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Bhuter's 2018 Glog

Hello everybody! I'm late again to the adventures of pepper growing. Seeds didn't hit the towel until March 6, so I have some still below, some hooks, and some little plants. Not too much to look at right now but how about a growlist.


2018 Growlist

Red BBG7 (Ocho Cinco 2014)
BOC (Mine)
Black Naga x Peri-Peri F2 (Mine)
Bishop's Crown
Brown Moruga (PL)
Peach Bhut (WM)
SB7J (Pex Peppers 2014)
Pumpkin Bubblegum (Ford's)
Peach Scotch Bonnet (WHP)
OrangeGum TigerMAMP (GIP)
California Reaper (Tyler Farms)
Ramirez Stinger (mpicante)
BBG Peach Ghost Jami (Mojo)
Monster Apocalisse (Mojo)
Purple Ghost Scorpion (Mojo)
Chocolate Primo (Butch T)
PDN x 7 Pot Caramel F1 (Mine)
PDN x Bonda ma Jacques F6 White & Purple (PaulG)
Purple Flower Baccatum (Mojo)
Wartryx (windchicken)
Purple Flower BBG (Mojo)
PeachGum v3 (Mojo)
Biker Billy Jalapeño (Tyler Farms)
Cappuccino Scotch Bonnet (MikeUSMC)
Peach Clavo x Pink Tiger (Ford's)
Caramel BBG7 (WHP)
7 Pot Cinder Caramel F3 (also have F2 clone overwinter)

Lots of crosses, purples, & BBG. I also air layered a clone from the Caramel Cinder F2 last year (with the help of pepper-guru...thanks, Rich) and it's been in stasis until recently. Just starting new growth and already set a pod.

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And here's the whole lot. I don't have much room...just what I can fit under a card table.

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Thanks for stopping by!
 
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Bhuter said:
How's your grow coming along? Do you have a glog?
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No glog here. My grow is boring compared to everybody else. Haha
Just Tabasco, Cayenne, Jalapeño but this year I added scotch bonnets and habanero. In the tomato bed I have kumato and sweet 100 cherry tomatoes.


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PtMD989 said:
No glog here. My grow is boring compared to everybody else. Haha
Just Tabasco, Cayenne, Jalapeño but this year I added scotch bonnets and habanero. In the tomato bed I have kumato and sweet 100 cherry tomatoes.


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Nice! I like the look of the Kumato and instead of the sweet 100, we get SunSugar. I also started seeds for a German Pink and Black Cherry. My Tabasco didn't ripen in time the year I grew it. It was in the shade.
 
Kumatos are tasty. I can send you some seeds after this years harvest. This is my second year growing Kumato, have to grow them from saved seeds. I think they are trademarked or something like that. I can get kumato seeds to germinate better than I can get peppers to germinate. Haha
For my Tabasco plant, I actually had success overwintering it, thanks to Pepper Guru OW sticky thread. Last year I had to pick a lot of unripe Tabasco peppers and use the old” ripe banana in a paper bag trick” to get them to ripen. Hopefully this year the weather will be better.


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PtMD989 said:
Kumatos are tasty. I can send you some seeds after this years harvest. This is my second year growing Kumato, have to grow them from saved seeds. I think they are trademarked or something like that. I can get kumato seeds to germinate better than I can get peppers to germinate. Haha
For my Tabasco plant, I actually had success overwintering it, thanks to Pepper Guru OW sticky thread. Last year I had to pick a lot of unripe Tabasco peppers and use the old ripe banana in a paper bag trick to get them to ripen. Hopefully this year the weather will be better.


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Oh yeah! If that Tabasco is overwintered, then it'll kick butt this year. It should be flowering and setting pods now. My overwintered Chinense already did.
I hear ya about the weather. I read somebody write today that 2015 was a great year. I have to agree. I remember getting rid of 10 lbs of superhots to just one guy. One harvest, I counted 403 pods. That's huge for me. My Tabasco's went in the compost pile. Too green and I don't know how to make sauce...yet. Lol
 
No flowers or pods yet. Heck I’m just happy the thing made it through winter. Haha. It’s been in the ground for 2 weeks now. Funny thing is I kept it at work for the winter because my wife didn’t want it in the house because the pot I found to put it in “ wasn’t pretty enough “.


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PtMD989 said:
No flowers or pods yet. Heck Im just happy the thing made it through winter. Haha. Its been in the ground for 2 weeks now. Funny thing is I kept it at work for the winter because my wife didnt want it in the house because the pot I found to put it in wasnt pretty enough .


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Lol. Booted out for being too ugly. Maybe a blessing in disguise. It survived! It's gonna produce like crazy. I'm also excited for jalapeños this year. I even gave it (Biker Billy) a spot in the good row. Already podding up.
 
TrentL said:
Damn, that's a nice looking garden Bhuter! Congrats on dirt day!
 
