CMPMAN1974 - 2012 Grow Log - Started 2/26/12

MGOLD86 · May 25, 2012

Lookin great Chris! I can't wait to see them babies get put in the ground. Great flower shots as well!

cmpman1974 · May 25, 2012

90 pepper plants made their way to the ground today! 150+ more to go. Trudging along here. If the new mounded beds work out well, this could look pretty cool!

patrick · May 26, 2012

That's a huge number of pepper plants! Looking forward to the great photos down the road. Hope the weather is perfect for the entire season Chris.

mygrassisblue · May 26, 2012

Beautiful Garden !!! Your grow list is amazing !

slashroot · May 26, 2012

Impressive view, looks like you got your own pepper forest there! Hopefully all harden off well

cmpman1974 · May 26, 2012

Thanks everyone. Dropped another 125+ plants in soil today. it looks like my total plant count was higher than originally anticipated. I start about 300 pepper plants. I'm hoping to get 40-50 more in soil, but I need to save room for eggplant transplants. I use them a lot for cooking. I need a farm. lol. No matter how much space I use, I always wish for more. My wife keeps telling me it's time to start a little business out of this hobby since I spend so much time/effort doing it.

Chris

romy6 · May 26, 2012

That is amazing Chris. I thought I had my hands full with 60 pepper plants :party:

highalt · May 26, 2012

You sound like me, Chris! I started with about 60 sq ft, then added a perennial herb bed, then rented a 10' x 20' plot at the community garden. The next year, I rented two plots at the community garden, still didn't have enough room, and started planting along the outside of my backyard in the empty lot next door, LOL! Still wish I had more space!!!

cmpman1974 · May 26, 2012

Highalt, we don't have community gardens here. If we did, I'd be on that too.

I think the magic number of pepper plants for me SHOULD be 125-150 each year, but I never comply with it. That would give me room to grow other stuff too. Hey I can put it in perspective. Look how many plants Jim Duffy and Baker's Nursery grow!

highalt · May 26, 2012

I hear ya'! I gave up growing broccoli, cauliflower, or any leafy green stuff at the comm. plot this year, so that I'd have more room for peppers, LOL You're still way ahead of me though. Last year, I probably had somewhere around 35 to 40 plants, and this year, assuming everything survives this latest weather, it should be close in the neighborhood of 75 -80.

cmpman1974 · May 28, 2012

Well, they are finally almost all in the ground. 250+ plants! I have a few more to go. I have 8-10 Trinidad Scorpion Morouga Blend Yellow plants to drop in somewhere.

Need to find space somehow. There are about 15-20 extras. I have a friend with a big garden. I bet he'll help me.

My shoulders are killing me from all the planting. lol. Tough work.

Chris

Bootsieb · May 28, 2012

U love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Trippa · May 29, 2012

I can only look on in Jealousy at guys who have the space to grow that many plants ... one day maybe ...one day ....

ajijoe · May 29, 2012

feel the burn LOL :fireball:

(pun very much intended)

no pain no gain we all love it else we would not go through the trouble

keep it up Chris!!

your friend Joe

ThePhill · May 29, 2012

Your a beast Chris, can't wait to see the "fruits" of your labor! Btw, that possible Green Scorpion/Mata Frade cross I had mentioned earlier....was growing great, about 10" tall, got snapped of clean at gound level

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cmpman1974 · May 30, 2012

I definitely cram in more plants than I should in the amount of space I have. I always sacrifice plant size for variety. Done it for years. I guess I'm wired like that.

Trippa said:
I can only look on in Jealousy at guys who have the space to grow that many plants ... one day maybe ...one day ....

So true Joe. I do enjoy it or I wouldn't do so much!

ajijoe said:
feel the burn LOL (pun very much intended)

no pain no gain we all love it else we would not go through the trouble

keep it up Chris!!

your friend Joe

That's a real bummer the plant was destroyed.

It's happened to me in the past too. Somrtimes you can't win them all. I find that Chocolate Habalokia and White Bullet Habanero had a tendancy to do just that.

ThePhill said:
Your a beast Chris, can't wait to see the "fruits" of your labor! Btw, that possible Green Scorpion/Mata Frade cross I had mentioned earlier....was growing great, about 10" tall, got snapped of clean at gound level .

PepperJam · May 30, 2012

All text and no pics = did not happen!

j/k, seriously, we are all waiting for glorious pics!

ajijoe · May 30, 2012

cmpman1974 said:
I definitely cram in more plants than I should in the amount of space I have. I always sacrifice plant size for variety. Done it for years. I guess I'm wired like that.

So true Joe. I do enjoy it or I wouldn't do so much!

That's a real bummer the plant was destroyed. It's happened to me in the past too. Somrtimes you can't win them all. I find that Chocolate Habalokia and White Bullet Habanero had a tendancy to do just that.

yes and i also lost my Yellow Habalokia,Peach Habalokia #2 (that i was developing) and a Yellow Morugah :tear:

will have to try them again next season, i lost a few others also :tear:

but the ones that made it are coming back!! :dance:

thanks your friend Joe

cmpman1974 · May 30, 2012

PepperJam, I don't want to disappoint you!

4th Year Kefir Lime Tree!

Pure White Rocoto - Vallarta Mkt - ML (C. pub) - we can only hope!

Black Super Hot F1 - AISPES (C. chin)

PepperJam · May 30, 2012

Wowwwww, looks awesome! Thanks for the picture update. Since you have wire fencing, what do your neighbors think of all those peppers? I know i would be "inspecting" them for you every day