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rhm3769's 2014-in the ground!

So I'm setting aside 12 plants to attempt an overwintering.... looking at having 45 plants for 2014....
Plants I'm overwintering, 4 unlabelled supers that didn't produce, pimenta de neyde, purple flash, butch t, two unlabelled ornamentals from ajijoe, another unlabelled ornamental and pequin.
I have 11 varieties I'm waiting on from a sasbe offer here: super chili, aji pineapple, bishops crown, brazilian starfish, 7-pot jonah, datil, chocolate hab, f2 yellow fatali x red savina, and three wilds, c04392, c01225 and tc07246.

I have seeds saved from my last two seasons for orange manzano, rocoto amarillo, an okinawan variety, white habanero, golden habanero, tazmanian habanero, scotch bonnet, jamaican mushroom, yellow fatali, serrano, santa fe grande, aji limon and a few others.... I have to narrow down what I'm growing from my saved seeds....

Raised beds same as last year, about 4'x4', 9 plants per bed.... thinking I'm gonna go back to miracle gro, my first season in 1 gallon containers with miracle gro was better than this last one with fish emulsion and seaweed extract in raised beds....
 
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Thanks.... seems to have worked....
Rocoto is starting to show signs of life, as well as the 7pot, but that one could just be a speck of vermiculite.... some ar starting to show signs of first true leaves.... one casualty to fixing helmet head, one pending....
Picked up a burpee mixed seed packet of some sweets for the wife and son.... hoping he'll cooperate enough to help sow, germinate and transplant those.... he's starting to ask for my hot sauces when I use them.... too hot for him....

Gonna attempt to find time from school to get some yardwork done the next few weeks. ... trying to get them outside early March....
 

23/32 cells germinated so far.... they got an hour or so of some late afternoon sun with no harm.... ill get a full list up later.... bottom left moving up, trinidad scorpion, wilds.... next column aee all the fatalli x red savina f2....
 
A white hab from pepperjoe germed....
Bad news, fonna slow things down a bit.... might be moving.... housing maintenance has been skimping on some things.... takes three calls to finally get skmething fixed right.... We called three months ago to get the caulk around the shower redone because it was turning color.... the guy just scrapped off the spots and put more on.... a month later, calling again because the drain started backing up and the toilet started leaking around the seal on the floor.... they fix the stoppage and reseal everything then come back out a week later to check on it, decide they're gonna replace the shower door because water was getting out and pooling on the floor, the same issue they had before we koced in, the same reason they had to change the flooring in the bathroom before we moved in.... called in today because the wall ourside the shower was turning yellow and the baseboard was pulling away from the wall. ... the guy starts taking the drywall off, says its all wet and moldy.... sends someone else iut to set up a fan to dry it out, this guy is supposedly a mold expert and tests the moisture level of the wood and says its not mold and then says its not a mold he has seen because there are 3000+ types of mold.... his comments made no sense.... if its mold, they send a company to move us and its a shorter process.... if its not, I have a lot of paperwork to do to request permission to move.... and it'll take 4-6 weeks to get approved.... with a pregnant wife and a toddler, it w ok nt be fun moving myself.... he's been sick almost constantly since they first came out for the caulk.... the wife has been sick almost as often for almost as long....
I don't see what the big deal is.... they won't be losing money from their contract since they own the same housing area we're wanting to move in to now....

My issues, the yards are smaller, if we have to wait the 4-6 weeks, ill have to postpone my plant out, and I might not have the same space.... and it was tiring enough moving all the brick and cinder blocks from the truck through the garage to my section of the yard....
But it is about 5 min closer to work and it'll be nice not having mold and a sick family....
 
Got them out in some warm morning sun.... will be checking every 30 min....

Edit: an hour later, still going strong, my thermometer thing says its 70 and still rising.... only expecting to get another hour maybe.... but it is partially shaded at times from the tree above.... will keep checking....
 
Awesome.... I have a mystery now.... something went digging through the cells and pulled up a hook.... I have no idea where it came from.... when I checked them this morning, there weren't any new ones.... everything from this morning is still there.... unless I had a seed germinate and shoot out a two inch taproot in the last few hours, I had a seed I lost track of somewhere. . Its probably a white hab....
 
Sounds like moving is the best option.  Hope the seedlings make the transition in good health.  Family, too, of course.
 
They will.... it won't be more than a mile or two that we move.... more worried about the few from 2013 still in the ground making it....

