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RYMERPT 2015 "BUCKET LIST" grow log

This ladies and gentlemen will be my second year growing peppers. A big shoutout to my friends that have helped me on this journey. Mike, Jojo, Rocketman, Spork, Hogleg, Sicman, SORRY IF I FORGET TO MENTION YOU. These folks and the entire THP community has made me what I am in the pepper world. I have grown 20+ plants on a small appartment balcony and had decent success. My list for 2015 is still up in the air right now, but soon to be. Trying to talk the wife into letting me start the seeds inside before Christmas.

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Tentitive thoughts about grow list:

Purple jalapeno
Reaper
Ghost
Aji pineapple
Star fish
LemondropXtepin


Gonna try to get seeds planted soon.

Stay tuned.

This year I'm going as big as I can with the pots. My best luck was five gal bucket for my ghost.
 
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I'm liking this technique your using Ryme, I have had more luck with the 10 or so that I've started using this method than any sown in the jiffy peat pellets! 
 
Keep it up with these pictures. I swear the half the reason I recently got hooked on peppers is not because of the taste or heat but because of how beautiful the pods are. When I close my eyes, I see TS CARDI Yellow. So while most everyone here knows what the varieties your growing look like, it sure brings it to liFe a lot more than a simple list. Keep 'em coming!
 
I just wanted to document what happened to me a few momnts ago.

As seen in "what ginds my gears" my wife did not get paid when she was expecting it. I had taken Wednesday off. She and I woke up and she chevked her account. "Shit", she remarked. After looking into the problem she found out that she was getting paid Friday, not Wednesday as she thought. My brother in law was due to visit and we had planned on shopping for both presents and groceries. Needless to say we were bummed.
I went on THP and bitched in the grind my gear thread. Our internet went down about an hour later (bill needed to be paid)

Now for the good stuff.

Brother in law calls and says he will be late. Bummer!
We expected him AM . He arrives for dinner. I prepare our last chicken made up yakatori on skewers. Yum! He says he had not shopped for presents and handed my wife some cash to let us buy our own. After dinner andsome games. Fun! My wife grabbed my teen son and headed out to shop. She came back around 1am with lots of goodies.
Christmas was great and my mom gave each of us cash in cards.

Today wife got paid. We paid internet and I raced to THP.

FIRST THING I SEE IS A MESSAGE FROM GRANTMICHEALS.

GRANT HAD BOUGHT ME AN EXTREME MEMBERSHIP after reading my post that I had left in "grinds my gears".


What a blessed Christmas!!!!
 
I was getting a hook a day, often two or three, for a while. Now have not seen any new for a bit. The heat mat has slowed way down. It does, however have all the new planted seeds that were just added.

The seedlings are looking quite green and healthy.

The first borns, REAPERS, remind me of this cartoon I just found:

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Put up six quarts of dill pickles today.


Big pot 1/4 full of water

All the reaper infused vinegar ? Cup & 1/2 ?

All the Habenero infused vinegar ? Two cups ?

2/3 cups pickling salt

3 T dried dill

1 small package hot pickling spice

One big red onion

Five dried reapers

Put all to the boil and let it steep for a bit while I cut cucumbets into spears.

Set up jars and lids and water bath.

Stuffed about 8 1/2 pounds of cucumbers into six quart jars along with a bit of red onion per jar.

Ladled brine into jars trying to keep liquid free of floating spices (wanted a less chunky this time)

Not all the brine was needed. I think the longer boil inabled the ingrediants to become happier and avoid the need to have the chuncky spices in the finished product.

Lids, bands, water bath........done.

Eatable in a week or better.
 
December 30th and my six foot 2014 ghost plant just gave me another pepper. You guys remember Casper? I bought a planket from Home Depot and covered him up on the patio. We have a freeze on the way for the next couple days. Casper is happy with his blanky.
 
Just took nine more seedlings from mini solo cups to regular sized solo cups.

Trouble is I screwed up on the labeling. The last four are either reapers or ghost.

I narrowed it down to three are reapers and one is ghost.

Not sure who is who. Oh well.




Had an Allepo hook last night and a Zimbabway bird.



Nearly forgot to mention. I was carrying the tray of dirt filled large solo cups into the livingroom, where I was working atop a TV tray, and tripped. Dry dirt covered the floor, the tv and the shelves that hold our dvd collection. Took nearly an hour to vaccume (can't spell for shit) that mess up. Kinda funny though. I just wish someone had filmed that fall. It had to have been funny to watch.
 
The Purple cabai burung ungu that had hooked has died. Gonna have to replant seeds for this one. Wife needs her purple.
Ok planted two more, onto the heat matt.
 
I'm getting ready to do this as well, have to rearrange and repot a few at least. Then probably sew some more seeds, looks like you're plugging right along. Happy new year!
 
East Texas Heat said:
I'm getting ready to do this as well, have to rearrange and repot a few at least. Then probably sew some more seeds, looks like you're plugging right along. Happy new year!
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Thank you



A bit of an update on my 2014 crop:

I wanted to insure that Casper ( my ghost) lives so I have been covering him on frosty nights. The few others have not been covered. To my utter astonishment I have buds on my maruga, peppers on my serrano, tons of peppers on my prik kee nu, buds and peppers on my ghost and buds on my chocolate scorpion. WTF LOVE IT!!!!


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My 2015 crop is chuggin along. Added chocolate hab to the lights (he wanted to come out and play)

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