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Beerbreath's Glog 2014---There are many like it, but this one is mine

Lets start with a list heres mine....in no particular order 
 
Peppers---
Barrackpore
Yellow pointed pepper
Golden Habanero
Heart Throb Pepper
Zimbabwe Bird Pepper
Santa Fe
Inca Lost
Antillias Caribbean Habanero
Large Thick Cayenne
Cayenne Chili
Scotch Bonnet---Yellow & Red
Caribbean Red Habanero
Goldfinger
Fatalli---Yellow & Red
Datil
Manzano--Red
Aji Limo
Trinidad Scorpion Moruga--Red
Peter Pepper--Red
Aji Lemon Drop
Rooster Spur
Scorpion Tounge
Aji Brazilian Pumpkin
Devils Tounge--Yellow
White Habanero
Trinidad Scorpion---Yellow
Bhut Jolokia--Red/Yellow/Peach
Carolina Reaper
Pimente d' Espelette
Chimayo Pepper
Barker Numex
Brain Strain---yellow
Hot Cherry Pepper
Black Pearl
Planted/Added 1/11
Yellow Bullet Habanero
Aji Amarillo
Hot Banana-----was really hoping for this one
Birgits Locoto
Aji Brazilian Starfish
Monkey Face
Aji Cito
Aji Crystal
Chile Pequin
Trinidad Scorpion---Chocolate
Bhut Jolokia--Chocolate
Aribibi Gusano/Red Bhut Cross (F2)
Giant White Habanero
Giant Jalapeno
Trinidad Scorpion Moruga--Yellow
 
 
Tomatoes---
Health Kick Tomato
San Marzano Tomato
Goliath Tomato
Juliet Tomato
Believe it or not Tomato
Red Pear Tomato
Planted/Added 1/11
Brandywine Tomato
Marianna's Peace Tomato
MoneyMaker Tomato
Sweet Million Tomato
Zinfandel Tomato
Yellow Plum Tomato
Black Krim
 
Berries---started on 12/29
Loganberry
Black Rasberry
 
 
Thanks to the great people here on THP for your donations to a noob----
 
Sicman---
Barrackpore
(and Okra Later)
 
BSPH---
Red Fatalli
Yellow Devil
White Hab
Yellow Scorpion
red/peach/yellow Bhut
Carolina Reaper
 
Neoguy---
Pimente d' Espelette
Chimayo
 
Flchilehead---
Barker Numex
Yellow Brain Strain
 
Djinn---
Mystery seeds
 
MS1476---
Jalapeno
Hot Cherry
Yellow 7 Pot
While Bullet Hab
Black Pearl
 
Hendrix1326---
Yellow Bullet Hab
Aji Amarillo
Banana Hot
Cherry Hot
Bhut Jolokia---Red, Peach
Birgits Locoto
Brazilian Starfish
Hot Lemon Drop
Monkey Face
Aji Cito
Aji Crystal
Pequin
 
All other seeds came from Tradewinds seeds. Kinda stingey with their seeds but I did have close to 100% germ rate last year from them. I will be saving alot of seeds this year and plan to pay it forward in a big way. One more BIG thanks for the help on the seeds. I will edit this list as time progresses to add veggies and more berries.
 
Got all except those on waiting list above, planted last night, used three 50 cell trays, 3 seeds per cell. For the soil, I used three 12 QT Organic Jiffy potting mix, one 8 QT vermiculite,one 8 QT bag of Perlite and a handful of Mycos mycorrhizal inocculant. I have noticed alot on here have used coffee grounds for nitrogen and egg shells for calcuim, I may do that when i transplant. To be honest this is the first year i havent just gone and picked up some potting soil and planted my seeds.  Always have come up just fine. Curse this forum for teaching me stuff. Heat mats are another thing, I know alot of people on here use them, and i was going back and forth on whether to buy. In the end i went of past experiances, never used them in the past so this year i will not use them either.  Here is a couple facinating pics
 
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A Short Back Story---
Been growing gardens for as long as I can remember. Usually always start my own from seeds. Until last year the peppers that took up space in my garden were the oh so common Jalapeno, Serrano, bell, banana and Santa fe. We have always been big on tomatoes and cucumbers taking up the majority of our limited grow space. Usually only have enough space for about 10-15 plants. I can alot of pickles and peppers every year.  Last year I thought I would try my hand at growing a few superhots and exotics. I found tradewinds seeds and bought some
 
Red Habaneros
Red Bhut Jolokias
Scotch Bonnets
Aji Brazilian Pumpkin
Scorpion Tounge
 
My season last year was probably the worst and shortest I have had in a very long time.  I generally always start my seeds in Feb and plant outside May 1. Last year we were working on moving and I didnt get them in the ground until June 1 when we found a place to rent temporarily. The plants did okay but it was new a new place, new ground, and area was more shaded than I had hoped.  All plants produced great pods but getting them to ripen was a different story, I was afraid it was not going to happen. Then the floods came, rain, rain, rain.  There were people that were way worse off than myself during last years flooding, we did ok and were not asked to evacuate or nothin. The plants were not so happy, they started to fall over from so much ground saturation and i think started getting the root rot?. The tomatoes began bursting. All in all I only ended up with a handful of actual ripe pods. I have never tried fresh superhots before. I have always been a chilihead just not a chiligrower per se.  I can say from first bite i was hooked, the smell was something else too. I could smell that all day. My wife or kids did not agree. As you can see I have not tried ALOT of the peppers that I have planted. I have read alot of info on here and built my list accordingly. I have since moved again, I now have more than enough grow room to grow as many peppers as I want, and I plan to do just that.
 
