Bhuter's 2018 Glog

b3rnd · Aug 16, 2018

We all have ups and downs, and I'm not even sure I would count your season as a down! My whole season is screwed and 80% of my plants are duds because I fucked up when buying potting mix. Only the ones I planted in the ground are doing well, but most of them just started podding up. They look so terrible it's even funny, which is why I haven't been updating my glog. Your plants make me jealous man! I've stopped comparing my garden to other members' gardens, because it pushed me to the brink of giving up more than once. I just see it as room for improvement now and I can't wait to do better next year. Try to stay positive! As a wise member of this forum says in his signature: every pod a victory! Good to see you're doing better already.

Walchit · Aug 16, 2018

Bhuter said:
YOU GUYS ARE THE GREATEST!

Sorry for the rant yesterday...''twas a bad day in pepper land. Thank you all for your support and your kind words. It really helps me a lot. I just get frustrated when I have terrible results and others are killin' it. Thank you very much!!!!

On a lighter note:
I have a nice surprise in the garden. The purple flower BBG that was supposed to ripen to red, ripened to a peachy-orange color. More orange but a fantastic color!!! Here it is on the left next to this PeachGum v3.

I'm lovin' the color!

Here's today's mini pull.
Cinder F2, PDN x Bonds Ma Jacques, Cinder F3, Haskorea,
PDN x 7 Pot Caramel F1, Purple Flower BBG (orangey), Peach Clavo x Pink Tiger, Cappuccino Scotch Bonnet,
PeachGum v3, OrangeGum TigerMAMP (ripened red)

If it all fits in an SFRB, I wanna sell this pull today. Any takers? Say $18?

What are those on the bottom right?

Bhuter · Aug 16, 2018

Walchit said:
What are those on the bottom right?

OrangeGum TigerMAMP that ripened Red.

Bhuter · Aug 16, 2018

b3rnd said:
We all have ups and downs, and I'm not even sure I would count your season as a down! My whole season is screwed and 80% of my plants are duds because I f**ked up when buying potting mix. Only the ones I planted in the ground are doing well, but most of them just started podding up. They look so terrible it's even funny, which is why I haven't been updating my glog. Your plants make me jealous man! I've stopped comparing my garden to other members' gardens, because it pushed me to the brink of giving up more than once. I just see it as room for improvement now and I can't wait to do better next year. Try to stay positive! As a wise member of this forum says in his signature: every pod a victory! Good to see you're doing better already.

Thanks, B3rnd! I'm always amazed at how positive people are. I guess I need you guys around me.

PtMD989 · Aug 16, 2018

It is not your fault, you can’t control the weather. [emoji16]. With all the rain you got this spring down there, I thought you might have to start a ark building blog[emoji16].
Don’t give up!!!!

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Devv · Aug 17, 2018

Bhuter said:
Very nice, Brandon!!!!

Time for a rant.

Well, I think I've had enough of peppers. Another sh!tty growing season for me. I have plants that have like ten pods, and most plants have like 2. I'm done. Can't get away from the damn color-sucking stink bugs. They're on every single plant. I'll have a bumper crop late because things are JUST NOW starting to flower. Blah. Bah frickin' humbug! I'm just over it. Too much work for something that nobody uses. I don't even eat heat very often anymore. Heat is more of an annoyance than anything, to me. Looking at others' gardens makes me wonder why I bother. All of the plants I see are huge...and I have pea-shooters. I'm just a bitter old man. Sooooo, I may just disappear and pull up the whole garden.

Thank you all for following along and for the awesome advice, sauces, pods, seeds, kindness.....everything that makes this community great. I hope everybody has better luck than I've had.

-Adam

Adam,

Never give up! I grow 100% organic and the pests are there. Along with the friggin heat. I had quite a bit of the plants give me zero because of the heat. Just work through and find the ones that do the best where you live and go from there. Keep your chin up, I've always been impressed with your grows :dance:

Walchit · Aug 17, 2018

Bhuter said:
OrangeGum TigerMAMP that ripened Red.

I hear ya. Thought you had those Tabasco x bbg

Bhuter · Aug 18, 2018

Devv said:
Adam,

Never give up! I grow 100% organic and the pests are there. Along with the friggin heat. I had quite a bit of the plants give me zero because of the heat. Just work through and find the ones that do the best where you live and go from there. Keep your chin up, I've always been impressed with your grows

Thank you, Scott. I remember you getting nil from your chinense. I just get I the quitting mood sometime and want to stop everything. But thanks to you guys, I'm feeling better about my grow. Thanks again!

Bhuter · Aug 18, 2018

Walchit said:
I hear ya. Thought you had those Tabasco x bbg

Yeah, that would be cool. I do have 2 Black Naga x Peri Peri F2 that look completely different. Here's one.

And this other one looks just like a Peri-Peri, just a tad bigger.

nmlarson · Aug 18, 2018

Bhuter said:
Sooooo, I may just disappear and pull up the whole garden.

Thank you all for following along and for the awesome advice, sauces, pods, seeds, kindness.....everything that makes this community great. I hope everybody has better luck than I've had.

-Adam

Adam,

I feel your pain! Last month, we got over 18" of rain. After you got it, I believe. Plants are dropping leaves left and right and the sunscald is setting in. Every year I think I say the same thing you're saying, and every year I find myself ordering seeds, prepping the starting mix, getting the lights and grow space in order and wanting to get things going again.

