2019 - The Farm

TrentL · Jan 26, 2019

rhines81 said:
I built shelving similar to that way back when I was breeding tropical fish - held a lot of glass and water ... are you sure they are sturdy enough for those germination trays??

Well, germination trays.. grandma's old buick.. pretty much anywhere in between

Devv said:
Aight Trent!

Kick some ass this season!

Thanks man! Hey I just put a couple of trays on the shelves with your seeds.

Up to Tray #24 now, the second half of today's seeding is done;

WHP027 x10
Bhut Jolokia Solid Gold WHP x5
Fatalli Chocolate WHP x9
7-Pot Cinder F3 WHP x9
P. Dreadie (Devv) x3
Pimenta Black Bhut WHP x21
Bhut Jolokia Giant Chocolate WHP x15
7-Pot Bubblegum Bhut Chocolate WHP x9
7-Pot Brainstrain Chocolate AU WHP x9
Sandras Giant Orange (Long Pheno) WHP x8
Apocalypse Scorpion Chocolate WHP x10
7-Pot Bubblegum (BBJ) x Apoc. Scorpion (No Calyx) WHP x12
7-Pot Bubblegum Red BBG7 WHP x11
7-Pot Bubblegum Chocolate WHP x7
Skunk Chocolate WHP x6
Bhut Jolokia Rust WHP x13
Tepin x Lemon Drop WHP x14
Brazilian Brainstrain Chocolate WHP x8
7-Pot Jonhah Orange WHP x6
P.Dreadie Devv x9
BOC Devv x22
Scotch Brain Devv x72
Brown Moruga WHP x24
Habanero Franciscan WHP x24
Habanero Guadalupe WHP x24
Habanero Red Dominica WHP x36
Habanero Magnum Orange x36
Bhut Jolokia Chocolate WHP x24
7-Pot Brainstrain Red WHP x18
Freeport Orange Scotch Bonnet x30
Trinidad X Andy x24
Reaper (andy) x14
Pimenta Chris Fat x10
Bhut (Andy) x24

TrentL · Jan 26, 2019

^ Also filled a tray and a half or so with Andy's stuff from last year that I didn't get in to the dirt.

BTW don't scratch your balls after you load up 4 seeds per cell times 12 72 cell trays, turns out planting 3500 ultra hot seeds leaves the fingers covered in oil....

kinda regretting life choices right now.. not gonna lie

Sinn · Jan 26, 2019

TrentL said:
^ Also filled a tray and a half or so with Andy's stuff from last year that I didn't get in to the dirt.

BTW don't scratch your balls after you load up 4 seeds per cell times 12 72 cell trays, turns out planting 3500 ultra hot seeds leaves the fingers covered in oil....

kinda regretting life choices right now.. not gonna lie

Lol! Been there before hehe

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TrentL · Jan 26, 2019

Not quite half full now, 24 trays on the shelves

Rest of the lights should be here next week

Walchit · Jan 27, 2019

Nice! You running 8 bulb t5 in there?

CDNmatt · Jan 27, 2019

TrentL said:
^ Also filled a tray and a half or so with Andy's stuff from last year that I didn't get in to the dirt.

BTW don't scratch your balls after you load up 4 seeds per cell times 12 72 cell trays, turns out planting 3500 ultra hot seeds leaves the fingers covered in oil....

kinda regretting life choices right now.. not gonna lie

Oh man your killing me right now..lol

I thought I was so smart a couple days ago when I wore gloves to clean the seeds off of all the placenta that I got from Badger....Later on I used a spoon to scoop up the seeds and put them through a funnel into some storage containers....later that night I got up and snook to the fridge which I almost always do and grabbed a pudding from the fridge and a spoon from the beside the drying rack........I didn't realize till the lips and mouth started the tingle by the end of the cup. Was almost 40 mins before I was able to go back to bed ....not so smart after all.

Perfect little shelves btw Trent...nicely done sir.

TrentL · Jan 27, 2019

Walchit said:
Nice! You running 8 bulb t5 in there?

Yes, 8 of them are in there right now, another 7 on the way from Amazon. Got 30 of them at the farm for that part of the grow (approx 1 month away)

CDNmatt said:
Oh man your killing me right now..lol

I thought I was so smart a couple days ago when I wore gloves to clean the seeds off of all the placenta that I got from Badger....Later on I used a spoon to scoop up the seeds and put them through a funnel into some storage containers....later that night I got up and snook to the fridge which I almost always do and grabbed a pudding from the fridge and a spoon from the beside the drying rack........I didn't realize till the lips and mouth started the tingle by the end of the cup. Was almost 40 mins before I was able to go back to bed ....not so smart after all.

Perfect little shelves btw Trent...nicely done sir.

Wife had to throw our cutting boards away after slicing up 400 lbs of ultrahots in the kitchen.

ShowMeDaSauce · Jan 27, 2019

You should try these while you can still get them. They have been a huge hit with everyone that sampled mine. Very good for cukes and onions too. They do far better for me than other cukes. Virtually no pest damage or disease and they produce far longer.

