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Polarbearforge 2011 grow log

I've learned alot since I found this board, and want to share my growlog, too!

Here's the list of peppers I'm growing so far:
fatalii
giant jalepeno
sweet cayenne
bhut jolokia brown
bhut jolokia red
bhut jolokia yellow
7pod barrackpore
7pod trinidad yellow
7pod trinidad red
trinidad red scorpion
trinidad red scorpion mourouga blend
trinidad scorpion yellow
bih jolokia
assam bhut jolokia indian
dorset naga
bombay norich
aji lemon
tepin
purple naga jolokia
cap 649
tabasco
tabago seasoning
amish bush
savina
scotch bonnet
cherry bomb
black beauty
bulgarian carrot
super chili
pi 257179
pi 406987
pi 167244
pi 653669
pi 209026
pi 238046
pi 224448
pi 257084
pi 195302
pi 185474
Cayene colorfull blend
Thai hot
cayenne long thin red
mystery (cannister wasn't labeled)

The seeds are from a few different sources, some from previous garden's, some from the local garden store, some from hot stuff, and some from pepperlover.

Here's one of my seed starting shelves on January 23.
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Within 5 days, I had seedling coming up. I started almost 300 seeds. It looks a little different now (I'll try to update the picture later). The rope lighting is now covering two levels. Seedlings in bigger cups and lights also fill two levels. The remainder of the seeds that haven't germinated at still under dome and on heat on the bottom shelf. This was the first year for me to use bottom heat, and I'd sold on it. It made a huge difference.

Shortly, I'll talk to my organic fertilizer department and start feeding them. Here's they are...
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Note, this is from last year before shearing.

Jamie
 
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Nice list there PBear. Wife looked over the shoulder and saw the Alpacas and started in. She dearly wants a couple of them, but we need place with some land, which is in the cards
 
So I haven't been good about updating my growlog.

Here are a few pictures from 3/23, just 2 monthes after I first started my seeds.

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I usually have the lights closer, but I was in the process of rearranging. Some of them are over 2 feet tall at this point. I've had to pinch off many buds and flowers so far. I had to remove a few light bulbs to free some plants, they had grown up and around the bulb in the fixture!

They are getting a bit big for either seed starting shelf.

Jamie
 
So my beans, I mean my peppers have been growing rather well

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These are the smallest ones. They were usually the ones I found shaded from the other taller plants.

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These are part of the ones I'm keeping for myself. I'll be trimming them down a bit or they won't survive the wind we get here. Some of them are over 36 inches tall.

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These are allocated to people who wanted some plants. Once again, some tall ones in there.

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I've removed about half of the peppers that where there. It was quite a dense clump of plants.

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Another dense clump of plants. Some of them are knocked over at the time of the picture. I was pulling a few more out.

A couple plants have fully developed peppers on them. In the process of pulling them out of the shelves, I discovered a few wasps flying about. Hopefully I'll be able to get most of them hardened off this week and into the ground this weekend, although I still have some tilling to get done first.

Jamie
 
You got some cool varieties growing there man!! Nova is sending me a few Barrackpore seeds which may have to grow one or two of late in the season!! cant wait :dance:
 
So due to schedule and weather delays, I finally got about half of the plants in this weekend. It's been nice and calm (well, calm for us) the past few days. So last night the wind comes up. It's been 25-30 mph winds since then. My poor plants are getting whipped about, even though they are somewhat sheltered. I'm really glad I stake them upright. I always hate this part of planting.

Jamie
 
So after the whipping winds, we had cold weather, followed by record highs. Everything seems to have pulled through.

This is a picture of the gardens. Each of the three square plots have 25 pepper plants. The fourth square is filled with dye plants(weld, woad, lady's bedstraw) and will be allocated for peppers or other garden veggies/fruits next year. Once they go to seed this year, they'll be harvested and setup in a different location. The red solo cups are temporary name markers. Each support has a small metal plate screwed onto the back with the name of the pepper etched into it.
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These are my overflow peppers. If the dye garden is cleared out soon enough, I'll probably move some of these.
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I am trying grow bags for the first time. We'll see how they do for me. I decided to try them after going through several other options. The materials to make them cost less than $.50 per bag. It just took me a little time to develop a pattern that was the right size, cut out the pieces, and then sew them. If they didn't bulge at all, each bag would be approximately 1/2 cubic foot. For reference, a standard 5 gallon bucket is .668 cubic feet.
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An almost ripe super chili. The fruits were already forming when I transplanted it into the garden.
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An almost ripe cherry bomb. Once again, the fruits were already forming when I transplanted it into the garden.
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The strongs winds ended up breaking off a lot of leaves. This poor plant (assam) had all but one leaf torn off. There's plenty of good new growth.
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Thanks for looking!

Jamie
 
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