Noah Yates' Garden of Eden 2020

Hello my pepper friends :-)   I have been long over-due on posting a growlog for this season.  This year I attempted to germinate alot of older seeds from my collection and, being afraid of poor germination rates, I decided to wait until I had established plants to begin exhibiting them.  Indeed, I waited too long or I over-handled the seeds while counting and cataloging them repeatedly through the years.  Despite old seeds and a bad batch of promix causing a lackluster beginning to my pepper season, I have remaining a decent assortment of peppers, as well as a whole heard of tomatoes--all of which cannot wait to be transplanted.  We are experiencing a blackberry winter, as our weather has been unseasonably cool this spring including a record breaking late frost.  I have been struggling to find good days to let my plants soak up some UV in the hardening off process.  Beginning tomorrow it looks as though the temperatures will surge into summer-like heat, and I should be able to transplant into my tilled garden this weekend, granted I can acclimate my young plants to the elements.     
 
Hot and Super-Hots:
7 pot primo (troyprimeaux)        
apocalypse chocolate (semillas)
bbm freak (96strat)
bg7 scorpion (whitehotpeppers)
bhut jolokia giant chocolate (whitehotpeppers)
bhut jolokia white (refiningfire)
bhutlah bubblegum 7 (refiningfire)
brainstrain scorpion (mojopeppers)
carbon bhut x bg7 (whitehotpeppers)
carolina reaper (various sources)                          
carolina reaper x jay's peach ghost scorpion (whitehotpeppers)
chocolate ghost monster (fordsfieryfoods)
chocolate moruga brains (refiningfire)
chocolate primo/reaper (butchtaylor)
chocolate reaper (refiningfire)
datil (bakercreek)
gator jigsaw (96strat)
jay's red ghost scorpion x bbg7  (guatemalaninsanitypepper)
moruga reaper (pepperlover)
moruga uv chocolate (whitehotpeppers)
mustard moruga brains (whitehotpeppers)
mustard habanero  (pepperjoe)
nar (pepperlover)
reaper naga (pepperlover)
super bhut jolokia (whitehotpeppers)
t-rex mustard (whitehotpeppers)
umurok chocolate (whitehotpeppers)
umorok red (whitehotpeppers)
 
Sweet & Mild Peppers:     
banana (bakercreek)
cserko ((tatiana'stomatoes)
jalapeño craig's grande (bakercreek)
jalapeño orange spice (bakercreek)
liebesapfel (tatiana'stomatoes)
omarsko kambe (tatiana'stomatoes)
orange starfish (pepperlover)
ozark giant (bakercreek)
pasilla bajio (pepperlover)
poblano (bakercreek)
quadrato d'asti rosso (bakercreek)
red cheese pepper (tradwindfruits)
red sweet footlong (guatemalaninsanitypepper)
serrano tampequino (bakercreek)
shishito (bakercreek)
syrian three sided (bakercreek)
tali sus biber (pepperlover)
tomato pepper (guatemalaninsanitypepper)
turkish snake (hippyseedcompany)
 
February 13:

 
February 14:

 
April 24  First Exposure to the Elements

 
May 5

 
May 7

 
Tomatoes Every Which Way AND Sunday:

 
Here is to a fantastic season for all!! Cheers!! 

 

[PaulG]

Woah, Noah, you will need some field hands to
get all those in the ground!  Go big or go home, bro!

 

[luvmesump3pp3rz]

that is A LOT of plants and one nasty looking spider! you have tarantulas in KY?    do you know what kind of spider it is?
 
good luck with all those plants!

 

[Noah Yates]

@PaulG     That is right! Thankfully I have some help from my loving fiance, who also helped me with the labels this season, so people can now identify what is what if I am not there to translate my hieroglyphic markings XD
 
@luvmesump3pp3rz      Thank you!  It is a scary, yet extremely beautiful spider.  Its a variation of wolf spider I am fairly certain.  They are generally absolutely harmless, but you wont find me handling one!  I felt like a knight jousting a dragon in its lair while trying to get it to come out of my peppers by gently encouraging it with a long stick so that I could bring the trays back inside for the night.  
 
 
Edit:  Upon further investigation it appears to be a "dark fishing spider" Dolomedes tenebrosus.  And apparently they do bite!! Oh god...

 

[PaulG]

@PaulG     That is right! Thankfully I have some help from my loving fiance, who also helped me with the labels this season, so people can now identify what is what if I am not there to translate my hieroglyphic markings XD
 
@luvmesump3pp3rz      Thank you!  It is a scary, yet extremely beautiful spider.  Its a variation of wolf spider I am fairly certain.  They are generally absolutely harmless, but you wont find me handling one!  I felt like a knight jousting a dragon in its lair while trying to get it to come out of my peppers by gently encouraging it with a long stick so that I could bring the trays back inside for the night.  
 
 
Edit:  Upon further investigation it appears to be a "dark fishing spider" Dolomedes tenebrosus.  And apparently they do bite!! Oh god...

 
Is that a jumping-type spider? Has the eyes for it.

 

[luvmesump3pp3rz]

 
Is that a jumping-type spider? Has the eyes for it.

nope, just a fishing spider. 
 

 
 
sorry for the thread derail but i googled it and just had to post it. 
 
PaulG, i`m sure the thing jumps too. 

 

[Noah Yates]

No need for an apology p3pp3rz, your post is right on track!
 
And Paul, I have seen these spiders jump when they are startled, but they are not "jumping spiders", thankfully!

 

[Inoks]

I am so thankful that there are no big or dangerous spiders in Finland. And actually no dangerous bugs at all expect for ticks.

 

[Mr.joe]

Wow, that's literally more plants than I have grown in my life I think... that spider eats things that eat pepper plants that's a good guy. Good luck on this years grow

 

[Noah Yates]

@Inoks   You are fortunate for that :-)    On the positive side, this type of spider preys on other spiders, including the seriously dangerous brown recluse and black widow spiders, which are common here as well. 
 
@Mr.joe    I would have let her stay if I didn't have to bring the tray back in.  I love spiders in the garden.  I think I see what you did there with your pun  Nice!  haha