The Pacific Northwest GLOG 2014...CLOSED FOR THE 2014 SEASON

ColdSmoke · Jun 30, 2014

Excellent! Are you a fisherman?

Roguejim · Jun 30, 2014

ColdSmoke said:
Excellent! Are you a fisherman?

I've caught my share of chinook, and steelhead, but, it's been years. Now get some photos on here! :drooling:

ColdSmoke · Jun 30, 2014

I need to take some pics, I've been waiting for some warm weather! I need to get my drift boat down there and clobber some steelhead! Southern Oregon is awesome. I used to turkey hunt in your area too!

xBrianxEdge · Jun 30, 2014

Mine are no where near as good as yours, but here's a couple pictures of my plants:

Jalapenos:

Ghost pepper that I cut the top off of because it was flowering when it wasn't even 7 inches tall yet. Thinking it was a clone.

Pimento that should be flowering really soon:

Baby Bhut:

Red Caribbean habanero:

Scotch Bonnet that keeps dropping flowers for some reason.

Another habanero plant that's growing really weird:

Completely unrelated to the pepper forum, but this is my dog Belle

Blister · Jun 30, 2014

Well even though most of BC is far away from the coast, it's included so here I am! I've got a few plants growing in coco this year. I've concentrated on Bhut's, MoA's, Trinidad Scorpions and Cayenne's.

One of the Bhut's I have growing. Just put it into a Hempy bucket. I have 3 or 4 others in hempy's as well.

One of my Yellow Trinidad Scorpions

Biggest Yellow T. Scorpion

The smaller cayennes have just been potted up. I even have 3 ripening up.

Neil

Roguejim · Jun 30, 2014

xBrianxEdge said:
Mine are no where near as good as yours, but here's a couple pictures of my plants:

Jalapenos:

Ghost pepper that I cut the top off of because it was flowering when it wasn't even 7 inches tall yet. Thinking it was a clone.

Pimento that should be flowering really soon:

Baby Bhut:

Red Caribbean habanero:

Scotch Bonnet that keeps dropping flowers for some reason.

Another habanero plant that's growing really weird:

Completely unrelated to the pepper forum, but this is my dog Belle

Hey man. Those plants are a very healthy green. When does your season wind down? Does Belle ever fall asleep with the ball in her mouth? My dog, who is much smaller, falls asleep with a tennis ball in her yap. I'll get a photo up eventually. Thanks for jumping in here.

xBrianxEdge · Jun 30, 2014

Roguejim said:
Hey man. Those plants are a very healthy green. When does your season wind down? Does Belle ever fall asleep with the ball in her mouth? My dog, who is much smaller, falls asleep with a tennis ball in her yap. I'll get a photo up eventually. Thanks for jumping in here.

Oh thanks!
I actually don't know if it's even wound up yet as this is my first year living in the PNW and it's my first year actually GROWING anything haha. I moved up here from San Diego, which is pretty much good weather to grow anything all year round! Oh well though.

I like it up here much better!
Belle never falls asleep with the ball in her mouth, but let me tell you, it's IMPOSSIBLE to get that ball from her even though she wants me to throw it so bad! Heh. Hopefully more people get on this thread! Would you have any idea as to why my Scotch Bonnets are dropping their flowers? I can't even really see the fruit form, the flowers just open, then fall =/

Thanks!

Roguejim · Jun 30, 2014

Blister said:
Well even though most of BC is far away from the coast, it's included so here I am! I've got a few plants growing in coco this year. I've concentrated on Bhut's, MoA's, Trinidad Scorpions and Cayenne's.

One of the Bhut's I have growing. Just put it into a Hempy bucket. I have 3 or 4 others in hempy's as well.

One of my Yellow Trinidad Scorpions

Biggest Yellow T. Scorpion

The smaller cayennes have just been potted up. I even have 3 ripening up.

