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roadhouse's 2010 first year grow thread

roadhouse said:
Really? How big are they going to get? Should I get rid of them? Of course chiles are the priority and anything that gets in the way must be DESTROYED. I didn't know we had such a chile specialist so close! Might have to use that as an excuse to go back down there!

OR..... you could just move them ;)
 
The melons will only take over if you let them,you can trim them to 1 or 2 vines,If you trim them the fruit will be better and bigger.
 
roadhouse said:
Really? How big are they going to get? Should I get rid of them? Of course chiles are the priority and anything that gets in the way must be DESTROYED. I didn't know we had such a chile specialist so close! Might have to use that as an excuse to go back down there!

Melons require a lot of space, so it's up to you on what to do with them. You could try and train the vines to head toward the edge of your patch, but that could get aggravating.

I don't want to plaster pics in your grow log so I'll provide some links to my garden last year as as example of what you can expect from the melons.

This first shot was taken June 5th last year and shows the melons on the right in a 16 foot wide area dedicated to them.
Garden 6-5-09

The second pic shows the melon sprawl 25 days later.
Garden 7-1-09

Not long after the melon vines were setting fruit outside the gardens perimeter. :)
 
Wow you're not kidding. Maybe I should have read up before planting them haha I would move them but I really don't know where else they can go. I'll just let them grow in that area and trim anything that gets in the way of the chiles. Even if they don't fruit it's not the end of the world.
 
They will take over the ground for sure, but you can still try to train them away for the peppers, or if that doesn't work use the vines as mulch.;)

jacob
 
Cheese whiz, Those are great pics roadhouse. Looking really good. What a great little spot to grow peppers.
I caught myself looking at the pics with a weird kind of intensity. :pray: Hoping mine look that good..
Great post..
 
Been awhile since I have updated. My good old cat has of course bit my camera cable in half...so I'm waiting for a replacement in the mail so unfortunately no pics. Not much activity anyway...since they were transplanted about two weeks ago most have not really grown much at all. The problem is too much rain! I've been getting a thunderstorm with heavy rains basically every other day so the ground never has a chance to dry out. I swear there might have been two days in a row at most with no rain.

On the good side some plants have started budding and producing flowers, some pods. I have the most on my ornamental plant (unfortunately), two double potted NuMex Twilights. Already liking the purple to yellow transitioning on it, but I hope they have a decent flavor too (anyone tasted one???). Others that are in the very early stages of starting pods are my Zimbabwe Birds, Pimient d'Espellete, Onza, De Arbol, and Habanero White Bullets. The first few are not surprising given they were my most vigorous plants but the White Bullets seem to have taken off quite quickly. Also my most shocking is the Chocolate Habanero in the largest container I have, it is by far my biggest C. chinense plant and has done incredibly well, aside from the leaf damage by insects or some animal. I'm guessing the container plants get better drainage which is why they are doing better. Pretty much all of my plants from CCN are doing poorly :( Next year I will be doing 100% of my plants from seed.

Today all of the plants were given a 250 ppm foliar spray of GA3, hopefully to counteract the lack of growth from the rain. I will have that new cable soon and will be able to get some pics up. Looking back at my pic of the garden on the date of transplant it really doesn't look all that much different except plants very slightly larger and yellower :(
 
Too early to fret too much. My plants were looking quite yellow when they were first planted out, then started to green up when the temps stabilized and got through the first set of rainy days, then got a little yellow again after nearly 6-7 in of rain in a week, and now that the rain is more spread out, greening up again. Gotta love Mother Nature. Hopefully your weather will start to dry out some for you so those plants can get going.

Good luck!
jacob
 
Well I finally have an update to post. FINALLY got my replacement cord for the camera. I am going to post several pictures to show what a 250ppm foliar spray of GA3 did for me in a 10 day period. The first set will be pictures taken from June 20 and the second set will be photos from June 30. They seem to have definitely improved and I might just have to give them another spray of 300pm. Most are still really small and seem very far from producing pods and it worries me since it's already July.

Chocolate Habanero 6/20
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Chocolate Habanero 6/30
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Bhut Yellow, Chocolate, Red, TScorp 6/20
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Bhut Yellow, Chocolate, Red, TScorp 6/30
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7 Pot, Naga Morich, Bhut Jolokia 6/20
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7 Pot, Naga Morich, Bhut Jolokia 6/30
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Habanero Orange, Habanero Peach, Twilight x2 6/20
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Habanero Orange, Habanero Peach, Twilight x2 6/30
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Red Savina, Naga Morich, White Bullet, 7 Pot Brown 6/20
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Red Savina, Naga Morich, White Bullet 6/30
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7 Pot SR, 7 Pot Jonah, Devils Tongue Red, Habanero Golden 6/20
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7 Pot Brown, 7 Pot SR, 7 Pot Jonah, Devils Tongue Red 6/30
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TS Yellow CARDI, Rocoto Orange, Rocoto Yellow, Rocoto Red 6/20
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Habanero Golden, TS Yellow CARDI, Rocoto Orange, Rocoto Yellow (Rocoto Red died) 6/30
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6/20
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6/30
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6/20
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6/30 removed watermelons and added chile plants
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First Onza pods
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First Thai Dragon pods
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THAT IS ALL FINALLY!

Looking at the pics they have a grown even more than I thought they did. Quite pleased.
 
Wow! Road,That is quite impressive! I'm glad you got your ppm figured out!Looks like you have an awesome start! Looking forward to pics as they progress! :)
Kevin
 
I sprayed them yesterday evening with a 300 ppm solution this time. Can't believe the results I got on the container plants. I'm hoping for a bit more of a boost on some of the smaller ones in the ground. They were quite water logged up until this week so I'm hoping that now it's dried out a bit they will want to grow more. Thanks for your help wayright really looks to be paying off.
 
Looking good roadhouse. The plants got much bigger since last time i saw your thread. How long is your grow season in indiana?
 
After looking through this whole thing you made me think to myself..."At what point does a garden become a farm?" i know when a hobby becaomes an obsession, im already there...lol
 
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