Pr0digal_sons not so Prodigal season.

Seeds soaked in peroxide and superthrive solution for 24 hours.

First 72 cell tray of seeds planted 1/11/12. Pro-mix seed starting mix was used to fill the cells.

Placed on my heated bathroom floor tile... Wait shouldn't this be in the ghetto grow thread?

1/17/12 hooks and seedlings


1/20/12 more sprouts and seedlings.

1/23/12 After 3 days of neglect while I was out of town. Tray sat on a table near south facing window. Not what they needed but it kept them alive. I used my 15 minutes of free time for the week and hung a light for them.

 

[gasificada]

Damn, pr0ds, you KILLED it, man!

I've been incredibly slack keeping up with glogs lately but I'm sooo going back to begining of yours and reading it from start to finish later today when I get some spare time! From the few pages I've just read now, I already feel this great envy building inside.....

Hey, did your crosses end up taking? I've never had any success using a q-tip. Now I just use my finger and get much better results.

 

[Pr0digal_son]

Geeme.... Your glog was short lived. What gives?

@Seth.... Anytime on the seeds! Thanks for the compliments also. I think I had my first super around June 20,I would have to go look. Usually it is in my nature to try and top that,but I am going to start a month later and tweak a few things to get them in the ground when they are in stride. More seamless if you will.

@gassy..... Thanks a lot sir. I will be following you,trippa,and the OZ thread this winter again.







Oct. 24 in the North Atlantic! Most of the plants are pulled but the 5 or 6 left are still going strong.

I did two more overwinters this week,a Douglah and a Butch T. The Douglah was setting flowers galore, clusters of 3 and 4 everywhere! Like a bad kid trying to spite Mother Nature! The Butch T is useless to me,but I really like the plant itself so it got the spa treatment.
Butch T should be a brute next summer.

I wanted to show a plant that I neglected all summer. I see a lot of threads about plants not producing in first year,and miracle ferts, bloom ferts,organic,AACT,temps,pot size,etc. I am probably wrong but I think these plants have an evolutionary trigger of some sort. They want to reproduce no matter how hard we make it on them.

Bhut Jolokia in less than a quart of soil.

This plant is 9 months old and has not been fertilized since the end of May. About the time I was planting out.

This plant produced 4 normal sized pods. I picked 2 and let the other two rot off. Plant was still putting out a couple flowers but the frost burned them.

 

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Still picking peppers....thats more than a peck of peppers picked.....probably a bushels worth.........
John, I see you have a vase of coleus......cool. When the roots are about 3" then its safe to pot up in the soil. A sunny window will work unless you'll be using the lights. When you can get decent branches off a plant then take more cuttings. I use the main plant as the "factory". Enough said bout that. I'm glad to see that you did.

I like the cutback on the Butch T and if thats the Douglah to the left you'll be supporting some huge plants. That will give the "Trinni's" a great start going into
next year. By March the plants should be putting out some decent size green pods.

And who said a super hot will never grow in a mere qt of soil. Nice experiment! That reminds me of a tomato plant that grew out of a crack in a curb on an exit ramp from
"Ryan" xpress-way here. While sitting at the stop light I 1st noticed the leaf structure
(tomato). The plant was only a ft tall from start to finish. I'd see the dam thing everyday from the two green golfball size tomatoes it produced to the point when they ripened. Ha..........one day they were both gone! Moral of the story......a plant will
grow in the "dirt" but to enjoy a harvest, ...well ya just gotta give them plants the best
of everything.........ha
Sorry for the rant...

 

[romy6]

John my man! I am gonna have to call the chili abuse hotline on you sir. That is just a shame

 

[Pr0digal_son]

Those are coleus cuttings Greg. I ended up with 4 varieties and they have roots about 1". I had 14 varieties this summer but some weren't worthy of saving. Quite a few of them had some funk on them as well. Only kept the healthiest. They are staying in a sunlit roomwith my overwinters for now. When I am assured that everything is pest free I may put everything under lights.

My first two overwinters are getting some new growth. Inspecting every new shoot for bugs. That other plant is indeed my doogie. Very woody plant so I had reservations. See what happens.


@Jamie..... Have mercy on my soul!

 

[Trippa]

Awesome prep for next season with the overwinters and awesome harvest on that Primo especially. I am growing the primo for the first time this season I hope I get half as much as that and I will be happy.

Sorry I haven't been keeping up with the glog lately bro. Its been very slack of me (I do have some real world excuses honest!! ) Best of luck with the overwintering ... although by the amount of work you have done with the prep I don't think you will need it as they look like they will come through just fine!!

 

[stc3248]

Can't wait to see what happens at your place next year! Great grow brother! Have a tall one on me, you earned it!

 

[bluemeanietsi]

I have 3 sprouts with true leaves now that came from those not black nagas. Can't wait to see them develop next year!

 

[Stefan_W]

Just a quick question. I was looking through your pictures, and you soaked the roots of your overwinter in dishsoap and neem oil. How long did you soak them for?

 

[Pr0digal_son]

Just a quick question. I was looking through your pictures, and you soaked the roots of your overwinter in dishsoap and neem oil. How long did you soak them for?

Stephan,
I made sure all soil was washed off of the roots first. I soaked the whole plant and not just the roots in the solution. I would say about 30 seconds is good. My other two plants I added a very small amount of bleach to the mixture. I then repotted into a fresh soiless mix,and watered them with superthrive to help the roots out a bit. Last thing I did was spray them with a pesticide and also sprayed the surface of the soil . This is not the standard by any means. You will see that everyone does it alittle different. I do not want a single pest in my house,so I maybe went alittle overboard. Never can be to sure though.

 

[Stefan_W]

Thank you for your detailed response. Unfortunately a few pests got into my house on a tabasco plant, so to some degree this advice is for next year. Right now I'm working on destroying the critters that made their way in before I take any other steps. I think overkill is the way to go, and your way of doing it seems very reasonable to me with the possible excpetion of using pesticides. I may go that route as well, but I would have to think carefully about it first.

 

[PIC 1]

J...Great explanation...Its better to be full proof when bringing the outdoors inside than to get caught with the pants...I
mean plants down........................

I agree, that's the last thing I want to see in the grow room is a pest. I have two magnifying glasses, one regular and the other high powered. Its amazing if you top water the soil what can emerge and squirm around................

On a side note check your mail Friday.......sorry for the delay

 

[Pr0digal_son]

Greg, I did an inspection a couple days ago and first leaf I turn, I see white spots. Instant dry mouth,and pins and needles on my neck! Turned out to be a very tiny bit of edema...phhheeewwww. I was about to open the window and give them the heave hoooo. I only watered the plants one time in almost a month so not sure what that is all about. I will let you know when the mail gets here....Rx