PaulG 2016

stickman · May 23, 2016

Hi Paul, welcome back from your European trip! I'm definitely looking forward to pics from your grow this year. Cheers!

PaulG · May 23, 2016

OCD Chilehead said:
Glad to see your back at it. You always have a nice grow. Love the garden every year.

Thanks, Chuck. Hope you are getting a good grow underway in Colorado.

az1000 said:
Nice to see you back!
I have some nice plants from your seeds.
Thanks again for the seeds!

I'm glad you are having some success with the seeds, Cat.
I hope you get some awesome pods.

stickman said:
Hi Paul, welcome back from your European trip! I'm definitely looking forward to pics from your grow this year. Cheers!

Thanks, Rick. I hope you get a chance to look at the europe web site.
We had a great time.
Good luck with your grow this season, Rick - I'm sure you are rockin' by now!

PaulG · May 27, 2016

Okay, when did the sucky ads start getting inserted to our pages?
Just a crock of horse pucky.

What a funky distraction. How can I get rid of them?

PaulG · May 27, 2016

Since I've spent so much time working on this:

http://myplace.frontier.com/~paulgriffith2/pix/europe2015.html

that I have neglected my THP page, so I'm going to post some
photos from earlier in the season just so I have a record of what
things looked like earlier in the Spring.

The first five pix are from April 5th.

Fifth year Fatali, made as bonchi last Fall:

Out for some fresh air and hardening off; tall ones are Aji Amarillo, the others are Padrons and Tristen's F-3:

Padron peppers with nice early pods:"

Getting some early Spring sun:

Early flowering in the greenhouse:

April 16, more hardening off:

April 17:

April 21 - getting crowded in the greenhouse at night:

April 25 - plants really growing:

I have another post's worth of pix, then I can get some more recent pix up now that my planting out is done.

PaulG · May 27, 2016

May 4- I didn't have room for all my plants out in the greenhouse, so I had 8 of them under
lights in the garage; 1 Scotch Bonnet TFM, 3 Yellow Scorpions, 3 Chocolate SB, and 1Fatali:

May 8 - Started planting out with the 2 Aji Amarillos (4th gen. peruvian
seed) and 2 Rocotos (first gen. peruvian seed): A nice deep hole for these tall babies. 5" of stem buried:

Finished off: Two down, 37 plants to go:

May 10 - planted out the 2 Rocotos in 15-gal containers; a good number of pods already setting:

May 11 - Padrons ripening up pods. They made awesome poppers:

Two of the Padrons in their 10-gallon containers by the greenhouse:

May 12 - 4 JA Red Habaneros 3rd generation(Devv and WalkGood) getting some sun:

Okay, now I can get some pix of the plant-outs posted.
Everything is in - just put in the last six on May 24.

az1000 · May 27, 2016

Looking great. very healthy !

OCD Chilehead · May 27, 2016

Love all the pics. That bonchi is something else. Jukka would be proud.

PaulG · May 27, 2016

az1000 said:
Looking great. very healthy !

Thanks, Nicolau - it's been a good season so far, great weather.

OCD Chilehead said:
Love all the pics. That bonchi is something else. Jukka would be proud.

The little Fatali has set and dropped a couple of pods, but it has lots of flowers, now.

D3monic · May 27, 2016

Everything looks great, plants are huge!

That greenhouse looks similar to mine from harborfreight except I don't have the louvers in the back. Is that something you installed after the fact?

Do you have a shade cloth over it, if so how did you do it over the roof vents?

Devv · May 27, 2016

You come back and Bang!

Great pics and plants Paul!

Glad the vay-kay was a blast, today was the last day of school for us. So we get a break

PaulG · May 28, 2016

D3monic said:
Everything looks great, plants are huge!

That greenhouse looks similar to mine from harborfreight except I don't have the louvers in the back. Is that something you installed after the fact?

Do you have a shade cloth over it, if so how did you do it over the roof vents?

Same greenhouse, Michael. the thing that looks like louvres is a shelf
folded up in the vertical position. I bought a set of shelves at Harbor
Freight when I bought the greenhouse. I do use a shade cloth sometimes,
I just cut out the section for the window. This year, I just moved the
plants outside when it got too warm.

Thanks for the visit, bud!

Devv said:
You come back and Bang!

Great pics and plants Paul!

Glad the vay-kay was a blast, today was the last day of school for us. So we get a break

Thanks, my friend! I'm not sure about a bang -
but maybe a small pop? The pepper gods have
been smiling on PNW this Spring :cool:

The vacation was really good. Saw lots of old friends, met
some new ones, and ate some outrageous good food! We
want to go back in another year or two for a three-month stay.

Devv · May 28, 2016

Glad you had a good time one your trip!

