Noah Yates' 2014 Glog

2014 Grow list:

Home Garden:

1. Carolina Reaper
2. Jay's Peach Ghost Scorpion
3. Yellow Scorpion
4. TSMB special var. (sanchez)
5. 7 pot Bubblegum (pex)
6. 7 pot Primo (sanchez)
7. 7 pot Douglah
8. Bhut Jolokia Caramel
9. Bhut Jolokia Indian Carbon
10. Chocolate Bhut
11. Orange Habanero
12. Mustard Habanero
13. SB7J (pex)
14. Scotch Bonnet TFM
15. Datil (sanchez)
16. Aji Pineapple
17. Tobasco
18. Park's Jalapeno
19. Pepper Joe’s Jalapeno
20. Pinocchio Cayenne
21. Fresno
22. Serrano
23. Sweet Banana
24. Hot Wax Banana
25. Holy Mole Passila
26. Poblano
27. Green Bell
28. Yellow Bell
29. Chocolate Bell
30. Giant Aconcagua Sweet
31. Trinidad Perfume


Experimental Test Grow in the Bottom Lands:


1. 7pot barrackapore
2. 7 pot brainstrain 1
3. 7 pot brainstrain 2
4. 7 pot brainstrain 3
5. 7 pot primo 1
6. 7 pot primo 2
7. aji chombo
8. aji pineapple 1
9. aji pineapple 2
10. aji pineapple 3
11. bhut jolokia caramel 1
12. bhut jolokia caramel 2
13. bjic 1
14. bjic 2
15. bjic3
16. black habanero1
17. black habanero 2
18. black stinger
19. butch t 1
20. butch t 2
21. butch t 3
22. butch t 4
23. butch t 5
24. butch t 6
25. butch t 7
26. butch t 8
27. butch t 9
28. carolina reaper 1
29. carolina reaper 2
30. carolina reaper 3
31. carolina reaper 4
32. carolina reaper 5
33. carolina reaper 6
34. carolina reaper 7
35. carolina reaper 8
36. carolina reaper 9
37. choco bhut 1
38. choco bhut 2
39. choco scorp 1
40. yellow naga
41. 7 pot douglah 1
42. 7 pot douglah 2
43. 7 pot douglah 3
44. jalapeno 1
45. jamaican choco hab
46. king naga
47. moruga
48. mustard hab 1
49. mystery f1
50. orange scorpion 1
51. orange scorpion 2
52. peach bhut 1
53. peach bhut 2
54. pinocchio cayenne 1
55. pinocchio cayenne 2
56. pinocchio cayenne 3
57. scotch bonnet tfm
58. tobasco
59. yellow 7 pot
60. yellow primo 1
61. yellow primo 2
62. mystery bhut 1
63. mystery bhut 2

 

[Noah Yates]

just a quick update... my plants just looked too pretty not to get some shots after raising the lights.  The aphid infestation persists... but so do the plants.  I am still just manually washing the aphids off... and simply topping plants that are too badly infested.
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edit: Minutes later that same worm tea is frothing over the top (the first picture was taken after I had agitated the tea.)  This tea has been brewing for 22 hours.

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[juanitos]

looks great

 

[Noah Yates]

Just a few weeks away from planting day and it looks like the weather is trending toward normal for spring!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
As it happens the average date of the last frost for my climate zone is April 18, which is today.... so hopefully that holds to the mean.
 
I sperated out all of the weaker looking plants from my "home garden" peppers which amounted to 4 trays worth of plants (65)... all of which will be given away to friends and family.  The remaining 145 plants are the chosen ones.
 
I have yet to count the "experimental" peppers.
 
