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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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That was awesome Dale. A video is worth a 10000 pics, literaly! Makes me want to pot up mine right now but they are hardening under my shade cloth. Gotta hand it to you for you dedication and hard work. I get tired just working on 70-80 plants. Doing thousands is mind boggling! If i visit florida, would love to see this in person :)
 
yeah that is really crazy, sooo many peppers, and they are getting really big!

also how do you deal with the rain when you are trying to water the plants, or does the soil drain well enough (and I guess the heat helps a lot too) so that it doesn't really matter too much if it rains... oh and are you watering all of those pots that are not hooked up to the watering system by hand?! didn't see any lines going to a lot of them.

great video
 
Maxsack331 said:
yeah that is really crazy, sooo many peppers, and they are getting really big!

also how do you deal with the rain when you are trying to water the plants, or does the soil drain well enough (and I guess the heat helps a lot too) so that it doesn't really matter too much if it rains... oh and are you watering all of those pots that are not hooked up to the watering system by hand?! didn't see any lines going to a lot of them.



great video
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They are all getting overhead watering from the sprinklers until the drip lines go in this week.....we have sprinklers that cover every inch of growing space on the property.....and as far as rain goes we welcome it!! :) The pine bark chips in the soil REALLY make it almost impossible to over water them....the only downside to that is u have to keep them wet as they dry out quickly in the Florida sun :)
 
PepperJam said:
That was awesome Dale. A video is worth a 10000 pics, literaly! Makes me want to pot up mine right now but they are hardening under my shade cloth. Gotta hand it to you for you dedication and hard work. I get tired just working on 70-80 plants. Doing thousands is mind boggling! If i visit florida, would love to see this in person :)
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Thanks boss :) You are welcome to stop by anytime! Thanks for your good words about me and my dad...we are trying to build something great here.....we hope it all works out :)
 
I see you had a bunch of other plants in the nursery there. Does your family own a commercial plant nursery and this is a new part/sideline of that?? Or is this being built up from scratch as a commercial nursery enterprise??
 
BakersPeppers said:
They are all getting overhead watering from the sprinklers until the drip lines go in this week.....we have sprinklers that cover every inch of growing space on the property.....and as far as rain goes we welcome it!! :) The pine bark chips in the soil REALLY make it almost impossible to over water them....the only downside to that is u have to keep them wet as they dry out quickly in the Florida sun :)
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ohh gotcha, I had forgotten about the sprinklers that I saw in a few pics before.

and I have been noticing after adding the pine chips to the soil mix I used for the last 60 plants I potted up is that the soil is pretty heavy compared to the one I used with MG potting soil and a ton more perlite.. but it holds water pretty well, and now that the roots are more developed after about 4 weeks after potting up or so.. it does dry out in a reasonable time and doesn't get super wet.. which is awesome.. I was worried about using a mix like I made for the ones that will be in larger pots for the summer, but that is good to know that the pine bark really helps control the moisture well without holding onto too much and keeping it really wet, very happy you posted about the pine bark chips lol, made things much easier for me trying to get a mix that would work!
 
Trippa said:
I see you had a bunch of other plants in the nursery there. Does your family own a commercial plant nursery and this is a new part/sideline of that?? Or is this being built up from scratch as a commercial nursery enterprise??
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We have been a wholesale tropical plant grower for almost 60 years....We are now making a transition to Peppers....We will be fully dedicated to peppers by the end of this year :)
Maxsack331 said:
ohh gotcha, I had forgotten about the sprinklers that I saw in a few pics before.

and I have been noticing after adding the pine chips to the soil mix I used for the last 60 plants I potted up is that the soil is pretty heavy compared to the one I used with MG potting soil and a ton more perlite.. but it holds water pretty well, and now that the roots are more developed after about 4 weeks after potting up or so.. it does dry out in a reasonable time and doesn't get super wet.. which is awesome.. I was worried about using a mix like I made for the ones that will be in larger pots for the summer, but that is good to know that the pine bark really helps control the moisture well without holding onto too much and keeping it really wet, very happy you posted about the pine bark chips lol, made things much easier for me trying to get a mix that would work!
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Your welcome boss :) Anything i can do to give back to the THP community that helped me SOOOOOO much i will gladly do! :) That pine bark secret is a dandy of a gift IMO :D
 
PIC 1 said:
Huge success Dale,

Those plants look wonderful. I wish I could bottle up some of that Florida Sun,

Good luck with your up-coming sales....no need to wish you luck on the grow.....you don't need it, the plants look great!

Greg
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Ya I'll take some of that sun over here in Oregon
 
I just need to stop in here every often to get my over-the-top-chile-pepper-grow fix :D
 
PaulG said:
I just need to stop in here every often to get my over-the-top-chile-pepper-grow fix :D
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LOL :) Well i have to grow TONS of plants in order to produce TONS of pods :) There are MANY people and companies chomping at the bit for these things :)
S.S.Tupperware said:
Lookin great there Dale, weather sure has been on our side this year... That is a lot of plants for sure.
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U are absolutely right boss :) The weather has been beautiful!! I almost didnt even need to put up plastic on the greenhouses this winter but we did anyway...better safe than sorry...lol :)
 
Hey Dale, I'm ready to make another mix of soil, and I'm using more peat and a little more pine bark chips than I used last time, and the pH was more than fine before, right around 6, to 6.5, but I'm just a little curious if your soil supplier has to add lime to the soil at all, or does the pine and everything kind of keep it nice and low like you said around 5.5 but doesn't get lower on it's own?

Thanks a lot.. and actually I had shredded pine bark the first time, I was able to just pick up some actual pine bark chips, the small stuff that shows in your pictures lol, so I'm really excited to see how well it works since the shredded was great, but I'm dropping the amount of perlite in favor of about 30% of the actual pine bark chips, with about 10% of the shredded pine bark (and actually I think I am going to return the Perlite bag, and get vermiculite instead because the perlite doesn't hold much water if at all, where I have been learning the vermiculite does

thanks! can't wait to see an update of all those seedlings potted up sometime soon!
 
Maxsack331 said:
Hey Dale, I'm ready to make another mix of soil, and I'm using more peat and a little more pine bark chips than I used last time, and the pH was more than fine before, right around 6, to 6.5, but I'm just a little curious if your soil supplier has to add lime to the soil at all, or does the pine and everything kind of keep it nice and low like you said around 5.5 but doesn't get lower on it's own?

Thanks a lot.. and actually I had shredded pine bark the first time, I was able to just pick up some actual pine bark chips, the small stuff that shows in your pictures lol, so I'm really excited to see how well it works since the shredded was great, but I'm dropping the amount of perlite in favor of about 30% of the actual pine bark chips, with about 10% of the shredded pine bark (and actually I think I am going to return the Perlite bag, and get vermiculite instead because the perlite doesn't hold much water if at all, where I have been learning the vermiculite does

thanks! can't wait to see an update of all those seedlings potted up sometime soon!
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The pine chips like i use really make a difference :) I hope you have a great grow this year and im guessing by this time next year u may "Swear" by the pine chips! :)
 
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