Capsidadburn grow 2012

Spicegeist · Apr 9, 2012

BGH1725 on the right? I have two of those going, they each look different too... well between that the Cumari do Para and the Wild Brazil, I should be able to pick one to grow next year...

capsidadburn · Apr 9, 2012

Yes, that is correct Charles. I will be curious if yours also is light greenish pods as well or if mine last year had some deficency.

Mike

capsidadburn · Apr 15, 2012

Mid April; Had a small rain shower today. I have been attempting a second try to germinate some aquired seeds. I am using Rockwool cubes for this try. Sofar I have Mini Mini, PI 439380, CAP 691 up in the first two weeks. It's been 3 weeks on the others.

Cumari Pollux
CAP 1531
Mini Mini
C. lancelatum
PI 439380
CAP 469
CAP 691

I lost the Mini Mini to heat and a few hours of neglect. Bummer..

Today's nature pics; My neighbor has a Viburnam shrub spilling over my fence and is loaded with Red Admiral butterflies. They remind me of the way a person looks eating good bbq.

Here is a moth hovering near my Marjorum;

capsidadburn · May 3, 2012

I have'nt been in my grow log for awhile and I see photobucket is a little haywire. I will try to fix that later. Time for an early May update. I think i got a little to much nitrogen (blood meal) in my amended soil this year. The plants are for the most part very green and good sized but there is lots of distortion and leaf curl on the upper most leaves only for the majority of my first year plants. I hope that the problem subsides with only watering over time. The raised beds and overwintered plants are not nearly as affected and look quite good actually but may have experience an excess bloom drop because of the nitro OD. Pods are starting to form now and I think I am only a few weeks behind last year. I think the plants look better though than last years.
Cheers everyone!
Red Douglah overwinter;

Not Bode, Yellow Bhut Jolokia;

7 Pot Barrackpore;

kiddc · May 3, 2012

pods coming up, looking good.

If the plants are in the ground, flushing the N out will be hard and will take time.

capsidadburn · May 3, 2012

Thanks Kiddc, They are container plants. I would hope for a good rain to flush them. The raised bed plants did not get near the overdose.
Butch T on the left and Red Devil's Tongue 3rd year on the right.

Trinidad Scorpion Butch T

Fat pequin (juicy thick fleshed)

cory_huck · May 3, 2012

Wow Mike... Looks like I need to come over! lol

romy6 · May 3, 2012

Plants look great Mike. Pepper heaven :dance:

windchicken · May 9, 2012

Mike, your garden is very beautiful, just looking at the photos has a deep calming effect on me...How you did dat?

Do I see a Castor bean plant? No wait, that's something my Vietnamese friend grows, too, but I can't remember what it is...some kind of fruit...

Gary

capsidadburn · May 9, 2012

Cory, Let me know when you want to visit. Evenings are probably best.

Thank you Jamie!

Gary, Thanks for the nice comments. When I come home from work I can't wait to go out and sit with my plants to relax. It is very therapeutic indeed. Do you mean the Papaya trees I have or the wild plum? The Plum start did not live. I'll be visiting those wild plums again this year with big bucket.

capsidadburn · May 9, 2012

Here's a few pics for today;
Peruvian White hab

Red Douglah

Chocolate Bhut

A pair of these Tshololo plants volunteered this year.
Great day everybody, Later Mike

capsidadburn · May 13, 2012

Here is the Tshololo flower that goes with the pic in the last post.

I am very pleased with my four overwintered Butch T's. This plant has an invading nest of fire ants that I have been using heavy pyrethrin mixtures on as well as boiling water. My concern is that I might be driving them closer to the plant and I can't use the boiling water that close.

I hope these Tepins will produce real well for me next year.

This is the east side of my garden

Some of the west side

Happy Mother's day!
Mike

PepperJam · May 13, 2012

Looks great Mike, For the ants have you tried some diameticeous earth? I put some DE in a small fine mesh strainer and sprinkle it on the soil and plant like it is powdered sugar on deserts that chefs commonly do

capsidadburn · May 13, 2012

Thanks PJ, I do have some and I will try it out. I have used it around my strawberry's mainly.

MGOLD86 · May 13, 2012

Looking great Mike! I love those close ups and those ButchTs are just beggin to turn red!

It definitely looks like you are gonna have PLENTY of pickin to do in the next few months!

capsidadburn · May 19, 2012

Thanks MGold! I hope thats the case. I think you may be right.

Todays update pics;
My first 7 Pot Primo pod.

7 Pot Barrackpore pouring it on thick!

Trinidad Yellow Scorpion CARDI

Trinidad Scorpion Butch T

Unkown Pequin (from Smiter Q) that is pushing inch and half long

cory_huck · May 19, 2012

hey man.. thats that LARGE pequin that he has been talking about! I havent heard from Smiter in MONTHS! Hope he is ok bud. Call me sometime. I am still out on workers comp, AND WOULD love to come over and have a few beers, or bring a pitcher of Ritas..... Call me man, and let me know when is good for you to shoot the breeze bro!

Eephus Man · May 20, 2012

Mike,

Didn't realize you had a glog till just now. Looking awesome, man! I love your garden setup. Once I get the cash to cross fence my yard, I plan on laying out a little "retreat" of my own. Till then, the dogs are too meddling.

Is that Barrackpore an overwinter? If not, I need to take notes from you the next time we talk. My production is nowhere near that, although getting better each year. I can't wait till I can have some solid in-ground plants.

I believe much like your pots, my raised bed got hold of WAY too much N straight from the supplier, which is a shame. They are all curled and deformed and I don't think there's much I can do about it except wait and keep planting N hogs. Maybe some corn?

capsidadburn · May 20, 2012

Yes Eric the Barrackpore is an overwinter. But even my overwinters are doing way better than last year except for a few weeks delay. My first years are doing better this year too. I think I owe a great deal of that to Cory and his friend Shawn from 3rd Coast Horticulture in Austin. The Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil, The tips from Gary on soil enhancement, The tea I got from shawn is outstanding! It's produced in the Kyle, Texas area. Cory gave me some samples of Great White nutrients I used when I put the overwinters in their raised beds. Any one, or all of these combined with our rain this year has been the difference. Maybe I learned a little from previous years too.

Last year I had a raised bed with supplied dirt from Austin landscape on I-35. "Grower's mix", they called it was very horse heavy smell. My tomato's were perfect plants for a Dr. Seuss book art. No fruit at all though. I amended that same dirt and this year it's good.

I recommend a visit to 3rd Coast if you get a chance. I have sent others there with the same agreed response, Shawn is Awesome. Check out his webpage too.

Later Mike

Edit: My bad Eric I should have known better that you already have been to 3rd Coast! Cool!

Eephus Man · May 20, 2012

Shawn is very awesome, and I too got some tea from him earlier that I dosed my pots with. Like you, I have no idea if it is increased ferts/nutes, more rain, more water, or some combination of all these, but this has so far been my best year on record.

I am extra thankful every morning I walk outside like today when its 70 degrees (or cooler!). I make sure I haven't forgotten last year. This year has been just glorious for peppers and just life in general.