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Cayennemist's 2021 from SCRATCH! New property

Peppers in the Trees 2021 ​
A Grow Log​
 
  I'm back! I joined in 2015-16-17 and had a fantastic run. I got a new job in 2017 as a Commercial Construction Superintendent. I was working a lot and just didn't have time to for gardening. Stress was high but the pay was great. At the time we were living in San Diego with our 4 kids and I had to put my hobbies on the backburner just to LIFE.
 
Fast forward to Jan, 2021, we are living in Northern California in the ultra rural area that I grew up in, Quincy CA. Life has slowed WAY down. We have horses and a few acres to call our own. Horses have become a big part of our life, especially with my 11yr old daughter. Horse manures was stacking up quick, we produce about 20yds of manure a year. 
 
The first paddock we built went neglected for about a month and then it rained. It was bad, we were left with area that had about 12" deep of mushy mud and poop. The horses cant be in that for too long or they will start having issues with their feet. We quickly moved them to a new area with better drainage and where left with a large flat mud pit.
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When life gives you poop, grow a garden!​
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  So I had a chat with the wife and kids and they are all in! We do have one major problem in this area when it comes to gardens, deer are overly abundant! So I'm going to have build a deer fence. The local deer are quite athletic and can easily clear a 4ft fence. I'm going to need to BUILD A WALL, and I'm going to make the deer pay for it. ;)  Jokes aside, this is for real. At around 120ft @ $6.00/1ft = $720 not including posts, concrete, screws, stringers. so this wall would quickly exceed $1200...
Nah, I'm good. I decided to used recycled materials and see what I can do that was cheap but looks okay. The  answer was Pallets and some old 2x6 I had laying around.
 
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We have a source for FREE pallets. A local feed store gives them away. SCORE!​
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  I started building "The Wall" on 1/19/2021. The plan is to screw 2 pallets together side by side and make panels. Each panel with sandwich a 2x6 that is 6' 6" tall. These posts will hold 28" wire fence on top of the wall making the total Hight of the entire wall 6' 6" tall. Can a deer clear that? I'm sure some can yes. Will they do it? I doubt it.
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The wall is secured to the ground with a 6' T-post on every 2x6 and the corners will be 6" round posts sunk in to the ground about 24"​
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Thanks and Thanks!
 
Tomorrow I will go get some more pallets and do an other chunk of fence. Being that I am starting from scratch, it will be easy to putt in some irrigation line. We are on a well so we don't need to worry about chorine like we had in San Diego. Instead we just need to be ready for a power outage.
 
Cayennemist said:
Thanks and Thanks!
 
Tomorrow I will go get some more pallets and do an other chunk of fence. Being that I am starting from scratch, it will be easy to putt in some irrigation line. We are on a well so we don't need to worry about chorine like we had in San Diego. Instead we just need to be ready for a power outage.
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Yes, but San Diego has such amazing weather
 
I need an other 20 pallets or so and I haven't gone to pick them up. I had a little motivation that I didn't want to go to waste, so we started turning soil in to composting rows. I'm glad we do too, I can still smell wet grass/manure smell in the soil. 
 
If I can get it a little hotter, maybe it will kill off some of the weed/grass seed in the manure.
 
 
 
Thats my 13yr old son helping out.​
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Going to put it all in rows so it is easy to get back to the bed areas.​
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We got a little clay mixed in, I'm sure it will work just fine. If you look carefully at the picture you can see the layer of manure that was on the top. Its a good compacted 3" thick. Another thing that happened with this soil is Horse Urine and lots of it. Our horses only eat hay, trace supplements, and salt so it should be pretty good.​
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Picked up 13 more pallets today!
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Propagation Station now in progress
New heat pad and some LED shop lights should do the trick. I found a nice area in the basement that stays nice and warm and has good airflow. Right next to the HVAC return. I'll ad a little fan later just to keep them moving around and thicken the stalks. Starting everything in Coco this year... I don't know why I did coco, just trying something new.
 
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Thyme and Cilantro have both popped in 2 days!!! I guess I need to go get some solo cups already!​
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OK, I'm intrigued to see how your grow will progress. I don't have much space to grow, so it's always fun to see how people set up their plot and follow along throughout the season.
 
Good luck! How many plants are you planning on growing? 
 
Oh man, looking great! Definitely stoked to see how it goes when things start going in the ground. To second HeatMiser, very curious to see what and how much you're planning on growing. :)
 
HeatMiser said:
OK, I'm intrigued to see how your grow will progress. I don't have much space to grow, so it's always fun to see how people set up their plot and follow along throughout the season.
 
Good luck! How many plants are you planning on growing? 
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I did this Link with almost no grow space in 2012... that was my first year so i was a little obsessed!
Again in 2013 Link
I wanted to be an organic gangsta! Learned a lot from PepperGuru. That guy is a badass.
 
This was my baby Link
 
I don't know if I can pull this off here in northern California, cooler nights and a shorter season.
 
internationalfish said:
Oh man, looking great! Definitely stoked to see how it goes when things start going in the ground. To second HeatMiser, very curious to see what and how much you're planning on growing. :)
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I am doing 2 sections, Peppers and Veggies.
 
Peppers, well I'm not sure yet. It depends on what I get in the mail. Hoping for around 12-24 pepper plants.
 
Veggies
3 sisters section (squash corn peas)
Potatoes
Tomatoes
Carrots
Radish
pumpkin
and more
 
Ok I quickly scanned thru your glove, looks like lots of good grows under your belt. I will continue to follow along and see what you do.
Growing in northern cali won't be same as san Diego, but definitely doable members here grow everywhere, you are still in california afterall
 
Well, Looks like its time to focus on the inside stuff for a while.​
Snow on the forecast for the rest of the week. Good news is it melts fast where I live.​
I have 3 seed packages on the way from fellow THP'ers. That should keep me busy for a month or two.​
I do think I need to go pick up a few more lights, I'm glad LED's have gone down in price. Last time I did this, it was either expensive pot lights or butt loads of CFL's.​
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Cayennemist said:
Well, Looks like its time to focus on the inside stuff for a while.​
Snow on the forecast for the rest of the week. Good news is it melts fast where I live.​
I have 3 seed packages on the way from fellow THP'ers. That should keep me busy for a month or two.​
I do think I need to go pick up a few more lights, I'm glad LED's have gone down in price. Last time I did this, it was either expensive pot lights or butt loads of CFL's.​
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We got hit with some of that white stuff twice this week. Kids are mad because they gotta do school ( distance learning) before going out to play. They know it will all be gone by tomorrow.

You can get off relatively cheap with t5 lights for starting seeds. If you are planning to grow to maturity indoors some led would probably do much better.
 
Mr.joe said:
We got hit with some of that white stuff twice this week. Kids are mad because they gotta do school ( distance learning) before going out to play. They know it will all be gone by tomorrow.

You can get off relatively cheap with t5 lights for starting seeds. If you are planning to grow to maturity indoors some led would probably do much better.
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My local hardware store has 4' LED shop lights for $30 each. They are 4000k and really bright! I used the Lux app on my phone and I'm getting well over 900FC 6" from the light (each).
I may pick up a warmer one like 2700k just to broaden the spectrum.
Its weird how much things have changed, we used lumens as a standard now people use FC. People mocked LEDs for growing, Everyone wanted HPS or MH and now Full Spectrum LED is king.
 
Currently running 2 of these, but looking at 2 more in 2700k​
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