Meatfreak's 2017 Glog

PaulG · Jun 25, 2017

You have a little paradise in there, my friend!
All the plants, peppers and others, show the
results that stem from careful attention. The
sweet potato bed is amazing!

Well done!

Devv · Jun 25, 2017

meatfreak said:
Thanks, Paul

It's only a few degrees warmer in the winter then it is outside, glass greenhouse is a bit warmer. I don't use a heater but put in buckets of water that heat up during the day and give warmth at night. This last winter was pretty cold compared to the year's before but that didn't kill any of the veggies I was growing inside. If you got more questions feel free to send an PM and I will try to help out

The heatwave has stopped and its back to more normal temperatures.

Been picking of these huge buds from one of my BBG white pheno's

Salad Blue potatoes

Sweet potato bed

Perfection!

You got it down my friend! I've been looking at maps and it's pretty cold there compared to what I see

Great job!

meatfreak · Nov 3, 2017

Been a awful long time since I updated. Season was... good but overall just very busy. Anyway here are some harvest pictures of the stuff I've gotten from my crosses.

Guajillo

Marga

Purple Jalabanero Cross F-5

Bleeding White F-4 this variety will become available very soon.

12kg harvest

This season I grew sweet potatoes for the first time, very happy with the excellent yield and it was a rather low maintenance crop to grow. Average of 2.5kg a plant was more then expected. Total harvest of 22,4kg. They are now curing and if that works out great I will have much more plants next year.

stickman · Nov 3, 2017

Very cool Stefan, glad you had a good growing season! I hear ya 'bout being very busy. We have been here too.
Are those sweet potatoes the red-skinned, white-fleshed Asian variety? If so, I think I may give them a try next year. If you can grow them where you live, I should be able to grow them here. Cheers!

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Devv · Nov 3, 2017

+1 on 64. How come the older I get the busier I get?

Trident chilli · Nov 4, 2017

Great varieties Stefan .. what are the yellow Bonnet shaped pods sixth picture down if I may ask

Superhot Sim · Nov 4, 2017

Devv said:
+1 on 64. How come the older I get the busier I get?

Coz we played hard and now use our "yards" as our escape therapy [emoji6] gym, and as a food source Scott [emoji23][emoji23] . It only hurts when we stop buddy.... Am I right [emoji854][emoji854]

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meatfreak · Nov 6, 2017

stickman said:
Very cool Stefan, glad you had a good growing season! I hear ya 'bout being very busy. We have been here too.
Are those sweet potatoes the red-skinned, white-fleshed Asian variety? If so, I think I may give them a try next year. If you can grow them where you live, I should be able to grow them here. Cheers!

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Thanks, Rick. It was an very different growing season, wouldn't say good but everything was just much later ripe. Especially the peppers, which did came through in the end. Most important thing for me is to see as many possible variations on my crosses or finding the correct phenotype from previous generations again. The Pimenta Lisa seems to really be heading towards stability, finally!

Those are red-skinned potatoes indeed, but they are Orange inside, not white. It's an commercial variety that comes in Orange and White. Normally I like to grow my own plants but as I wasted my time on it last year I decided to buy them this time. Wanted to know how the grow would go and how good the yield would be. I did grow these in my polytunnel, not sure if they would've turned out so great if I grew them outside. Although they said it's also suited for outside grow in our climate. The variety is called "Erato Orange". Now that it was an success I plan on making my own slips for next year from the harvest I gotten. Think I will grow triple the amount as they don't require that much space and this year I also had peppers between them that worked just great. The vines do attempt to climb up the plants but you can guide them

Will grow some sweet potatoes plants outside as well then to see how big the difference will be. I would definitely give it a try next year, best to look up varieties that are more suited for our climate. Did you ever try to grow (dry) beans? I've really gotten into those as well since last season, love the diversity of them and you can get a good yield that you can eat during the winter period.

Devv said:
+1 on 64. How come the older I get the busier I get?

It's crazy right, the days just feel shorter :shocked:

Trident chilli said:
Great varieties Stefan .. what are the yellow Bonnet shaped pods sixth picture down if I may ask

Thanks John, those are actually not yellow but Peach. It's hard to almost impossible to get that color right on camera. It's an cross of mine, these are a new phenotype that showed up during the F-3 grow out so still very unstable. The white/cream ones above the Purple Jalabanero cross came from the same seeds. Funny how genetics works, turns out the color white and peach are very close in the genetics.