Here is a breakdown of the chosen ones:
Home Garden:

1. Carolina Reaper                                             5
2. Jay's Peach Ghost Scorpion                           8
3. Yellow Scorpion                                              2
4. TSMB special var. (sanchez)                           3
5. 7 pot Bubblegum (pex)                                    3
6. 7 pot Primo (sanchez)                                     4                                     
7. 7 pot Douglah                                                  2
8. Bhut Jolokia Caramel                                       6
9. Bhut Jolokia Indian Carbon                              4
10. Chocolate Bhut                                                3
11. Orange Habanero                                            3
12. Mustard Habanero                                           3
13. SB7J (pex)                                                       3
14. Scotch Bonnet TFM                                        1
15. Datil (sanchez)                                                1
16. Aji Pineapple                                                  4
17. Tobasco                                                          3
18. Park's Jalapeno                                              8
19. Pepper Joe’s Jalapeno                                  11
20. Pinocchio Cayenne                                       17
21. Fresno                                                          12
22. Serrano                                                          7
23. Sweet Banana                                                9
24. Hot Wax Banana                                            5
25. Holy Mole Passila                                           2
26. Poblano                                                         4
27. Green Bell                                                     4
28. Yellow Bell                                                     3
29. Chocolate Bell                                               3
30. Giant Aconcagua                                        0 ----------- This pepper sucks... its always a pale green, almost yellow... is the floppiest plant in the world... and when I grew it out last year it was the same way... and it only ever produced a few peppers and those were soapy tasting.... bad genetics!!!!!!! All three of them are being given away.
31. Trinidad Perfume                                           2

 

 
All chinenses (52 plants):

 
"Experimental" plants sitting pretty:

 
Mostly Anuums (93 plants):

 
Let the Game of Worms TM begin!!!!!!!:

 
My hops are going crazy in this their 4th year:

 
These are the dudes who will be given away (they arent so bad.... I just really needed to thin out):

 
And my tomatos are thoroughly out of hand now:

 
I have decided to move the peppers out from under the lights permanently... from now on they are dependent on the sun.  In their place I am about to sow my flower seeds.  More pictures of that to  come.....
 

 

[Devv]

Good shit stuff going on here!
 
Glad I found this glog! Dang so many this season I can't begin to keep up.
 
Good luck with your grow!

 

[juanitos]

are you going to sell at a market or something? that's a boatload of peppers! glad to see they are coming a long great.

 

[Noah Yates]

I am definitely hoping to make a few $$$

 

[Noah Yates]

Just looking at the sheer numbers are you all feeling my pain!?!?! Imagine hand watering all of those.... Better yet... imagine trying to manually kill every aphid... when there are easily over 100 aphids on each plant!!!!  2X a week!!!!

If I had an actual job right now... this grow would be impossible.  That is why I NEED to make some bucks at the farmers market/flea market... I am also thinking about taking some samples to local restraunts as well as "road side produce vendors" for consignment.

 

[Devv]

If you do make some $$$ pass the info along, I would love to recapture some of my investment. I'm @ 120-150 plants, so I do feel your pain
 
And Aphids just suck!

 

[John1234]

What're you talking about, I can't wait for those little buggers to migrate inside Ima regret joking about that.
 
 
That worm factory is intense, now I really feel like a douche for buying bags hehehe. Glad things turned around for you after the cedar oil, they look great so far.
 
Azamax is a good last resort, a bit pricey, but much better than delving into the little unmarked brown bottles. A mask and coveralls are good companions, it isn't something to be treated lightly.

 

[cone9]

Plants look good Noah.  Work hard - looks like you have no choice(and I thought sixty-five plants was a lot to handle)!

 

[SL3]

Just looking at the sheer numbers are you all feeling my pain!?!?! Imagine hand watering all of those.... Better yet... imagine trying to manually kill every aphid... when there are easily over 100 aphids on each plant!!!!  2X a week!!!!

If I had an actual job right now... this grow would be impossible.  That is why I NEED to make some bucks at the farmers market/flea market... I am also thinking about taking some samples to local restraunts as well as "road side produce vendors" for consignment.