I'm right at 3.5 years from retiring...I don't want to rush my life, but I can't wait until I am free!

stickman · May 29, 2016

Wow Paul... you're really back with a bang! :dance:

I'm lovin' those pics... ripe Padron pods already... far freakin' out!

Comptine · May 29, 2016

PaulG said:
Okay, when did the sucky ads start getting inserted to our pages?
Just a crock of horse pucky.

What a funky distraction. How can I get rid of them?

I don't get them, I always run an adblocker programme. It works quite well, especially on facebook if you have it, you can select sections where you don't want ads, it's a brilliant programme.

This is a link to the one I use, and I have chrome as a browser.
https://getadblock.com/

Edit - Also, your plants look amazing!

Devv · May 29, 2016

Comptine said:
I don't get them, I always run an adblocker programme. It works quite well, especially on facebook if you have it, you can select sections where you don't want ads, it's a brilliant programme.

This is a link to the one I use, and I have chrome as a browser.
https://getadblock.com/

Edit - Also, your plants look amazing!

I have to have a look at the program for sure. I'm guessing it allows the download but stops the display. At work I tried to block the ads with our content filter (I do IT for a school district) and if they're blocked the pages won't load.

Thanks for the info!

OCD Chilehead · May 29, 2016

I just noticed the ads the other day. It's only there when I look at the site, not signed in.

Sanarda · Jun 5, 2016

You are a champ my friend. You are going to have a killer year/harvest. Many harvests. So good to see things are well and I will be watching your wonderful grow.

PaulG · Jun 7, 2016

OCD Chilehead said:
I just noticed the ads the other day. It's only there when I look at the site, not signed in.

Thanks, buddy - I figured it out finally - duh.

Devv said:
Glad you had a good time one your trip!

I'm right at 3.5 years from retiring...I don't want to rush my life, but I can't wait until I am free!

You can do it standing on your head, my friend - 3.5 years will go by so fast.

stickman said:
Wow Paul... you're really back with a bang! I'm lovin' those pics... ripe Padron pods already... far freakin' out!

The second round of Padrons started ripening up yesterday.
Can't wait for more poppers! Unfortunately I have a small problem (or big)
with my grow. More on that below.

Comptine said:
Edit - Also, your plants look amazing!

Thanks - they got off to a good start, but things are starting to get dicey now.

Sanarda said:
You are a champ my friend. You are going to have a killer year/harvest. Many harvests. So good to see things are well and I will be watching your wonderful grow.

Pia! Great to hear from you! I hope that there is a harvest, and if so, the pods are decent.
I imagine your grow is going full bore!

In the photos below, you can probably see that a lot of the plants have had many leaves removed.
Unfortunately, I have wound up with a bacterial spot infection on many of my plants. It's a soil borne
disease that comes from tainted seeds, and is spread by leaf hoppers and other insects. Either seeds
I got from elsewhere, or my own seed stock got infected last year and I missed it. So, next year, I may
have to grow resistant varieties and be very careful where I get my seeds from - I hate to lose some of
the lines I have going, but if the plants are badly infected, the pods will be small and the plants not as
robust. There is no cure except for using copper sprays which in excess are not good for pods and
plants, and is not guaranteed to work, in any case. I read an article by some of the CPI gurus about this,
and it sounds pretty dismal. I don't really want to try to replace about 550 gallons of soil in all my containers!

I have stripped the worst of the leaves off of all the plants so some of them look kind of bare as you can see
here. I had already decided to keep the lower stems bare this season to promote upper branch growth so
that probably made the problem less severe since the bacteria is also transmitted when water splashes soil
up on the leaves when it rains. This is the main grow section in the back yard:

The front yard section - Chocolate Bhuts, Red Habs, Primos and Padrons:

This is the irrigation I'm using this year to try to get a more even
distribution of water in the container soil:

Back yard Padrons:

The Chocolate Scotch Bonnets and Yellow Scorpions (left side) get some partial shade:

The Rocoto pods are growing bigger:

So far, the Aji Amarillos, Chocolate Bonnets, Padrons and Rocotos seem to be resisting the infection in
pretty good shape, but there is evidence on them, too. As for the rest, some varieties seem more susceptible
than others - the past three or four days of over 100˚F in the back yard have stressed the plants. Time will tell.
I'll just have to keep picking off infected leaves when they get too bad, and try to minimize insects on my plants.
Not the way I wanted the season to develop. but what can I say? I'll try to update on the problem periodically.
Hopefully, there will still be a season!

Devv · Jun 7, 2016

Seems like this season is a challenge for some of us this year. I'm sure you'll do fine though!
If I remember correctly Shane used a tad of aspirin to treat his plants some time ago, although I forget what for. Also the soil can be solarized to kill pathogens as well.

Good luck with your grow!

OCD Chilehead · Jun 7, 2016

The garden is looking great. Do you use a compost tea?