Neil

That bhut has bigger, and more pods than all my 4 bhuts, combined. How long does your season last? Never heard of Kokanee beer? Is it local? Thanks for joining this fledgling glog!

xBrianxEdge said:
Oh thanks!
I actually don't know if it's even wound up yet as this is my first year living in the PNW and it's my first year actually GROWING anything haha. I moved up here from San Diego, which is pretty much good weather to grow anything all year round! Oh well though. I like it up here much better!
Belle never falls asleep with the ball in her mouth, but let me tell you, it's IMPOSSIBLE to get that ball from her even though she wants me to throw it so bad! Heh. Hopefully more people get on this thread! Would you have any idea as to why my Scotch Bonnets are dropping their flowers? I can't even really see the fruit form, the flowers just open, then fall =/

Thanks!

I wish I had the answer. Mine all drop flowers at onetime or another, some more than others. If the plant is not producing pollen, the flowers drop. Apparently, too much nitrogen can cause it, as well as intense heat/sun. You might want to ask in the Growing subforum. That plant looks healthy, otherwise.

xBrianxEdge · Jun 30, 2014

Roguejim said:
I wish I had the answer. Mine all drop flowers at onetime or another, some more than others. If the plant is not producing pollen, the flowers drop. Apparently, too much nitrogen can cause it, as well as intense heat/sun. You might want to ask in the Growing subforum. That plant looks healthy, otherwise.

That's really weird. The only nitrogen I've given this plant was some fish fertilizer I got from a local nursery, and it's only 5-1-1 so it's not that bad at all...and that was a whiiiiiiiile ago...hm =/ Maybe I just got a dud or something.

Roguejim · Jun 30, 2014

xBrianxEdge said:
Oh thanks!
I actually don't know if it's even wound up yet as this is my first year living in the PNW and it's my first year actually GROWING anything haha. I moved up here from San Diego, which is pretty much good weather to grow anything all year round! Oh well though. I like it up here much better!
Belle never falls asleep with the ball in her mouth, but let me tell you, it's IMPOSSIBLE to get that ball from her even though she wants me to throw it so bad! Heh. Hopefully more people get on this thread! Would you have any idea as to why my Scotch Bonnets are dropping their flowers? I can't even really see the fruit form, the flowers just open, then fall =/

Thanks!

Oh yeah, I meant to say I used to fish out of San Diego for yellowtail, albacore...The best fishing I ever encountered. We used to go out of Fisherman's Landing, Point Loma...back in the 1980s. I'll always miss it. I grew up in southern Cal.

Blister · Jun 30, 2014

Roguejim said:
That bhut has bigger, and more pods than all my 4 bhuts, combined. How long does your season last? Never heard of Kokanee beer? Is it local? Thanks for joining this fledgling glog!

Thanks RJ! My season is about 90 days long and it starts about the middle of May. I had to start early in the year to get where I am today. I think it was around January-ish when I had started... for the second time.

I wouldn't call Kokanee a local beer. It's brewed in Creston BC with water from the Kokanee river. I tend to drink it because it's fairly cheap compared to the others. You could say that I'm a real 'discerning drinker'! I'm looking forward to seeing what other PNW growers are doing.

Neil

xBrianxEdge · Jun 30, 2014

Roguejim said:
Oh yeah, I meant to say I used to fish out of San Diego for yellowtail, albacore...The best fishing I ever encountered. We used to go out of Fisherman's Landing, Point Loma...back in the 1980s. I'll always miss it. I grew up in southern Cal.

Nice nice, the Navy brought me down there. I grew up in the Central Valley area in California. I'm glad we moved up here though! It's much nicer; the people and the weather (yes I said that! haha)

blorvak · Jun 30, 2014

Hey everyone! Thought I'd snap a few pics for the launch of this fine blog!

Here's the pepper plot:

The tomato plot:

The Triffids, also known as the hops:

And the everything else raised beds:

Hoping to get some good production this year! I'm a newbie at serious pepper growing, but have dabbled in the past.

