Meatfreak 2013

PeriPeri · May 7, 2013

Hi Stefan, Wow - all looking incredible!

915river · May 7, 2013

Very nice plants Stefan

PIC 1 · May 7, 2013

Stunning ! Marvelous !.........Stefan you've kept those plants very healthy while indoors.

Those are all at the right height to be planted out without interuption. I hope you weather allows for that.

I'm looking forwrd to seeing your Jalapeno and Bonnet varieties pod up!

Good luck with the game plan...

Pr0digal_son · May 8, 2013

Nice work Stefan,those are some pretty plants. I have everything hardened off and ready to go also. I could have gotten away with having them in the ground by now really, but I will wait another week or so. Nice pictures also!

Silver_Surfer · May 8, 2013

Ya got a lot of pretty greenery there.

Nice work.

meatfreak · May 9, 2013

PIC 1 said:
Stunning ! Marvelous !.........Stefan you've kept those plants very healthy while indoors.

Those are all at the right height to be planted out without interuption. I hope you weather allows for that.

I'm looking forwrd to seeing your Jalapeno and Bonnet varieties pod up!

Good luck with the game plan...

You are to kind, Greg

As soon when I got my setup ready at the garden I will start the plant out, temps aren't great yet but they won't get much lower during the night then 46F. Also in the tunnel it's always a bit warmer.

Pr0digal_son said:
Nice work Stefan,those are some pretty plants. I have everything hardened off and ready to go also. I could have gotten away with having them in the ground by now really, but I will wait another week or so. Nice pictures also!

Hey John, thanks for dropping by! I got about 50% hardened off now, but will start with the rest next week. Plant out... hopefully before the end of May but we'll just see

PeriPeri said:
Hi Stefan, Wow - all looking incredible!

Thanks, PeriPeri!

915river said:
Very nice plants Stefan

Thanks, Vladan!

Silver_Surfer said:
Ya got a lot of pretty greenery there.

Nice work.

Thanks, SS

Although it's not a pepper, this week my strawberries started to flower and I wanted to share this picture of the first flower. The water is not from rain, since it hasn't rain much for 6 weeks now. I'm afraid we will get a lot of rain during the summer again

meatfreak · May 11, 2013

Hey guys, I need your wisdom on an issue I have with a couple of plants. I have like 4 plants that have these strange brown spots on them, my biggest fear is that it's BLS. I can't imagine how it could have gotten there since I cleaned every pot, used new/clean ground. First I thought it was because the air flow wasn't enough that the damp between the leaves created these spots, but now I'm not so sure.

I've taken them into isolation just to be save. What do you guys think?

roper2008 · May 11, 2013

Interesting varieties you have growing. All looking really good. Sorry don't know what leaf disease that is.

WalkGood · May 11, 2013

Beautiful plants, let us know if you find out for sure what the spots are, I tend to agree with your opinion on BLS and how you treat them. Have a great weekend!

stickman · May 11, 2013

Hi Stefan, I can't help ya with the leaf spot thingy, but it looks like a minor annoyance rather than something life-threatening. Maybe you just need a bit more air circulation?
All looking good from here... blossoms on the strawberries is a nice bonus!

meatfreak · May 12, 2013

roper2008 said:
Interesting varieties you have growing. All looking really good. Sorry don't know what leaf disease that is.

Me either, Linda

It's something new for me, but let's hope I was wrong and it's not a disease at all

WalkGood said:
Beautiful plants, let us know if you find out for sure what the spots are, I tend to agree with your opinion on BLS and how you treat them. Have a great weekend!

Thanks, WG. Looked around but I'm not 100% convinced, time will tell and I will keep an close eye on them for sure. Hope you had a good weekend as well!

stickman said:
Hi Stefan, I can't help ya with the leaf spot thingy, but it looks like a minor annoyance rather than something life-threatening. Maybe you just need a bit more air circulation?
All looking good from here... blossoms on the strawberries is a nice bonus!