West India Burr Gherkins Cucumber
https://www.rareseeds.com/west-india-burr-gherkins-cucumber/

parker49 · Jan 28, 2019

TrentL said:
My apologies, a mis-communication occurred between the wife and I on those going out. I noticed the order slip still on the printer tonight after work, she didn't get them to the post. They'll be in the mail in the AM!

No worries at all

TrentL · Jan 28, 2019

36 trays warming up (32x pepper, 4x onion).

So far zero 2012 seeds sprouted out of the 4 trays I seeded. Not looking good for the old buggers. I put a half dozen cells of 2018 seeds in there just to make sure I had a control, THOSE sprouted.. but nothing else.

25 Onion Courtland F1 x500
26 Onoin Courtland F1 x500
27 Onion Yankee F1 x500
28 Onion Yankee F1 x500
29 Pepper Carbaruga Yellow (andy) x22
29 Pepper Fidalgo Roxa (andy) x26
29 Pepper Matay (andy) x24
30 Pepper Carribean Red Habanero (andy) x72
31 Pepper Carribean Red Habanero (andy) x72
32 Pepper Brainstrain x72
33 Pepper Brainstrain x72
34 Pepper Red Fatalli x72
35 Pepper Moruga Scorpion Red x72
36 Pepper 7-Pot Primo x72

Walchit · Jan 29, 2019

The plants I got the Caribbean red off of were heavy producers, hopefully they grow true for you.

TrentL · Jan 29, 2019

Walchit said:
The plants I got the Caribbean red off of were heavy producers, hopefully they grow true for you.

I could have planted two more trays with the seeds you sent. Hell, I might, if I have room. Maybe be a good seller at early markets (live plants?)

Hopefully I'll be able to cover some of the electrical and propane bill, anyway.

TrentL · Jan 29, 2019

Also last year I had 5 or 6 trays of Habaneros not come up, the ones I'd got off of buckeye were all duds. So I was kind of real short on habaneros last year.

This year I'll probably be swimming in the damn things.

If you guys haven't noticed all of the seeds you sent last year are going in, at least everything I have room for. It was too late by the time I sent out the call for help to get more chinense started, so I just put annuums in that were sent here. This year I'm circling back around and putting in all of the longer growing ones you guys also sent.

This year finally got everything set up for isolation, so should be some good seed harvests, if I manage to get that far without killing everything off.

That's still one of the bigger concerns. I do the same thing for everything. So if I fuck up I wipe out 2,500 plants instead of 25.

TrentL · Jan 29, 2019

Also, anyone know of any *cheap* sources for the specialty boxes to ship live plants? I remember digging around for some last year and couldn't find anything economical.

We'll have a pretty massive overabundance of plants this year, no way I can plant everything out. Kind of hoping to defray some costs with plant sales in a few months.

We're doing wider spacing around chinense this year as we couldn't get to many to harvest, last year, and it turned in to a real problem by the end of the season. So that means fewer plants in the field, and I've got 2500+ started. Of those probably only 500-750 will hit the field. So lots of surplus to sell.

TrentL · Jan 31, 2019

Ack, killed a couple dozen seedlings because the lights made things a bit too warm for the little guys. One drawback of going vertical along the wall I suppose. I forgot to shut off the lights last night and this morning had some cooked seedlings down there. I stuck a reciprocating fan in the room until I can get something figured out.

PaulG · Jan 31, 2019

Sorry to hear about the fried peppers, Trent.

"Forgot to shut off light" - sounds like one of
my SSM (Serial Senior Moments) :rofl:

TrentL · Jan 31, 2019

PaulG said:
Sorry to hear about the fried peppers, Trent.

"Forgot to shut off light" - sounds like one of
my SSM (Serial Senior Moments)

Well, to be fair, the day before I forgot to turn them ON.. so I guess subconsciously I was just making up for lost time.

TrentL · Feb 1, 2019

Well at least it's not too late to re-plant those MOA's and scotch bonnets I torched! The final death toll is about 2 trays worth - the center most cells were cooked by the lights, 100% fatalities. All of the seedlings along the outer edges (front and back) were fine.

I went back through my notes from last year and realized in a moment of clarity that when seedlings were first emerged I ran the lights at 50% intensity for a couple of weeks to avoid cooking them. Temps under full lights at 8" height from last year were over 125F. After first true leaves emerged I raised the lights up to about a foot and cranked them up to full blast.

So yeah, should have re-read all of my notes from last year. Repeating the same mistakes sucks!

Not like I have a shortage of seeds, and still have plenty of time for a replant of chinense.

PaulG · Feb 1, 2019

Sometimes last season seems like a long time ago, Trent

TrentL · Feb 1, 2019

PaulG said:
Sometimes last season seems like a long time ago, Trent

Yeah there was so much that went on, it's hard to remember what was what.

I have a sneaky suspicion they are adding chlorine to our community well water out here. Get a whiff of it when filling a bucket to water plants. I really don't want to spend $300 getting a full test done on the water, but jeez.. I also don't want to lose a crop.

Sort of torn about whether to drop the coin on getting a water test done. A full-range test is about $300, that does all macro and micro nutrients, plus e-coli, arsenic, etc.