JCW 2016

ronaldo_fanbelt · Jul 19, 2016

Killer pods dude! I'm growing out quite a few seeds that I got from you. I will have pics once they start podding up.

OCD Chilehead · Jul 20, 2016

Your going to be picking soon. Pod's are looking great. Nice and healthy.

jcw10tc · Jul 22, 2016

Just some more green peppers. The wait is agonizing and the weather uncooperative. Afraid if some don't ripen soon, or I can't get a day off from the rain, could end up being a bad year. Definitely building raised beds and putting in drain tile for north half of the patch for next year, its like soup and the peppers are probably just rotting their roots in water.

Jigsaw - they got a bit meaner look to them this year

Brain Strain x Reaper

Brazilian Ghost

Goronong

BBG7 x Jobito

Unfortunately not EOB. But the way they look has peaked my interest.

My new friend. Finally a wild critter in the yard that's not here to destroy something. Did find a horn worm almost as big today that had topped off one of my favorite BBG7 plants.

OCD Chilehead · Jul 23, 2016

Nice big pod's. I can't wait until they start turning. It's going to be colorful.

Beautiful little snake.

Trident chilli · Jul 23, 2016

Do hope you get some warm sunshine soon ... sounds like you are experiencing a typical British Summer that said your pods look great even green ... love the little snake

96strat · Jul 23, 2016

Wow Justin great looking grow. I'm impressed keep it up.

jcw10tc · Jul 23, 2016

ronaldo_fanbelt said:
Killer pods dude! I'm growing out quite a few seeds that I got from you. I will have pics once they start podding up.

Thanks. I hope what you got from me turns out good. Most of the plants grown from my seeds are looking good. A few are definite crosses but looking pretty impressive. I try to keep things arranged in a way now that if they do cross, the potential is for something good.

OCD Chilehead said:
Nice big pod's. I can't wait until they start turning. It's going to be colorful.

Beautiful little snake.

Thanks, yeah, theres quite a variety in there, some of them looking very interesting.

Trident chilli said:
Do hope you get some warm sunshine soon ... sounds like you are experiencing a typical British Summer that said your pods look great even green ... love the little snake

Not sure if I posted much about he temps. Warm sushine is in abundance, its just that the storms come and go. When its not storming the temps are in the 90s with super high humidity - perfect weather for diseases. Fighting that with all I can, but worried if I can win this year. Even the night time temps are very warm, our summer is more like something you would experience in the tropics or Florida at least.

96strat said:
Wow Justin great looking grow. I'm impressed keep it up.

Thanks my friend. You have been posting up some wicked pods also. I am sure you don't have anything mild again, all have looked brutal. I need to post up some more King BOC pics. Theres some fatter ones coming on now. One of the plants is in the swamp so I worry about it living much longer, but the other is in a pretty safe spot, and I have lost track of where the third one is.

Hybrid Mode 01 · Jul 23, 2016

You'd never know you're having drainage issues with the plant pics you post! I know what you mean about the weather we're having this season, though. It's just derecho after derecho. Our area usually gets maybe one or two each summer. I think we're sitting on five or six so far this season! :shocked:

Pretty brutal. Between the BLS and plants getting ruined by wind, my herd is certainly thinning this year. But the ones that are surviving are flourishing like yours!
I can't even imagine what kind of beasts you'll grow if you put in raised beds next season! :cheers:

Keep it up, downstate Illinois brother!

jcw10tc · Jul 23, 2016

Hybrid Mode 01 said:
You'd never know you're having drainage issues with the plant pics you post! I know what you mean about the weather we're having this season, though. It's just derecho after derecho. Our area usually gets maybe one or two each summer. I think we're sitting on five or six so far this season! Pretty brutal. Between the BLS and plants getting ruined by wind, my herd is certainly thinning this year. But the ones that are surviving are flourishing like yours!
I can't even imagine what kind of beasts you'll grow if you put in raised beds next season! Keep it up, downstate Illinois brother!

Thanks my friend. Yeah, even though you are only 40 miles up the road, I think you have had more severe storms. Luckily wind hasn't been too much of an issue here. Heard of a few you guys had that we didn't. But the rain was enough. My big plot is 40 ft. long, and the northern most 15 feet of it is just mush. When I walk on the plastic I have down, it feels like pudding under it. I would pull it up but then would have weeds and mud everywhere and probably too late. I suspect that area will see a quicker end than normal and I will put in drain tiles. I got dirt priced, so if anything I plan on raised beds on the north half. And one thing for sure, not so many plants, need to focus on the quality rather than quantity. Right now those wet spots are the main location of the diseases I think mostly introduced from some nursery bought plants that I won't do again. And will also be more dilligent about treating my own seeds before starting them. If it will quit raining and humidity could drop a bit for a while there is some hope. When I get up in the mornings though even if it doesn't rain the plants are soaked completely with dew from all the damn humidity and too high of a dew point. Good luck with yours, will be checking your glog.