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd, I'm saying it again this year! No more community gardens for me; too many weeds, too much rain, not enough drainage, too many jerks gardening next to me. But, I'm not going to quit gardening. I'm going to try containers at my house again, this time fabric pots. Inside an enclosed 10' square golf cage to keep the critters out. Hubby doesn't know it yet, but there will be 20' of extension on it if it's successful.

This will be the fifth different location and type of grow here at the house. This crazy weather is the new reality, and we've got to find a way to deal with it, just like anything else.

It's in our blood. And, it's good for us. So, don't give up. Despite all the roadblocks, you're still an amazing gardener and still have some amazing plants!

Devv · Aug 18, 2018

Bhuter said:

II have yet to see a plant in my garden EVER look this saweeet!

PtMD989 · Aug 18, 2018

You are a year older [emoji16]You’re allowed to get grumpy every now and again [emoji16]. You do have some crazy awesome crosses going [emoji106].
Heck, I’m trying to get my heat tolerance up with eating Scotch Bonnets ( waiting on my plain jane habanero to ripen).

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Walchit · Aug 21, 2018

Here's my cinders

Devv · Aug 21, 2018

Walchit said:
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Here's my cinders

pure evil they are..

Bhuter · Aug 31, 2018

nmlarson said:
Adam,

I feel your pain! Last month, we got over 18" of rain. After you got it, I believe. Plants are dropping leaves left and right and the sunscald is setting in. Every year I think I say the same thing you're saying, and every year I find myself ordering seeds, prepping the starting mix, getting the lights and grow space in order and wanting to get things going again.

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd, I'm saying it again this year! No more community gardens for me; too many weeds, too much rain, not enough drainage, too many jerks gardening next to me. But, I'm not going to quit gardening. I'm going to try containers at my house again, this time fabric pots. Inside an enclosed 10' square golf cage to keep the critters out. Hubby doesn't know it yet, but there will be 20' of extension on it if it's successful.

This will be the fifth different location and type of grow here at the house. This crazy weather is the new reality, and we've got to find a way to deal with it, just like anything else.

It's in our blood. And, it's good for us. So, don't give up. Despite all the roadblocks, you're still an amazing gardener and still have some amazing plants!

Aaaaaaaannnndddd....has me crackin' up. Yes, I constantly quit. I'm a quitter and a procrastinator. Thank you for uplifting my spirits!

Bhuter · Aug 31, 2018

Devv said:
II have yet to see a plant in my garden EVER look this saweeet!

Thanks, Scott! I may have a surprise from that plant. I know that certain reds look chocolatey when ripening. I pulled this one off because it was soft. (I just pulled another one for the same reason, but the inside was green-ish.

Yes, that is chocolate...so far. But I can't get one to not soften up before ripening.

Inside. It's a squishy mess. But still looks chocolate. No bad smell. Quite peppery pleasantness.

Devv said:
pure evil they are..

Thanks!
My chocolate F2 looked just like that. I had 7 chocolates and 1 Caramel last year.

Bhuter · Sep 2, 2018

Time for an air layering. This year, I chose the Purple Flower BBG that ripened to Orange. It's a keeper. So I started with a normal plastic water bottle, cut off about half of the bottom, but save the very bottom (you'll have to cut this off of the lower half you just cut off) making a bottom cap for the bottle. Cut the bottle long ways all the way through. Now you'll use this to wrap around the branch and stuff soil/moss in to.

Plant time:
You'll have to cut off the xylem (the "bark", basically). I can't explain it in words, but it should look like this.

Make 2 cuts around the branch an inch apart, then slice the in-beteeen downward then the xylem should easily peel off.

Wrap the bottle around the branch and put a clothespin on the branch by the mouth of the bottle to keep it from moving down. I should mention that the bottle is upside down, so you can fill in the bottom.

Have soil or moss ready to go with field capacity moisture. Squeeze it and s couple drops come out. Stuff that soil/moss into the bottle, then cap the bottom with the bottom you cut of that bottle. (On the bottom cap, cut it from the outside to the middle and cut the circle out of the middle to cap the bottom and still be able to fit the branch through the center hole you just made.

Now using clear packaging tape, tape the long cut on the bottle and tape the bottom on so it stays all stays there.

Then you wrap the whole deal in foil. Mine needed staking, so I did that. It's a heavy little contraption, but I should have growth in a couple weeks...maybe just one. But I'll let it hang a while.

Explanation:
To my understanding, the xylem carries nutrients and such downward to the roots. The phloem moves nutrients from the roots to the plant/ leaves. If you disrupt the xylem flow, the phloem will keep pushing up and the xylem will push down. But because it's dusrupted, it'll push roots out of the top of your cut. Very cool stuff.

I'm not very good with quick write-ups, but I hope this is easy to understand.

Good luck and than you Rich (Pepper-Guru) for introducing this method to me.

alkhall · Sep 2, 2018

Looking forward to seeing the results.

Bhuter · Sep 2, 2018

I did it last year with my Cinder F2 and overwintrred the little Clone. Here it is today.

I hope to obtain the same results.

Devv · Sep 2, 2018

Outstanding results!