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AJs Plantout Has Begun...

Nice pictorial, AJ.

Have the fires subsided?

Where are you growing in Mississippi? I have 7 acres N. of my hometown Natchez where my Dad lives.....
 
mmcdermott1 said:
Well the wife and I should be on our way to success thanks to the great folks on here. We started using all the above this season! Thanks for the great info AJ
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just a note ya'll...I only use the botanicare products until plantout...growing as many plants as I do, it get's expensive to feed them on a regular basis...I first year I used them, I used them almost exclusively and that got expensive when you use 75 gallons per day during the regular grow season...the only time I use any more botanicare products is if a plant needs something...otherwise they get miracle grow tomato food once every 10 days or so...then after the hot spell subsides about the last of August or first of September, I will hit them a couple of times with probloom, calmag plus, and liquid karma

Bob_B said:
Nice pictorial, AJ.

Have the fires subsided?

Where are you growing in Mississippi? I have 7 acres N. of my hometown Natchez where my Dad lives.....
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thanks Bob...

the Possum Kingdom fire is really the only one I am watching and it is about 50% contained (so they say)after yesterday...got some bad weather coming thru today and tomorrow....maybe will get some gentle rain that is so badly needed...

Ever heard of Rocky Creek, Mississippi?...right outside of Lucedale down in George/Greene county...same place as my GGG Grandfather Charles Pinckney Eubanks and all his 14 younguns lived in the early 1800s...GGG Charlie came to Miss from South Carolina and was named after the govenor of SC probable because the govenor gave my GGGG William and GGGGG John some land there...GGGGG John was an ensign later promoted to Lieutenant while fighting with Francis Marion (the swamp fox and real person that "The Patriot" was based on)

sorry to ramble...ifd you dont' mind me asking Bob...how old are you?
 
I'll bite Patrick....why?
 
AJ, you know I consider you among the pepper growing divinity :rofl:

As always, outstanding :dance:


The thing I dont like abt the smart pots is they seem to be to shalllow for my liking. Also, no handles!
The need to move plants around is important for me... though in your case that would be a full time job in itself, made even harder with your watering system. :lol:
Will wait to see your verdict on these.

Using the Gro Pots for my larger plants ans the speed at which they dryout amazes me :eek: easy enough to bottom water by setting them in a 20 gallon plastic wash container.
 
millworkman said:
Looking good AJ. Cant wait for the videos this summer.
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thanks mwm...the videos will start once I complete plantout and I am going to try and do a monthly update this year...that will give me about 6 or 7 thru the season and can document the growth of all the plants...


Alphaeon said:
AJ, you know I consider you among the pepper growing divinity :rofl:

As always, outstanding :dance:


The thing I dont like abt the smart pots is they seem to be to shalllow for my liking. Also, no handles!
The need to move plants around is important for me... though in your case that would be a full time job in itself, made even harder with your watering system. :lol:
Will wait to see your verdict on these.

Using the Gro Pots for my larger plants ans the speed at which they dryout amazes me :eek: easy enough to bottom water by setting them in a 20 gallon plastic wash container.
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hmmmmm...never been called divinity before...isn't that white candy at christmas time?... :rofl: thank you sir...

once these are in place with the drip fertigation run to them, they are where they will be come first freeze and second freeze and thi...well you get the idea...

Alph man, you got to at least try a few plants on drip fertigation...you won't ever grow any other way...I promise you...and it isn't that expensive either...drippers are about 50 cents each, 1/2" pvc is about 12 cents a foot...the biggest investment is the fertigation system but for a small garden you can get away with less than $50...just sayin'....
 
patrick said:
Too funny. I'm asking you bro!
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I am giggling so hard my glasses are shaking...I thought you were going to tell ME...

Linda and I have lived here for 11 years...I have watched this time after time after time...we live less than a mile from the highest point in Tarrant county...the area leading to that highest point is shaped like an arrow with creeks running along the edges of the arrow head..to the west of us there are rolling gentle hills for about 60-70 miles...when the storms come in from any west direction, they hit a sudden drop off in elevation...some places over 200 feet...I think it drops the pressure in the system enough for the "wedge" I live on to split the storms due to pressure differential... I am basing my theory on bernoullis principle and the associated pressure drop/differentials...where I am doesn't see that drop thus making my location a higher pressure than down in the valleys and "pushing" the system away from me
do you guys think I'm nuts?
 
AJ I think you are exactly right. My parents live on the second highest point in Johnson county and the bad stuff ALWAYS goes around. The bad storm yesterday that might have been a twister....it was on track to hit dead center over them. It curled to the south at the last minute even though the storm had been coming straight for two counties before that. Its a combo of the elevation and the fact we are both JUST outside of the big city and all that extra heat from the concrete jungle.

Good to see you are doing well with all the bad weather! Still scratching my head on how I'm so far behind growth wise when I feed the same stuff..... Gotta be the hoophouse. I have to bring mine in when it gets nasty because they have no cover of any sorts.
 
+1 AJ
Same reason the big mountain ranges can be dry on one side and flooding on the other. High points unlike whole mountain ranges can be gone around so good protection for you.
 
doin' fine, thanks for asking...got some nickel/quarter size hail that the plants not under shade cloth didn't like...they actually took a beating...

just high wind and hail yesterday...less than 1/4" of rain...
 
first video of the season will be coming this week sometime when I get the yard cleaned up...grass is almost knee high right now since we have gotten 8" of rain in the past 10 days...too wet to cut right now...I just looked at the plants and a bunch of them are shredded...thats cool...new growth will come in droves and the more new growth, the more nodes, the more pods...so I don't mind...they will grow despite my efforts...
 
AlabamaJack said:
just a note ya'll...I only use the botanicare products until plantout...growing as many plants as I do, it get's expensive to feed them on a regular basis...I first year I used them, I used them almost exclusively and that got expensive when you use 75 gallons per day during the regular grow season...the only time I use any more botanicare products is if a plant needs something...otherwise they get miracle grow tomato food once every 10 days or so...then after the hot spell subsides about the last of August or first of September, I will hit them a couple of times with probloom, calmag plus, and liquid karma

Glad to hear that AJ. I was wondering about that. I fed last week and went through a LOT of progro and karma. That would get very expensive to do that all summer.
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