Excellent list, good luck with your grow. Dontcha just love it. I can spend hours just walking around in my chilli garden. Yesterday evening I just sat on the lawn beside them, just watching them.
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......and you would swear you could see them growing! I do the same. I'm teaching my daughter about nature using my garden. Show her how dirt, bugs, water, and plants all work together. In out "Rush Rush Hurry Hurry!" lifestyles, it's nice to slow down and just relax....... I think I'll put a hammock up this year for some nap time =)
Ahhh all is right with the world now. Seeing all that young beautiful green makes me all goose pimply SS! Ha!
You've got a heck of a list there bro and I wish you the best of luck with it. One thing I'm going to keep an eye on is that Infinity pepper--can't wait to see you eat one. Or show off your smarts and farm the job out to one of the pepper eating guinea pigs around here.
You've got a heck of a list there bro and I wish you the best of luck with it. One thing I'm going to keep an eye on is that Infinity pepper--can't wait to see you eat one. Or show off your smarts and farm the job out to one of the pepper eating guinea pigs around here.
Nice list SS. I can't wait to see your garden progress this year. Looks like you are off to a pretty good start!!
If you had level ground would you still be switching to the drip tape? I have seen a few different types with emitters, or drip holes, at different intervals. It is too late for me to switch this year, but my garden is about as level as it gets, so soakers work okay for me. My problem is, even with a good hose with a lifetime warranty, they don't hold up for more than a couple seasons. The drip tape looks more durable!!
I see you have the Trinidad Douglah on your list. I had the impression that was a type of brown or chocolate 7Pot. You also have a Chocolate 7 and Brown 7. I see here and there people calling some habs chocolate, or brown, or even black, and the same with the Scorpions. Not sure I have seen a Brown Bhut, only Chocolate Bhut.
Can you tell me the difference in the 7s or any info you have about this. I am confused.?.?.?
If you had level ground would you still be switching to the drip tape? I have seen a few different types with emitters, or drip holes, at different intervals. It is too late for me to switch this year, but my garden is about as level as it gets, so soakers work okay for me. My problem is, even with a good hose with a lifetime warranty, they don't hold up for more than a couple seasons. The drip tape looks more durable!!
I see you have the Trinidad Douglah on your list. I had the impression that was a type of brown or chocolate 7Pot. You also have a Chocolate 7 and Brown 7. I see here and there people calling some habs chocolate, or brown, or even black, and the same with the Scorpions. Not sure I have seen a Brown Bhut, only Chocolate Bhut.
Can you tell me the difference in the 7s or any info you have about this. I am confused.?.?.?
Excellant list and start SilverSurfer. Love your overwinters.
Good Luck with your season Mike
Good Luck with your season Mike
Thanks y'all, wishin' ya the best of luck with your grows this year.
No, soaker hose has always worked well for me on level ground. Drip tape can be had thick, thin or in between and yeah, the good thicker constructed stuff is more durable than soaker hose.
The Douglah is a type of 7 Pod (dark rusty red color), but not the same strain as the chocolate or brown 7s. Yep, chocolate is out to conquer the world of pepper pods.
Chocolate habs are a nice pepper; I've grown them several years including last season, but they were left off of the list this year. If you wait long enough all pods will be available in chocolate.
It's easy to get confused as more and more 7 and other super hot varieties get introduced each year, but it's fun to try em and see if they're a keeper for the next season's garden.
Thanks P, gotta get one to sprout first. Started a few more this PM hoping I can get one to pop.Ahhh all is right with the world now. Seeing all that young beautiful green makes me all goose pimply SS! Ha!
You've got a heck of a list there bro and I wish you the best of luck with it. One thing I'm going to keep an eye on is that Infinity pepper--can't wait to see you eat one. Or show off your smarts and farm the job out to one of the pepper eating guinea pigs around here.
Nice list SS. I can't wait to see your garden progress this year. Looks like you are off to a pretty good start!!
If you had level ground would you still be switching to the drip tape? I have seen a few different types with emitters, or drip holes, at different intervals. It is too late for me to switch this year, but my garden is about as level as it gets, so soakers work okay for me. My problem is, even with a good hose with a lifetime warranty, they don't hold up for more than a couple seasons. The drip tape looks more durable!!