Any of you NW folks thinking about putting up some shade cloth for tomorrow's forecast? Supposed to get to 99 in the PDX area. That's 25 degrees hotter than yesterday.

xBrianxEdge · Jun 30, 2014

blorvak said:
Hoping to get some good production this year! I'm a newbie at serious pepper growing, but have dabbled in the past.

Any of you NW folks thinking about putting up some shade cloth for tomorrow's forecast? Supposed to get to 99 in the PDX area. That's 25 degrees hotter than yesterday.

I don't think I'll be putting any up. If it gets unbearably hot and I start seeing signs of stress, then I'll move in to the shade. All my plants are in containers, so that's a huge advantage

Blister · Jun 30, 2014

This is another Jolokia plant I had in a 5" square pot. It too was spitting out the pods before I put it into a hempy bucket. It's got a bunch of buds on it now and I'm hoping that it'll continue to put pods on.

Same plant in a hempy bucket

Canopy of my largest yellow scorpion.

Pic of my grow room. I started out with a tiny foot stool and 12ish plants in 2" round pots. This is what it looked like the other day when I brought all my plants in from the high winds.

Neil

FGpepperguy · Jul 1, 2014

blorvak said:
Hey everyone! Thought I'd snap a few pics for the launch of this fine blog!

Here's the pepper plot:

The tomato plot:

The Triffids, also known as the hops:

And the everything else raised beds:

Hoping to get some good production this year! I'm a newbie at serious pepper growing, but have dabbled in the past.

Any of you NW folks thinking about putting up some shade cloth for tomorrow's forecast? Supposed to get to 99 in the PDX area. That's 25 degrees hotter than yesterday.

I had 4 hop plants, but took them out since I could never get the alpha/flavor to match what I could buy at the brew store. Mainbrew is the best brew store in the PDX area

No shade for me tomorrow.... all sun!

Roguejim · Jul 1, 2014

blorvak said:
Hey everyone! Thought I'd snap a few pics for the launch of this fine blog!

Here's the pepper plot:

The tomato plot:

The Triffids, also known as the hops:

And the everything else raised beds:

Hoping to get some good production this year! I'm a newbie at serious pepper growing, but have dabbled in the past.

Any of you NW folks thinking about putting up some shade cloth for tomorrow's forecast? Supposed to get to 99 in the PDX area. That's 25 degrees hotter than yesterday.

Ah! I was hoping you would show up here!! We are hitting 101F tomorrow. No shade cloth. I'm just too lazy, I guess. Temps drop down to 92F on Wed., and 90F by Thursday. So, what do you do with the hops? What variety?

Blister said:
Thanks RJ! My season is about 90 days long and it starts about the middle of May. I had to start early in the year to get where I am today. I think it was around January-ish when I had started... for the second time.

I wouldn't call Kokanee a local beer. It's brewed in Creston BC with water from the Kokanee river. I tend to drink it because it's fairly cheap compared to the others. You could say that I'm a real 'discerning drinker'! I'm looking forward to seeing what other PNW growers are doing.

Neil

Hey, I just noticed something...How many glogs are you running? I couldn't handle that many!

EDIT: Never mind me. I thought you had two other glogs, but, I see, just one. I'm losing my marbles.

Blister · Jul 1, 2014

Roguejim said:
Hey, I just noticed something...How many glogs are you running? I couldn't handle that many!

EDIT: Never mind me. I thought you had two other glogs, but, I see, just one. I'm losing my marbles.

No worries RJ. Of all the things I've lost, my mind is the one that I miss the most :lol:

Neil

FGpepperguy · Jul 1, 2014

Jim - thank you for starting this glog. I'm so pissed my photos are sideways. I will correct on my next post!

Here is my update for today. Took these pictures this evening so the light isn't very good. Gonna be a hot one tomorrow!

Aji Mystery (a seed ajijoe put in the package)