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Baker's Peppers 2012 GLOG

Welcome everyone and thanks for dropping by to check out how things are going here at Baker's Peppers! This GLOG is more geared for everyone to just follow us and our production this year..nothing serious, just for fun :) Remember this all started in my other thread on here...heres the link.... http://www.thehotpepper.com/topic/26029-indoor-grow-area-build-grow-pics/page__fromsearch__1 ...now i will continue the progress here as im guessing you have seen enough seed germination and grow...lol...Now we move to the meat of the operation! :) Heres a few pics of what i currently have on the ground in the nursery....this isnt all of it, just some pics i snapped today of some areas im working on lately :)

Brain Strain Red

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Mix of stuff..ones up close are t scorp yellow, 7 pot yellow, bhut indian carbon, choc t scorp and a few other types...far away on bench is T scorp Red Iso

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Up close is bhut jolokia yellow, in the middle area is t scorp red iso and far in the back is more bhut jolokia yellow

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T Scorp Red Iso

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T Scorp Red Iso

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T Scorp Red Iso

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Mix of stuff....choc bhut jolokia, t scorp yellow, 7 pot yellow, bhut jolokia indian carbon, white bhut jolokia :)

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Brain Strain Yellow in the back.......T Scorp Red Iso up front :)

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T Scorp Red

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There is also about 2000+ still in the grow box inside....T Scorp Butch T, Red Bhut Jolokia, Brain Strain Red, 7 Pot Yellow, and T Scorp Red Iso..will get those pics posted tomorrow or the next day :)

To Be Continued......
 
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The Howster said:
This is truly epic and great to follow! I'm inspired to buy land and go into commercial chilli farming.
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lol it's funny because I was thinking about that the other day, and right now I am taking a few more classes as prerequisites for physician assistant school and I was thinking.. "man this stuff sucks, I should just go down to Fl or Cali, and start growing peppers" lol.. but for now it is just a hobby lol
 
Your posts are extremely motivating. Nothing like a morning walk through a serene sea of green. It's a stress reliever.
I own a small piece of land that is screaming greenhouse! I'll tell my wife it was your fault. lol Keep up the great work!
 
UPDATE......

So the time has come where we are going to put some plants in the 500 4-gallon buckets with lids that i purchased a short while back....When i first purchased the buckets i did 1 of the 250 Braoin Strain Red plants im growing exclusively for these buckets....just so you know the other 250 buckets will be Trinidad Scorpion Red from Isolated seed stock...Here's the 1 bucket i put a 4" pot Brain in about 3 weeks ago...already BOOMING!!! And SOLID as a rock! This week i have been potting up the rest of the 4" Brain Strain Red in these buckets...finished today....will have pics up by saturday or so i hope....

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Also, this week my dad has been installing the pressurized drip system with the inline ferts (like an I.V. mainlined to these BABIES!!) Each plant will have a dripper spike right into the top of the bucket...again, those pics coming saturday as well :)

Got the Trinidad Scorpion Moruga seeds in the mail yesterday that i purchased from The Hot Pooper...Thanks again boss! :) Here they all are soaked for 2 hours and them in some DIRT!! Got about 700 of them going now....600 from Pooper and another 100 i already had on hand... Like my friend AJ says...if theres no pics it didnt happen...so......

2 X 288 cell tray & 1 X 128 sell tray = 704 :)
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Heres the first 288
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Heres the second... Notice the last 2 rows in this flat.......Yellow Morugas and the BAD ASS MACK DADDY of all of the Morugas...the Trinidad Scorpion "Satan's Red" Moruga!! Those will be grown out at my home and done "Isolated" for seed stock purposes...
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And heres the 128....
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To Be Continued....
 
Nice work. Whats the background story to "Satans Red" ??
And what growing medium/system is the bucket setup ??
 
