Mooglog 2013/2014

PeriPeri · Dec 20, 2013

Wow Moo, your plants are looking incredible mate - really awesome!

PaulG · Dec 20, 2013

Yes, Moo, they are looking good, indeed.

Mutilate the Mites!

Dot Com · Dec 20, 2013

garden developing nicely.

megamoo · Dec 30, 2013

stickman said:
Very nice looking poddage Moo, keep the pics coming!

Thanks

108Mob said:
ok gotcha i got hit hard with mites last grow season so i will be ready this season with the wettable sulfur to hit them with also did you spray all plants or just the ones that showed signs of damage ?

This season, because they were isolated enough I only had to spray the affected ones. Last season everything was tangled together. By the time you see actual damage they have had time to spread everywhere so I had to spray everything.

PeriPeri said:
Wow Moo, your plants are looking incredible mate - really awesome!

Cheers PeriPeri

PaulG said:
Yes, Moo, they are looking good, indeed.

Mutilate the Mites!

Thanks. Fingers crossed I have done enough to stop the initial outbreak.

Dot Com said:
garden developing nicely.

Thanks.

Was going to take more pics but to save time and typing I made a couple of videos instead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-abAL1NQMhI&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJIbhJpQ7fo&feature=youtu.be

WalkGood · Dec 30, 2013

Great vids Moo, bush-ness & color look excellent even the one that had mites and you cut back. Woot nice pods to boot, yea mon ^_^

Happy New Year mon!!!

Edit: I love how dat double row looks, reminds me of a song ... thick as a brick

Rainman · Dec 30, 2013

Awesome plants / pods. That hedge is really impressive Moo.

Your videos do more justice than the pictures - I'm envious to say the least!

Have a great new year, you are all set for an outstanding 2014 crop by the look of it.

megamoo · Jan 14, 2014

WalkGood said:
Great vids Moo, bush-ness & color look excellent even the one that had mites and you cut back. Woot nice pods to boot, yea mon ^_^

Happy New Year mon!!!

Edit: I love how dat double row looks, reminds me of a song ... thick as a brick

Thanks. Happy new year to you too

Rainman said:
Awesome plants / pods. That hedge is really impressive Moo.

Your videos do more justice than the pictures - I'm envious to say the least!

Have a great new year, you are all set for an outstanding 2014 crop by the look of it.

Thanks

The hedge has its good points and bad points that I'll mention with the pictures I'll post below.

Haven't had time to do anything in the garden but clean away the odd damaged pod. Stuff is ripening and ready to pick so hopefully in the next week I can do some seed saving and processing. We've just had a mini heatwave of two days of 40C + but I did some extra watering and everything came through.

Took a whole lot of pictures today.

Overwinters are alive and doing better in new spot where they get sun only until about 1pm. A few ripening pods you can see.

Had to move my chinense extras off the table and under the shadecloth because after I gave some away there wasn't enough foliage to shade the table and it was heating up too much. Also they are getting seriously top heavy and keep getting blown over by wind.

5 lucky pots from these have counterparts in the garden bed that are NOTS or just not performing and so they will be planted behind the shed.
The orange pod on the left is supposed to be a Dorset Naga but it must have crossed with an Orange Habanero from last season in the jungle. Luckily there is a Dorset Naga pot that is looking the part.

The much younger non-chinenses are getting big fast! They all get an A+ at the moment.

Put up a bit of cardboard to protect the pots from afternoon sun. It was very important for the intense heat we just had.

One of the under-performers is this 7 Pot Barrackpore. It was slow to grow and bud and set pods, and the new pods are looking very suspicious. Probably too early to call them NOTS but all is not right with the plant

Bad zoomed photo but this pod is supposed to be a Bhut Jolokia Peach.

I don't think this Dorset Naga plant from last year's saved seed got all the good genetics. It is refusing to grow vertical. More like a Dorset Naga ground cover.

7 Pot Brainstrain overwinter full of ripe pods and badly in need of some attention.

It's steadily losing foliage from fungus and the pods are undersized. I believe the fungus has caused premature ripening also so the pods will not be up to scratch.
Average size of pods.

You can see the defoliated branches trying to grow new leaves but not being able to. I have known about this for a while but haven't had the time to do anything. Feel sorry for the poor fella :tear:

Not every NOT is a terrible thing though. This you may recognize from the final shot of the clip in my last post is supposed to be a Primo but its not looking completely correct.

This is one monster sized pod! I've been checking every day and its changing colour agonizingly slowly.

Many more pics but need a bump.

stickman · Jan 14, 2014

You got da bump Moo... Nice pics!

megamoo · Jan 14, 2014

stickman said:
You got da bump Moo... Nice pics!

