PaulG 2013

PIC 1 · Apr 29, 2013

Paul,

Glad to see you're back and the plants surving your stay away.... :woohoo:

Discoloration or bleaching is normal on older foliage when exposed to long durations of sunlight during the 1st days of hardening off.....phew, I'm out of breath from typing..... :lol:

Some of my plants have that same camouflage appearence, too many brought out too soon, and too tired to bring them in the garage overnight. The new growth will be normal........that's what counts.

The overwinters look healthy......no stopping those now, they're taking off.

Have fun with the rest of your plant-out.

Dshlogg · Apr 29, 2013

Hey Paul. Your plants look good. Hope you enjoyed your trip to my hometown DC. If you can get past the traffic and find parking, the city is quite beautiful. I find that living here makes us overlook all the monuments and museums. I haven't even been downtown this year. I gotta get out more

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stickman · Apr 29, 2013

Hi Paul, thought I'd drop in and say hi! I planted seeds from your Aji Omnicolor pods, and they're podding up already... http://thehotpepper.com/topic/35512-stickmans-2013-glog-peppers-and-tomatoes-are-in-ground/page__st__980#entry818185
Cheers!

PeriPeri · Apr 30, 2013

Hey Paul. Plants are looking great man. The prospect of having to OW some of my plants is giving me a cold sweat... I tend to kill them plants. Looking awesome!

PaulG · May 15, 2013

Okay for some reason the editor put Sanarda's name at the top of everybody's quotes so here
are the responses I saved before posting:

@Brent - Hey, Brent! Glad the PYH is putting them out for you! I haven't ground any
of mine into powder yet, but am looking forward to trying some! The plants
are all doing okay, some with a few small pods, some just branching and
starting to develop flower buds. I am thinking of plant out in a couple of
weeks, but am dragging my feet. We had a cold spell the middle of last
May with temps in 35-37 range, and even June 10 had a low of 39.
Maybe I'll just plant out and use cloches if it gets nippy! Hope your
grow is going well, buddy.

@ jamison - My pleasure, Jamison! I will post more pics when something interesting happen!
Good growin' your way, bro.

@3/5 king - Hope those OW's are pullin' through for you this Spring, David. I lost four (Exp Ember, Ghost, Choco Hab, Pech Hab), but the rest seem to be pullin' their weight, so here's crossed fingers!

@Stickman - You are right, Rick, I need to get out more! Spring is here for sure; for us that means cool damp weather. The Rocoto and Manzano plants seem to like it just fine, as do the Yellow 7, Bonda Ma Jaccques, and Bahamian Goat. Go figure. The rest are in sort of a holding pattern, but there are quite a few flowering in their one gallon root pouches. Happy growin', buddy!

@stc3248 - Hey, Shane! You know, my woes are so pitifully few it embarrasses me to complain.
All things considered, the plants are growin' well, and I'm one step ahead of the aphids : )
You should be harvesting pods by now, right ; ) I hope you have not seen a recurrence of the
mottle virus from last season.

@ walkgood - I think you are right, Ramon! I have been cutting off the ugly leaves bit by bit. Some more sunny weather would help matters a lot!

@ sanarda - Thanks, Pia! I hope the Jersey grow season is being good to you!

PIC 1 said:
Paul,

Glad to see you're back and the plants surving your stay away....

Discoloration or bleaching is normal on older foliage when exposed to long durations of sunlight during the 1st days of hardening off.....phew, I'm out of breath from typing.....

Some of my plants have that same camouflage appearence, too many brought out too soon, and too tired to bring them in the garage overnight. The new growth will be normal........that's what counts.

The overwinters look healthy......no stopping those now, they're taking off.

Have fun with the rest of your plant-out.

Thanks, Greg. I think you called it - what these plants need now is to get potted up and into some real sun!

Dshlogg said:
Hey Paul. Your plants look good. Hope you enjoyed your trip to my hometown DC. If you can get past the traffic and find parking, the city is quite beautiful. I find that living here makes us overlook all the monuments and museums. I haven't even been downtown this year. I gotta get out more .

I thought D.C is a great city. Here's a link to some of my photos from there:
http://myplace.frontier.com/~paulgriffith2/pix/WashD.C.html
Hope your grow is going well.

stickman said:
Hi Paul, thought I'd drop in and say hi! I planted seeds from your Aji Omnicolor pods, and they're podding up already... http://thehotpepper.com/topic/35512-stickmans-2013-glog-peppers-and-tomatoes-are-in-ground/page__st__980#entry818185
Cheers!

That's great, buddy! You've got those green thumbs working overtime!

PeriPeri said:
Hey Paul. Plants are looking great man. The prospect of having to OW some of my plants is giving me a cold sweat... I tend to kill them plants. Looking awesome!

Don't let it scare you, Lourens! If I can do it, anyone can!

stc3248 · May 15, 2013

Everything is looking healthy on my end bro, thanks for asking. I have pulled a few and I think this weekend will be my first (very small) harvest of supers.

Can't wait to see some pics from PGland!

stickman · May 15, 2013

Woo Hoo! PaulG is in the building! Glad to hear from you guy, and that your chiles are doing OK. Hope we see you around the campus... Cheers!

PaulG · May 15, 2013

I tried potting up a couple of plants from the root pouches just to see how it would go.
The nature of them makes it hard to get the root ball out of the pouch without messing
it up. So after some fumbling around, here is what I came up with for anyone interested
in using the Root Pouch containers.

