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2010 charlesNYC's Grow Log AKA My Ugly Little Fire Escape

So here it goes. I'm a bit late to post and I don't have as many good pictures as I wish I did. On top of that, my garden is nothing compared to what many of you guys are working with. I don't have a backyard, or even a balcony. I've planned out a Fire Escape Garden for this season, while hoping that next year, I'll be at an apartment with a backyard (not as hard as it sounds, noting I live in Brooklyn).

I'm also very late to the seed-starting party. I sowed my seeds at the beginning of the month; but took care to choose varieties known for setting fruit out early (Tomato's are Early Wonder and New Big Dwarf, and the basils should be ready by the end of next month.).

My super long list of varieties being grown in my Fire Escape (planned and in progress):
2 x Habanero Orange. (bought as 4 for 2 dollars as transplants from a local flower shop).
3 x Ring of Fire Cayenne.


So I'm being a cheap hipster and recycling a lot of the random trash I produce (I drink far too much coke zero).

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The first habanero transplant. (circa May 20th).

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A few seedlings by the Window. (South-facing).
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Starting up a second post now.
 
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Well it looks like you've got everything sorted out there mate! Good to see! I wish all my plants were that bushy!! All of mine have gotten leggy due to lights fitted too high above them.

Way to go. You certainly have made the most of what you've got!!

:cheers: :beer:

Jas
 
Excellent! Nice to see you put a limited amount of space to good use

I have a bit more space but am limited too... if only :hell:
 
FYI NYC "nodes" are the area of a plant's stem from which the leaves or fruit grow. The "node" pic above should be called "buds!"
 
Thanks guys!

Just crossing my fingers for the Ring of Fire Cayennes. One of the plants is budding, but the largest one is growing extremely fast but putting out zero flowers. Stunty broke out of its stunted spell a few weeks back so I know that one's bound to lag by about 3 or 4 weeks.
 
Like 6 weeks ago I germinated a single brain strain seed from JR.
It went through the deluge that is my fire escape's right-hand-side and i ended up replanting with faint hopes that it would survive (picture dumping a gallon of water in to a small ricotta cheese container in 30 seconds).. and it surprisingly survived.
I had told Cappy I'd wait, but I just wanted to see if those seeds were gonna germ or not, and I just couldn't kill the seedling :-P

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and one of the orange habs getting loaded:

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nice going, NYC! Those plants are looking really great! Tall and bushy and pods, pods, pods!

Do you have room inside to overwinter that late-start seedling?
 
salsalady said:
nice going, NYC! Those plants are looking really great! Tall and bushy and pods, pods, pods!

Do you have room inside to overwinter that late-start seedling?
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yup yup, I have a little nice southeast-facing window in a little niche in the wall. basically, it's leftover space from how the closets are arranged in my building. so i lucked out and got a nice 1.5x2.5 foot space next to a sunny window that would otherwise go to waste.

i'll be overwintering 2 choc hab seedlings, a very very pruned orange hab, and that brain strain. i just hope that i don't kill the orange hab with the root pruning i have in mind.
 
For some reason Charles, I haven't read any of this thread up until now and I have to say I'm impressed. For someone who got a late start and growing with very limited space you sure grow some nice looking plants. They all look really healthy and are producing well for you, nice work. I grew the Ring of Fire last year and they are pretty good producers, kept falling over from the weight of the pods. Best of luck with the rest of your season.
 
Now that's a damn fine looking pepper garden NYC, way to grow!

I get a huge kick out of seeing your success. I grew up in Iowa where growing veges and such is dang near a commandment. Thinking of NYC a pepper garden isn't even in the neighborhood. Yep, a cool thing you're doing.
 
SeeYouJimmy said:
For some reason Charles, I haven't read any of this thread up until now and I have to say I'm impressed. For someone who got a late start and growing with very limited space you sure grow some nice looking plants. They all look really healthy and are producing well for you, nice work. I grew the Ring of Fire last year and they are pretty good producers, kept falling over from the weight of the pods. Best of luck with the rest of your season.
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Yeah, I've had a few flowers set on those, but no pods yet. They were definitely about to fall over were it not for the stakes. They are most definitely on the leggy side when compared to the Orange Habaneros, but I do think that that also has a lot to do with systematic pruning of the lower branches when the habs were 3"-4" short. As soon as they bifurcated, I took out all the leaf branches and left the little suckers on that part (The folliage they got came with from the nursery was somewhat damage + there were slight aphid issues). They just bushed by branching off of the suckers.

I hope I get as lucky as you with the production on ring of fires.. and my two enuchs + stunty get their act together. [Yeah, they got names. I'm unemployed and I get to stare at them for hours while plotting world domination / employment tactics].
 
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