Karoo 2017/2018 glog

New season, new things.
My biggest challenges growing peppers in our climate are heat , drought and birds eating peppers and plants.
Biggest advantages are heat and a longer season and good soil and homemade compost.
So I have devised a plan , an all in one raised beds , drip irrigation, shade net and birdproof pepper patch.

Extensive planning have led to this.

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[karoo]

Thank you fellow chiliheads .
 
Sorry , can't help with the pictures, Extreme membership makes it easier , made me lazy.

 

[karoo]

Just found this visitor to my veggie garden on my lunchtime break.
African mountain tortoise.
Smaller one, about 40 cm long and 30 cm high. They are slow , but have a big appetite for anything green.
Good thing I have raised beds.

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[karoo]

Always difficult this time of the season , waiting for pods to ripen.
 
First up my cross Malawi Piquant( Peppedew) x Aji Lemon F1 , decided to take more of the fathers shape , I wonder what colour it will be.

 
Yellow Jalapeno , first poppers just around the corner . I will let these ripen to check out the colour and then eat the rest green.

 
I have a lot of new Baccatums that I cannot wait to taste.
Sugar rush peach.
 

 

 
Not an Aji Amarillo But still great plant

 

 
 
 
 
 

 

[PaulG]

SA looks like a great place to grow peppers, Jacques!
You really have it dialed in.   Great looking grow so far - can't
wait to see how it develops!  That Aji Amarillo is quite a bush,
very true to ahi a. growth habit - big leaves, lots of lateral
branches!!
 
Good luck heading into Summer!

 

[karoo]

SA looks like a great place to grow peppers, Jacques!
You really have it dialed in.   Great looking grow so far - can't
wait to see how it develops!  That Aji Amarillo is quite a bush,
very true to ahi a. growth habit - big leaves, lots of lateral
branches!!
 
Good luck heading into Summer!

Thank you Paul,
at the moment my raised beds are a crazy mix of peppers , carrots, radishes , tomatoes and eggplants.
The carrots and radish won't be replaced as I harvest them to make space for the peppers. 40% shadenet/birdnet is up .
 

 

 

[KAOS]

Garden is looking super Jaques.
 
I think you in for a bumper crop with your new raised garden beds.

 

[karoo]

Garden is looking super Jaques.
 
I think you in for a bumper crop with your new raised garden beds.

Thank you ,
I have to look back to page one of the glog to remind me how it all started.
So many pods , such slow ripening!

 

[ThatBlondGuy101]

Wow, beds look stunning! A busy garden is a happy garden!
 
Keep it up, TBG.

 

[karoo]

I took my two favourite peppers from last season and did a cross.
Malawi piquant (peppadew) X Aji Lemon . This from last season.
 

 
The results so far are amazing , excellent fast growing and productive plants.
Big pods that are a good mix of the two peppers , almost a Aji Fantasy pheno.
 What do you think will be the final colour?

 

 
Some Black Zebra Toms
 

 
 
 

 

[Sinn]

That crops looks amazing [emoji41]


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[Trident chilli]

Chilli garden heaven... great harvest wishing you all the best for the rest of your season

 

[ThatBlondGuy101]

I took my two favourite peppers from last season and did a cross.
Malawi piquant (peppadew) X Aji Lemon . This from last season.
 
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The results so far are amazing , excellent fast growing and productive plants.
Big pods that are a good mix of the two peppers , almost a Aji Fantasy pheno.
 What do you think will be the final colour?
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Some Black Zebra Toms
 
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Hard to say what the colour will be, green doesn't look light enough for a yellow, but it does happen. My bets on Red. Everything looking great (as usual), making me jealous!

 

[karoo]

That crops looks amazing [emoji41]


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Chilli garden heaven... great harvest wishing you all the best for the rest of your season

 
 

Hard to say what the colour will be, green doesn't look light enough for a yellow, but it does happen. My bets on Red. Everything looking great (as usual), making me jealous!

Thank you guys .
I can't wait to see some colour.

 

[karoo]

Still waiting for colour, the most difficult ones to predict are the light coloured pods like white , cream and peach.
 
Still my favourite plant is one that turned out not to be true so I just call him "This is NOT the road to Amarillo".
It is Baccatum , maybe an Aji Fantacy cream or white or a Sugar rush cream.

 
Aji valle de canca in the corner , flanked by Not Amarillos.
 

 
Sugar rush peach
 

 
Nice big Jalapenos.
 

 
Hopefully these will turn to Orange and be Amarillos
 

 
 
 

 

[mrwrx]

Looking good

 

[PaulG]

The  Aji valle de canca in the corner sure looks
more like a typical Aji - big and rangy, wants to be a tree!

 

[karoo]

Looking good

Thank you.


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[karoo]

The  Aji valle de canca in the corner sure looks
more like a typical Aji - big and rangy, wants to be a tree!

Yes,
And surprisingly strong for such a tall plant.

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[Devv]

All I can say is well done!
 
What are your current temps?

 

[Swamptrout]

Love the look of those sugar rush'