Yes Noah I do feel your pain! I have at least as many plants and I have a full-time job that is why I have posted so little this last couple of months. Every waking hour after work seems to be sowing, moving from indoor lights, to outside shed lights, then finally to pots or ground. I have given away over 100 plants with just the stipulation of a return of seeds. I just sowed the last of my seed for this year before the wife divorces me. In the beginning it was like cool another sprout. Now its oh no not another one, can't you guys wait to sprout on my days off! And I have been very lucky thus so far with pests. I can't even imagine what that would do to me. My wife found a aphid on her Kale last night and I ran out to the garden and moved several of my peppers away from her lettuce. The shear panic of what obviously you are going through. Your plants do look great, but believe me I know what you must be going through. Hang in there buddy, soon we shall reap our rewards.

 

[Noah Yates]

Yeah man... it was rough... but now that I have moved the peppers outside the aphids are definitely migrating elsewhere.  I knew that would be the case.  As I have said previously, although there have been massive amounts of aphids on the plants, I have not seen significant damage... leading me to believe that they must have a hard time eating pepper plants... all of the other green stuff out there probably looks sweeter to them than these bitter old peppers.

Also... I can now spray them down with the hose!!!!

 

[Noah Yates]

Well I am a few days away from planting WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!  Technically I could plant half of my plants today in my no-till area.  I just need to borrow my grandparents tiller to "extend and amend" the outside perimeter of my garden.
 
edit: Oh yeah... and I also just ordered 3000 aphid terminators, aka ladybugs.   I plan to use an old 5 man tent to "seal their doom."
  
These are some shots I took a few days ago while outside working in the spring drizzel.
 
Chinenses

 
Mostly Anuums

 
Stretchy tomatoes that deperately need to be planted

 
Experimental plants to be planted in the bottom lands

 
This is my blank canvas!!!

 
And here are a few of the other plants I have growing:
 
Deep purple shockwave petunias

 
Yellow Anne Rasberry (3rd year)

 
Bleeding Heart down by our koi pond (3rd year)

 
Barnyard Hollyhock (2nd year) in front of a 3rd year Gnu German Iris

 
3rd year Green Envy coneflower

 

[Roguejim]

 
just a quick update... my plants just looked too pretty not to get some shots after raising the lights.  The aphid infestation persists... but so do the plants.  I am still just manually washing the aphids off... and simply topping plants that are too badly infested.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
edit: Minutes later that same worm tea is frothing over the top (the first picture was taken after I had agitated the tea.)  This tea has been brewing for 22 hours.
 
Hey Noah, can you post the worm tea recipe?

 
 

 

 

[Noah Yates]

 
 Hey Noah, can you post the worm tea recipe?


 

 
Yeah... its pretty simple...  worm castings and unsulfured molassess... I dont use a fixed recipe... just what I would estimate to be a pint of worm castings and a tablespoon of powdered molassess for a 5 gallon bucket filled with roughly 4.2 gallons of well-water.
 
Sometimes I will throw in a pinch of other stuff I have on hand including azomite, glacial rock dust, kelp meal, cottonseed meal, fish bone meal, and other organic meals....   Also, I happen to have some fish hydrolysate as well as black gold... both from kelp4less and are great additions.

I should note that your worm tea will have a spectrum of nutrients that corrosponds to the spectrum of stuff they are fed... so that worm castings from worm farms that were fed a diverse diet will be much more nutritious than castings from farms that were fed a simple diet of 1 or 2 types of foods.  My worm castings are sufficient by themselves as an almost comprehensive nutrient source because I feed the worms an exremely complex array of foods (even including small amounts of those organic meals and fish ferts.)

 

[Roguejim]

I don't want to derail your glog, but the only time I tried a worm castings tea w/molasses, and nothing else, I got zero foaming action. I can't figure that out.

 

[Noah Yates]

I find that if I use too much worm castings it will not froth like that.  Also... I have 5 air pumps with 10 bubble stones.

 

[Blister]

Your grow is looking great so far Noah!

Neil

 

[Noah Yates]

Let the slaughter commence
 

 

 

[juanitos]

1: is that a camping tent... with peppers? 
2: oh cool they good sun i guess 
3: WARRRRRRRRR