PaulG 2020

Index to my grow logs:
 
PaulG 2012
PaulG 2013
PaulG 2014
PaulG 2015
PaulG 2016
PaulG 2017
PaulG 2019
Trippaul Threat Community Grow
Purple Thunder Community Grow

 

[PaulG]

Aji Benito and Sugar Rush Cream have bravely soldiered
on in the past week of smoky and cloudy weather.
 
Our forecast for a week of hot weather sort of went out
the window. According to Accuweather I don’t see one
day in the 80’s for the rest of Sept. and Oct. If that holds,
this will be a mediocre season, at best. I don’t know how
the peppers will ripen up more than a few pods in this situation.
mostly cloudy days, with chance of showers hovering around
50% most of the next week.
 
Aji Benito:

 
Sugar Rush Cream:

 

[PaulG]

The Sugar Rush Peach took a bit of a beating in the
wind storm. Lost several of the long branches; you
can see the empty space in the pic. There are lots of
pods, but they set so late this season, I’m not hopeful
for lots of ripe ones.
 
Well, the wonky bulletin board won’t let me post this
pic after doing a tad of editing. Instead it is inserting
the below pics. How frustrating.

 

[PaulG]

The Black Pearl starting to ripen down in the central pod cluster:

 
Chili Costa Rica needs some more sun!

 

[CaneDog]

Your grow continues to look fantastic, Paul!  With luck the weather will remain good enough to bring many of those pods home for you.  This smoke sure hasn't helped things, though.  My plants were really enjoying the previous weeks with lots of growth and ripening, but then the smoke moved in and the muted sun and cooler temps seem to have slowed that.  I have my fingers crossed we'll still have some good sun and heat after this smoke is cleared away.

 

[PaulG]

Your grow continues to look fantastic, Paul!  With luck the weather will remain good enough to bring many of those pods home for you.  This smoke sure hasn't helped things, though.  My plants were really enjoying the previous weeks with lots of growth and ripening, but then the smoke moved in and the muted sun and cooler temps seem to have slowed that.  I have my fingers crossed we'll still have some good sun and heat after this smoke is cleared away.

Thanks, CD. Would be nice to have more hospitable
climate for growing, that's for sure.
 
I'm not real hopeful, CD. The AccuWeather forecast
shows not one 80˚F day for the rest of Sept. and Oct.
And now we head into a week of clouds and showers.
 
At least the smoke will be gone. To me, it robbed us
of our last week of real summer     

 

[PaulG]

Pulled a few today:
 
Trippaul Threat v2 F2 #3:

 
Trippaul Threat v2 F2 #4:

 
Some Yellow Mini Rocoto:

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

[stettoman]

Beautiful, man....
 
My Aji Oros just now began podding up. I'll get nothing out of it, but the argument for a greenhouse is running very strong right now....
 
Hey Paul, I have some seeds dryin' up for ya!

 

[CaneDog]

At least the smoke will be gone. To me, it robbed us
of our last week of real summer     

 

 

[Mr.joe]

For me I've been thinking the smoke is helping filter the sun, but we're still pushing very close to 100F. And the ash that snows constantly helps add trace minerals to my soil... at least that's what I keep telling myself

 

[dragonsfire]

Were smoked by the BC fires, everything coppery.

 

[PaulG]

Beautiful, man....
 
My Aji Oros just now began podding up. I'll get nothing out of it, but the argument for a greenhouse is running very strong right now....
 
Hey Paul, I have some seeds dryin' up for ya!

You’re a peach, Eric! I think you need a greenhouse,
but it has to be able to be packed up and moved to CO!
 

 

Misery loves company. Hope our pods like
ripening in Fall weather!
 

For me I've been thinking the smoke is helping filter the sun, but we're still pushing very close to 100F. And the ash that snows constantly helps add trace minerals to my soil... at least that's what I keep telling myself

Heat and smoke together has got to be brutal.
 
Good on ya for looking at the glass half full!
 

Were smoked by the BC fires, everything coppery.

Yeah, I saw where the winds have shifted and 
are blowing smoke to the NE as well. You are
getting a double whammy.

 

[PaulG]

News from Rocoto World.
 
Mini Yellow:

 
Ecuador Red coloring its first pod:

 

[PaulG]

Big uptick in pods starting to ripen in the last 48 hours.
going forward we have mild, Fall weather. Despite spikes,
our high temps have been below average a lot of the time.
I think the above normal low temps are helping the ripening
process 
 

Don’t know what to think about my Scotch Bonnets this year.
Out of four plants, this TFM is the only pod to actually look like a
bonnet, sort of:

 

Red Scotch Bonnet. Pods look like habaneros:

 

[PaulG]

Papa Dreadies. ?:

 
 
Really? These Capuccinno SB look like some
demented, twisted cross between a Chili Goronong
and a Peter Pepper  :

 

 

[PaulG]

Bonda Mahala from Windchicken. Thanks, Gary!

 
Yellow 7 from bpiela:

 

[PaulG]

This season’s round pods from the Orange BJ Chocolate:

They are as big as my JA Red Habaneros.
 
Greal shot of the leaves behind a fuzzy Moruga UV Chocolate:

 

[PaulG]

Glen’s Ajicito is a productive little plant. Starting
to show some interest in turning red:

 
These wild c. chinense plants have thrived together
in a 20-gallon nursery pot.  Left side, Yellow Jellybean,
upper right, Wiri Wiri, lower right, Red Fire:

All these are loaded with little pods. The YB are spindle-shaped,
the other two round.

 

[PaulG]

Even the rocotos have aroused a little.
 
Tatiana Yellow:

 
 
First time I can see the pods on these mini-rocotos:

 

 

[PaulG]

Mini Red Rocoto:

 
Mini Rocotos:

 

[PaulG]

Bird Aji getting some color:

 
Amarillo Chiltepin:

Droopy, curling leaves tell me the plant is getting
ready for winter.No pods coloring on this one, yet.
 
Almost all of the wilds are dropping lots of leaves,
exceptions being the chinense (Red Fire, Yellow
Jellybean, Wiri Wiri) and the annuum v Glabriusculum
(Yellow Pequin, Texas Tepin, Cappuccino Chiltipin.)