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2019 - The Farm

Well, it's finally time to start. Again. :)
 
Finished taking inventory of seeds today, and started the 2019 grow list. Since the 24x96' isolation high tunnel is done, I'll be growing a crazy long list this year, as we'll be growing for 2020 seed inventory. With the soil mix equipment, it should be a lot less work on my back this winter! (Even more so if I get the indoor grow areas plumbed and set up on drip irrigation, still not sure I got the budget for that yet tho)
 
Some of the seeds I'll be pulling from are damn near 10 years old now, so I expect many of these to eventually get crossed off with 0 germination. Everything I have ever saved or traded is getting planted, though. There's 203 on the list right now, many duplicates though where seeds were sourced from more than one person/vendor. 
 
The grow room at home is getting a makeover, going to be "going vertical" to get some space back. More on that in a few days...
 
This list is not complete yet, I will be adding more after I hear back from a few folks I PM'd.
 
7 Pot Chaguanas Red  (BE)
7 Pot Chaguanas Red  (PL)
7 Pot Jonah (PL)
7 Pot Long (PL)
7 Pot Original Red
7 Pot Primo Red
7-Pot Brainstrain  (LFF)
7-Pot Brainstrain Red
7-Pot Brainstrain Red (PL)
7-Pot Brainstrain Yellow (PL)
7-Pot Primo  (LFF)
7-pot Primo Red
Aji Amarillo
Aji Cereza
Aji Dulce Red
Aji Golden
Aji Golden (old)
Aji Golden  (LFF)
Aji Jobito
Aji Limo
Aji Limo  (LFF)
Aji Margaritereivo
Aji Peruvian
Aleppo (BE)
Aleppo  (LFF)
Amish Bush
Bahamian Goat
Bahamian Goat (old)
Barre Do Robiero
Bhut (Walchits)
Bhut Jolokia Brown
Bhut Jolokia Chocolate
Bhut Jolokia Indian Carbon
Bhut Jolokia Red
Bhut Jolokia Yellow
Big Sun Habanero
Big Sun Habanero  (LFF)
Big Thai Hybrid
Biker Billy (AJ Drew)
Biker Billy Jalapeno  (LFF)
Black Habanero
BOC
Bolsa De Dulce
Bonda Ma Jacques
Boyanska Kapiya
Brazilian Starfish
Brown Bhut Jolokia  (LFF)
Brown Moruga
Brown Moruga (PL)
Bulgarian Carrot
CAP 215
Carbaruga Yellow
Caribbean Red Hab
Carmia Sweet
Carolina Reaper (PL)
Carolina Reaper (BE)
Carolina Reaper  (LFF)
Carribean Red Habanero (very old)
Cayenne Long Red
CGN 19198
CGN 20812 
CGN 22091
CGN 22792
CGN 24360
Chapeu Du Frade
Chapeu Du Frade  (LFF)
Cherry Red
Chili
Chili de Abrol
Chocolate Bhutlah
Chocolate Naga Morich
Chocolate Scotch Bonnet
Criolla Sella
Criolla Sella (WHP)
Cubanelle
Datil
Dedo de Moca
Dorset Naga (BE)
Dorset Naga (PL)
Dragon Cayenne 
Dragon Cayenne (most likely crossed?)
Drying Serrano
Dulce Sol
Elephant Trunk
Espanola
Farmers Jalapeno
Farmers Jalapeno  (LFF)
Farmers Market Jalapeno
Fidalgo Roxa
Freeport Orange Scotch Bonnet
Fresno (BE)
Fresno Red
Friarello Di Napoli
Friarieilo Di Napoli
Garden Salsa
Giant Aconcagua
Giant Mexican Rocoto
Goat Pepper
Goats Weed
Habanero Antillais Caribbean
Habanero Chocolate (PL)
Habanero Cristiana
Habanero Franciscon
Habanero Giant Orange
Habanero Guadalupe 
Habanero Magnum Orange
Habanero Manzano
Habanero Niranja Picante
Habenero Red Dominica
Harbiye
Hawaiian Kona
Hot Paper Lantern
Jalapeno Biker Billy
Jigsaw
Land Race Serrano
Large Orange Thai
Large Red 7 Pot (PL)
Large Red Rocoto
Mako Akokosrade
Mako Kokoo
Matay
Matay (PL)
Mini Bell Orange
MOA Scotch Bonnet
MOA Scotch Bonnet (very old)
MOA Scotch Bonnet  (LFF)
Monster Naga
Moruga Reaper
Moruga Scorpion  (LFF)
Moruga x Reaper  (LFF)
Ms. Junie
Naga Morich
NuMex Lemon Spice Jalapeno
Numex Pinata Jalapeno
NuMex Vaquero
Orange Habanero (Wicked Mike)
Orchid PI 497974
P. Dreadie
Paper Lantern Habanero
pI 281429
Pimenta Chris Fat
Pimenta de Neyde (PL)
Pimente Espellette
Pimente Espellette (old)
Pimiento Cristal  (LFF)
Poblano (old)
Poblano BE
Poblano  (LFF)
Purple Jalapeno x Cayenne
Purple UFO
Reaper (Walchit)
Reaper Bhut
Red Fatalli  (LFF)
Safi Scotch Bonnet
Santa Fe Grande
Santa Fe Grande (PJ)
Santa Fe Grande Peppers
Scoda Brain
Scotch Bonnet x Bell Pepper 
Shattah
Star of Turkey
Stuffing Cherry
Sugar Cane
Sweet Anaheim
Sweet Anaheim (LFF)
Sweet Charleston
Sweet Charlston (LFF)
Sweet Datil (old)
Sweet French Bell
Tangerine
Tekne Dolmasi
Tekne Dolmasi (LFF)
TFM Scotch Bonnet
TFM Scotch Bonnet (LFF)
Thai
Thai (crossed?)
Thai Orange
Thai Short
Tobago Scotch Bonnet Red (PL)
Tobago Scotch Bonnet Yellow
Tobago Seasoning
Trinidad Doughlah
Trinidad Perfume
Trinidad PI 281317
Trinidad Scorpion Butch T
Trinidad Scorpion Cardi
Trinidad Scorpion Moruga
Trinidad Scorpion Original
Trinidad Scorpion Smooth
Trinidad Scorpion Yellow
Trinidad X
True Cumari
Turkish Cayenne (LFF)
Turkish Sweet Ball
Urfa Biber
White Bhut Jolokia
White Bullet Habanero
White Habanero
Xalapas Large Jalapeno
Yellow Brainstrain (LFF)
Yellow Fatalli
Yellow Moruga Scorpion
Yellow Scotch Bonnet (old)
 
