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overwintering Aussie winter - what survived?

MiLK_MaN

MiLK_MaN

I decided to leave all my plants outside over winter, to see what did and didnt survive.

We do get frosts here, but usually very light. Supposedly we had the warmest winter on record ever, so obviously favourable for keeping the plants alive.

I think the only plants I managed to lose were:

- Hungarian Hot Wax
- 2 x African Bird
- Maybe 1 Choc Bhut - no signs of shoots yet
- Maybe 1 Morouga Red Habanero - looks diseased

To be honest, I think everything else has pulled through, including a number of annums, and even more of a surprise, superhots!

I wonder if having them in pots gives them slightly more protection from frost because they are not in the ground where the temperature should be a lower.

Anyway, I've cut the plants back, repotted a few, should be a bumper season!
 
I only lost one 7 pot, which was in the ground. Other than that I had 15 over wintered chillis in pots that survived and have new shoots. 8 have now gone in the ground after a root trim and soil clean out and 7 have been repotted after a good root trim.

Last years pot soil was only potting mix (I know...:rolleyes:) in 10 gallon pots, as I wasn't in a position organise anything else last season. This year the pot soil is:

1 part organic garden soil from local landscaping place, $60 a cubic metre.
1 part mulched up horse poo
1 hand full of chicken poo
1 part perlite
3 crushed up egg shells per pot
1 small hand full of slow release trace elements (not dynamic lifter)

The base soil is premium quality on it's own but I thought it would be good to add the extra and the perlite stops the soil packing down.....For the plants, it's like sitting down to a roast dinner every night :lol:
 
1 part- whatever
1 handful-whatever

What the hell measurement are you working with, handfuls or parts?? Pip fail, meter will be adjusted accordingly.

As for over wintered plants i only tried to save one, a big Dorset and that is growing new leaves now. I also have three big thai reds that i left in the ground and they have produced (albiet slow) all winter.
 
Novacastrian said:
What the hell measurement are you working with, handfuls or parts?? Pip fail, meter will be adjusted accordingly.
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You are a total knob you know...You add to your little list not even knowing what your talking about.....

A 'part' can be any weight in any measurement....It doesn't matter what the amount is cause when you refer to it as a 'part' you are saying that you are adding equal amounts of that material, and the one hand full is just simply one hand full.....

In the sentence above my soil break down I state that the soil is for pots so it would stand to reason that the mixture would be enough to fill one pot and I even mention that I use 10 gallon pots........:?

Your list means nothing if you add to it when infact you are the one that has failed but you increase someone else......:rolleyes:

So as a correction You should take me back to 6 and increase yours up one for the total fail you have done when it comes to knowledge.....:)

Aaaahhhhhhh....I feel must better now....:rofl:
 
No actually you fail because as you said a part can be ANY SIZE whereas a handful IS A GIVEN MEASUREMENT! So you would have to state how big your parts are along with your hand size if anyone was to recreate your poop potion to any reasonably accurate degree.

Im adjusting the meter again....
 
Novacastrian said:
No actually you fail because as you said a part can be ANY SIZE whereas a handful IS A GIVEN MEASUREMENT! So you would have to state how big your parts are along with your hand size if anyone was to recreate your poop potion to any reasonably accurate degree.

Im adjusting the meter again....
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Read my post again turd face....... :rofl: Nova fail twice yet no adjustment to his meter...:lol:
 
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I lost a red savina, it had two main stems and was ripped in half between them, duct taped it back up and it survived for another 2 months before dying. My plants only went into hibernation 3 weeks ago, making it all the way through winter fruiting.
 
My orange habs survived ok, well maybe a few dead branches, the birdseyes survived in my dodgy cling wrap and wire greenhouse.

Nearly everything else went ok in my Aldi greenhouse, only lost maybe 8 or 9 plants. The greenhouse also made my start to this season kick off well, one of my cayennes has good sized pods growing already.
 
I've been keeping an eye out for those greenhouses, our local Aldi's doesnt have them.

Does yours still have one? If so, I'd be keen to see if I can get my hands on one, depending on price + freight of course ;)
 
moyboy said:
Last years pot soil was only potting mix (I know...:rolleyes:) in 10 gallon pots, as I wasn't in a position organise anything else last season. This year the pot soil is:

1 part organic garden soil from local landscaping place, $60 a cubic metre.
1 part mulched up horse poo
1 hand full of chicken poo
1 part perlite
3 crushed up egg shells per pot
1 small hand full of slow release trace elements (not dynamic lifter)
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Yeah, I'm trialling a new potting mix as well. I found a post from a CSIRO employee on some gardening website suggesting sand should be a major ingredient, so I'm trying the following:

2 bags of soil from local nusery
1 bag of granatic sand, which is the coarsest they have
2 litres of perlite
2 litres of vermiculite
2 expanded bricks of coco peat
4 litres of dynamic lifter pellets

I definitely notice the mix is heavier, which is really good since I had a number of plants continually fall over last season since they were very top heavy.
 
MiLK_MaN said:
I've been keeping an eye out for those greenhouses, our local Aldi's doesnt have them.

Does yours still have one? If so, I'd be keen to see if I can get my hands on one, depending on price + freight of course ;)
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They had them on clearance for $49, they didn't last long.
 
MiLK_MaN said:
Yeah, I'm trialling a new potting mix as well. I found a post from a CSIRO employee on some gardening website suggesting sand should be a major ingredient, so I'm trying the following:

2 bags of soil from local nusery
1 bag of granatic sand, which is the coarsest they have
2 litres of perlite
2 litres of vermiculite
2 expanded bricks of coco peat
4 litres of dynamic lifter pellets

I definitely notice the mix is heavier, which is really good since I had a number of plants continually fall over last season since they were very top heavy.
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That sounds like a pretty good mix Milk Man. The organic garden soil I have is well loaded with sand.

Just a thought.....You can buy like 30kg bags of the coco peat mix ready to go and it might work out cheaper per kg than to buy it in the brick form......I got a bag of it from my local Hydro shop......
 
moyboy said:
That sounds like a pretty good mix Milk Man. The organic garden soil I have is well loaded with sand.

Just a thought.....You can buy like 30kg bags of the coco peat mix ready to go and it might work out cheaper per kg than to buy it in the brick form......I got a bag of it from my local Hydro shop......
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How much are you paying per bag?

I'd probably prefer the bagged version of coco peat, but I found them to be expensive. For two bricks, it makes 18L of coco peat, and costs $6.
 
Mate......I would say that you are better off sticking with that then, as from memory the bags are around $50......Paying for the convenience I guess....
 
moyboy said:
Mate......I would say that you are better off sticking with that then, as from memory the bags are around $50......Paying for the convenience I guess....
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Sounds like 600ml bottles of coke, where 2L bottles from supermarkets cost less ;)

Bunnings sell some bricks of coco peat minus fertiliser for like $1.83 or something, but I found they were kinda shit quality. Found an Australia mob called Nutrifield and bought 3 boxes of 12 bricks each for like $108 or something. Only cracked open my second box this week.
 
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