Recent content by stettoman

Man, I thought I'd get further down the road before this, but my "tallest" Serrano was covered with aphids this morning. I spent 5 minutes squishing every one I found, but no doubt the uphill battle has begun. There oughta be height restrictions for these little monsters, or better yet...

Heh heh, boy I can't wait for bumper crops like I was getting in zone 3. And yeah, if I can get the chokecherry trees to grow there the jelly will roll! It's late already, I know, but I'll have a list of seeds to share soon as well, half of them Pubescens. Boss, you ARE the Kwisatz Haderach!!!

OK folks (& folkettes, of course), I was told to get to work, so here I am, at it 😇 My grow this year is going to be meager, as I haven't had much luck on this side of town (halfway to Kansas). But as noted earlier, I have an overwinter Arequipeño Rocoto that has defied logic and nature and...

Hey NJC, yeah, I'm a bass player of well over 50 years. I'll be looking for another gig in the Austin area, if my current band doesn't kidnap me and chain me to a floor joist in a crawlspace. I have no idea how peppers do @ 9800 feet...😬

At your pleasure, mein capitan. It'll be pretty low key until we get to zone 9a, but my wild and crazy nature may well make up for it!

Thanks CD! Feels like I'll be jumping wholesale back into the grow obsession this season!

I gotta toss my 2 cents, and this is anthropologically anecdotal. Since I was VERY young, growing up in the coniferous regions of northern and northeast Minnesota, even the blended region of the northwest coniferous/deciduous areas, it was understood by generational farmers that cultivation...

Yup, they smelled awesome, all three baskets! That year was really good to me, pepper-wise!

Dog, remember my little 8th acre of heaven back when I lived in MN? It was all quackgrass and hornet nests when I started it. My rear-tine tiller would even break that sod, so I talked a local farmer into coming by with his Ford 8N and cut it with a three blade plow. I spent that first summer...

Yeah, I plumb forgot how amazingly viable my seeds have always been, and 10+ years old had me go overboard grabbing seeds out of the bag. But not to worry, the bag is still full enough to repeat this stunt 4 or 5 more times😉... And yeah, I am so gonna take you up on Serrano seeds. I started...

I should have taken a pic this morning before continuing, the photo above is two days old, and the hooks tripled in those two days. It breaks my heart to cull seedlings, physically hurts. But the mountain of hooks coming up was insane, so I removed 37 seedlings this morning. I'm not down to one...

Hey Dragon, nice to see you're at it again! My buddy in Edmonton had a lousy season a few years back, gave up altogether. Wasn't a pepper guy anyway. Hope yours is great, man!

Luck on your grow, Tsurrie! I'll be watching 👀

Well, it looks like a Stettoglog will be back for my first grow in Texas next year. As a viability "experiment" I threw a bunch LOThai seeds that were sent me almost 10 years ago by (I think) PaulG into some Miracle-Gro medium last week. I'll be dammed. I have bags upon bags of labeled seeds...