 
Added 1/16, ordered from Justin
7 Pot Brain Strain Chocolate AU
7 Pot Bubblegum (BBG7) Bhut Chocolate
7 Pot Bubblegum (BBG7) x Apocalypse Scorpion (No Calyx)
7 Pot Cinder F3 
7 Pot Douglah
7 Pot Jonah
7 Pot Jonah Yellow X SB
7 Pot Lucy
7 Pot Nebru
7 Pot Primo Chocolate
7 Pot SR Strain
7JPN
Aji Pineapple
Apocalypse Scorpion Chocolate
Bahamian Beast Mustard Stinger F2
Bahamian Goat
Bhut Jolokia (Ghost) Giant Chocolate
Bhut Jolokia (Ghost) Rust
Bhut Jolokia (Ghost) Solid Gold
Black Pearl
Brazilian Brain Strain Chocolate
Brown Reaper Cross
Devil's Nagabrains Chocolate
Elysium Oxide Scotch Bonnet
Fatalii Chocolate
Genghis Kahn's Brain
Habanero El Remo
Habanero Roatan Pumpkin
Jigsaw x Moruga
Jonah's Yellow Brain
Machu Picchu
Mako Akokosrade
Monkey Face Red
Nagabrains Chocolate
Negro de Valle
Pimenta Black Bhut
Sandra's Giant Orange (Long Pheno)
SB7J Yellow
Scotch Bonnet Sweet Moruga Brown
Scotch Brains (7 Pot Pheno)
Skunk Chocolate
Tepin x Lemon Drop
UBSC x SB
Vallero
WHP 027
 
 
 
Should have the first of the chinense and pube seeds in the dirt by end of week.
 