Genetikx · Jul 24, 2016

I don't know how many miles north of you I am but aside from the last 3 days, we've been in a drought most of the summer. Your plants still look excellent!

jcw10tc · Jul 24, 2016

Genetikx said:
I don't know how many miles north of you I am but aside from the last 3 days, we've been in a drought most of the summer. Your plants still look excellent!

Its 195 miles for me to get to downtown chicago to the northeast. I went 3 or 4 weeks with no rain from late may until about june 20 something. Since then for the last month the longest dry stretch we have had is 2 days. The humidity is relentless 100% every night. Every morning even when it doesn't rain at night the plants are soaking wet, the windows of the house are complete fogged with condensation. Its been absolutely brutal. Its thundering now. There is a small strong storm just south of me and one building just north. But there is one also about 50 miles west heading right at me that will probably dump another inch of unneeded rain. My garden soild is like pudding, I have so much clay content it has no chance to dry out, seeing fungus / disease issues and now a lot of leaf drop on lower leaves I think just because they roots are soaked and probably rotting in their holes. Still got some nice pods. The southern half of the garden seems to drain reasonably well so those plants are better. I will be putting in some drain tiles for sure and hopefully raised beds in at least half the area this fall, more if money and time permit.

D3monic · Jul 25, 2016

Yea it's been brutal up here as well, mid 90s, 100% humidity. Every time I step outside my sunglasses instantly fog up and I have to drive with the heater on to keep my windshield from fogging over.

I'd say in about another 2 weeks we will both be overwhelmed with pods.

You going to sell fresh pods on your site?

jcw10tc · Jul 26, 2016

Just a few more random pics.

Choco Nagabrains

Douglah

Jonah Plant 1

Jonah Plant 2

We'll have to wait and see what this turns out to be.

Yellow Bhutlah

Jigsaw

Gold Bhutlah

Mustard Moruga Brains

Really Big Yellow Mama

RedSkull · Jul 27, 2016

Purple pod is interesting any idea what it is supposed to be?

jcw10tc · Jul 27, 2016

D3monic said:
Yea it's been brutal up here as well, mid 90s, 100% humidity. Every time I step outside my sunglasses instantly fog up and I have to drive with the heater on to keep my windshield from fogging over.

I'd say in about another 2 weeks we will both be overwhelmed with pods.

You going to sell fresh pods on your site?

I don't think I will put pods on the site. I have a lot of people have pinged me already and some friends to send too. Got some I think you will like. Might not even have to put up any sale posts this year. Partly because overall production is down. But some are really putting on the blossoms now. I worry I am going to hit mid - late september and be inundated with 10,000s of pods all at once.

RedSkull said:
Purple pod is interesting any idea what it is supposed to be?

Yeah, it was supposed to be Jigsaw x Big Red Mama, but its definitly not, so will be interesting to see what it produces.

twilliams386 · Jul 27, 2016

jcw10tc said:
I worry I am going to hit mid - late september and be inundated with 10,000s of pods all at once.

That's a good problem to have man! I had a great spring harvest, but now I'm in the dead of a South Texas summer stall, hoping to have double the production come September/october

Bhuter · Jul 27, 2016

Those choco Nagabrains are very intimidating. Great texture! That Big Yellow Mama is massive. All of your pods look great!

-Adam

jcw10tc · Jul 27, 2016

NOT Moruga UV

Orange Primos

OCD Chilehead · Jul 27, 2016

Looking good Justin. I don't know how you do it. You grow some of the biggest pod's have ever seen. Got some from you last year, that were insane. By the way. You can put me on the list for some pod's. Love the variety.

jcw10tc · Jul 27, 2016

OCD Chilehead said:
Looking good Justin. I don't know how you do it. You grow some of the biggest pod's have ever seen. Got some from you last year, that were insane. By the way. You can put me on the list for some pod's. Love the variety.

I got you down my friend. Give me at least a month so I can start getting some more serous poddage going. Super late this year. If I could get some weather to cooperate it would be better. I am seeing some serious blossoms on some varieties so it might be damn late on some, but there should be an extra 10,000 or so pods I would guess. I can only process so many. The weather is turning for the worse now though, 4 days of dry, and things were really looking good, ground was getting a touch dryer, now its going to turn to pudding again, looking at 3 days of rain.

I know your a jigsaw fan, I don't think I am going to have too many this year, but will make sure to get a couple to you. I have 1 plant and its not loaded, but what is on there is even more wicked than last year. Its close enough in texture and appearance, I am thinking its still true, I have had other varieties that seem to change a bit from year to year. You probably saw the pic above in yesterdays post.