I used a 'one gallon' nursery pot as a push rod or ram
to hold the bottom of the root pouch in place, and to
help extract it later. That's an Orange Rocoto from
Peppermania seed harvested last season. A very
vigorous plant:

Next, I used the smooth edge of an old hacksaw blade to cut around the
wall of the Root Pouch and separate the root ball from the material. This
was very easy to do, and I didn't feel like I was cutting any roots in the
process:

I slowly worked the sides of the container straight down. It got
easier when there was a fold of material to grab around the bottom,
but a little patience and care makes it not too difficult to do.
As I pushed down on the sides of the pot, the plastic pot sort of
'pushed' the root ball out of the pouch from underneath, and the
Root Pouch covered the top of the nursery pot:

The Root Pouch is pulled completely down around the nursery
pot, and the whole root ball is exposed. It held together quite
well:

It was easy to set the whole root ball into the hole prepared in
it's new container. I watered it in well with some B-1 Transplanter,
a Lily Miller product, and never noticed the slightest bit of
wilt from the transplant.

stc3248 said:
Everything is looking healthy on my end bro, thanks for asking. I have pulled a few and I think this weekend will be my first (very small) harvest of supers.

Can't wait to see some pics from PGland!

That sounds great, brother! Pics in a few days or when it's not showering.
You may have noticed the wet deck in the pics above!

stickman said:
Woo Hoo! PaulG is in the building! Glad to hear from you guy, and that your chiles are doing OK. Hope we see you around the campus... Cheers!

Thanks for the warm welcome, Rick! I'll be back in a day or two with some pics!

Trippa · May 15, 2013

About time Mr G. I was starting to get concerned your little shop of horrors chilli plants had devoured you

. On your grow brother looking forward to some pictures!!

KiNGDeNNiZ · May 15, 2013

Wake uppppppp

Paul. They have some that have Velcro. But can be more costly. I do extract what you do.

Without the hacksaw

stickman · May 16, 2013

Hi Paul
Great idea for getting plants out of root-pruning pots without damaging the roots. It's timely for me because I'm going to up-pot a Habanero I have in one when I put it outside for the season.

BTW... Happy Birthday bro! Hope it's a good one!

Trippa · May 16, 2013

ohh happy 21st young man!!

RocketMan · May 16, 2013

Great idea with the root pouches Paul. I have 3 Gallon pouches and they're supposed to only last a year and a half so I might just plant the whole thing when I get ready to put things in the ground but this was one of the things I had been thinking about when I ordered them.

Glad to hear you had a good time in DC. It's an amazing place to visit.

Cheers on your Bday!

WalkGood · May 16, 2013

Paul, excellent technique and written description with photos, while I don’t use the pouches right now, one never knows when one might. Thanks for posting brethren ^_^

compmodder26 · May 16, 2013

PaulG said:
I tried potting up a couple of plants from the root pouches just to see how it would go.
The nature of them makes it hard to get the root ball out of the pouch without messing
it up. So after some fumbling around, here is what I came up with for anyone interested
in using the Root Pouch containers.

I used a 'one gallon' nursery pot as a push rod or ram
to hold the bottom of the root pouch in place, and to
help extract it later. That's an Orange Rocoto from
Peppermania seed harvested last season. A very
vigorous plant:

Next, I used the smooth edge of an old hacksaw blade to cut around the
wall of the Root Pouch and separate the root ball from the material. This
was very easy to do, and I didn't feel like I was cutting any roots in the
process:

I slowly worked the sides of the container straight down. It got
easier when there was a fold of material to grab around the bottom,
but a little patience and care makes it not too difficult to do.
As I pushed down on the sides of the pot, the plastic pot sort of
'pushed' the root ball out of the pouch from underneath, and the
Root Pouch covered the top of the nursery pot:

The Root Pouch is pulled completely down around the nursery
pot, and the whole root ball is exposed. It held together quite
well:

It was easy to set the whole root ball into the hole prepared in
it's new container. I watered it in well with some B-1 Transplanter,
a Lily Miller product, and never noticed the slightest bit of
wilt from the transplant.

Awesome trick there Paul. I've used root pouches for 2 years now and haven't thought to do something like that. I use a plastic butter knife to separate the roots from the sides and I slowly push up from the bottom with my hand to try to separate the bottom roots from the pouch. That part is easy, but trying to get the whole root ball out of the pouch then becomes messy as I turn the plant upside down and work it out of the pouch. Your way looks WAY cleaner. Going to be potting a few plants up tomorrow morning, so I'll have to give your method a try!

Spankyscolts · May 18, 2013

Hey Paul long time no hear from! Things are looking great with your grow! We should catch up on the phone sometime. I will be checking back. Stop by my GLOG sometime !!

PeriPeri · May 19, 2013

Hey Paul. All looking super man! Thanks for the optimism... my indoor journey has begun - let's see if I can prove you right! lol

DocNrock · May 19, 2013

Awesome trick there, Mr. G! Glad to see you posting and still around. Thanks for asking about my grow. It's coming along well. Harvests are getting bigger each week.

compmodder26 · May 20, 2013

Used your root pouch trick a few times now and it is working as advertised. Very simple to do with zero to no root disturbance. Thanks for showing us that again Paul!

HillBilly Jeff · May 21, 2013

Like it!!!