Jeff H said:
Love the 'sea of green'. Plants look great. Pods too.
HillBilly Jeff said:
Looking great!!! Love the sea of green pic.
Thanks Guys!
Came home tonight and butchered them well. There was no air flow happening below the top. Had a few small plants completely hidden.
Much better now, just less green.
maximumcapsicum said:
Wow looking great Jason! What kind of crosses you trying to make? Would love to see some pics of the whole pollination process, but it's probably hard to hold a cam and emasculate a flower at the same time.
What kinds of lights you got pods setting under?
Thanks Adam. Yeah... Lol two handed I'm struggling. I was just trying to get some pods to set on the bbg7s. Was going for some isolated and bbg7 #1 x #2s, but nothing would set. So a long come the neyde pollen and instantly pods set. Will save a few seeds from each, should be cool come F2s.
I did emasculate a few bbg7 #1 flowers tonight. Serious pain with the anthers down below the calyx once the petals are removed. I broke the stigma attempting on a few flowers digging down in to get at the anthers.
But pulled off a couple, and hit them with some PDN pollen.
I have a few crosses in my head for this season to make. Will see what happens!
capsidadburn said:
Wow +1 on looking great Jason! Good luck with the cross!
Thanks Mike!
stickman said:
Looks like you're well on your way to another jungle this year Jason... a sea of green is right!
I think Scott's observation that the plants in his low row cover don't seem to be growing much is accurate, but I think it's because he couldn't put down the black plastic mulch to passively heat the space. In the last couple of years our winters were a lot milder than this one, and the cellar where I started my seedlings was warmer, so the seedlings grew more quickly. The amount of light, nutes and water was the same all 3 years, but my cellar is about 10 degrees cooler this winter, and the plants are growing noticeably slower. So for me, the lesson is that the row cover holds the heat, but the black plastic mulch increases it by converting the near-infrared wavelengths in sunlight to heat inside. I think the temperature also has a lot to do with whether or not the flowers stick and pods set.
It's all good... keep on truckin' brother!
Thanks Rick!
I ended up getting the frames to my hoop structure done over the weekend.
I am going to cover an existing raise bed, 4'x 8'.
I had already put down black plastic two weeks ago or so to heat up and kill all the weed seeds on two raised beds, one which I will hoop. I looked under the plastic over the weekend and there were about 100 weed spouts per square inch. The plastic had warmed up the box and everything was germinating. Another two weeks or so and most weed spouts will have died off and a clean bed will be had!
I am sticking my peppers in pots on the plastic, so they will be enjoying whatever warm comes from the sun heating the black plastic covered ground.
I have to agree with you about it holding heat. I can tell hours after the sun has set, feeling under the plastic.
I just need a few weeks more, mainly to protect from the night time temps, so the hoop structure should work out perfect.
Will get some pictures once it's up!
Spicegeist said:
Haha, yeah, they tend to do that. Soon you can set them free outside...
Lol Again & again!
Soon I can set them free!
Devv said:
I see a jungle in the making!
Plants look great Jason!
Hope your pollination works out well for you, keep us posted !
Thanks Scott! Giving it a go!
It will be a small jungle soon!
Jamison said:
Sea of green and a little purple
Huge calyx's on them BB7's. PDN x BB7 sounds really cool if that's your intentions. Keep er goin!
Thank my brothah!
It's done now. Crossed! No turning back!
The calyxes are huge on the #1. Mutants I tell you.
And pretty big on the #2s & #4s.
