea and yes it lives at the bar at the nursery.
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Here are a few more pics to share with you all.
 
First are of my two serrano plants currently my tallest pepper plants right now and the tallest serranos i have ever had.
Tallest is just about 45 inches tallest branch that sprang up this last week.
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Second plant is sitting at 32 inches tall.
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Top view of one.
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My thai hot at 32 inches.
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I had under guessed all three of these plants until I checked them with a tape. 
 
Here are some of my first pods forming on my plants now.
Fatalii
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First ghost pepper pods setting.
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Super chili
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Unknown habanero had three of these and kept two. All were about three feet tall.
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mutant thai pod still growing.
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Pod updates.
chenzo pods
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A unknown pepper from a friend brought from his family home in Mexico. supposed to be a yellow pod but we should know soon enough.
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Thai dragon
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super chili ripening 
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tall unknown hab pods starting to color
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unknown hab pods
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orange hab pods getting very good sized in the greenhouse.
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Ghost pod
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Fatalii pods
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My first bubblegum 7pot pod forming
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Yes I am lucky as between greenhouses and hoop houses we are about 8,000 sq feet of growing space but as of now only about 600 sq ft is open for my peppers.
 
onefowl1 said:
Yes I am lucky as between greenhouses and hoop houses we are about 8,000 sq feet of growing space but as of now only about 600 sq ft is open for my peppers.
 
Add me to the envy list!  Great progress you've got going.  You've got a few unknowns growing.  Those should be fun to experience.
 
dlsolo said:
 
Add me to the envy list!  Great progress you've got going.  You've got a few unknowns growing.  Those should be fun to experience.
Yes unknown only in variety though not in pepper. I was hoping the really tall habs would be something other than orange but in just 24 hrs bam two ripe bright clear orange pods, will pull them tomorrow night after work and try them. The unknown from Mexico via a friend who works with me is a yellow frutescens of some type, few more weeks and I should be able to taste this one also.
 
As far as the greenhouse grow it has its own challenges to pull off. For example with the high temps getting some of the peppers to set pods and not be pollen sterile, watering daily deeply and some days a second watering lightly to offset moisture loss due to temps and airflow , those damn spider mites ( though it has been only two plants that got it the worst). Also at the rate it is going I will run out of available room as my plants keep growing. I just last week doubled their space out from each other and already some are touching each other again.
My biggest no pun intended growth in growing peppers this year was not the greenhouses but the using of bat and seabird guano. I have grown in smaller greenhouses before for at least part of the season but have never used these guano's. All my plants are shooting past in all ways anything I have had before. I cringed at the prices of good guano in the amounts I needed at first but now think why have I not used it before. Others who have come to the nursery have went away with the clear thought of buying and using it themselves now with the things they grow. I had but now have converted the remaining plants ones being grown with chemical ferts and others with other organic ferts side by side with my guano plants. After just a few weeks my guano plants were twice as big as the other organic plants and almost four times that of the non organic fert plants. 
 
Here are some pics to show what I mean and remember even though they are in a greenhouse I am in western washington.
Jigsaw fatalii from Bakers peppers
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Reaper again another from Bakers peppers
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Beautiful plants!! I wish I could make it out to the NW fest. I'm over in spokane. Maybe next year.
That mutant Thai is really cool and interesting
 
Hello all the peppers are producing well and I have loads of pics to share but being on a tablet mostly is making it hard to. I finally got photobucket working right with the tablet, just need to figure how to post with pics from the tablet now.
 
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