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Bike808 getting Dirty in Jersey

Well, it's that time of year where old fashioned folks are making resolutions, and I want to resolve to work on my GLOG consistently in 2019. 2018 was a great year, despite some considerable setbacks. I managed to grow far more chiles than I could ever hope to eat, so I gave tons away. In the end, a few disappointments aside, it was an overall successful season.

The same cannot be said for my GLOG. I neglected the fark out of my 2018 GLOG. This year, I want to post at least once a week, no matter what.

At this point, I don't want to post lists or anything because I have a herculean season ahead of me. See, I intend to overhaul my yard, build some beds, order up some topsoil and compost to fill then, amend the soil with all kinds of other Bullshit, and have all that done before it's time to plant out. Of course, before then, I'll need to have started all my plants and I'll need to know what I'm looking at in terms of density and (dis)organization. Hmmmph.

But, long story short, I'm learning from past mistakes. Only using the right kind seed starting soil. Going to be more diligent with my seeds as I sow them, to avoid leggy-azz seedlings. Harden off early but slowly, and methodically. Try to figure out fertilizers, and maybe develop and enact a strategy as far as that goes, rather than randomly dumping Alaska Fish Ferts on my plants whenever the whim hits me. In summary, take another step towards becoming a real gardener.

So, yeah, I plan on planting less densely this year, so I need to figure some shit out, but a GLOG ain't a GLOG if the first post doesn't include some name-dropping as far as intended varieties. This year will be my usual: far too many Yella Bonnets, a bit too many red, orange, and chocolate Bonnets, various Superhots of the Seven Pot and Ghost/Naga groups, some low heat Habs, many Jalapeños (strictly Zapotec this year), mild to mid Mexican kitchen staples, random other shit, and I have some baccatums to try out this year. (I bought a Bishop's Crown plant from CCN in 2018 and I'm stoked to try others now...)

Oh, and Fataliis. Plenty of those little yellow treasures. The best.

Thanks for reading. Oh, and if anyone wants to be my accountabili-buddy on this one, i'd appreciate it. Just making reminders in case I neglect my GLOG again, LOL...

-rob
 
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You don’t need to put weed blocker fabric down under your raised beds.
I have 2 RB one had weed blocker the other one no weed blocker. There was not any difference in the amount of weeds in either bed. But the bed with weed blocker didn’t have any worms or night crawlers in it, the bed without blocker had plenty of crawlers and worms. I tore out the weed blocker and worms and crawlers started to show up.


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Bicycle808 said:
Thanks for the encouragement, internationalfish and sleeper67. Despite my traffic results with Fataliis and a few late/slow starts, I am light years ahead of where I was these past two seasons. I'm feeling fairly optimistic.

I have no worries as far as getting rid of my exes culls. I have one friend who is on tour now and won't be back until plant-out time anyway. He wants to start growing, but being out of town for two months, he couldn't start seeds... So the plan is, he's going to take a bed or two at the community garden and with the dirt, and I'll give him a pile of culls. Then I got social media contacts who are local and excited to take free plants, my mom will take a few mild varieties, and last year I set up a table at a cafe on a Sunday and gave them away to random strangers. Many ppl insisted on paying a few bucks for them. Not big money, but definitely pub crawl level money.

I feel torn bc I know a lot of them probably never even get transplanted, and probably just waste away on their solo cups. But since ppl, like my ol buddy BobSteve, really go hard and even give me peppers so it all works out.

Right, I'm still trying to figure out what to fill these beds with. I am thinking half and half topsoil/compost, with a bunch of peat mixed in and maybe some gypsum of lime pellets. Then mulch it down with this sea hay after plant out.

But if anyone has any advice, I'd appreciate it, for sure. I'm psyched, but largely clueless and I feel like the more I read, the less i know. My head is spinning a little bit.
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Be careful with peat as it can make soil too moist and breed fungi. Ive found peat as a soil topper works well with moisture and ph lowering. Soil combo of top soil/compost is good call maybe add pine and perlite too

Nice looking plants brotha. Sucks that ya gotten cull them but if you wanna give some away Ill be up there Saturday. Ill grow em outside the solo cups :fire: :cheers:
 
I have used the Weedblocker before, and I agree that in most cases, it's not necessary. It kinda saved the day with a couple beds at the community garden that were overrun with Bermuda grass, but i hadn't considered the worm issue. I was thinking that it will impede downward root growth for my chile plants, though. Between that and the worms, I might have to pull the fabric that I have from existing beds and just omit it from future beds (which was my plan anyway.)

As for the make up of the beds, I was thinking of a layer effect. Put some yard debris at the bottom, fill with mostly a topsoil/compost mix with maybe some gypsum pellets in it too, top off with peat, and then mulch with the hay. I love the hay bc it impedes weeds a bit and seems to, like, stabilize the soil's moisture? Might just be placebo effect...

Yeah I'll have culls, but I'm not releasing any until right after plant-out. I'm a greedy sumvbitch; I want to plant all my strongest plants on day one to maximize my chances for success. (Maybe i talk a good game, but the fact is, I still kinda suck at this chile thing...)

As usual, everyone, thanks for reading! Hopefully I can cut some wood and assemble some beds this weekend... Or should I wait, to keep the weeds from setting up?
 
Thanks, GPR, Just so we're clear, I am the worst bowler in the league and my wife and I only joined for comedy and vengeance. So maybe revise that to +2½ points?

