Not much of a South Tejas GLOG

I'm not a glog guy, but I'm bored today.  I moved from beautiful Traverse City Michigan to sun burnt Corpus Christi Tejas in August 2017, never got anything to get growing. I bought a few bhuts from a store to overwinter them, but my wife convinced me to throw them away.  In February 2018 I tried to get some 5yr old saved seeds to germinate, but had zero ever come up.  So I bought a few from a local nursery and ordered a few online.  I put them into a mix of buckets, smart pots, and laundry baskets I bought at a garage sale for .25 cents a piece.  I rigged up a shade to cover my peppers and my wife's failure of a sunflower garden. I have bhuts in red and yellow, red Moruga, reapers, naglah brown, and chocolate bhutlahs. 
 
In the beginning: 

 
Now:

 
Everything is starting to really take off:

 
Pods are setting:

 
I'm not expecting much of a harvest until late September.  We've had some "cooler" weather the past few weeks, so that's why I think that a few pods have set. Most flowers are dropping as expected.  I water them around 7am and 7pm,  give them a bit of fish emulsion once a week.  So far, so good!
 
Cheers!

 

[Beerswimmer]

More pods are setting than I expected due to our mild, for here, weather.  
 
I had to spread the plants out and reinforce them due to all the new growth:

 
Bhuts have 5-6 on each plant:

 
Bhutlah chocolate looking like a brain:

 
Naglah brown putting out 2 phenos, a triangle naga shape and a mushroom shape:

 
 
 
The reapers are covered in flowers, 3 and 4 in some nodes, but none have set.  The Moruga is just starting to put out flowers.  I'm excited for a small early harvest, but I know what's coming.  The end of July to mid September is the hottest part of the year and I'm not expecting any pods during that time. 

 

[Devv]

Plants look great!
 
Keep them gals going and sometime in September they should set again.

 

[Beerswimmer]

2 weeks later and the first harvest! Well, one was ready anyway! Everything is still growing great, and there are peppers on all of the plants except the Moruga and the smaller reaper.  
 
Garden:

 
Reaper growing:

 
Bhutlah harvest:

 
I should have a small harvest of bhuts soon too. I need to make it through August, late September should be when I start getting big harvests.

 

[Beerswimmer]

One quick update: my wife finally conceded defeat and let me use her sunflower area. Now I have more room for them and room for me to get in there. 

 

 

[Beerswimmer]

Bhutlah on the left, Naglah on the right:

 
 
Should get a few bhuts in a day or 2.

 

[Beerswimmer]

Picked 6 bhuts before duty today, no pics since everyone knows what they look like.  I have eaten the bhutlah and the naglahs.  The bhutlah was much hotter to me, but these are just early peppers so they probably aren't quite 100% of what their potential is yet.

 

[Beerswimmer]

The day before the storm!  Invest 95L will be hitting tonight sometime. It's been sunny all day, so I gave them a big feeding of fish emulsion this morning. 
 
Good size now, and a few peppers here and there.  We've had a bit, 2-3 degree, of a cool spell and some flowers have stuck around and are setting.  Lots of flowers on most now, just need it to get a few degrees cooler and the harvest season will be here
 

 

 

 
 

 

[karoo]

Beautiful plants . They should be full of pods in no time.
 
Ut Alii Vivant

 

[Devv]

Looking good!
Mine are doing the backstroke after just under 15"s and more this weekend!

 

[Beerswimmer]

Yeah, we're in flood stage here.  Probably had a foot in the past 48 hours. 

 

[Devv]

Not good, this is when we should be flowering and setting. Still pouring out, closing in on 19"s since Labor day. Can you say yellow leaves?

 

[Beerswimmer]

Clear blue skies tonight!  Should be dry the next few days too.  But the mosquitoes will be a nightmare.....

 

[Beerswimmer]

Reapers are loading up
 

 

 

[Beerswimmer]

The size has gone up with all of the rain lately, I'm 6'2". 
 

 

[Devv]

Looking good!

 

[Beerswimmer]

There's peppers everywhere you look on every plant now!  Temps have dropped!!!
 
Reapers are pumping out 3 flowers per node, and they are setting!

 
Reaper and naglah drooping with pods

 
Naglahs are almost out of flowers because they are set!

 
 
@Devv we are finally here!!

 

[Devv]

You are, but mine are still rough after 21.5"s total. I figure I lost the last 4 weeks. I'm now trying to push them to flower before it gets too late.
 
Your plants are quite impressive!

 

[Beerswimmer]

You are, but mine are still rough after 21.5"s total. I figure I lost the last 4 weeks. I'm now trying to push them to flower before it gets too late.
 
Your plants are quite impressive!

Thanks!  Once the storms pass I give them a feeding.  Now it only rains once a day, about the same as me watering them.  They are a lot bigger in person than the pics show for some reason. And temps being in the 80's means that all of the flowers are setting now.
 
There's still plenty of time left for us

 

[Beerswimmer]

I'm pretty impressed, every plant is loaded down. Peppers everywhere I look and the plants are THICK! Powders and ferments this winter