 
Non-pepper crop

Anise Hyssop
Astro Arugula (Roquette)
Esmee Arugula (Roquette)
Arugula (Standard)
Sylvetta Arugula (Roquette)
Mizuna Asian Greens
Tatsoi Asian Greens
Red Rubin Purple Basil
Sweet Thai Asian Basil
Genovese Genovese Basil
Aroma 2 Genovese Basil
Royal Burgundy Beans
EZ Pick Beans
Tongue of Fire Beans
Prime Ark® Freedom Blackberry
Blueberry Plant Collection Blueberry
De Cicco Standard Broccoli
Belstar Standard Broccoli
Chiko Burdock
Integro Fresh Market Cabbage
Red Express Fresh Market Cabbage
Farao Fresh Market Cabbage
Deadon Fresh Market Cabbage
Bilko Chinese Cabbage
Divergent Cantaloupe (Muskmelon)
Nectar Main Crop Carrots
Negovia Carrot
Nectar Main Crop Carrots
Negovia Main Crop Carrots
Napoli Early Carrots
Yaya Early Carrots
Yaya Early Carrots
Janvel Standard Cauliflower
Mardi Standard Cauliflower
Mardi Standard Cauliflower
Janvel Standard Cauliflower
Veronica Romanesco Cauliflower
Skywalker Standard Cauliflower
Skywalker Standard Cauliflower
Common Chamomile Chamomile
Staro Standard Chives
Nira Chinese Leeks (Garlic Chives)
Cheyenne Spirit Echinacea (Coneflower)
Echinacea purpurea Echinacea (Coneflower)
Leisure Cilantro (Coriander)
Santo Cilantro (Coriander)
Natural Sweet Sweet Corn
Enchanted Sweet Corn
Nothstine Dent Dry Corn
Xtra-Tender 2171 Sweet Corn
Cressida Cress
Cool Customer Pickling Cucumbers
Poniente Seedless and Thin-skinned Cucumbers
Picolino Slicing Cucumbers
Hera Dill
Bouquet Dill
Totem Belgian Endive (Witloof)
Ruby Red Orach Specialty Greens
Light Green Orach Specialty Greens
Dark Green Orach Specialty Greens
Red Russian Kale
Toscano Kale
Westlandse Winter Kale
Toscano Kale
Red Russian Kale
Korist Fresh Eating Kohlrabi
Azur Star Kohlrabi
Kossak Storage Kohlrabi
Munstead-Type Lavender
Megaton Leeks
King Richard Leeks
Pandora Leeks
Lemon Balm
Celinet Summer Crisp Lettuce (Batavia)
Concept Summer Crisp Lettuce (Batavia)
Muir Summer Crisp Lettuce (Batavia)
Alkindus Butterhead Lettuce (Boston)
Mirlo Butterhead Lettuce (Boston)
Red Cross Butterhead Lettuce (Boston)
Sylvesta Butterhead Lettuce (Boston)
Annapolis Romaine Lettuce (Cos)
Breen Romaine Lettuce (Cos)
Coastal Star Romaine Lettuce (Cos)
Defender Romaine Lettuce (Cos)
Dragoon Romaine Lettuce (Cos)
Ezbruke Romaine Lettuce (Cos)
Flashy Trout Back Romaine Lettuce (Cos)
Fusion Romaine Lettuce (Cos)
Holon Romaine Lettuce (Cos)
Jericho Romaine Lettuce (Cos)
Outredgeous Romaine Lettuce (Cos)
Parris Island Romaine Lettuce (Cos)
Ridgeline Romaine Lettuce (Cos)
Rouge d'Hiver Romaine Lettuce (Cos)
Truchas Romaine Lettuce (Cos)
Bronze Herbs for Salad Mix
Cumin Herbs for Salad Mix
Bronze & Green Herbs for Salad Mix
Bergam's Green Lettuce
Blade Oakleaf Lettuce
Bolsachica Oakleaf Lettuce
Buttercrunch Heritage Lettuce
Clearwater Oakleaf Lettuce
Crispino Iceberg Lettuce
Dark Red Lollo Rossa Heritage Lettuce
Deer Tongue Heritage Lettuce
Garrison Oakleaf Lettuce
Green Saladbowl Oakleaf Lettuce
Ilema Lollo Lettuce
Newham Bibb Lettuce
New Red Fire Lettuce
Red Sails Heritage Lettuce
Red Saladbowl Oakleaf Lettuce
Tropicana Lettuce
Waldmann's Dark Green Heritage Lettuce
Encore Lettuce Mix Lettuce Mixes
Lovage
Zaatar Marjoram
Clemson Spineless Okra
Yankee Full-Size Onions
Cortland Full-Size Onions
Greek Oregano Oregano
Papalo
Pipicha
Leonardo Radicchio
Virtus Radicchio
Red Raspberry Plant Collection
Jewel Raspberry
Victoria Rhubarb Seeds
Common Sage
Common Sage Sage
Summer Savory
Green Shiso Shiso
Britton Shiso
Asia Ip Shiso
Red Shiso Shiso
Lemon Drops Spilanthes
Acadia Savoyed-Leaf Spinach
Corvair Smooth-Leaf Spinach
Saltwort
Stevia
Sparkle Strawberry Bare-Root Plants
Jewel Strawberry Bare-Root Plants
Elan Strawberry Seeds
Alexandria Strawberry Seeds
Ruby Red or Rhubarb Chard Swiss Chard
Fordhook Giant Swiss Chard
Oriole Swiss Chard
Milk Thistle
German Winter Thyme
Frederik Beefsteak Tomatoes
Jasper Cherry Tomatoes
Sakura Cherry Tomatoes
Blue Beech Heirloom Tomatoes
Mountain Magic Cocktail Tomatoes
Brandywine Heirloom Tomatoes
Cherokee Green Heirloom Tomatoes
White Cherry Cherry Tomatoes
Wisconsin 55 Slicing Tomatoes
Green Zebra Heirloom Tomatoes
Common Valerian
Farmers Wonderful Triploid Watermelons (Seedless)
Gentility Triploid Watermelons (Seedless)
Sorbet Triploid Watermelons (Seedless)
Sweet Crimson Watermelon
 