I see you have the Trinidad Douglah on your list. I had the impression that was a type of brown or chocolate 7Pot. You also have a Chocolate 7 and Brown 7. I see here and there people calling some habs chocolate, or brown, or even black, and the same with the Scorpions. Not sure I have seen a Brown Bhut, only Chocolate Bhut.
Can you tell me the difference in the 7s or any info you have about this. I am confused.?.?.?
No, soaker hose has always worked well for me on level ground. Drip tape can be had thick, thin or in between and yeah, the good thicker constructed stuff is more durable than soaker hose.
The Douglah is a type of 7 Pod (dark rusty red color), but not the same strain as the chocolate or brown 7s. Yep, chocolate is out to conquer the world of pepper pods.
Chocolate habs are a nice pepper; I've grown them several years including last season, but they were left off of the list this year. If you wait long enough all pods will be available in chocolate. It's easy to get confused as more and more 7 and other super hot varieties get introduced each year, but it's fun to try em and see if they're a keeper for the next season's garden.
Thanks, they stay under this light 24/7 for their first 5 weeks of life, then 20 on 4 off for a few weeks before hardening them off.
I'm using Jiffy Mix for the seed starter medium.Incredible list and great documentation there!
I gotta ask about growing mediums. What's your starter mix, what do you pot up with, and what do they overwinter in? Info and insights much appreciated!...
I'm potting up to the 2.5" pots with straight Pro-Mix BX
They will get potted up again to #1 pots with a custom mix I use for all sized containers as well as for the overwintered plants. Most will then go to the garden from the #1 pots. but a few will move up to larger containers.
My container mix:
15 gallons pine bark fines
5 gallons peat
5 gallons perlite
2.5 gallons composted chicken manure
2.5 gallons humus
2 cups dolomite
Thanks that helps a lot. I've been messing around with a pine/peat/perlite mix (near your ratio) for some overwintered plants and even used as a starter medium. It's been working pretty well, but I can see I'm missing some key ingredients which I hope to amend with some compost tea.
Thanks again, will watch your grow with interest...
Thanks again, will watch your
grow with interest...
Appreciated fellas. I should have taken a pic of this one with the snowy background.
Here's a shot of my overwintered Brain Strain. It didn't get cut back at all and stayed here all winter by this west facing door where it received mostly ambient light. It'll get trimmed a little to even it up toward the end of next month, potted again and hardened off for another season.
Weather this week looks nice; I can smell Spring.
Here's a shot of my overwintered Brain Strain. It didn't get cut back at all and stayed here all winter by this west facing door where it received mostly ambient light. It'll get trimmed a little to even it up toward the end of next month, potted again and hardened off for another season.
Weather this week looks nice; I can smell Spring.
Yeah, the white background makes a nice contrast for the greenery. Snow stayed on the ground 2 days here before melting. I think Spring will come early this year. I have planted corn as earl as March 10th here in years gone by, but it doesn't happen often.
Thanks DownRiver. Yeah, after the move to 2.5 inch pots, they get a diluted taste of nutes every time I water (every 3 to 4 days).
I fed them compost tea last season, but got lazy this year and am using/experimenting with these commercial nutes. I alternate between these two each watering with a quarter to one third strength dose and adjust the PH of the solution to around 6 to 6.5.
Jack's Pro Water Soluble Fertilizer 25-5-15
Foliage Pro 9-3-6
I fed them compost tea last season, but got lazy this year and am using/experimenting with these commercial nutes. I alternate between these two each watering with a quarter to one third strength dose and adjust the PH of the solution to around 6 to 6.5.
Jack's Pro Water Soluble Fertilizer 25-5-15
Foliage Pro 9-3-6
Your overwintered plants are looking great, well... They all look great ... I especially like the full size brain strain, it makes me kind of wish that I would have overwintered a couple of peppers, but I got a little gun shy after a run in with spider mites last year. I absolutely despise those things, I'd rather have aphids then spider mites. I fought with those darn things all winter, and after that incident, it made me a little scared to overwinter anything this year. I do love hearing the neighbors ask "what kind of trees are those?", so maybe, one day, I'll get the nerve up to try it again, I just really, really, really hate spider mites.
Thanks Matt. The first pepper I overwintered (a Datil going into its 4th season this year) got covered in red spider mites that first year. It had lost all of it's leaves by the time warm weather returned, but it wasted no time in covering it's bare branched skeleton with new growth once placed back outdoors. Once the leaves were gone so were the mites.