The background story on the Satan's Red Morugas is from what my buddy Jack tells me (SuperHot on THP) they are the Biggest, Pimpliest, Scortching HOT of all the Morugas! Gonna grow them out at home "Isolated" and see what becomes of them.... Will keep you guys posted with pics and the whole 9 :) As far as the buckets go....they are filled with our usual potting soil mix with about 80 grams of a 9 month slow release top dress fertilizer (18-6-12) just under the surface near the lid....These buckets will also be on a steady daily LOW dose fert solution of 20-20-20 water soluable fertilizer injected through the pressurized drip fert system to the drip spikes in each pot/bucket :)

Maxsack331 said:
I would probably go crazy planting all those seeds lol :eek:
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Dude its very Theraputic! :)
 
BakersPeppers said:
Dude its very Theraputic! :)
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haha, I should stop planting seeds bending over in a chair while the tray is on the floor.. I don't really know why I do it like that, either that or I'm on the floor too, but ether way I am bending over, I should probably just use a table and I wouldn't mind it as much lol

BakersPeppers said:
That's that pine bark ;) LOL
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I'm glad I got a good amount of that in the potting mix I had for the plants I just potted up 2 weeks ago :lol: , I looked at them today and noticed that they have already grown quite a bit, I just don't really notice it much because they are all growing at the same time, so they just look the same, but I realized they are a few inches taller and have a few more sets of leaves on them, and for superhots that's a lot, and the annuums like the cherry peppers and stuff already are flowering like crazy and have a few small pods starting on a few of them haha, it's crazy, that bark really makes a huge difference in the consistency of the potting mix,I am glad you shared that tid-bit of your potting mix rather than any of the other possible ingredients lol (granted after hearing it from you I have read a bunch on it, but I wouldn't have noticed or thought about it unless you had said something)..

good stuff
 
dvdpfstr said:
If I remember correctly, pine bark naturally raises the acidity in the soil and for plants such as tomato's, chili's, Japanese maples, etc., that's a good thing.

Is that correct?
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pretty much, although from what I have read it's not a huge difference since the breakdown is pretty slow in containers but overall yes.. wood chips also tend to lock out "N" too when it decomposes but pine and other conifers don't really do it that much as some other tree types, like for me, I just had a huge oak tree cut down because it was going back in the base and I asked the guys to leave the wood chips so I could mix into the garden this year.. that tends to lock out more "N" than any kind of pine tree would, but I will just add more Nitrogen to the soil, and I plan on adding it in a month or 2 before I actually plan on planting in there
 
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pretty much, although from what I have read it's not a huge difference since the breakdown is pretty slow in containers but overall yes.. wood chips also tend to lock out "N" too when it decomposes but pine and other conifers don't really do it that much as some other tree types, like for me, I just had a huge oak tree cut down because it was going back in the base and I asked the guys to leave the wood chips so I could mix into the garden this year.. that tends to lock out more "N" than any kind of pine tree would, but I will just add more Nitrogen to the soil, and I plan on adding it in a month or 2 before I actually plan on planting in there
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Yeah, I knew that about the nitrogen. One of my other grow addictions is Japanese maples and a lot of specialty maple growers recommend the pine bark fines integrated into the soil for the acidity. In fact, one of the positives about it as I understand it is the fact that it is such a slow breakdown which releases a more gradual, consistent benefit to the plants instead of a sudden rush that some fertilizers give.
 
UPDATE......

Ok...heres the pics i promosed of the pressurized drip fert system and the buckets and all that stuff thats been going on lately...LOTS of pepper plants on the property as of right now :)

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This is one of the lines going out into the nursery...

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250 Red Brain Strain in 4 Gallon buckets with the drip line in each bucket :) Pics of the lines will be next update..i forgot to take pics of that part...i took these pics in the morning and my dad finished the lines late this evening...

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All 1500 of these plants have the drip line in them as well :)

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Also....i planted 100 of the other 250 4 Gallon buckets with the T Scorp Red from Isolated seeds...those pics coming next update as well....thats what happens when you work late into the night...lol

To go back to the drip systems pics above...the reservoir was not pictured....will be next update as well....it holds the concentrated fert solution thats injected into the main line going out at 100 PPM....

To Be Continued......
 
F&%$^King nice set up!! Just out of interest do you grow any in the ground and not containers?? Must be huge work potting them up. ?? Whatever the case its looks incredibly organised and well thought out. Nice work.
 
yeah, that really is crazy, (my first reaction was "holly ballz!) I was a little overwhelmed about me getting a drip system into the garden this year with a timer, but after seeing that, I think I won't have any problem with my setup lol.. although it wasn't so much the issue of being able to do it.. just the money to spend on the drip system (just for watering purposes, with plastic hose irrigation lines with drip lines extending out each row, I use to install irrigation for a summer a while back)

but Trippa, I am pretty sure he said he was going to put a bunch in ground this year.. but that is a good question, he hasn't mentioned anything about it lately..
 
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