Thanks for stopping by, stay tuned...and feel free to comment
 
 
Edit: Updated to delete varieties that didnt germinate
 
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Yeah that light is badass! Looking good my friend very good indeed. You bastard children are outside right now basking in the sun and warm temps.
 
Update 3-17
 
Tomatoes got steaked up this weekend, they were really needing it
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Pruned some of these guys a little over a week ago and the rest today. Some are making a really good comeback
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Check out this guy, this is all new foliage
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Celery doin good
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Decided to go ahead and plant some broccolli, califlower, cabbage. Got about a month and a half before plant out.
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PS....JoeFIsh, when I pruned back the Limos I noticed the yellow leaves returned, so my thought is the youger leaves are a yellow color and as they mature they turn more and more green. Let me know if you find the same to be true.
 
I will BB I cut my damaged leaves off too about 2 days ago.

Your plants are looking very good. My best looking plants are the rooster spur them things look so green and big. If the peppers end up tasty that would be sweet.

We have a similar plant out date, mine is hopefully going to be the end of April. Got some onion sets in the ground and sowed some romain lettuce.
 
beerbreath81 said:
leaning towards the florida weave
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     Good to hear! It's definitely the best say to go, IMHO. I use four 7' T-posts with wooden extensions (one at each corner of my garden) and run polyester clothesline between them. As they grow, I just tie them to the clothesline using foam-coated tomato tie wire. I grew some monsters last year (like I'm sure yours will end up being) and it sure made it easy to keep them in line. One of my mortgage lifters ended up growing up to the top of my ~8' "trellis" and about four feet back down. Try doing that with a cage! 
     Keep an eye on my glog, I'll be posting pics of my garden/compost heap before long.
 
If you're running tomatoes in the aquaponics be prepared for some monster plants!  I think I showed you the pics of mine from last year, they literally grew 4 feet a week!
 
dash 2 said:
     Good to hear! It's definitely the best say to go, IMHO. I use four 7' T-posts with wooden extensions (one at each corner of my garden) and run polyester clothesline between them. As they grow, I just tie them to the clothesline using foam-coated tomato tie wire. I grew some monsters last year (like I'm sure yours will end up being) and it sure made it easy to keep them in line. One of my mortgage lifters ended up growing up to the top of my ~8' "trellis" and about four feet back down. Try doing that with a cage! 
     Keep an eye on my glog, I'll be posting pics of my garden/compost heap before long.
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Thanks Dash, was looking for some first hand experiance with this. Will definatly be keeping an eye on your GLOG.  Did you trim the bottom side shoots of your tomatos last year. Or have a picture?
 
ikeepfish said:
If you're running tomatoes in the aquaponics be prepared for some monster plants!  I think I showed you the pics of mine from last year, they literally grew 4 feet a week!
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Ya, I do remember yours. I dont plan on tomatos in the aquaponics at this point. Actually, I havent selected the plants for the aquaponics yet. Will be looking at your Glog for some ideas though.
 
Man, those babies are loving that light. When are yo looking at planting out and +1 on the Florida Weave. When i get our maters out this year I'll be using it.
 
Jerry said:
Your plants are looking really great!! :clap:
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thanks Jerry, hope all is going good in your area
 
RocketMan said:
Man, those babies are loving that light. When are yo looking at planting out and +1 on the Florida Weave. When i get our maters out this year I'll be using it.
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Plant out is usually first weekend in May. Some say thats early for Colorado but it has always worked out good for me.  Have you used the florida weave before? I get the concept but fear alot of the near ground shoots will be laying on the ground. Not sure if your supposed to trim these off?
 
update---
 
So its been about a month now since i started topping and trimming peppers, last ones were pruned about 2 weeks ago. All have made a great recovery and are getting really big. The tomatos are really starting to become a problem I was hoping to have them moved to the garage by now but temps at night are still not favorable for me to do that just yet. I was able to get all the new seeds (cab, brocc, cali, pump, watermelons, okra) transplanted this past weekend and they are al doing well. Been working long hours these past few weeks but have managed to put in some hours on the aquaponics. Hope to get some more time this weekend. Kids are excited to get it up and going again.
 
Overall shot
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Random
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Manzano
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Peach Bhut
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Cayenne chile
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Cant remember
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New seedlings
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Sea of maters
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aquaponics
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P.S.  I woke up to this this morning
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