MisterNo's 2013 glog - still harvesting/processing... :)

MisterNo · Apr 11, 2013

Thanks Rick

I appreciate your advice very much! Your Poblanos got really huge last season.

I know it's a lot of plants, but I will not sell them. I'll probably give away something like 20 peppers and 30 tomatoes to friend growers, and probably all plants wont survive. I lost 6 tomato seedlings just yesterday on very hot sun.

Still, I could be left with 150 hot pepper plant, 20 sweet peppers and 150 tomatoes

My folks have a lot of unused land, I'll try to use it as much as I can

MisterNo · Apr 14, 2013

Got some free time this weekend so I started potting up some of the bigger plants. I'll be potting up those that will finally come to a 5 gallon pots, around 30 plants.

Majority of my peppers is going into the ground on my folks ranch, and they will not be potted up before planting, I stand no chance doing that, just to many of them. Also those that get into the ground are doing much better when they are planted earlier. From my experience in last few years younger (smaller) plants did better then bigger ones when transplanted into the ground (both by plant size and pod number).

Dirt day will not be so soon unfortunatelly, soil is still too wet from heavy rains last few weeks. Frost is still a threat also.

So this is my pepper treasure

Peppers and tomatoes

And a reward after hard work, a spicy hot as fire hot dog

stickman · Apr 15, 2013

Hi Robert, looks like you're rolling hot guy... I hope things warm up soon and we "Nortenos" can finally plant out! Cheers

buddy · Apr 15, 2013

[sub]Very nice! Good luck with your 2013 season.[/sub]

MisterNo · Apr 20, 2013

First Dirt day is behind me

Ground is ready

Peppers, tomatoes and tomatillos, all ready to go, got some compost mixed with perlite, mykos and horse manure to give them a boost at their final destination

Few of the happy plants

1/4 of peppers and 1/5 of tomatoes is planted

stickman · Apr 20, 2013

Good on ya Robert! Things are hanging fire here since the weather overnight is so cold still. Soon I hope!

MisterNo · Apr 21, 2013

Thanks for stoping by Rick, hope your weather gets better soon.

Since my online order of textile bag pots for air pruning didn't came, I decided to make my own

Did some research and found that geotextile is the material used so I went to a local garden & home shop and bought some geotex for construction sites and my wifey was kind enough to help

Things needed:
geotex
scissors
stapler

This is 80x40cm (roughly 31x15.5 inches) geotex, for 3 gallon pot

Folded the geotex in half, so I get 40x40cm piece.

Sew the left and right side

Turn it inside out so that the stitches will be inside

And here it is, next to a 3 gallon pot, and there's a smaller version of an geotex pot also:

The cost is insignificant, the cost of geotex for this air pot is under 1$

stickman · Apr 21, 2013

That's really cool Robert! I'll definitely file that one away for future reference... Let us know how the staples last. I'd be inclined to sew it with thread instead, but my wife has a treadle-powered sewing machine that originally belonged to a furrier, and it will certainly handle this!

MisterNo · Apr 21, 2013

stickman said:
That's really cool Robert! I'll definitely file that one away for future reference... Let us know how the staples last. I'd be inclined to sew it with thread instead, but my wife has a treadle-powered sewing machine that originally belonged to a furrier, and it will certainly handle this!

Thanks Rick, I think it will last through the season, it looks firm and compact.

I also wanted it sewed on my wife's sewing machine but it doesn't work ATM.
I just made a prototype, hope we get machine in order till air pot production time (probably in a month)

MisterNo · Apr 27, 2013

Since there's not much going on with the plants, I can sum up my germination numbers

