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contest Growdown Throwdown 2025 - Resurrection

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i'll try and put a pic soon. there are a couple shots in my glog, but now i think there are more peppers and growing larger.

i still haven't chosen my contestant plant, as at least 3 look VERY similar in growth and pod number/size.

i believe it's within the rules to wait on choosing the entrant until the moment before removing pods off any plant, is that correct?

but it's NOT allowed to pick peppers off and then weigh the haul from each BEFORE selecting, also right?
 
growyourown said:
i believe it's within the rules to wait on choosing the entrant until the moment before removing pods off any plant, is that correct?

but it's NOT allowed to pick peppers off and then weigh the haul from each BEFORE selecting, also right?
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Hmm, I'm pretty sure nobody said anything like that seciond part. It does seam like fetching a little but surely not like something stupid to do. All I know is - only one plant's yeld should go into the contest. I was thinking more - should we even grow more than one after choosing? That was my worry because I love growing them and don't know if I could kill everything but one 😅 . And we gladly said we can, so weighting first yelds off of two plants and choosing the bigger one should not be problematic as long as we are fair.

Also, if while picking you don't see the difference the choice probably won't matter. I would say tho - don't post yelds off of those two plants, post only chosen one.
 
Marturo said:
Thanks @wiicek that plant had flowers earlier than plant #2.
Is your plant putting on new growth now? I believe it likes real hot weather, it was a cool spring & it grew very little until now.
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It does, I need more time to see what does it like more tho. I have one on the balcony and few in the polly and the contenstant grows outside under the sun. This on the balcony is a joke, I love it but it's not my favourite child. Contestant, well:

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Sideshots. And I have ants there and they did a hole in one pepper, I will have to look out for aphids as well then, I don't see any for now. SNAILS THO, THOSE DICKS.

But overall it looks fine.

Those in tunnel tho, well, they are my favourites.
I just wanna see the Chosen One to show them but it looks like I have made a bad environment for her. But maybe it's just not a perfect moment.
 
wiicek said:
Hmm, I'm pretty sure nobody said anything like that seciond part. It does seam like fetching a little but surely not like something stupid to do. All I know is - only one plant's yeld should go into the contest. I was thinking more - should we even grow more than one after choosing? That was my worry because I love growing them and don't know if I could kill everything but one 😅 . And we gladly said we can, so weighting first yelds off of two plants and choosing the bigger one should not be problematic as long as we are fair.

Also, if while picking you don't see the difference the choice probably won't matter. I would say tho - don't post yelds off of those two plants, post only chosen one.
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i didn't participate ever before this year, but tuning in to previous contests, i feel like i saw most people had chosen very early on which was their entrant. this could very likely be because they were culling all others to make room for other types they are growing (or to eliminate the temptation to cheat lol).

but i thought i had read that the contestant plant MUST be chosen BEFORE any peppers (from ANY plant of that variety) are harvested.

anyone with previous GD experience able to chime in? or anyone feel like reading back on previous ones to see if this is a rule? or do we just choose this year's rule one way or another now?

not that i am going to win, i think others have got me beat already...
 
Thanks to my dog I have now this much:

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Pepper to weight. I will have to buy a scale because it seems like both of mine broke somehow. 😒

Will take a picture.

Smaller one, he's name is Q, has a tail made of steel. And likes to work it like he was a helicopter.


Also @Bou!




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Batteries were too weak, hah.

Sorry for a pre seasonal weightening! 😅
I really feel bad here lol.
 
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