REDTAIL's 2012 GROWLOG

gnslngr · Oct 28, 2012

That rocoto is almost a baseball!
Now as to the festival pods, and the last harvest pods -are the long whites Devil's Tongue Whites? I had one white make it -a late starting seed that I had infact
given up on-and then 2 mos after sowing ,one pops up.Nice clean tasting pods.
And ...hell yes its worth it to keep the hoop house goin as long as possible!

RedtailForester · Oct 28, 2012

A couple pics from the other day's hoophouse harvesting. This is how we roll in Pennsy-tucky!

Here are the pickins' from one bed:

Not bad for late October eh?

Yellow Brain Strains

Fresh Fataliis in October.......YES PLEASE

Unfortunately, Hurricane Sandy has different plans for this season. I harvested everything with ANY sign of color on it. I'm going to chance it and leave the hoophouses up but it could be the end of the season for good.

millworkman · Oct 28, 2012

Sucks but it has to end sometime. I would have loved to be able to get a hoophouse up today, but I have too many different beds to make it work so I guess I am pulling plants for overwintering today. 48f and rainy right now with 32 expected tonight. Damn...

It seems like it was a great season Dan and here is to next year!! :drunk:

PaulG · Oct 28, 2012

Nice bit of hoophouse magic, Dan! Now that the season here is
just about wound down, I can have some time to visit grow logs
just in time to see them come to an end! Good luck in 2013!

saugapepper · Oct 28, 2012

All be damned... yellow Brains in late November. Dan, you in the path of Sandy? We are going to get a lot of rain and high winds starting Monday night here in Toronto.

RedtailForester · Oct 28, 2012

We are going to have front row seats for Sandy... :tear:

saugapepper · Oct 28, 2012

You take care Dan! Stay dry and warm.

3/5King · Oct 28, 2012

Nice little haul. Hope Sandy gets you all excited but leaves you with blue balls...lol...yes this is the metaphor I went with. Good luck! FATALIIIIIIIIII'S!

RedtailForester · Oct 28, 2012

We are pretty well stocked here. We have a ton of firewood, water, food and BEER!!!

saugapepper · Oct 28, 2012

Beer is the most important!!! Well besides peppers... please protect your Rocotos :dance:

RedtailForester · Oct 28, 2012

Brought some of these in just to be sure...

saugapepper · Oct 28, 2012

Justaguy · Oct 28, 2012

On the bright side.....well, hold on I got one.....Sandy will drop more firewood for us. Still looking good though with the harvests.

Sanarda · Oct 28, 2012

Good luck with Sandy. I to am not looking forward to what is coming. I harvested also and left the green ones on my plants. Hopefully we will pull through in one piece.

RedtailForester · Oct 29, 2012

The worst of the storm isn't supposed to hit until this afternoon. We have lots of food, water, firewood and BEER!!! We should be alright and hopefully the hoophouses survive. Here's a little wrap-up video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kys8EE-w0wo&noredirect=1

RedtailForester · Oct 30, 2012

Not over yet...

millworkman · Oct 30, 2012

Ugh, good luck keeping up Dan.

RedtailForester · Oct 30, 2012

We made it through the storm relatively unscathed. All three hoophouses were destroyed but I'm hoping to recovered everything if we don't get a freeze tonight. Fingers crossed.

RedtailForester · Oct 31, 2012

How things looked this morning:

How things look now. WE ARE BACK IN BUSINESS BABY!!!

JoynersHotPeppers · Oct 31, 2012

Great idea! I could save about 40 plants for another week or 2 if I did that now assuming no more storms like Sandy. Like you we took a direct hit and were assaulted for 36 hours. There is always next year, I just hate to leave 1000+ green pods, sure do look and taste better ripe.