We'll be moving.... not sure who has to do all ghe manual labor and stuff, and it won't be weeks before it happens.... thw housing manager is mad, the maintenance manager is mad.... none of the maintenance guys followed protocol on it, they aren't supposed to say "mold" even if they meant to there is no mold....
They can't and won't test it for mold because the cdc doesn't say they need to test it or even have a kit to test it, so they only test the moisture content of the wood....
To my knowledge, its the same wood from the 1970s when the house was built and regardless, 18% moisture cannot be good.... especially since water isn't regularly pooled around it.... sounds more like there's a leaky pipe somewhere within the wall.... but I'm not in construction and I didn't stay at a holiday inn express last night, so what do I know?

Have another pepperjoe seed popping, surprisingly....
 
Rickie, sorry to hear about the rental unit troubles.  Mold is nothing to take lightly.  
Is there not an omsbudsman that you can go to to get some action taken.  It doesn't
matter if the managers are mad, your family has a health risk issue here.
 
Good luck with that and getting your grow in shape for the season.
 
They're mad at the workers for not doing what they're supposed to.... ultimately, we shi uld have been offered to either move or have a temporary home while they fixed it.... since they didn't and we kept pushing and went to the next boss and the next boss, they're just letting us move....

I'm losing garden space, but there is no yard, so the roughly 8x8 dirt patch is gonna be my new garden....
 
That's the least they can do.  They should cover expenses, as well.
 
8x8 will be a bit of a challenge.  How many plants do you think you can manage in that?
 
My current beds are all 4x4 and I was planning on doing 9 plants per.... last season I did 8 per plus a tomato in rhe center.... there's a bit more than just the dirt patch, there's a dirt path that borders the cement pad for the porch, which is roughly the same 8x8 size....
Jusr didn't pay attention to the way the sun hit when we checked it out.... and thinking about it, I bet its on the east side of the house.... with about a 4' wall around it....

But my balcony plants in okinawa got barely any direct sun and they peoduced a lot better than this season with afternoon sun....

They don't move us and won't reimburse us.... its really only like a 2 mile drive and we get roughly 5 days to move.... so in a way, it works to my benefit.... no work, we load up what we want and get to put it exactly where we want it and can take as much time as needed....
And if I have to, ill throw some in containers....
Ill scale back a bit, won't be growing 45 as initally planned, but it will still be 20ish....
 
I could squeeze 48 plants into this area with the same plant spacing as I have now, but I'm thinking instead of packing the big patch with 6x6 plants, reducing it to 5x5 and going a plant every 2 feet along the little path for 30 plants.... not entirely sure yet.... might just go with what I have in the tray and not worry about moving my overwinters.... gonna try to retain some of the soil in the beds, although it might be a good idea to start fresh since I've had a big aphid and scale problem recently....
 
Started the move.... gaeage first since the wife wants to clean everything even though housing pays a professional cleaning service to do it.... we have until the 6th, there's no reason to push everything to the weekend.... because it'll end up being we didn't get around to getting some of the bulkier and hwavy stuff taken apart ahead of time and we'll be scrambling saturday doing that since its thw only day we have help.... getting the yard taken care of is gonna be an all-day event by itself....
Its gonna be cleaning tonight while I get most of the garage moved over, listing discrepancies tomorrow, scrambling on saturday to move the heavy stuff, being lazy on sunday, scrambling on monday to finish everything else if I can't get more days off workk, and having to clean and clean the rest of the time after work since my son won't let the wife do it while I'm at work....
I still have homework to deal with, and I'm slightly behind in that class as it is....

Fun fun....
 
Man that is the pits! I can relate. Moved mid-grow last season. Luckily most my plants were in containers. Looks like you got plenty of space for buckets! Maybe that would be a good approach for your grow?
 
Sorry dude. Try to stay ahead of the ball!
 
Not too bad, they're just now getting the first true leaves.... wasn't planning on getting them in the ground for another two weeks regardless....

We're planning on moving one room at a time, minus stuff that requires more than one person like the tv, And bedroom furniture....

As far as buckets, I don't see a problem with them, they wife won't allow them and it is cheaper (money's tight) to amend the dirt and go into the ground than it is to get stuff for the buckets and I can't spend the time mixing the dirt into soil and compost to spread among buckets.... I have a little compost bin, gonna mix in what I have left of the potting soil and some of what is in the beds and use that as a container for a plant or two.... the rest, I'm gonna spend for a bag or two of some worm castings and some garden soil, along with the rest of the vermiculite I have and mix that in to the surface....

Thanks, ill get it all situated, still got a bit of time before ill plant out....
 
Moved about 54 gallons of the gro mulch, compost, garden soil and worm casting mixtute from last years bed to the house, and the cinder blocks....

Potted the strawberry plant, kept the few over winters that showed new root growth....

Should be working the soil mix into the ground this week or so....
 
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