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Thank you very much, Trent! Coming from somebody who has a huge, beautiful farm (even during building, it looks pristine), that means a lot! You're doing so much continual building that it kinda seems like the Winchester house...never ending. Lol.
Thanks! Now we just have to go the the nursery to get our plants that I don't start from seed, like bells, more tomatoes, more peppers, squash, zucchini, and a vine, like cucumber or melon.
 
Bhuter said:
Thank you very much, Trent! Coming from somebody who has a huge, beautiful farm (even during building, it looks pristine), that means a lot! You're doing so much continual building that it kinda seems like the Winchester house...never ending. Lol.
Thanks! Now we just have to go the the nursery to get our plants that I don't start from seed, like bells, more tomatoes, more peppers, squash, zucchini, and a vine, like cucumber or melon.
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If the ground cover the freight company lost doesn't show up soon, it's not gonna look so good. Only reason we aren't overrun by weeds yet is we haven't had any rain at all since I tilled it up, lol! Even the dandelions are wilting!
 
If we get one decent rain, that entire field of mine will be overrun by weeds within a week. No way in hades we can hand pluck acres of weeds.
 
Although... you just got me thinking. If I DO wait for the weeds to sprout, then get the ground cover on *before* the weeds go to seed... then I'll kill off a large percentage of the "weed seed stock" that's latent in the ground... I'd eventually like to run limited ground cover, or none at all, but this year, with it being essentially a fresh tilled "field of dandelions and crab grass" that's not in the cards. 
 
I mean, the goal here is to peel back the ground cover in the fall and do a cover crop, but if there's a billion latent weed seeds, that might be .. not so good.
 
Hmm.
 
That's not a bad idea. Let the weeds grow intentionally and then cover them up and kill them off before they go to seed.... thus depleting the weed seed bank that would just lay dormant under the ground cover...
 
See, there you go. Inspiring new ideas through complements! :)
 
Keep in mind I'm not working that farm alone, I have several workers helping and it costs me over $75 an hour in payroll 8-12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week...So I can't get all the complements there. If it wasn't for hired help I'd be utterly overwhelmed.
 
TrentL said:
 
If the ground cover the freight company lost doesn't show up soon, it's not gonna look so good. Only reason we aren't overrun by weeds yet is we haven't had any rain at all since I tilled it up, lol! Even the dandelions are wilting!
 
If we get one decent rain, that entire field of mine will be overrun by weeds within a week. No way in hades we can hand pluck acres of weeds.
 
Although... you just got me thinking. If I DO wait for the weeds to sprout, then get the ground cover on *before* the weeds go to seed... then I'll kill off a large percentage of the "weed seed stock" that's latent in the ground... I'd eventually like to run limited ground cover, or none at all, but this year, with it being essentially a fresh tilled "field of dandelions and crab grass" that's not in the cards. 
 
I mean, the goal here is to peel back the ground cover in the fall and do a cover crop, but if there's a billion latent weed seeds, that might be .. not so good.
 
Hmm.
 
That's not a bad idea. Let the weeds grow intentionally and then cover them up and kill them off before they go to seed.... thus depleting the weed seed bank that would just lay dormant under the ground cover...
 
See, there you go. Inspiring new ideas through complements! :)
 
Keep in mind I'm not working that farm alone, I have several workers helping and it costs me over $75 an hour in payroll 8-12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week...So I can't get all the complements there. If it wasn't for hired help I'd be utterly overwhelmed.
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That's brilliant! I'm not sure if the ground cover has any effect on weed seeds, but it sure keeps the weeds from growing. I don't remember if I had weeds the first spring after the first time I used ground cover, but I don't get any now (aside from what the squirrels planted). So if the cover doesn't effect the weed seeds, then it very well could be beneficial to wait to cover. Smart thinking.
 
Went out to the nursery today and picked up the rest of the veggies for the garden. It's always fun going there because they have a huge variety of tomatoes and peppers. All of these are different varieties of peppers except for the last table.
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And here's the tomato side.
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Chose these maters:
SunSugar
Cherokee Purple
Big Boy
Beef Steak
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And these peppers:
Big Bertha
Cubanelle
Orange Blaze
Haskorea
Ethiopian Brown
Reaper
Sugar Rush Peach
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I always get a reaper there because they're usually spot-on. The rest are hit or miss. The Haskorea is like the Aleppo. Then there's the Sugar Rush Peach. I don't think this is a Baccatum...it looks like a Chinense to me. But their little description reads, "Sweet & spicey". But their drawn picture of the pod looks like an orange Fatalii. Lol. I'm hoping it IS a Fatalii. Yellow or peach would rock. Lol. Not sure if there is an orange (even though I have seeds labeled as so. Lol).
 
In post # 364 , you mentioned making hot sauce, that’s why I got into growing hot peppers. It’s actually pretty easy to do, just gotta have patience for the fermented sauces. There’s a lot of great info about making hot sauce here on THP under Fiery Foods forum.

What am I thinking, you’ve been here for a lot longer than I have. You probably already seen the hot sauce making forum.
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