Looking good Britt! I have a ways to go before I catch up to you in pods but I can wait... if I have to... I guess.
Cheers!
Hey thanks. I hope the pod production keeps up and actually increases. Probably not though. probably will end up waiting and waiting and... stupid waiting...
Gives me an idea of what's ahead, we rrr the Balcony boys!
Ha! Yea man! you dont need no freakin garden to grow peppers! (although i would love one)
Looking good Brit
*raises hand* Thats how all my seeds were started this winter... I have a big glass window in my garage with a work bench beneath it... Bearing in mind that our "winter" was milder than the "spring" weather is for many of the others on this forum currently. I think it froze like 3 times...
I had a 4' fluorescent tube light over top of my plants as well... But it just happened to be in the right spot.
The Jiffy greenhouses are ~5$ for a 72 cell tray. Well worth the investment. They have smaller sizes as well.
yea thanks for putting your winter in quotes! Hear you will need lights if you want to get a true winter start. one because the days are fairly short and two because of Zurichs location we are covered in clouds almost everyday between Nov and Feb. it can be really depressing...
Ty Beehunter and Jsschrstrcks. I have reading up to do. Btw Beehunter your plants look fabulous
Hey thanks. I dont know if they look fabulous but im trying to keep them as healthy as i can. Yea there is tons of reading to do on here! My wife thinks i am insane since i have gone from never reading about gardening to checking this website multiple times a day for new info.
nice... podss... hope they hang on... i guess you can say mine arent all that hardened up.. or are they... some can only take 3 hrs of direct sunlight and then they drop while most are nice and strong.. i have a few 1gal that are in sun all day... wish i could get my plants to be tall and stalky.. right now my purple bhut is only like6-7 inches right now..
but continue to good work and update us when that bhut pod gets bigger and increases in #
dennniz
hey thanks for stopping by Denniz. Yea the hardening to sunlight thing was hard for me too! It was always sunny for like one or two days then overcast again and it seemed like forever till they got used to the sun. But now that i can leave them out all day it is much easier! Cheers and ill keep the updates coming
Ah, another grower who has to deal with the horrible spring we're having in Western Europe right now! Looking very good, can't wait to get my first pods, still pinching buds though!
Yea man this Spring is killing me! I keep thinking "okay now we are done with the cold" then a day later another cold snap! And i dont know the last time we went three days without it raining... Ah well its just one of the difficulties we have to deal with. Man the pinching buds stage has got to be the most annoying stage! so i didnt really do much of it
Cheers man. Good luck with your season!
Britt, plants look great. Funny you say only one pod on the bhuts. My first bhut plant did the same thing. Only produced one pod. It took another 3 months before it starting producing multiple pods. Now it pumps out pods like it's nobody's business
Fickle plants for some of us.
Damn. Dont say things like that! three months till your next pods! Ah well these plants seem to want to teach me patients one way or another... I just wish they would hurry up and teach me already
they are some fickled plants! And its pretty interesting for me to see how different the plants react to things even if they are of the same species. Thanks for stoppin in and please send some of that southern sun my way!
Now I'm sittin here scratchin my brain....I don't have a single Orange Hab plant right now?How did that happen? Thats the "pod that started all this!"
The smaller plants that get pod /s developing early comparitively speaking, will throw a few early ones , but have no new flowers forming...then you have the next phase....waiting for the damn things to start poppin, and you wait....
and....My first 2 purples last year were purchased at about 18" in 6" pots...each had 3-5 pods on em already, so I figured that heck "got it made".NOT!
Those few ripened...AND THEN 3 MONTHS OF NOTHING BUT FOLIAR GROWTH...and then they woke up in July and August, and it was gang busters. My first Yellow 7 ...same scenario!
Possibly the early initial pods are "the lifeboats" so to speak....to ensure early seed production before anything can happen to the plant, once this is done...the plant will concentrate on growing and when it has enough foliage , the real pod production begins. Thats just supposition on part though...
Good to see the pods are coming out for you! Talk about "make do grow set ups......
last year I was driving around with seed starts in a clear plastic "store baked chicken" container while I was doing some office stuff in Houston, Tx. I'd bring em in the hotel room at night to put em under a desk top CFL ....I KNOW they were thinkin' it might be some sort of illegal crop!
Man im really glad i planted this orange hab! Its a work horse! My theory is its been grown commercially longer than the other C. chinenses so it produces more and earlier than the rarer varieties. Chit between you and romy i am startin to think im not gonna have more pods till the fall. That would just piss me off.
Of course up until the plants started putting out early pods i dont think i would have any till fall anyway. And man thats a pretty funny picture. I know these super market chicken domes. and now that i think about it. I guess it would make a great green house for seedling! But carrying it around from hotel to hotel is too funny. Thats dedication!
Great info gunner - I have kind of thought the same thing. Almost
like the plants are saying "Is it safe to flower?" When they find out
it is, then they really get to the serious business!
Carrying your seedlings in portable greenhouses! That's true love!
That is true love! And i hope my plants feel its safe to flower and pod. As well taken care of as your plants are. im sure you will be full of pods in no time! thanks for stoppin by paul!
You are gonna the love the yellow 7's once they start producing. Before you know it they will all start germinating. Oh and time to build a second level on that balcony
