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Not much of a South Tejas GLOG

I'm not a glog guy, but I'm bored today.  I moved from beautiful Traverse City Michigan to sun burnt Corpus Christi Tejas in August 2017, never got anything to get growing. I bought a few bhuts from a store to overwinter them, but my wife convinced me to throw them away.  In February 2018 I tried to get some 5yr old saved seeds to germinate, but had zero ever come up.  So I bought a few from a local nursery and ordered a few online.  I put them into a mix of buckets, smart pots, and laundry baskets I bought at a garage sale for .25 cents a piece.  I rigged up a shade to cover my peppers and my wife's failure of a sunflower garden. I have bhuts in red and yellow, red Moruga, reapers, naglah brown, and chocolate bhutlahs. 
 
In the beginning: 
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Now:
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Everything is starting to really take off:
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Pods are setting:
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I'm not expecting much of a harvest until late September.  We've had some "cooler" weather the past few weeks, so that's why I think that a few pods have set. Most flowers are dropping as expected.  I water them around 7am and 7pm,  give them a bit of fish emulsion once a week.  So far, so good!
 
Cheers!
 
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Thanks! It's been a learning experience for sure. I learned that:  bigger air pots grow bigger plants 100%, that Morugas don't produce too much(at least year 1), that reapers WILL produce a lot, shade cloth is vital here, there is no such thing as too much water when it's hot, June to July no flowers will stick around no matter what,  and that the season/s here take timing and patience.  No peppers until October is something else for sure, but I predict I'll be getting peppers until almost January. 
 
2019 will be planted in December to go outside in Feb-March to try and get some production before it shuts off again in June-Oct. 
 
I haven't had as bad of weather as you have had, but this has been a cool & wet year for here. Not as much production as I expected.
 
Today it's raining peppers!
 
6 bowls!
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Front L-R: Golden ghost with some green ones from a fallen branch, and my biggest haul of Morugas.
Back L-R:  Reapers, mix of chocolate bhutlas and naglahs, and bhuts.
 
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Still a LOT left on the plants, and most are still flowering and setting!
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I guess every region/local has its own issues to deal with.
I wonder if there is anything such as a perfect growing zone.
Even in the best regions, there is always weather, bugs, fungus,
viruses, etc. As Anne Rosannadanna's uncle said. "It's always
something..."!
 
I'm impressed with the results you got despite the vagaries
of the weather. Beautiful pods and lots!  The plants also very
nice, even with rain, wind, heat   ;)
 
Wind is a constant here, so when it gets cold all of a sudden it shocks plants with windchill. Temps in the upper 40's and 30mph wind shocked most of my plants. They dropped all of their leaves and flowers. So with the actual "winter" coming, it was too little time to grow flowers and have them turn into ripe peppers :mope:
 
After many harvests, I now have gallon bags filled with reapers, chocolates, and bhuts.  I have a half gallon of the goldens, they are the last plant still doing well. I have a sandwich bag half full of teeny tiny Morugas, the one plant I had was a dud I guess?  
 
I have 4 little red rocotos growing in solo cups, and Jan 1st I'll be starting next year's plants. 
 
Here's where this year's glog is now:
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