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Canedog Offseason Season 2022/23

Well, shoot. I don't know that I should start a new glog with as poor as I was about updating my last one, but here it goes. My offseason season started late, with most of my plants being probably four to six weeks old now. I'll start by posting a few of the newer ones.

This guy is an Oxkutzcab/Oxkutzcabian Orange Habanero. I have three of these growing and a couple Caribbean Red Habanero that are smaller. The Oxkutzcab seem to be out-pacing the reds, but they've also been around a little longer. In this pic I particularly like the transition in the stem at the cotyledons.
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@HeatMiser sent me some of his wild texas tepin seeds - what, a couple years ago now? - and I've been trying to grow the variety to production ever since. The seeds were collected off a wild-growing bush in 2014 and still sprout just fine. I have three of the plants growing that I've overwintered, but it's been a very long-season variety for me here in the pnw and between that and the impact of an aphid infestation last winter I haven't yet gotten any of them to ripe pods. I started this new one with the idea of getting it well-established inside and hopefully it will be mature enough to produce by next season. I may just keep it inside until it does.
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Aji Guyana. I've grow this variety for a couple seasons now after Wiri Wiri shared seeds with me. I always end up topping it, so I got that out of the way early this time. I'm hoping once will be enough, but if it gets unruly it may end up seeing the scissors again. Great production out of these and pretty early for a baccatum.
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This is a second generation (with me) ollantaytambo amarillo rocoto. I was hoping the parent's pods would be more pale that they were, but it produced great-looking yellow pods this summer, which I thought had great flavor. I'm curious whether this next generation's pods will be unchanged, plus it's likely getting crossed with one or two other rocotos I have growing now that are close to the same age.
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Uvalde Pequin, from @CraftyFox - thanks man! It looked a little rough when it first came up, but it's looking much stronger now.
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I'm working with several mexican culinary varieties, growing given varieties from multiple sources and in different variations to find out what I like best. Pasilla Oaxaca, Pasilla Negro Bahia, and Guajillo are among them. These guys are the most recent sprouts. The others have been growing a while and are more established.

Guajillo
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Pasilla Oaxaca
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Pasilla Negro Bahia
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I'll close with this guy. I thought I'd run out of the orange arequipa rocoto seeds I'd acquired a couple years back, but I found one scraggly seed in the corner of a seed baggie and that scraggly seed has turned into this scraggly young plant. When it germinated I thought the roots might not be strong enough for it to survive, but I've tried to water it just right and it keeps getting stronger day-by-day. If it keeps improving like it has it might make a good match for the ollantaytambo amarillo rocoto.
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CaneDog

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Very nice!
Thanks, Marc. My starts have been hardening off pretty well during our recent heat, though the real test will be today and the next couple days. Hope yours are doing well too and not suffering too much since you recently put them out.
Top notch grow all around, CD! The deck shot is most impressive, and the portrait gallery on the last page is especially awesome. You have been busy, my friend!
Thanks, Paul. The heat's come early this year. We'll be hitting 90F today and it looks like it's even hotter down where you are. Not much of a Spring to adjust. Hope you and the plants are keeping cool.
 

CaneDog

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I got out and cleared the community garden plots yesterday. They were quite overgrown, but after about 7 hours of labor they're ready to move forward. I even got some tomatoes and tomatillos into the raised beds. The majority of the peppers are hardened off and I'll be transplanting them over the course of the next week or so, using spot/hole amendment versus broad distribution.

This year was surprisingly cooperative for hardening off the nightshades. Usually, we get a hard spike of hot weather over a few days, then it dips to cold again, then hot, and it's challenging to get the plants adjusted. This year, we just finished a solid 10 day stretch of warm-to-hot weather and warm nights and they all adjusted without issue. And, as if that weren't enough, it cooled off yesterday so I'll be transplanting into warm soil, but moderate conditions, so the chiles shouldn't be stressed. Sure wish it were that way every year!

Peppers only plot - 400 square feet/37 square meters.
2023-05-21 Plot #2.jpg


Mixed use plot - same dimensions
2023-05-21 Plot #1.jpg


And finally, I harvested a few isolated ripe pods off the chile rayado and collected the seeds. I plan to mark the unripe pods and perhaps I'll let a few more set over the next couple days, then I plan to sink it into one of the raised beds for production.
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With the plots getting going, I suppose it's about time to put the off-season glog to rest and start up a main season glog.

Guess I'll add that to my to-do list :)
 
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