Maybe I'm overreacting, Rick but last season I lost a lot of plants because of that :censored:

disease. Not only peppers but all my tomatoes to. They are getting a lot more air circulation now, before it was a carpet of leaves. All clinging into each other. It's been raining the last 2 days so I'm curious to how the garden is going, should be a lot of stuff sprouting :dance:

KiNGDeNNiZ · May 12, 2013

How do the indigos look. Mine have stalled and can't get seeds to grow aTm.

Sanarda · May 12, 2013

Things looking good besides the leaf issue. I have something similar and was starting to think it was TMV. I took off most of the leaves like that and then they went outside.

roper2008 · May 12, 2013

I'm in the process of potting up some of my peppers into their big boy pots, and I found one without the label. I
looked at it and thought, "That's the orange blob". I could tell because it splits and branches out when it is still
pretty small. None of the other ones had done that.

romy6 · May 13, 2013

Brother Stefan . I get that(BLS) when it rains alot. I would remove the nasty leaves and hit em with some 1/2 skim 1/2 water foiler action. Other than that everything else looks sweet!!!!

meatfreak · May 14, 2013

KiNGDeNNiZ said:
How do the indigos look. Mine have stalled and can't get seeds to grow aTm.

All three have buds and one is about to flower soon but they have stretched a bit due to being to long inside. I really need to hurry with my garden but the lack of time is ruining it for me. I've put a tray outside and now it has been raining for about 4 days, they are started to get messed up

Sanarda said:
Things looking good besides the leaf issue. I have something similar and was starting to think it was TMV. I took off most of the leaves like that and then they went outside.

Yeah, Pia. I totally stripped them also. Just have to wait for new leaves to form.

roper2008 said:
I'm in the process of potting up some of my peppers into their big boy pots, and I found one without the label. I
looked at it and thought, "That's the orange blob". I could tell because it splits and branches out when it is still
pretty small. None of the other ones had done that.

Sounds about right on the Blob, Linda

Does it have hairy stems and on the bottom of the leaves?

romy6 said:
Brother Stefan . I get that(BLS) when it rains alot. I would remove the nasty leaves and hit em with some 1/2 skim 1/2 water foiler action. Other than that everything else looks sweet!!!!

The funny thing is, Jamie that this happend inside my growtent, inside the house. So they never got any rain or disease around them, that's why it's so strange. Luckily it's not a lot of plants but I don't wanna miss out on those varieties

Thanks for the support!

windchicken · May 17, 2013

Stefan, I don't think that's BLS...It looks more like fert burn to me. I've had a heckuva a lot of BLS, and the spots almost always display a yellow "halo."

Your mad growing skillz are formidable! Everything looks really good.

Have a great weekend!

Gary

meatfreak · May 18, 2013

windchicken said:
Stefan, I don't think that's BLS...It looks more like fert burn to me. I've had a heckuva a lot of BLS, and the spots almost always display a yellow "halo."

Your mad growing skillz are formidable! Everything looks really good.

Have a great weekend!

Gary

Thanks for cheering me up, Gary. Unfortunately more Chinense are getting the same spots on the leaves, I stripped them down. Will keep a very close eye to them, would hate to loose all my Chinense this season

I ordered some copper spray just in case, which I also need for my tomatoes. You have a great weekend as well!

Small update.

Since we aren't getting any sun anytime soon (forecasts says for at least another 2 weeks cloudy with rain) I tried to place the poly sheet over my tunnel. Not much later it started to rain a lot so we had to abort. Today when it was dry, I got some more work done this time. It's pretty difficult doing this job on your own but I pretty pleased so far with the result.

Work in progress

Last plants in the growtent.

In trays.

Tray in the livingroom because of the bad weather. The other 2 trays are outside due to lack of space.

Playing hide and seek

And my Numex Twilight's for the front garden.

KiNGDeNNiZ, my OSU Blue is flowering at this moment.

WalkGood · May 18, 2013

Nice job, hope da sun shines your way soon ^_^

PeriPeri · May 19, 2013

Hi Stefan. All looking awesome from where I'm sitting. Nice job on that tunnel and them plants are looking super fine!