MeatHead 2015-

MeatHead1313 · Jan 13, 2015

Matthew_293 said:
Did you go fly fishing? That's my other hobby haha, trout love crayfish patterns from my experience

Nah I was just spinning. Have seen a few out there with fly rods though.

East Texas Heat · Jan 14, 2015

I had the same purple hue on my moa seedlings I think I originally had the lights too close but I've moved the plants a bit further and added more lights at a distance, newer growth seems less purple. It seemed to be the worst on a couple moa's and all my reapers, but most others seem green. I think my deal was not enough light focused on a small area, just my .02

Devv · Jan 14, 2015

Things are looking good Chris!

Those OW's will come back hopefully; wow 24°, we only got as low as 29° here.

windchicken · Jan 15, 2015

Looks like you're off to a strong start in your new place, Chris! How long did it take that rainwater in the photo in Post #1 to run off? My yard is in a river valley, too, and a hard rain will do much the same, but after an hour or so it will be gone....

MeatHead1313 · Jan 15, 2015

East Texas Heat said:
I had the same purple hue on my moa seedlings I think I originally had the lights too close but I've moved the plants a bit further and added more lights at a distance, newer growth seems less purple. It seemed to be the worst on a couple moa's and all my reapers, but most others seem green. I think my deal was not enough light focused on a small area, just my .02

Thanks ETH! I gave the seedlings a very diluted feed 2 nights ago, and the purpling has pretty much gone away. Seems it may have been a nutrient deficiency. I used Fox Farms light warrior last year which has worm castings and other good stuff in it, so didn't realise I needed to hit nutes already in coir til I saw Blister's glog. It's all a learning curve for me!

Devv said:
Things are looking good Chris!

Those OW's will come back hopefully; wow 24°, we only got as low as 29° here.

Thanks Scott. Yeah the 24 was bad enough, but the wind chill made it even worse. Glad I had one day off in those temps so I could stay inside! Lol.
Thinking of trimming the OW's back more and bringing them inside for the rest of the winter. If I rearrange our lounge room I've got room in front of a nice size south facing window I can use. Just hoping they'll be ok with no leaves though. Yet another learning curve for me.

windchicken said:
Looks like you're off to a strong start in your new place, Chris! How long did it take that rainwater in the photo in Post #1 to run off? My yard is in a river valley, too, and a hard rain will do much the same, but after an hour or so it will be gone....

Thanks Gary! No chance of run off here, all the land around us is flat. With clear skies it soaks in/evaporates within a couple of days, but still end up with areas that hold water longer. Need to do some serious of the soil here. I'm pretty sure there's very limited beneficial soil life as there's still remnants of dead grass from mowing a couple of months ago. Nothing breaks down on top of the soil. Good thing is though that while work in on the raised bed we found a decent amount of earthworms, so we have an advantage there.
Cumari du Para is putting out some true leaves already

Came home to find I had a galapagoense sprouted! Woohoohoo! Only problem is it was a helmet head

Surgery success!

Huge thanks again to prodigal_son for the seeds. I'm looking forward more to growing the wilds than any other variety this year.

MeatHead1313 · Jan 18, 2015

Aerogarden peppers are doing good. Have 2/2 galapagoense up! Quick question though, is there an easy way to separate these so that I can keep 1 in the aerogarden and put 1 in coco? Or will I just have to cull one?

Finally have a pubescens sprout that I didn't kill! (Yet). Ecuadorian sweet rocoto

I also have another variety sprouting in the aerogarden! Came home from work today to find a rocopica hook

All my current non AG babies. The purpling that was showing on some disappeared after giving them a feed, and seems like they've nearly all put on some growth as well

My biggest 2 so far. Bubblegum 7 pot red and bubblegum 7 pot chocolate

Devv · Jan 19, 2015

I'm sure many do things differently, but I wait until they have some size and snip one low, then put it in water. I've had great results doing that. You can also try to separate them if the soil will wash away. That's worked well for me too, but then one can lose both if things go south.

PaulS · Jan 20, 2015

MeatHead1313 said:
Thanks for the kind words all!

