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PaulG 2019

No grow log for the 2018 season other than the Pimenta de Neyde x Bonda Ma Jacques
thread dedicated to Trippa's cross. That one is an ongoing community project going into
second year and a test of the F7 generation. I imagine I will mention it once-in-a-while in
this thread, but the details of its progress will be in the dedicated thread.
 
I am deciding on a grow list for the 2019 season after growing only Trippa's cross this
season (2018). I definitely have some old favorites that will comprise the great majority
of the grow. I have limited space, so I'm counting on nature to help me make the final
decision. I'll probably start lots of seeds since I'm gun-shy from the poor germination
rates the past couple of seasons.
 
Here's the pool. Would be nice to be able to grow a bunch of all of them!  I think my
neighbor will shelter the overflow in his yard, but we'll see what to plant and how many
based on what might germinate  :rofl:
 
c. chinese - 10 varieties: 
  • PdN x BMJ, F7, white and violet varieties, Trippa's cross
  • Fatali, F2 of seed from Pepper Joe's
  • 7 Pot Burgundy, brown phenotype, pecan shape from 2017 F2 of the 7PB from Windchicken 
  • Scotch Bonnet, MoA, F2 of seeds from John/Sim, not high production, but some nice pods
  • JA Red Habanero, F5 of seed from Walk Good/Devv
  • Yellow Scorpion, F7 aka Yellow Trinidad Moruga Scorpion and CARDI Scorpion, from Spankycolts plant 2012
  • Bhut Jolokia, Red, F4, from Spankycolts plant 2012
  • Bhut Jolokia, Chocolate, F3 of seed from Georgia Growhead
  • Bhut Jolokia, hybrid, F2 - I believe it is a  (BJred) x (Pdn x BMJ F1 or F2)
  • Yellow 7 Pot, F2 of seed from Trippa 2013
c. annuum - 4 varieties:
  • JA Red Mushroom, F3, brown phenotype, seed from Refining Fire
  • Pimenta de Padron - Spanish seed, fry up while small and green, throw on some salt
  • Pimenta del Piquillo - Spanish seed, sweet, very flavorful, small stuffers
  • Guindilla - Spanish seed, spicy heat, great pickled, long and skinny
c. frutescens - 2 varieties:
  • Nagahari from Tezpur, India, supposedly very, very hot freebie from Pepper Joe's 2017
  • Chili Costa Rica, F2 (2014) from Hippy Seed Company seed, 2012
c. pubescens - 1 variety:
  • Red Rocoto, F3 of Peruvian Market seed, 2016
That about does it. Seeding time will be here before we know it!
 
 
 
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Nice to see the pods acomin' Paul.hope the weather will keep their #'s increasing.
That Guindilla pepper from Spain is real nice,reminds me a bit of Thunder Mountain Longhorn.(China)
 
 
 
I didn't realize I was so far behind :confused:
 
But, I'm glad to see things are working out well for you despite the cold weather start. :dance:  Been crazy hot here over 100° forever it seems.
 
I love your isolation methods and am taking notes!
 
The pods look good. This has been an off year for myself. The annuums flowered three weeks ago. Cold nights happened every month this year. Everything else is just flowering now. I hope there is enough time left for the pods to size and colour like yours Paul. 
 
wiriwiri said:
Nice to see the pods acomin' Paul.hope the weather will keep their #'s increasing.
That Guindilla pepper from Spain is real nice,reminds me a bit of Thunder Mountain Longhorn.(China)
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Have not heard of that one!
 
Weather continues by fits and starts.
A few sunny days, a few cloudy days.
 
Devv said:
I didn't realize I was so far behind :confused:
 But, I'm glad to see things are working out well for you despite the cold weather start. :dance:  Been crazy hot here over 100° forever it seems.
 I love your isolation methods and am taking notes!
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So far the large bags work best. The little favor bags
are a bit constrictive. but they work great on flower
buds with long stems.
 
As usual, it's too bad we can't just average our
weather patterns!
 
Zippy said:
The pods look good. This has been an off year for myself. The annuums flowered three weeks ago. Cold nights happened every month this year. Everything else is just flowering now. I hope there is enough time left for the pods to size and colour like yours Paul.
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Been slow here as well. Plants pretty much stalled through
June and creeped into July. Annuums just starting to really
get serious here, as well. We need a nice, long pleasant Fall.
 
internationalfish said:
All this talk of isolated seed is making my pod grow erect...  :oops:
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There's an app for that.
 
 
podz said:
Looks like you've been having some great weather Paul, garden looking good. Really diggin the photos, too. Nice little harvests starting to come in!
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Bit by bit, Mika! Seems to take forever for them to ripen up.
 
