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Silver Surfer's 2012 Season Shots

Forming the hilled rows and installing the drip tubing.
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Black plastic mulch and drip line installed.
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Drip lines connected to header/valve assembly.
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Plants hardened and ready for transplant to the garden.
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A closer shot.
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Another view.
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I hope to get about 140 of these transplanted this evening.
 
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Great display shot! I'm liking that idea bigtime! It looks like a poster that you'd see hanging in a "Chili-Head" shop...

Greg
 
always love to see your harvests. they are simply amazing. good luck (not that you need it) with the rest of the season.
 
Thanks all. Pulpiteer, they're all OP. I'd say I get around 2% to 3% crosses from saved OP seed, but I don't sell seed and I like cool crosses. :)

Chilies 8-9-12
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I've been slackin' on pickin' all of the ripe ones, but I thought doubling the row spacing to 5 feet this season would make the harvests easier and eliminate the crawlin' pod pull mambo.
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I was wrong.
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Oh well, guess I'll plant just 2 rows on opposite sides of the garden next season.
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great shot surfer...

I know in the past you have said where in 'bama you are, but please remind me...I want to kinda get an idea of the soil type you are in....I know 'bama has basically 5 soil (if you lump coastal marshes with flood plains and limestone valleys and appalacian plateaus) types...I am betting you are in a coastal plain region...

here's a map...I am interested because when I was at Auburn in Wildlife Management, I had an agronomy course where we went to all 5 different areas...then had a botany class next year where we studied all the plant life in those different areas....great knowledge...this is a borrowed map I found on the net....

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AJ, I won't tell you the city (if he wants to tell you he can) but he is in a coastal plains region.


In other news...Silver Surfer has graciously invited me to his massive chile farm to help him harvest some pods tomorrow. I'm looking forward to meeting this legend of the pepper plants. I will definitely have a camera in hand and try to take some awesome pictures. Me and him started talking about this a couple months back and the stars must have aligned just right or something because I'm finally able to get down his way and help him. I'm so freaking excited.
 
that's all I wanted...my big scorpion project last year was grown in the coastal plain (over in Mississippi) also...that dirt produces some of the largest, most productive plants I have ever seen...light, well drained sandy loamy soil...from what I have read, some of the most fertile land in the world, if not the most fertile...some will argue...
 
I'm in appalacian plateau...it sucks. That's one reason I grow in containers. I mean I planted my Japanese Maple and it was just rocks and clay and more rocks and clay. The soil here is awful
 
Super nice garden, I swear pepper plants are like fish and iguanas, the more room they have the larger they grow. I doubled the space between plants this year and it is more crowded than last year. Guess I'll send in the toddlers.
 
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