SKULLBIKERS Roaring Into The Twenties GLOG

Time to begin the new year and this will be my peppers glog.
This is the link to the last page of my 2019 glog for anyone interested.
 
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/70364-skullbikers-2019-container-and-kratky-glog/page-23

 

[PtMD989]

I do not do the sports thing but I been doin the Dew since 1988 when I gave up the alcohol.
You know the saying, be careful and carry a big firestick just in case.

Is it like the old saying “ I carry ,cause I’m too old to fist fight and too young to die “?


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[skullbiker]

I had the strangest thing happen today that has never happened before while planting seeds. It all started when my wife wanted me to try start some Beaver Dam pepper seeds because she likes those peppers. All I could find were some OLD seeds, like six years old.
 

 
I started at 1:00 pm with a H2O2 soak using Zero water.
 

 
At 2:00 pm I rinsed the seeds in plain Zero water. I made up a sterilized mix of sugar water using Zero water and Turbinado. I put the seeds in to soak in this mixture.
 

 
At 3:00 pm I put the seeds(not rinsed) in a clean tube and applied pure oxygen under low pressure for about 5 minutes.
 

 

 
Then I just left the tube lay there while I got a seed tray ready. Just before 4:00 pm I dumped the seeds out of the tube and found ONE like this! WTF
 

 
Honest to God, if I had not seen it myself I would not have believed it. From old dry seed to sprout in 3 hours!

 

[internationalfish]

Well what do you expect? If you'd been just sitting around doing nothing for six freaking years, you'd be ready to go, too.

 

[skullbiker]

Check out the stalk on this Mucho Nacho Jalapeno compared to a drinking straw.  Seeds were planted Dec. 4th. 
 

 

[skullbiker]

Is it like the old saying “ I carry ,cause I’m too old to fist fight and too young to die “?
 

 
 
And with a bad left knee and a bone spur on my right heel I cannot run worth a crap either.

 

[PtMD989]

It is better to be judged by 12 peers than to be carried by 6 friends [emoji16]


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[skullbiker]

The side shoots cannot wait to pop out on this Jamaican Yellow, seed hit the dirt 34 days ago.
 

 
Sheeeese, more seeds hitting the dirt the other day. Its an addiction I tell ya.
 

 

[skullbiker]

Here is that same Jamaican Yellow as 2 days ago, now sporting some buds.
 

 
Putting the reflective coating on some new BIG containers.
 

 
And here is an Equidorian Sweet Rocoto that decided to tear its own head off upon germinating. I left it and put it under the lights and now it looks like a very tiny true leaf is forming!
 

 

[Uncle Eckley]

What's the capacity of the BIG containers?

 

[skullbiker]

What's the capacity of the BIG containers?

Their web site lists them as a #25 with a 27 gal capacity. $8.50 each at the local garden store.[emoji106]

 

[Uncle Eckley]

That beats the $15 I paid for my 32Gs

 

[CaneDog]

And here is an Equidorian Sweet Rocoto that decided to tear its own head off upon germinating. I left it and put it under the lights and now it looks like a very tiny true leaf is forming!

 
Congrat's on that SB!  I had an ecuador sweet do the exact same thing just a day or two ago.
 
Mine won't be forming any leaves, though 
 
Next player up! 

 

[skullbiker]

Two days later and the headless rocoto is on track with true leaves. This one said screw it.........I dont need no beginners leaves!
 

 

[skullbiker]

The plants are growing fast now and getting crowded so I will have to move some plants to another shelf.
 

 
I really am impressed with the growth on the Paquime Hybrid Jalapenos, nice heavy duty stalks.
 

 
This one has started branching early.
 

 
And this one is pushing out the buds.
 

 

[Uncle Eckley]

Looking good, SB!

 

[skullbiker]

I just thought I would show what I noticed on my lighting(or rather, my camera could see it much more clearly than me). The first pic is T8 6500K lights, the second fixture from the right has new bulbs in it.
 

 
I just put some of my T8 8000K lights on this shelf(8000K is listed on the packaging as Sky White).
 

 
The view of the two different shelves from the floor.
 

 

[PaulG]

Are you sure you want to put in new lamps?
 
Now your plants will really go bonkers!
 
Looking fantastic, SB. 

 

[skullbiker]

As I was moving plants around on the shelves saw one of my Mucho Nacho plants was all forked up. lol
 

 

[skullbiker]

Another tray starting to pop.
 

 

 

[skullbiker]

The new plan is the old plan! Three in a 18 gal, four in a 27 gal. Thats just for peppers, Tomatoes always get their own house.