Tried a half of an F7 violet starting to soften a bit.
Ate the little cut off tip. Wow. Instant heat sides and
back of tongue before I could taste it. Had a couple
of little pieces solo then the rest on some butter bread
so I could at least taste something. As usual, pleasant
not quite fruity taste, full on chinense aroma, nice crunchy
texture. Heat lingered a short time. All in all a nice pod.
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PaulG said:
 
Been slow here as well. Plants pretty much stalled through
June and creeped into July. Annuums just starting to really
get serious here, as well. We need a nice, long pleasant Fall.
 
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Very strange growing season here as well. Was over 40° a couple of weeks ago and now it's been cloudy for weeks and lowest nighttime temp was 8.9°.

Even my tomatoes are just starting to ripen.
We defenetly need a long pleasant Fall!
 
This season seems to be less than exemplary for a good number of us, Paul. Being on my second in a row, after a series of long warm Spring and late, warm autumn with a virtually perfect summer in betweens, these last two have felt that much worse.
 
Downswing in the earth's biorhythm? Idunno, but I sure hope if it is that the upswings are decades longer than the downs....
 
stettoman said:
This season seems to be less than exemplary for a good number of us, Paul. Being on my second in a row, after a series of long warm Spring and late, warm autumn with a virtually perfect summer in betweens, these last two have felt that much worse.
 
Downswing in the earth's biorhythm? Idunno, but I sure hope if it is that the upswings are decades longer than the downs....
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The weather we're having down here reminds me of the way it was in the 90's. Hope it doesn't trend that a way!
 
stettoman said:
This season seems to be less than exemplary for a good number of us, Paul. Being on my second in a row, after a series of long warm Spring and late, warm autumn with a virtually perfect summer in betweens, these last two have felt that much worse.
 
Downswing in the earth's biorhythm? Idunno, but I sure hope if it is that the upswings are decades longer than the downs....
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All I can tell you is that this is the worst season for peppers in 10 years. Potatoes are fantastic. They grew so fast the potato bugs could not digest them and left them alone. That has never happened to me before. Great year for squash except for my pumpkin which succumbed to mildew. It was a tender thing. Cool damp nights every week for every month. You take the ups with the downs. That is why I grow multiple gardens, if something doesn't succeed I have many options to go too. 
 
Weather here in Finland has been pretty normal except for the first two weeks in July which were way cooler than normal.
 
In any case, my annuums have all produced heavily, baccatums are in the process of producing heavily as are the pubescens. I am expecting a harvest of epic proportions unless we get some sort of really freakish weather event such as a sudden, massive hailstorm or a hard freeze during September.
 
As you might imagine, though, my chinenses are not even podding due to the relatively low average temps this summer (20c - 68f).
 
Here's hoping you get a long, pleasant fall, Paul :-)
 
Photos from last week...
 
Costeño Amarillo growing true to form,
lots of long, slender branches with a slender
pod at most nodes:
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A nice pod developing on the 7 Pot Pecan
test tube baby:
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Costeño Amarillo, small plant in 10-gallon pot:
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A couple of more hotties...
 
The Orange Bhut Jolokia, chocolate. Some nice,
fat pods in the future:
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The flower petal coronas/corollas (?) on the Yellow BrainStrain
are so tight they have produced a number of pods
like this:
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PaulG said:
The flower petal coronas/corollas (?) on the Yellow BrainStrain
are so tight they have produced a number of pods
like this:
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I see this a lot too! So far, I attributed this to high humidity, as all the plants in my greenhouse suffer from this, but not the ones out in the open. I can see that out in the open, they become much more brittle, due to actually drying out, whereas the humid ones stay more kind of leathery and thereby restrict the pods' growth.

This is not to say it's not species specific of course, and pure speculation from my part... ;)

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lespaulde said:
I see this a lot too! So far, I attributed this to high humidity, as all the plants in my greenhouse suffer from this, but not the ones out in the open. I can see that out in the open, they become much more brittle, due to actually drying out, whereas the humid ones stay more kind of leathery and thereby restrict the pods' growth.

This is not to say it's not species specific of course, and pure speculation from my part... ;)

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Interesting theory, my friend! It would have been
nice to track the weather conditions with the pod
setting/developing activity! We have had variable
weather and pod shape! With the hot sunny weather
came the bumpy, gnarly pods. 
 
In any case, it must be genetic, i.e. the toughness
of the fibers composing the ring. Weather conditions
could then dictate how it plays out in the real world.
I like the look of the 'mushroom' pods   :D  
 
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