Jalapeno M 7/10
Jalapeno Purple 6/10
Red Hot Paper Lantern Habanero 9/10
Mustard Habanero 5/5
Aji Yellow 4/5
Serrano 0/5
Vesena 1/5
Ring of Fire 1/5
Piquin 0/5
Big Jim Anaheim 6/10
Chile De Arbol 3/10
Cayenne Thick 7/10
Cayenne Red 0/10
Purira 6/10
Fatalii Yellow 7/7
TS Moruga Red 4/6
TS Moruga Yellow 4/6
7 Pot Primo Orange 7/7
7 Pot Barrackpore 6/7
Roccoto Costa Rican Red 6/7
Roccoto Yellow 5/6
Orange Habanero 3/5
White Bullet Habanero 4/5
Early Jalapeno 4/5
Tepin 2/5
Orange Manzano 4/9
Tabasco 4/5
Yellow Trinidad Scorpion FG 13/14
Yellow Datil 7/10
Poblano 3/4
Red Rocoto 1/2
Aribibi Gusano 3/4
Inca Berry 7/12
Scotch Bonnet Orange 12/12
Jamaican Red 11/12
Green Habanero 9/9
Bhut Jolokia Indian Carbon 7/8
Peach Habalokia 3/4
Wiri Wiri Ma 4/4
Wild Brasil 2/4
Butch-T 3/4
Choco Fatalii 10/11
Douglah 6/6
Elephant 5/5
Tigerteeth Habanero 5/5

Sweet peppers:
Cubanelle 0/10
Sweet Habanero 8/10
Sweet Pepper Heirloom Mix 7/10
Sweet Choco Pepper 7/10
Yellow Trinidad Perfume 5/10
Kurtovska Kapija 8/10

Had no luck with Piquin and Serrano this year, but it was older seeds, just like Cubanelle and Cayenne Red.

All in all, I'm very satisfied with germination rates, beside few varieties.

If all goes well, I'll try to plant most of the bigger peppers in the ground next week, about 80 of them, so there's gonna be a lot of work

stickman · Apr 27, 2013

I'm looking forward to seeing pics of your (soon to be) pepper jungle. Cheers!

MisterNo · Apr 29, 2013

Thanks Rick, hope it goes that way

Orange Manzano is enjoying geotex bag, didn't water from planting - a week ago and it still has a lot of moist in soil, despite summer temps that we are having here every day (75-80 F).

I noticed a strange cup today among peppers - 6 Douglah peppers that I forgot to transplant

Although they do look healthy, I decided it was time to split this guys

4 of them in their new cups, ready to enjoy all the soil for them self

stickman · Apr 29, 2013

Sorry you could only keep 4 Robert, but that's still better than half. The manzano you pictured is about as big as the one I got from Shane. I tried some of his orange manzano powder last year, and I think you'll like it. Cheers!

MisterNo · Apr 29, 2013

Thanks Rick

Actually, I kept all of them, two of them just didn't made it in the pic

I don't like killing peppers off, I will rather give them away instead.

I should germinate all my peppers like this, it could save a lot of space

I'm looking forward to Manzanos and Rocotos, I've never grown them before

MisterNo · May 1, 2013

Hard working Labor Day is behind me. It was indeed Dirt Day no.2.
Didn't have time to take pics, it was all about work efficiency

To sum up:
95 chilli peppers planted in the ground (51 today)
63 tomatos in the ground + 18 sweet peppers + 9 tomatillos

They are all at my parents ranch and it is already very hot (80 F was Tmax today).
Didn't have time this year to make an irrigation system, so I installed 30 meters hose for watering, and fill up a 100 litre barrel with water near the plants, it should make watering easier for my parents.

I just hope there will be no water reduction due to drought like last year.

MisterNo · May 4, 2013

I went to my parents ranch to plant some more tomatoes and to check how the peppers are doing.

I noticed a strange thing - there's a 3-4 inch sized Bhut Jolokia Indian Carbon with bud forming on top

Hope it doesn't stay that size

There are few more peppers of that size with buds formed, the rest is ok, nothing much worth picture taking.

We also had hail in my town few days ago, but my peppers were in greenhouse

Those planted at my parents ranch were saved, rain only, no ice

mememe · May 5, 2013

Sweet mother of G, MisterNo, you're doin great! (Samo tako naprijed

)

MisterNo · May 5, 2013

Thanks Igor

Hope you will share your growth with us.

(Tek kad dodju plodovi mogu reci da je dobra sezona

)

MisterNo · May 7, 2013

Looks like home made air pot is doing good, Manzano is growing fast, already the biggest plant in my yard (was a bit smaller then the others at the time - there's picture up there from 16 days a go to compare). Wiri Wiri Ma is in the other geotex bag:

And since we are having a real tropical climate with lots of sun and rain every day, he is already developing a bud at the top:

stickman · May 7, 2013

Hi Robert
Love the look of that Manzano. It's the darkest green I've ever seen on one. All that rain must be giving it a big shot in the arm. Cheers!