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Buncha Malarky 2018 edition

Welcome to 2018
There is probably not going to be a whole lot of action around here until March 1st when I'll start soaking seeds.
I was overwhelmed in 2017, starting in January was not a good idea. This year I plan to pot up the plants in stride and avoid being root bound. Starting in March and outside in buckets in the middle to end of May. I'll probably try to sell excess plants locally on CL/FB as well, instead of trying to keep every seed I sprout alive myself.
 
2018 Grow List so far...
SB7J
7pot Cinder
PDN x Bonda
Peach Bhut-WM strain
CGN21500-WM strain
LemonDrop
PapaDreadie SS-Good Pheno from TGCM :pray:
Aji Limo Rojo
Aji Limo Amarillo
Aji Panca
Giant Red Rocoto
Peruvian Red Rocoto-OW
Yellow Brainstrain-Growdown
 
I'm really struggling to decide if I should grow Aji Amarillo, Big Red Rocoto's, and maybe even Panca now that I found frozen amarillos/rocotos and panca paste at the store now. And the amarillos and rocoto's take soo long to ripen...
I'd like to fit in Aji Dulce, Aji Arnaucho, cgn23209, SugarRush Peach and Trepadeira do Werner, but I don't know. 
 
I've got enough BahaGoats in the freezer to last me I think. I actually might have enough Amarillos too now that I think of it.
I'm growing cgn21500 just to finally get it off my bucket list. I hope its good.
The more I type, the more bummed i get that i can't grow all these...
 
 
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Malarky said:
Aji Oro
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CGN21500
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Giant Red Rocoto
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Aji Lemon Drop
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Tobasco
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sorry for the poor lighting and the feet
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Just killer Matt! Love the growth habit on the Aji Oro, love the pods they produce too!

 
 
This is my OW Peruvian Red Rocoto that is growing in a 1 gallon pot of 60/40 Napa Oil-Dri and #2 cherrystone granite grit.
Weekly, it gets soaked in a bucket of 1tsp/gallon FoliagePro. Its has been sitting in my south window since fall.
Today is its first taste of raw sun since last year!
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Got the garden all rabbit proof too!
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Napa Oil dry, and granite (presumably gravel)? I am intrigued.  Oil dry doesn't hydrate (ideally), so it picks up oils (from spills). Based on your pic, it seems to do well for a growing media.  The plant looks awesome (and I am jealous of your rabbit-proof garden).  
 
Chorizo857_62J said:
Napa Oil dry, and granite (presumably gravel)? I am intrigued.  Oil dry doesn't hydrate (ideally), so it picks up oils (from spills). Based on your pic, it seems to do well for a growing media.  The plant looks awesome (and I am jealous of your rabbit-proof garden).  
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So I looked at the bag and its NAPA Floor Dry part#8822
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the granite is #2Cherrystone granite chips. i think the #2 is a particle size.
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I sifted the granite through bugscreen and then rinsed it will a hose to get ride of sandy sized particles. and then sifted the floordry.(i did not wash the floordry, but a lot of dust will wash out with the first few waterings)
 
based off of Al's gritty mix...i didn't want to fuss with the correctly sized pine/fir fines. so i skipped them and have had great results. I am trying to figure out the ratio that gives me the water retention i like. 60/40 floordry/granite worked pretty good this year. the granite is nice because it adds a good amount of weight to the pot so its not so tippy once plants get big.
 
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getting a little sun for the second day. temps and humidity are going up this weekend. 
I hope to start transplanting to buckets and full sun over the long weekend when i can pay attention to them a bit more than during the work week.
 
Back row Left to Right: LemonDrop, Aji Limo Rojo, Aji Limo Amarillo, CGN21500, P.Dreadie, Tobasco
Front row Left to Right: Giant Red Rocoto x2, P.Dreadie, SB7J, PDN x Bonda, Trepadeira do Werner
Aji Oro x2 on the far right.
 
alkhall said:
Never would have thought about using FloorDry. It is 100% Diatomaceous earth, if I am not mistaken. What would be the advantage of using it versus another medium?
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i just ripped it off of Al's gritty mix recipe...
 
it supposedly doesn't break down (much) 
it has a good particle size
i think it absorbs water but releases it easy too.
lots aeration. but you do have to stay on top of watering it when its hot. water just runs right through it. Works great for overwintering inside the house. I have a couple Key Limes and a Kumquat in it year round. They are small though 1-2 years old.
 
Stupid deer ate my young elderberry bushes again!
I hope the bushes grow back. they are only a full year old.  :mad: i'm pretty bummed about them now.
 
Devv said:
Plants look great Matt!
 
Very interesting using floor dry and the grit. ;)
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I think one of my biggest reasons for using the grit mix is that it makes it impossible for me to drown the plants during the long dark winter and gives plenty of aeration for the roots. Less chance of bugs also.
 
outside, the grit is too much work to keep watered once the plants get big.
 
Planted out some basil and now i'm starting another round of basil starts.
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I also FINALLY started transplanting to 5ga buckets. I had the dirt all mixed up but it has been HOT here.
Toward the end of April we had a blizzard...and now we just got done with 5 straight days of mid 90's with humidity.
I'll have pictures of the plants when I'm finished but I got my 2 Dreadies, SB7J, CGN21500, and a tobasco transplanted last night while fighting off the hoard of mosquitoes that appeared suddenly as well.
 
As of this morning the plants looked pretty happy. The Dreadies and SB7J are Thiick, robust plants. CGN21500 is already covering itself with pods and the tobasco is turning into a bush.
 
I'll let them get settled and then give them a taste of TomatoTone.
 
 
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