Walchit, thanks for the kind words about my plants....on two of the shelves in just running 48" shoplights; 3 per shelf and most of them are single LED cheapies from Home Depot. I am also running one dinosaur shoplight that's a 2x48" t12 kinda job that is probably twenty years old, lol. The other shelf has a fairly expensive 6x48" t5 set up that I bought from a hydro pot business's website. Something is wrong with the wiring; I've never been able to get all 6 bulbs to light at once. (It has two switches.) I contacted the vendor, but they have their heads up their asses and I was too busy to play with them at the time (their customer service hours were limited to the hours that I work, and I dang sure want taking a day off to soak with these dingbats.) I guess I should've returned it, but I'd have eaten shipping costs for nothing, and I probably should try to crack it open and fix it, but I have little experience with electronics repair. So, I've found that most often, 2 bulbs is enough (it has excellent reflectors in there) and I put all 4 on once in awhile once the plants are decently robust....

And yeah, basically I cycle the trays from shelf to shelf so they all get some time under the "good" lights. Seems. to be working tolerably well, so far
 
Bicycle808 said:
Thanks, GPR, Just so we're clear, I am the worst bowler in the league and my wife and I only joined for comedy and vengeance. So maybe revise that to +2½ points?

Walchit, thanks for the kind words about my plants....on two of the shelves in just running 48" shoplights; 3 per shelf and most of them are single LED cheapies from Home Depot. I am also running one dinosaur shoplight that's a 2x48" t12 kinda job that is probably twenty years old, lol. The other shelf has a fairly expensive 6x48" t5 set up that I bought from a hydro pot business's website. Something is wrong with the wiring; I've never been able to get all 6 bulbs to light at once. (It has two switches.) I contacted the vendor, but they have their heads up their asses and I was too busy to play with them at the time (their customer service hours were limited to the hours that I work, and I dang sure want taking a day off to soak with these dingbats.) I guess I should've returned it, but I'd have eaten shipping costs for nothing, and I probably should try to crack it open and fix it, but I have little experience with electronics repair. So, I've found that most often, 2 bulbs is enough (it has excellent reflectors in there) and I put all 4 on once in awhile once the plants are decently robust....

And yeah, basically I cycle the trays from shelf to shelf so they all get some time under the "good" lights. Seems. to be working tolerably well, so far
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Haha Im sure youre better than myself, little bro and I used to hit deptford Brunswick and my best was maybe 200 and thats with my own ball lol. They are fun though in large groups.
Your lights set up is nuts too btw, like the tiers
 
That sucks about your t5, I know some guys here take out the 2 center bulbs on a 6 bulb anyway.

I bowled a 160 one time.my mom needed someone else on her team. I mainly just got hammered, so I would do pretty good on the 2nd game, but by the time I made it to the 3rd I was usually pretty drunk. It was pretty fun really.
 
Walchit said:
That sucks about your t5, I know some guys here take out the 2 center bulbs on a 6 bulb anyway.

I bowled a 160 one time.my mom needed someone else on her team. I mainly just got hammered, so I would do pretty good on the 2nd game, but by the time I made it to the 3rd I was usually pretty drunk. It was pretty fun really.
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Nice and Id imagine by #3 your balls are in the gutter

  
alkhall said:
Was reading this and the bowling caught my eye.
 
I quit about eight or nine years ago, use to carry ~215 average.
 
I have been thinking about trying it again, probably not leagues though, since USBC limited awards to one per lifetime, unless that has changed...
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Very nice, we got us a high baller
 
Good to see there's so many other bowlers and drinkers reading my glog! My average is pathetic but it kinda goes with general authorise towards bowling.

GPR, I keep forgetting how local you were. I'm at one alert over, bowling at Westbrook Lanes in Brooklyn.

We cleared the Community Garden yesterday and, in a for of retro social media, I started a FB page for the Community Garden.... Seems like a lot of members didn't know it was cleanup day. Check it out:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/303940263635661?tsid=0.7120784017841997&source=result
 
PtMD989 said:
Years ago I subbed on a video game bowling league at a local bar. I think it was called Capcom Bowling video game. [emoji16]


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That totally qualifies, especially is it's the shufflebowl with the golden gawd of bowling featured on the cabinet
 
alkhall said:
Was reading this and the bowling caught my eye.
 
I quit about eight or nine years ago, use to carry ~215 average.
 
I have been thinking about trying it again, probably not leagues though, since USBC limited awards to one per lifetime, unless that has changed...
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Many years ago I went bowling with my wife.  She was a good bowler .... 170+ league average.  I was a recreational bowler and pretty much sucked.  I was doing great ..... heading toward a 180+ game.  My wife threw 9 strikes in a row and had people at our lane watching to see if she bowled a perfect game.  She didn't.  Pretty much the last time we bowled.   :rolleyes:
 
Bicycle808 said:
Good to see there's so many other bowlers and drinkers reading my glog! My average is pathetic but it kinda goes with general authorise towards bowling.

GPR, I keep forgetting how local you were. I'm at one alert over, bowling at Westbrook Lanes in Brooklyn.

We cleared the Community Garden yesterday and, in a for of retro social media, I started a FB page for the Community Garden.... Seems like a lot of members didn't know it was cleanup day. Check it out:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/303940263635661?tsid=0.7120784017841997&source=result
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Haha it is funny bro, we lived in a few cities and had fun in each. I miss south Jersey though, FL is nice but seasons and scenery were nice too.

Thats cool that you set up a Fbook page for the community grow, plant out coming soon. After tonight I see maybe 40 degree nights once or twice so thats an improvement
 
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