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contest Growdown Throwdown 2017 Aji Lemon Drop!
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PaulG
Extreme Member
Wow, lots going on here in contestville!
Good on all 'ya!
First, the good news...
Finally another round ripened up.
There are a number also starting to ripen.
145.375 gr.
Last total: 160.375 gr.
New total 305.75 gr.
Now the bad news. My competition plant has acquired some
kind of disease. Maybe i was overwatering with the cooler temps,
so dialed it back a bit.
See for yourselves. The pods get these 'lesions',
then fall off the plant. The ripe pods are unaffected.
Hoping that the return of more seasonal weather
might mitigate things a bit. Good growin', all!
Good on all 'ya!
First, the good news...
Finally another round ripened up.
There are a number also starting to ripen.
145.375 gr.
Last total: 160.375 gr.
New total 305.75 gr.
Now the bad news. My competition plant has acquired some
kind of disease. Maybe i was overwatering with the cooler temps,
so dialed it back a bit.
See for yourselves. The pods get these 'lesions',
then fall off the plant. The ripe pods are unaffected.
Hoping that the return of more seasonal weather
might mitigate things a bit. Good growin', all!
Pepper-Guru
Extreme Member
Try feeding with some type of balanced fert? A micronutrient dense solution. Something with some good calcium, magnesium, manganese, iron etc, hell, just feed it!PaulG said:Wow, lots going on here in contestville!
Good on all 'ya!
First, the good news...
Finally another round ripened up.
There are a number also starting to ripen.
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145.375 gr.
Last total: 160.375 gr.
New total 305.75 gr.
Now the bad news. My competition plant has acquired some
kind of disease. Maybe i was overwatering with the cooler temps,
so dialed it back a bit.
See for yourselves. The pods get these 'lesions',
then fall off the plant. The ripe pods are unaffected.
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Hoping that the return of more seasonal weather
might mitigate things a bit. Good growin', all!
PaulG said:
It's sad that these plants can't simply tug on your shirttail and ask for a 3-1-2 highball or a hot towel, ain't it? I have 40 plants total in one state of production or another, some actually overproducing, which is great. But I only have one doing this:
This is my competition plant, flowering, podding up, and discoloring merrily along. No lesions, but this "sunscald" can't be normal, or I'd have seen it on more of the lemon drops on these pages. Not one of my other pepper plants are showing this anomaly, and some/most of my others are getting more direct sunlight than this.
The moisture seen is the result of an all-night soaker.
...and not a single ripe pod yet.....
MarcV said:Finally my very first ripe lemon drop!That really took ages!
I ate it right after weighing it. Taste was great and it was much less hot than I expected. But I must admit that I removed seeds and placenta before eating it!
Hey hey! 9 grams officially in the books! Congrats! I'm still working on getting my first pod. Soon though....soon
Mike
MarcV
Extreme Member
Suddenly they all start to ripen! Here's another 39 grams for me, bringing the total to 59 grams!
The one next to the scale is an aji cito. They say aji cito is one of the hottest baccatums... I ate the first ripe one I got my hands on and found it only a little hotter than the lemon drop. Taste was similar too. Now I'm awaiting the ripening of my aji pineapples, so I can compare the taste with the lemon drop also
The one next to the scale is an aji cito. They say aji cito is one of the hottest baccatums... I ate the first ripe one I got my hands on and found it only a little hotter than the lemon drop. Taste was similar too. Now I'm awaiting the ripening of my aji pineapples, so I can compare the taste with the lemon drop also
JoeMay said:My lemon drops have the same coloration
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Still waiting on them to ripen up.
Grand total 0g
It's gotta be some kind of sunscald, Joe. My plant has been shedding leaves as well, leaving little cover for pods. If you have a lot of exposure it may be a thing to semi-shade your plant. I'm going to set mine slightly under the eaves of the house, maybe it'll trigger some ripening. This contest is one thing, but I want some good powder out of this too....
Pepper-Guru
Extreme Member
As my harvests continue, I'm noticing many more pods per harvest but they are increasingly smaller pods. Interesting.
It is sun burn, my lemon drops have it also. Its odd though, my Aji Citos do not. Last year i had very little sun burn pods on my lemon drops until late august. My CCN lemon drops seem to be suffering from it a more than the ones i grew from seeds.
Back from the woods, today maybe I'll pick some pods. Brutal storms while I was away and came home to tree limbs scattered all over the yard and a few luckily smaller ones in my pepper patches.
Getting time for pod picking and arrow sticking!
Getting time for pod picking and arrow sticking!