Update time. Not a lot to update at the moment. Things have been going pretty steady lately. I've been getting one or two new sprouts roughly every 2 days, but a few have been helmet heads that have been KIA during surgery. The good thing about though is they've been multiples of supers that I've already got healthy sprouts of, and I was planni bh on only having 1 or 2 of each anyway this year, so no big deal there.

I did get my first sprouts in the aerogarden though. Cumari du Para-

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Couple of MoA sprouts-

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Went to our local Mexican grocer today to pick up some dried piquins in order to this-

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Chilli head trail mix. Mixed up some mixed nuts, M&M's and dried piquins.

While there, checked out the produce, and saw they have jalapeños at 2 pounds for $1. That price has me seriously considering not growing any Jalas this season, and just getting them from there instead.
Also found a bunch of red manzano's in with the usual yellow/orange manzano's so had to grab some to try-

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I love the idea of that trail mix, sounds really nice

Your seedlings are coming along really nicely, good job!

MeatHead1313 · Jan 23, 2015

More peppers a poppin! I'd seen that Cappy had some brain strain seeds available for only $1 a couple of weeks ago so had to jump on it. Swore I'd limit the supers this year, but guess that ain't happening lol. Didn't note when I sowed the seeds, but think this one came up in 6 days, 7 at most

Also finally have a Stuffing Scotch bonnet up! Sowed these Christmas day, but I think having the rapid rooters drying out so easily affected germ times. Keeping a closer eye on it now so hopefully no more long waits

Received a great package from windchicken this week containing a couple different tepin varieties, and an awesome cross as well, so had to save seeds and put them in the dirt straight away. Sonoran chiltepin, Soto La Marina chiltepin and 7 pot barrackpore x tepin. (Boring dirt pic incoming)

The plants I received from juanitos are doing great sitting in front of the kitchen window. Think I may need to top one of the starfish soon

Aerogarden seedlings are doing good. Close to having 4 varieties up as one of my Cumari pollux seeds has a taproot out

Absolutely loving coco coir! Getting much quicker growth this season compared to last year using peat based mediums. Pic was taken yesterday, and is 3 days after my last all seedling pic

D3monic · Jan 23, 2015

Tagging along to see how the Criolla sella does. Just added that to my wish list after reading a facebook post on taste.

windchicken · Jan 23, 2015

Which Barrackpore x Tepin pheno did you sow, Chris? I've got 9 cells of a tray seeded with "Baby" (the larger of the two phenos)....Man oh man I hope it will reproduce!

I'm so glad you're growing Congo Trinidad. I had a pecan-smoke-dried pod in my oatmeal this morning, and it tasted so good that I got really sad because I didn't sow Congo this year....YET :cool:

Your grow is looking real good...Have a great weekend dude!

Devv · Jan 23, 2015

Looking good Chris!

Just keep doing what you're doing!

MeatHead1313 · Jan 23, 2015

D3monic said:
Tagging along to see how the Criolla sella does. Just added that to my wish list after reading a facebook post on taste.

Thanks D3monic! I'm extremely interested to see how the criolla Sella does too. I read mango flavour and said hell yeah! Love mangoes so hoping it turns out that way

windchicken said:
Which Barrackpore x Tepin pheno did you sow, Chris? I've got 9 cells of a tray seeded with "Baby" (the larger of the two phenos)....Man oh man I hope it will reproduce!

I'm so glad you're growing Congo Trinidad. I had a pecan-smoke-dried pod in my oatmeal this morning, and it tasted so good that I got really sad because I didn't sow Congo this year....YET

Your grow is looking real good...Have a great weekend dude!

Thanks Gary! I sowed seeds for the baby as I loved the flavour and heat of that one more than the tiny. When deseeding the pods yesterday the aroma completely filled the room. Only other pods I've had do that were the congo's. Speaking of, once production starts if you need congo pods let me know! I'd be more than happy to send you some.

Devv said:
Looking good Chris!

Just keep doing what you're doing!

Thanks Scott!

