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HillBilly Jeff's 2014 Adventure - Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

HillBilly Jeff said:
 

Just throwing this up here to plan out my list for next year.  Looking at some changes to my grow next year.
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Bodeen said:
Just throwing this up here to plan out my list for next year.  Looking at some changes to my grow next year.
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Just throwing this up here to plan out my list for next year.  Looking at some changes to my grow next year.
 
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Another Manzano is opening and a HBJ flower.
 
 
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Great plant and flower pics.  I'm sure you've said before, but what's the parentage of the HBJ?  Or is that classified?
 
I wonder what the cowbird will turn out to be.  Definitely appears to have some hybrid vigor going there.
 
Sawyer said:
Great plant and flower pics.  I'm sure you've said before, but what's the parentage of the HBJ?  Or is that classified?
 
I wonder what the cowbird will turn out to be.  Definitely appears to have some hybrid vigor going there.
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What I did with Bonda Ma Jaques, since I wasn't getting them to come up, was to put them in a damp paper towel behind the wood stove.  The only ones I planted were ones that germed for me.  All these seeds were saved from pods Annie sent me.  
 
There is an off chance that a 7 pod burgundy or a not butch t yellow seed got in the potting mix and then germed, but that is really unlikely.  
 
It will be grown out with my other two mystery peppers to see what it turns out to be.  I will have to make a special tag for it so I don't lose it in with the other two mysteries.  
 
Stunning flower photos!
 
I go with the hybrid theory on the cowbird. If it turns out to have good flavor and a BMJ phenotype you've hit the Jacques-pot.
Annie sent me BMJ pods too and I have 3 plants. They all seem quiet vigorous. 
When did you sow those?
 
JJJessee said:
Stunning flower photos!
 
I go with the hybrid theory on the cowbird. If it turns out to have good flavor and a BMJ phenotype you've hit the Jacques-pot.
Annie sent me BMJ pods too and I have 3 plants. They all seem quiet vigorous. 
When did you sow those?
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Jaques-pot......I LIKE IT
 
I had such trouble getting these to go, I am not sure the exact date.  I believe I initially set these in dirt the day after Christmas, but it was a long fight to get them to germ.  They are running on the small side for their age, which isn't too bad since I don't want to have to pot them up again.
 
Sorry, no idea.  I only tried to grow these once before a couple seasons ago.  I got two pods and the biggest pod fell off while still green and it was too late in the season for anything else to pop.  Hopefully an earlier start will get me a pod or two this season.
 
Sort of an update here.  Had to water the gallon pots today and that is always a drug out adventure, so I snapped a few pics.
 
No new seeds have popped yet.  My guess was for tomorrow though.  A little issue with one peat pellet.  Aji Crystal.  I pulled this pellet out and replanted.  Keeping the pellet in isolation and will see what happens.  Never seen this before and I have used pellets for ages.
 
 
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Got some yellowish mottling on the oldest Manzano.  Also the younger ones have caught up to it and are opening blossoms as well.  Perhaps I didn't pot it up soon enough and would explain the growth issue, but not the coloring as all three are growing in the same everything.
 
 
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Plants are showing some awesome growth in the gallon pots.
 
 
West Indie
 
 
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Mustard
 
 
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JA Red
 
 
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Tepin x Lemon Drop is going to be a beast.
 
 
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Brown Morugas are stretching out more now too.
 
 
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Neyde Cross is forking now too.  Love the color on this plant.
 
 
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Got some more pics to put up, but I am at my quota.
 
Onions are currently taking up a shelf that can hold 21 gallon pot ups and this could be an issue.  I can purchase more lights and set up another shelf, but would like to avoid that.  Running 54 in the basement where the OW started at, and with the temperatures finally turning to spring this weekend, I should be able to rearrange some things and be okay.
 
 
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Onions are starting to pop now too.  Be good to get them up and get them moved out.
 
Didn't take a pic of the not yellow butch t, but the one plant is looking Gorgeous.  
 
My burgundy peppers are looking good too.  These are all from the stinger pod, so I am hoping at least one of these throws stinger pods.  Would be nice.
 
 
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I am sure I have seen this before, but for a small plant, it sure is bushy....Fatalii Cream
 
 
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HBJ plants, currently 13, will be in 3 gallons before plant out if they keep this up.
 
 
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Had to take a foilage shot.
 
 
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And a shot of them watering.
 
 
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Might miss my Wednesday first hook deadline as the temps are trending closer to 70 than to 80 and the bulbs in the table don't bump the heat up that much more.  A slower germ at this point won't be too much of a bad thing.  Give me a chance to move onions and OW out perhaps and get a lot more potted up.
 
I set them in the tray until they feel heavy enough.  Once in a while I get side tracked and forget them, but generally 5 minutes or so on the pots.  The gallon pots I top water.  
 
It is fun to watch them just suck the water up.  I spilled some water on a shelf once and set a pot that needed water on the spot and it just sucked it all up.  
 
I think it also helps drive the roots deeper bottom watering.  
 
Hoping for a weather turn this weekend, but as I type we are getting snow that could be here all day.  Not nice.
 
Stunning plants, Jeff.  Your grow space has really come around; 
what a great spot to house the plants until Spring!
 
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