JoynersHotPeppers 2013 GLOG

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 22, 2013

A few praying mantis shots from the other day.

Sawyer · Sep 22, 2013

Nice mantis shots. I haven't seen any of those in my garden this year. Plenty of other predators, but no mantis.

wahlee76 · Sep 24, 2013

wow, just wow :cool:

Devv · Sep 24, 2013

Great pics Chris!

Their heads look like how they depict Martians..LOL

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 24, 2013

They do look like aliens! And most certainly when I do this to them...

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 24, 2013

Guess I should include peppers in here.

stickman · Sep 24, 2013

JoynersHotPeppers said:
They do look like aliens! And most certainly when I do this to them...

That looks cool Chris... did you get that effect with a blacklight or photo manipulation?

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 24, 2013

stickman said:
That looks cool Chris... did you get that effect with a blacklight or photo manipulation?

Photoshop - same image as shot.

WalkGood · Sep 24, 2013

Trolling for “like dis,” ok I pony’ed up

hehehe

In all sincerity, great pictures mon!

Spicegeist · Sep 25, 2013

What was that pepper?

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 25, 2013

Spicegeist said:
What was that pepper?

The single Thai?

Thai Prik Jinda

Spicegeist · Sep 25, 2013

It's pretty, is it C. annuum?

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 25, 2013

Yes sir it is...

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 26, 2013

Fingers crossed it can get warmer, there must be 500+ pods on just the 16 plants in the square foot gardens. These pods are at 6 foot in the air on the monster plants.

Devv · Sep 26, 2013

We're supposed to get a cool front this weekend, knocking us into the 80's.

Are you getting it later in the week?

Hope all those babies ripen!

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 26, 2013

Devv said:
We're supposed to get a cool front this weekend, knocking us into the 80's.

Are you getting it later in the week?

Hope all those babies ripen!

We are mid 70's daily and 50's at night for next 10 days and previous 10. I just hope we hold off on first frost until the normal time, 2nd week in November.

Devv · Sep 26, 2013

Chris, A few years ago I had everything planted, I usually plant peppers, corn, squash, and tom's the first week of March here if the 10 day looks OK. Well late March around the 21th or was it the 25th it hit 26° here, very unusual weather. Luckily it was a Friday night, I was up at 4 and walked to the garden with a flashlight, shoot, frost on the ground! I turned the sprinkler on and went back to bed. At 6:30-7 and still dark I checked again. This time everywhere the sprinkler hit was solid ice! I decided to leave the sprinkler on until the ice melted, I lost one pepper plant, that's all I lost in the whole garden!

The reason being the frost dehydrates the plants and that's what kills them, not the short time cold.

Moral of the story....you can beat some frosts and extend your season when it's worth doing so.

JoynersHotPeppers · Sep 26, 2013

Funny you post that, I actually proved out this old farmers tale last season. I covered some plants and soaked the rest with water. Ones with water were in pristine condition, plastic tons of damage, I too am a believer of using water on the plants just like they do in FL on the citrus fruits.

JoynersHotPeppers · Oct 1, 2013

1.3 pounds of dried Thai peppers for the 2013 Thai blend!

stickman · Oct 1, 2013

Devv said:
Chris, A few years ago I had everything planted, I usually plant peppers, corn, squash, and tom's the first week of March here if the 10 day looks OK. Well late March around the 21th or was it the 25th it hit 26° here, very unusual weather. Luckily it was a Friday night, I was up at 4 and walked to the garden with a flashlight, shoot, frost on the ground! I turned the sprinkler on and went back to bed. At 6:30-7 and still dark I checked again. This time everywhere the sprinkler hit was solid ice! I decided to leave the sprinkler on until the ice melted, I lost one pepper plant, that's all I lost in the whole garden!

The reason being the frost dehydrates the plants and that's what kills them, not the short time cold.

Moral of the story....you can beat some frosts and extend your season when it's worth doing so.

I like that anecdote about sprinkling water on the peppers on a frosty night... I'll be remembering that one for sure!

JoynersHotPeppers said:
1.3 pounds of dried Thai peppers for the 2013 Thai blend!

Nice Chris! I have enough Gochu powder put away from the last couple of years that I might just deviate from the norm and go Thai in its place next year. I don't have seeds for as many varieties as you do, but enough for a beginner I think. Cheers!