Most of the lettuce is for taste and local adaptability trials, small little plots. We'll be succession planting out most crops, small qty for market, so "big list, not so big qty."
 
Some of the stock (various herbs, seedless watermelons) is non-organic seed stock and will either be grown either in the north transitional field or in pots. 
 
570 fruit trees are also coming sometime early spring, those will go in to the dirt as soon as it can be worked after freeze. We'll plant those and forget about them for a few years.. just mow around them. All the big work starts in a few years with those.  Shouldn't need to irrigate them unless we get a big dry spell, and/or until they start producing.
 
Ruid said:
But isn't climate change over large spans of time and more of a subject for those who study the planet?
 
Well we know we get climate change on Earth - the periodic cyclical ice ages tell us what we need to know with regards to that. Chicago sits on land that was previously a mile thick glacier. (In fact, that area *is still rising* - rebounding a tiny fraction of an inch a year, because the crust is still "dented" from the weight of the glaciers that sat over it)
 
And within those larger cycles, are smaller cycles. Nature is chaotic yes, but predictably so, due to the very structure of the universe being what it is. These patterns are seemingly chaotic (and rightly so) as nature doesn't operate on the same type of math that we do. We have a 10 base math system, and it falls apart when you get to irrational things. All of our computing devices clip (round or truncate) numbers at some point; there is no absolute precision. In nature, when particles interact the "remainder" of chemical changes is stored; there IS absolute precision in nature, up to a point, because electron energy, for instance, is a full-range, infinitely precise scale; and so on.
 
When nature *does* round (remainders of chemical interactions from cells, DNA, etc) you get pretty little chaotic patterns - the shape of a maple leaf; the structure of a snowflake - the distribution of a soluble solution or the smoke pattern lifting off of an extinguished candle. All examples of chaotic - but not chaotic - fractal patterns that emerge from the tiny little remainders and imprecision (while being simultaneously absolutely precise) in the structure of the universe. 
 
