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Next to My Chair

Been thinking about it.. pretty sure I'm growing peppers because I'm bored.  Like, deeply, existentially bored.  Plus, a little harmless pain never hurt anybody, right?  Hell, it's probably even good for you.  We'll see if those are good enough reasons, I guess.  I bought me some "Scotch Bonnet Orange" seeds from Amazon before I found you fine folk, lurked around here for a while, then planted them anyway along with other, infinitely less suspect seeds I ordered from far flung places around the globe(!) as recommended by the very venerable Vendor Vault.  I've got them growing here by my chair.  I sit here and read. (The wall to my right as I took this picture is lined with bookshelves I'm slowing filling as I try to forget the world each afternoon.  Mostly scifi the last few years.)  It would be distracting to have a big boxy tent looming over me, so I've just got them sitting there on a cardboard box.  I hope to replace the box with a little table here soon.
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My rig consists of something like a quarter of the full Amazon Indoor Garden of Tomorrow-orrow-orrow-orrow ®.  This LED light I got is something else, man.  It's REALLY bright!  Paper towel germination, used a few Jiffy pellets, stuck some seeds straight in some old Miracle Grow I had, kept them in the Jiffy box there until they sprouted.  I'm glad to be rid of that Jiffy dome now; it was a pain in the ass.  Ahh.. let's see.. I'm mixing CNS17 Grow into RO/DI water, testing and adjusting up with GH pH kit, pouring it over my little darlings there in about 3:1 coco:perlite.  Just culled and potted up today to 3.5 inches.  All seems to be going well except for some slight canoeing of leaves, which I'm ready to blame on the 24% humidity (We wake up half mummified in the winter.  I know - grow tent.) and a few early spills on my rug.  Trying to keep it simple and not drive myself crazier futzing with dozens of parameters here, so I'm not going to sweat it unless things turn worse.  I'm not!  Worry verges on religion with me, so this will either be therapeutic or turn out to have been a bad idea.. 
Any and all comments or criticisms are very welcome and I thank you all most warmly for having me and schooling me and reading my noodlings! 
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DWB said:
 
Good. I was afraid he was a goner.
 
I just wanted to share my gift with you, recognize the tradition you've shared with us over the past many months and hopefully put a smile on your face. I actually put my chair here in a place that goes into deep shade around noon.
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Thanks, Dub. It's a helluva seat in a beautiful spot. Room for a friend or better, too.  Definitely puts a smile on my face, bud.
 
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PaulG said:
Good on ya for saving the big Freeport, Unc.

It will be fun to watch it take over the east
side of your yard!
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I was really surprised to get it through the door. We wrapped him in a king size bed sheet (which was only just barely long enough to go around) to sort of suck in his gut and gently pushed and tugged at either side of the door until he was finally through.  It was like forcing a big marshmallow through a wedding ring. 
 
DWB said:
 
Good. I was afraid he was a goner.
 
I just wanted to share my gift with you, recognize the tradition you've shared with us over the past many months and hopefully put a smile on your face. I actually put my chair here in a place that goes into deep shade around noon.
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I would go broke trying to keep a lawn like that watered. What a beautiful yard
 
Uncle_Eccoli said:
Wind took two large branches making up pretty much half of one of my plants this morning. Will the pods ripen if I keep the branches?
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Sorry to hear about that! If you put the branches in some water and perhaps even some nutes, they should allow the pods to ripen yes.

I'm also rooting for your big plant that's been moved out, hopefully it likes its new home and will blossom out there with all them lovely aphid predators! :)

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lespaulde said:
Sorry to hear about that! If you put the branches in some water and perhaps even some nutes, they should allow the pods to ripen yes.

I'm also rooting for your big plant that's been moved out, hopefully it likes its new home and will blossom out there with all them lovely aphid predators! :)

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Thanks, will do.

The deck is crawling with assassin bugs, no aphids there. I hope the big guy will be free of aphids soon. I'm worried about the sun and heat while it acclimates. Going from DWC to a hole in the ground probably isn't easy, either.
 
Uncle_Eccoli said:
Wind took two large branches making up pretty much half of one of my plants this morning. Will the pods ripen if I keep the branches?

Edit: Drat.
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Yeah, drat is right.
 
In the past, I have hung broken branches upside
down in the garage, and pods ripened up (if they
had already started). Not sure about green pods.
 
Putting them in water sounds like a
good idea for starters.
 
Lemon Drop this afternoon.  See the ribbons?  I tie them in bows so I can reuse them when they need to be moved.  Damned finches keep untying them.  I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't watched it happen; those ribbons take some force to untie even bows.  Guess I'll have to start knotting them.  They don't even take the ribbons.. They just loose my plants and leave. 
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