Sawyer '15 - Killing frost 11/22 + pics

Sawyer · Nov 14, 2015

I edited the previous post to show my best guess at the variety names after studying the list of varieties Justin said he sent and looking them up to see what looks like what. I'm even happier now than I was before, as I've segregated and saved seeds from most of these.

Still no killing frost here. Folks on the west side of town had a killing frost Thursday morning and a light frost a week or so ago. At worst, a potted 7 Pod Brown on my front stoop got a little frost damage Thursday morning. It was closest to the edge and thus most exposed to open sky. Surprisingly, none of the plants in ground in the garden show any damage at all. Right now, it looks like the next chance for a freeze is over a week away, with highs around 60 every day. I may actually get some peppers from the in-grounds. There are two Yellow Scorpion pods and one Brown 7 Pod pod that are about half ripe. I had one YTS plant that had a half-dozen or so pods on it that were starting to ripen a couple of weeks ago, but that's the one plant out of 8 or 10 the deer decided to walk all over. I did get a handful of broken pods from it for seeds, but I don't know if they're mature enough to germinate.

This year's been a big disappointment in terms of growing, but the sauce business is moving forward. With much of the red tape involved in that out of the way, I'm looking forward to paying more attention to growing next year. A good supply of peppers is definitely the bottle-neck in scaling up production. I'm planning to contract out some pepper production as well as do a better job of growing myself. I know I'm getting excited already thinking about starting seeds again. Still want to grow a lot of varieties, but I'm going to cut back on numbers of each, except for the varieties used in the sauces and ramp way up on numbers of those.

Sawyer · Nov 16, 2015

I edited this post to reflect a more accurate pepper ID. Was going to post a few pics from my Wyoming trip, but tinypic.com isn't working for me right now. Maybe later.

Plantguy76 · Nov 16, 2015

I been waiting & thinking the plant will be killed soon but there still trucking along

I am also streamlining in 2016 best of luck on next year grow & your new business :onfire:

Sawyer · Nov 16, 2015

Plantguy76 said:
I been waiting & thinking the plant will be killed soon but there still trucking along
I am also streamlining in 2016 best of luck on next year grow & your new business

Thanks, Jason. Right now, the forecast looks like we'll get a freeze this coming weekend, but just barely. With a little luck, it won't get quite so cold.

Penny · Nov 17, 2015

Sawyer said:
This year's been a big disappointment in terms of growing,

Same here, this year was a bust for me, which is sad because I had a few plants growing that I had wanted to try, and nothing.

Sawyer · Nov 17, 2015

Penny said:
Same here, this year was a bust for me, which is sad because I had a few plants growing that I had wanted to try, and nothing.

Here's to a better 2016! :cheers:

Penny · Nov 17, 2015

Sawyer said:
Here's to a better 2016!

Absolutely... :cheers:

Sawyer · Nov 27, 2015

Finally got a killing frost last Sunday, 11/22. I had already potted up 8 TS Yellow plants and 3 7P Brown to try to overwinter. There were also a few hundred volunteer plants from large seedling size to knee high growing where the main 2014 patch was located. I dug up at least a hundred or two of these and stuffed them all in a single #5 pot. Don't know if any will make it, but we'll see.

The TS Yellows were doing their best to ripen a handful of pods. Here are a couple of pics:

And a single, pitiful, 7P Brown pod:

Filling out the 10 allotted pics, here are some from my trip to Wyoming back in September.
Reached the tree line on the second day:

After crossing the pass, you can begin to see the second valley:

Passed this lake on the right side of the trail early on the third day:

And this one on the left a couple of hours later:

Just before dropping down into the third and destination valley:

Several days later, on the way out, a looking back shot:

And a final shot on the last day:

Hope all the US folks have had a good Thanksgiving holiday, and wishing a good weekend to everyone else.

Plantguy76 · Nov 27, 2015

Sawyer said:
Finally got a killing frost last Sunday, 11/22. I had already potted up 8 TS Yellow plants and 3 7P Brown to try to overwinter. There were also a few hundred volunteer plants from large seedling size to knee high growing where the main 2014 patch was located. I dug up at least a hundred or two of these and stuffed them all in a single #5 pot. Don't know if any will make it, but we'll see.

The TS Yellows were doing their best to ripen a handful of pods. Here are a couple of pics:

And a single, pitiful, 7P Brown pod:

Filling out the 10 allotted pics, here are some from my trip to Wyoming back in September.
Reached the tree line on the second day:

After crossing the pass, you can begin to see the second valley:

Passed this lake on the right side of the trail early on the third day:

And this one on the left a couple of hours later:

Just before dropping down into the third and destination valley:

Several days later, on the way out, a looking back shot:

And a final shot on the last day:

Hope all the US folks have had a good Thanksgiving holiday, and wishing a good weekend to everyone else.

John that is when I got my killing frost as well .
I am glad for a break & have most of the garden spot cleared.
I been thinking about Judy's stuffing scotch bonnets there slow growing & with many set backs with them was a total bust.
I have seed so I am thinking if I sow them that it should be early also even in there green state they smelled hot.
Those are some nice pics & those volunteers should be interesting.

Ozzy2001 · Dec 1, 2015

Wow those pictures look amazing. Really humbling when you experience natures beauty like that.

Sawyer · Dec 1, 2015

Ozzy2001 said:
Wow those pictures look amazing. Really humbling when you experience natures beauty like that.

Yes, it is.