Cheers.

This is another Primo but looking more what I expected, still not the hook tail but maybe soon

Jonah plants I have many.

The previously mite affected and cut back Jonah has made a full recovery and looks no different other than its just starting to pod up now.

New growth mite free. I may sound like I go on about this but I was under the impression that once a plant got mites it never really shook them off, let alone grew into a normal plant. So this was an experiment that looks successful

Yellow 7 Pot source 1

Yellow 7 Pot source 2. You can see the difference in pod shape.

Trinidad Perfume. No heat but all of the smell and taste of a superhot chinense. You munch on one of these and major alarms go off in your brain because it associates the taste and smell with extreme heat. You keep waiting for the heat and... nothing. Head trip.

more need bump please?

stickman · Jan 14, 2014

Once more into the breach...

Trippa · Jan 14, 2014

Nice mega ... Very nice .... Mites are shites!!

Micca302 · Jan 14, 2014

The 7-Pot Primo Orange in you vid is looking pretty cool there Mega :cool:

Keeping an eye on this one!

Micca

megamoo · Jan 15, 2014

stickman said:
Once more into the breach...

Charge!

Trippa said:
Nice mega ... Very nice .... Mites are shites!!

Quite right!

Micca302 said:
The 7-Pot Primo Orange in you vid is looking pretty cool there Mega
Keeping an eye on this one!

Micca

It's looking even better now! I'll have to take some more photos to show the NOT one as well, it's ripening brown so maybe a Chocolate Bhut or Choc Fatalii.

More photos

Moruga Red

Nagabon. Sadly I broke a main branch when I was poking around and lost 4 unripe pods.

Tobago Seasoning

7 Pot Jonah Yellow recently lost a lot of pods to sunscald but its still going.

I've picked the first Chocolate Fatalii pod. Some more green ones. This plant is getting big in the corner of the bed position.

Naga 7

CGN 21500. The other one of these in a pot has more shaded pods and they are turning a creamy colour. The sun makes them go purple.

Red Savina. Another shortish plant but still producing.

Beni Highlands. I thought it was capable of more after last season's effort but its growing really slow and short. Maybe will get a good harvest in Autumn.

Seasoning Pepper thanks to Micca

there is still more... :O

Micca302 · Jan 15, 2014

Great to see someone is getting some pod action on my Seasoning Pepper :cool:

Starting late this season has really impacted mine, hopefully Autumn will bring some on.

Micca

megamoo · Jan 15, 2014

Micca302 said:
Great to see someone is getting some pod action on my Seasoning Pepper
Starting late this season has really impacted mine, hopefully Autumn will bring some on.

Micca

Going to chop em up and see how they go on a pizza soon as I can manage it.

7 Pot Burgundy had a pod cluster hidden. Only just discovered it from the other side of the hedge.

7 Pot SR Red pods.

Black Naga pods start out black for a while then turn green and red. I have to say I like the transition.

Jay's Peach Ghost Scorpion F4 started slow buts its got some wicked looking pods now.

Habanero Chocolate is looking wrinkly and big.

Habanero Mustard big pod is changing colour.

bump for more photos...

highlucks · Jan 15, 2014

Mad pod envy going on right now. If I can one day produce fruit like that I will be stoked. :eek:

If you have any double ups to dispose of this year give us a shout, and let me know your favourite drop.

smokenmirraz · Jan 15, 2014

Kudos for your growing expertise and collection... looking very impressive

megamoo · Jan 15, 2014

highlucks said:
Mad pod envy going on right now. If I can one day produce fruit like that I will be stoked.
If you have any double ups to dispose of this year give us a shout, and let me know your favourite drop.

Thanks. I do have leftovers I need to move on so might have to give some away. First need to fill the space behind the shed.

Habanero Purple. Looking real nice too.

Snow White. One of the pods is finally white.

Antillais Caribbean.

Pimenta De Neyde is doing better but I still haven't found the best condtiions for it.

Habanero Big Sun. These look so cool when they are half green and half yellow. Took this photo just a little bit late but you get the effect.

Habanero Green. The leaves look funny and the pods look immature too.

Lastly bad photo. Bhut Jolokia plant in the hedge showing signs of mites.

smokenmirraz said:
Kudos for your growing expertise and collection... looking very impressive

Thanks

PeriPeri · Jan 15, 2014

Hey Moo... great work my friend... your plants are looking super and so many pods too - well done!

stickman · Jan 15, 2014

The likes were for the pod porn Moo... not the mite damage. What do you plan to do with your poddage now that it's starting to roll in?