Peppin' Ain't Easy..."3/5King's 2012"

KiNGDeNNiZ · Aug 30, 2012

Mmmmm. White habs. Those things rock. Wish I could harvest more than 2 at a time. Great pod pics

Jamison · Aug 30, 2012

Wow them plants look super healthy bro!

3/5King · Sep 3, 2012

Thanks J-Mo and KD. They are coming along. I'm really curious to see how this season comes to an end. It will be interesting for sure. Hope all is well in your gardens of green.

DocNrock · Sep 3, 2012

Looking great! Brain phenotype is spot-on. I agree your mystery orange pepper looks like a hab. The red one, I'm not sure. Doesn't quite look like a Caribbean Red.

Anyway, you'll be hooking up the burger joint in no time...and assaulting the challengers with fire. :fireball:

3/5King · Sep 7, 2012

yes indeed I will. I gave my plants a nuclear amount of P and K last night, with some Humic Acid and root enhancer. Time for my garden to transform from Robert Banner to the Hulk. All I need to do is play some really loud annoying sounds....I'll just invite my ex-wife over and start a conversation with her next to the garden...it's all starting to come together.

Everything is doing well so far. I'm hoping this flooding of nutes will give the garden the boost that it needs to start throwing pods like crazy. I'll keep all of you updated. Time to go put some more peppers on the dehydrator!.

romy6 · Sep 7, 2012

Don't get too over zelous with all that P and K

stc3248 · Sep 7, 2012

Peppers and forest looking great! How's that CGN 21500?

3/5King · Sep 12, 2012

stc3248 said:
Peppers and forest looking great! How's that CGN 21500?

Message me your Addy and you can find out for yourself first hand.

UPDATE: I've been very lazy updating this Glog. I think it's because not much is really going on, peppers are growing in slow, getting a few harvest here and there. I'm waiting to post something that I can be proud of. I'm proud of getting this far into the game after all the crazyness that has happened but I'm just not where I want to be. I am however very excited and nervous about overwintering and getting our indoor grow setup again here soon. It's going to be quite and interesting winter.

Still haven't had enough BrainStrains at once, to hook up the Food Joint. I'm hoping by the end of the season I will be able too.

Here's a few snap shots of the garden and my favorite BS plant.

Big Ol' Jonah Pod! It's going to light me up!

FireInTheHole · Sep 12, 2012

Surprised you don't have the outcome you were hoping for, your forest looks lush and happy. Hope the chili gods show you some love, as with me.

3/5King · Sep 12, 2012

FireInTheHole said:
Surprised you don't have the outcome you were hoping for, your forest looks lush and happy. Hope the chili gods show you some love, as with me.

They were jacked up for a good portion of the season. They started coming out of it about a month or so ago, so they are behind where they should be. I was also having problems with the soil I believe. They will produce some but not nearly as much as they should. Good luck with your grow FITH. Thanks for stopping in. I think in three weeks I will have a decent size harvest. I'm sure you will too.

FireInTheHole · Sep 12, 2012

My Bhuts have been kicking my bhut! I don't know how some of you do it. Between keeping my wife happy and my plants....
6 weeks and no flowers since the last flowers I did have. All but 1 dropped. Thinking mine was a soil issue. Trying something new so we'll see.
Anyways, your plants look like they are about to start raining down chilies. I mean, they look so happy I can almost see their teeth!

Pulpiteer · Sep 12, 2012

last year we made it until well into October before a real hard frost came up here, if that's the case again this year, you'll have a lot of ripe pods. The plants are looking great!

DocNrock · Sep 13, 2012

Great looking Brain plant and your garden looks happy. This is my first year growing but I fully understand the setbacks of which you speak. The way your plants are loading up I'm sure the harvests are coming.

3/5King · Sep 13, 2012

Thanks everyone. I will get a decent final harvest. I just went outside to check the back garden and all of the sudden I have white flies all over the plants. One day there were none, now today I went and touched a plant and it looked like it was snowing. I shook all of the plants and tons of them start flying around. So on to figuring out the solution for this.....I'm going to have to go yiddish on this one and say OY VEY

Guess I couldn't escape the year without some type of infestation. And here I thought I was going to get away pest free this year....that's what I get for thinking.

KiNGDeNNiZ · Sep 13, 2012

ouch .. good luck with the white flies.. good thing for us here in socal... the heat has not let down 6-7 weeks now of 90+ heat.... doesnt look like its going down anytime sooner... lucky for you only one infestation.. im dealing with grubs.. and now aphids again.. and i cant get them with lady bugs because its way too hot.... as for the infested plants.. i pulled it and hoping it will recover... poblanos.. oh welll.. GO BEARS.. spank them packers... just hope the saints can beat the panthers...

DocNrock · Sep 14, 2012

Whiteflies suck. Not only do they cause damage, but they also carry broad mites. You can try neem and/or potassium salts of fatty acids. If you decide to go nuclear, I'm sure you know the whiteflies develop resistance to insecticides rather quickly. I have some and plan to hit them with a comibination of bifenthrin and malathion this weekend.

Jamison · Sep 14, 2012

King, I had them whiteflies earlier this season. I used some neem oil you can get a Menards. It took em right out brother! Haven't seen em since my friend. Harvest looks awesome too man.

PIC 1 · Sep 14, 2012

White flies are nasty.........most of it due to a mild winter and white flies are known to overwinter. Watch out for leaf curl as the flies can pass on a virus from plant to plant very easily. There's many concoctions that can be mixed into a spray bottle connected to the garden hose. The flies are most active during daylight. So a dawn or dusk spraying of the entire plants would work best.
How bout' "Doze Baer's".........Bear Down!

3/5King · Sep 15, 2012

Thank you guys, I was at Wally World yesterday and picked up some Bondide organic spray that I am going to try out today or tomorrow. Figure I try that out and if it doesn't work then I am going to try making up a garlic, hot pepper, soap concoction.

Bears......oh god....the Bears, what can I say. There's not a lot of rhythm that can be created with a lack luster O-line but I'm not a fair weather fan, so I have faith. That O-line needs to step up to the plate and the receivers need to get their hands around those balls....lmao (yes I have a sick mind and it was funny) Cutler needs to get rid of the ball sooner when he is in trouble. Scrambling out of the pocket seems to be an issue too. You give him a little time though and he is deadly. BEAR DOWN!

So here is a question for you seasoned chili green thumbs. I have 4 Naga Morich plants, all planted from the same seed. 3 of the plants are true to what a NM should be but the 4th plant looks exactly like the other 3 plants and the pod shape is the same but they are brown/choco colored. Do I have a Brown/Choco Naga M? Are there Choco/Brown Naga M's out there or is this something new. Take a look, I'm posting pictures below.

We also started making our powders and will have some for sale soon. We want to make some money to buy a better light for next season. Anything we make off of our garden is going right back into it. The amount you dump into the garden by the end of the season is amazing. Well worth it though. I love the evolution of our endeavors and the anticipation of how much better it's going to get!

(The skin on the peppers is not as shiny and smooth as it looks in the pictures)

Jamison · Sep 15, 2012

Looking good buddy. You might have a variant of a NM. I had all the same seeds from PepperJoe all giant bhuts and have 3 plants which two are red and one is yellow.