Pepper Ridge Farm · Jan 23, 2015

All the new babies popping their heads out sure a time to do the happy dance! :dance:

Glad you took advantage of the my offer didn't know what forum member got them! Some fun and interesting varieties you are growing, just don't know much about coco coir but your plants seems to like it a lot. Did you start light feeding in coco right away? Thanks and good luck in 2015!

MeatHead1313 · Jan 24, 2015

Pepper Ridge Farm said:
All the new babies popping their heads out sure a time to do the happy dance!

Glad you took advantage of the my offer didn't know what forum member got them! Some fun and interesting varieties you are growing, just don't know much about coco coir but your plants seems to like it a lot. Did you start light feeding in coco right away? Thanks and good luck in 2015!

Thanks Cappy! Appreciate the very generous offer on the brain strain seeds too.
For the coir this is my first time doing anything other than just germinating in it so I had no idea what to do. I hadn't fertilized at all to start with and had a few plants start to get purple leaves, but thanks to info from Blister I started giving them a very light dose of General Hydroponics Maxigro and they've responded great. Purpling went away right after their first feed, so I'm now starting to give them their first feed as the first true leaves appear. So far so good.

KiNGDeNNiZ · Jan 26, 2015

everything looks great...

I feel bad.. i need to sow some congo too as that's how I met gary. . Gary the congo man who puts them in his grits!!

windchicken · Jan 30, 2015

Thanks Chris! You're a true friend....Well, dangit, KD...I've got a few germ cells left to sow that I was going to plant "bird" peppers in, but this Congo thing won't go away....

Here's a shot of part of the Congo Trinidad harvest of 2011, the first year I grew it. Thanks to our dear, late chile head friend Beth Boyd, the proprietor of peppermania.com for turning me on to this pepper and so many other wonderful varieties. We miss you Beth!

MeatHead1313 · Jan 30, 2015

KiNGDeNNiZ said:
everything looks great...
I feel bad.. i need to sow some congo too as that's how I met gary. . Gary the congo man who puts them in his grits!!

Thanks Denniz. If you don't sow any and would like some pods when I get some down the line hit me up!

windchicken said:
Thanks Chris! You're a true friend....Well, dangit, KD...I've got a few germ cells left to sow that I was going to plant "bird" peppers in, but this Congo thing won't go away....

Here's a shot of part of the Congo Trinidad harvest of 2011, the first year I grew it. Thanks to our dear, late chile head friend Beth Boyd, the proprietor of peppermania.com for turning me on to this pepper and so many other wonderful varieties. We miss you Beth!

Thanks for the kind words Gary! I can say the same about you. Wish I had good news about the plants I got from you, but looks like the last real cold snap we had did the big ones in. Seems the greenhouse I got wasn't good enough, even with a heater. Still have the 2 f3 nagabrains inside going good though.
Wish I'd got a chance to interact with Beth. She sounded like an amazing person, and from what I've seen she had a great variety of peppers too.
Nice harvest!
Looks like I'll be setting up some rcw beds for the 2016 season soon. Just found someone selling hardwood chips for only $12 a yard only 5 minutes away from us, which sure beats the $40 a yard the landscaping companies and nurseries are asking around here. Can't wait! Going to try using some to improve the rest of our yard as well.

Not what you want to find on your inside plants

What you really want to be surprised to find on said plants while planning a tactical nukular strike

I'm seriously starting to think this plant can't die. This is the second time this tepin plant has appeared totally dead, only to start putting out new growth.

While digging through my freezer last week I came across a bag full of aleppo peppers that I'd purchased from both pepperlover and joemomma last season. Dehydrated them and crushed into flakes. This is now my new pepper addiction! The flavour is absolutely amazing! Definitely growing a bunch of these this year

Devv · Jan 31, 2015

I'm a dedicated Aphid hater!

Chris, does the town or county offer wood chips? I get mine for free, worth looking into....

MeatHead1313 · Jan 31, 2015

Devv said:
I'm a dedicated Aphid hater!

Chris, does the town or county offer wood chips? I get mine for free, worth looking into....

As far as i know they don't offer wood chips, but I need to look into it more. I do know Lafayette Parish offers free compost though, so will be taking advantage of that for sure.