My opinion (and this is merely my opinion, physicists and chemists would likely strongly disagree with me) is that nature doesn't use 10-base math, so our math sort of falls apart when trying to simulate what nature does. Nature uses x(n)-Base math where X is the particular atom in question and (n) is the subatomic structures which "store" or use the remainder of energy left over from transactions or interactions with other atoms. On a larger scale (well, still small, but "larger" in this context) of biology, chemistry, or physics, the pattern which develops from chemical interactions (driven by DNA interactions in plants, animals, etc, or cellular interactions with base nutrients/elements) contributes to how an organism works; leaf shape, root development, hormone interactions, and so on. All driven by precise, yet imprecise, mathematics which work on a non-10-base system, which is why we find it so very difficult to grasp something which is so elegantly simple in design. We've trained our people, and our minds, from a very young age to be accountants with 10 base math, instead of remaining flexible to the possibility that "maybe we are doing this mathematics thing ALL wrong" ...
 
Weather operates on the same principals on a macro scale, heat energy, moisture, electrical atmospheric charge contributes to stored energy. And like any system, these "chaotic" events are not really chaotic at all, but very natural phenomenon. We can't predict the outcome because there's no way for us to know *precisely* how much energy or movement is going to occur because we can't know the sum total of the stored energy of even a tiny bit of atmosphere, let alone, exactly what energy is stored in every molecule of water vapor or atom of oxygen or nitrogen, or (so on).
 
To us, it's chaos, but in nature, beautiful patterns emerge for cloud formations, and so on. And when things hit critical energy amounts and conditions are right, we get amazing, destructive patterns emerging - hurricanes, tornadoes, and so on.
 
To be clear - here - global warming isn't the concern. When things get too hot nature has a way of sucking cold back down to the surface (those beautiful funnels in hurricanes and tornadoes, to start). 
 
No, my concern is what comes after, because when you tip the scales too far on a complex closed loop system the rebound action is extreme. Those polar vortexes we see nowadays? Should be far more concerned about that, than global warming. That's what kicks off the next ice age, over a long period of time.
 
I've always been of the opinion that we are still on the post-ice-age upslope, eventually we're gonna go back down in to one again. 
 
We can survive hotter temps - still massive amounts of unworkable land in Canada, Siberia, etc that is ultra-fertile, but not workable at present because of harsh winter conditions. 
 
We can NOT survive - at current population levels - rapid global cooling, however. 
 
Losses on the north field are mounting, probably 10-15%. Habaneros and MOA's are on higher ground so they are doing well. Only a few broken by 70+mph winds.
 
In the organic pasture I might be looking at 70-80% of the chinense crop dead.
 
Most of it is under water at this point.
 
We had more than 3" of rain at the farm today. We were hit by three thunderstorms back to back over the course of the day. Brings our total rain at the farm this week to nearly 1 foot.
 
 
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TrentL said:
Go look at this post from this day last year (and others that follow it)
 
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/67036-2018-the-farm/?p=1562178
 
 
I just read thru that glog (read lots,
Seen all of the pics) starting on that page. Your glogs blow my mind, the quantity you operate is beyond anything I could imagine doing. Your little helper is great, she will always remember the days growing up on the farm. Her sitting and eating tomatoes is awesome. Last night I picked a few tomatoes and my little guy grabbed one and immediately stuffed it in his mouth probably expecting a grape then he spit it onto the floor. Great reading as always, just know we are all rooting for you.
 
TrentL said:
Losses on the north field are mounting, probably 10-15%. Habaneros and MOA's are on higher ground so they are doing well. Only a few broken by 70+mph winds.
 
In the organic pasture I might be looking at 70-80% of the chinense crop dead.
 
Most of it is under water at this point.
 
We had more than 3" of rain at the farm today. We were hit by three thunderstorms back to back over the course of the day. Brings our total rain at the farm this week to nearly 1 foot.
 
Where I am we average 14 inches of rain per year... we do get our share of wind tho.
 
Sorry to hear about the weather issues Trent, I’m staying positive the cannabis crop will be a huge success for your family and you! Are you planning sees sales for the next growing season?


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simp3204 said:
Sorry to hear about the weather issues Trent, I’m staying positive the cannabis crop will be a huge success for your family and you! Are you planning sees sales for the next growing season?


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Yes isolation peppers are doing well and we are going to start harvesting seeds this week off of the first ripe pods, to repopulate the online catalog
 
Also, cannabis seed, yes, I just leased land at 3 additional farms, today, for growing seed stock on, all 5+ miles apart from each other.
 
If all goes well with cannabis we should have enough seed stock and transplants next year for about 6,000 acres worth.
 
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