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How to plan your grow list?

festering

festering

With the European Seed Train winging it's way too me, I thought it would be a good time to start planning what I will grow next year, but how?

How do you guys and girls do it?
- Do you look at how much space you have?
- Do you look at what new peppers your interested in growing?
- Do you consider how much space you can get away with taking up before the wife starts moaning about your addiction?

How many seeds of each do you plant?

All these questions and so many more so any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers all.

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1. I figure out how many plants I can grow in my given space.

2. Decide what do I want to do with my produce.

3. Which traits would be desirable to best achieve that.

4. I then choose chillies that have the traits I want, and also get many positive comments from people that have grown those varieties.


Also even though I only keep one of each variety I sew four seeds just to make sure I get at least one. Once I have grown many varieties I'm likely to stick to my favourites then just grow more of those next year.
 
  1. First I check how much space I have and how many plants I can grow.
  2. I make a list of peppers I want and how many of each I want.
  3. I plant in double in case there would be diseases or seeds not growing.
  4. When its time to put them in the ground, I make a little plan like that in excel so I don't have to put a name tag for each plant.
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Hope that help
 
I start with space.

Budget. I reuse my soil every year for the potted plants. So I have to figure in the cost to rejuvenate the soil. Every year I end up with more soil from the additives. More soil equals more plants. I have enough soil for at least 30, five gallon buckets. I'll be growing 40 plants in the ground next year. So space is a good one to start with.

I ask myself what am I growing for? Novelty, powder, purée, or freezing for the Winter. This year I focused on seed stock and Winter use. Make a list of your favorites and ones you want to try. That list will be long. LOL. Then narrow it down to what kind of space you can realistically grow in. I'm never realistic when it comes to that part.

I start more than I need. Just in case something happens. For me frost and hail. If, I have a place for the extras I grow them. If not I give them away to members of this site. Some people have a devistating start of the year. It's nice to give back to the community and make someone's season. That happened to me a couple years ago. Beerbreath81 sent me a dozen plants. Never forgot that one.

Start more than you plan to grow is good advise. Like I said you never know when a bug, disease, or weather might cripple your grow. It's a good excuse to tell the wife as well.

Well that's enough rambling for one post. Hope that helps in you decision.


Good luck

Chuck
 
Step one, plan. Tell yourself that you're not going to go overboard.
 
Step two. Start picking out the seeds that interest you
 
Step three... throw reason out the window and plant way more than you can possibly process or space can allow
 
Step four...... Drown in spicy tears of sorrow as every spare moment of your summer is spent processing peppers, picking peppers, shipping peppers, kicking peppers and getting yelled at by significant other about peppers .
 
End your season swearing you won't plant nearly as many peppers the next year. 
 
Rinse and repeat. 
 
look at your space make a plan how you will place them (rows / spacing / irrigation)
that should help you get an idea of how many that you should grow then grow extras
 
make a list of all the ones you want.
then make sure you cover each base like mild enough for fresh eating, good for cooking / sauce, superhot fun.
i would limit your list to more plants and less varieties. so like 12 plants i would have 4 vars, 3 plants each. 100 plants i would have 15 x 6 of the ones you will use most, then 10 of random plants you want to try out.
why? if just doing single plants 8-10 peppers of one variety each harvest isn't really that much for cooking or sharing with friends.
 
I like to get fresh pods during the summer months from members here to taste them and see if they are something that I would be interested in growing first. Cuts down on a lot of time wasted growing things I don't like.

Once I find peppers that I like, I definitely evaluate space, although sometimes that is a futile effort since invariably I end up thinking I can grow a few more in pots :P

I did find out this year that my spacing needs to be reevaluated since I have plants that grew quite a bit larger than I had anticipated... mainly larger in diameter than I had planned for.

Now the hard part is deciding which plants to overwinter since I don't have a greenhouse to keep them in and I have a limited amount of space in my grow tent. Although, I did purchase another grow tent :P
 
D3monic said:
Step one, plan. Tell yourself that you're not going to go overboard.
 
Step two. Start picking out the seeds that interest you
 
Step three... throw reason out the window and plant way more than you can possibly process or space can allow
 
Step four...... Drown in spicy tears of sorrow as every spare moment of your summer is spent processing peppers, picking peppers, shipping peppers, kicking peppers and getting yelled at by significant other about peppers .
 
End your season swearing you won't plant nearly as many peppers the next year. 
 
Rinse and repeat. 
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Kinda what I do. No guidance will help you in this decision. You have to make your own mistakes and learn from there.
 
D3monic said:
Step one, plan. Tell yourself that you're not going to go overboard.
 
Step two. Start picking out the seeds that interest you
 
Step three... throw reason out the window and plant way more than you can possibly process or space can allow
 
Step four...... Drown in spicy tears of sorrow as every spare moment of your summer is spent processing peppers, picking peppers, shipping peppers, kicking peppers and getting yelled at by significant other about peppers .
 
End your season swearing you won't plant nearly as many peppers the next year. 
 
Rinse and repeat. 
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Spot on Bro !      :rofl:
 
Wow thanks all.

So the general just is to think about how much space I have.

Plant spares.

Then throw all that out the window and grow far too many.

Got it, no problem.

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festering said:
Wow thanks all.

So the general just is to think about how much space I have.

Plant spares.

Then throw all that out the window and grow far too many.

Got it, no problem.

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You catch on fast. Rule of thumb is, if you have the space and the proper requirements there is no such thing as too early.
 
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