STC3248, Just Another Grow Log! Holiday Harvest!

Still waiting on the supers...but the rest are sprouted and under lights. This will be my first attempt at supers. Fingers crossed. I am so lost in the labels. I don't know how some of you keep them all straight??? I know I got most of them right...but had a couple random seeds pop up under the starter pellets...lolEdit: This was my STARTING listJalapenoBlack CobraMucho Nacho JalapenoBellPoblanoCaribbean RedChocolate HabaneroAnaheimCayenneTrinidad ScorpionBhut Jolokia Red/Yellow/Chocolate/White/PurpleFataliPequin ChiapasAmigo Diablo Bombay MorichDorset NagaLg Yellow 7 Pot7 Pot RedDouglahBishops Crownand OrnamentalsHere is the FINAL revised list! lol yeah right! Got some slow movers on here...GREEN: planted last night 3 February...didn't soak, so they may take a bit longer than normalORANGE: Planted 25 JanuaryBLUE: Planted 13 JanuaryBLACK: Planted 5 JanuaryFish 0/2Wild Brazil (Cumari) 0/2Tepin 0/2Aji Omnicolor 0/2Yellow Scotch Bonnet 0/2Goccia d'Oro 0/2Red Lantern Habanero 0/2Brain Strain 0/2Billy Boy Douglah 0/2Peruvian White Bullet Hab 0/2Kaval F-1 0/27 Pot Primo 0/27 Pot Monster Infinity 0/2Devil's Tongue Brown 0/2Bhut Jolokia Orange 0/2Black Naga 1/2Bhut Jolokia Purple 4/4 Bhut Jolokia White 4/4 Bhut Jolokia Red 4/4Bhut Jolokia Yellow 2/4 Bhut Jolokia Chocolate 4/4 7 Pot Red 4/4 7 Pot Lg Yellow 4/4 Fatali 4/4 Chocolate Hab 4/4 Bishops Crown 4/4 Pequine 4/4 Trinidad Scorpion 3/4Established Plants:Caribbean Red x5Black Cobra x6Jalapeno x6Mucho Nacho Jalapeno x8Cayenne x6Bell x4Poblano x3Anaheim x3

My 10 year old is responsible for the artwork on the cups!

 

[jsschrstrcks]

Looking forward to seeing your grafting process...

Before the experiments I've been doing, I had never tried to graft anything. With mentor grafting its especially difficult because of the size discrepancies.

Thats some crazy weather... Hopefully the cold and hail is over

 

[stc3248]

Another update on my decision to change soils...a couple weeks ago these two Goat's Weeds were almost identical...actually the one on the left was doing a little better which is why it was potted up into the orange pot. The green pot is over an inch shorter than the orange pot so the height difference is even greater than it appears...

The color difference and secondary growth are amazing...I will post many more side by sides and before and afters as I snap them...

So freaking stoked right now! I haven't been able to really examine the plants outside in the GH for a week and I look today and...Everything I switched soils on is growing like this!
I have changed my mind yet again...I have decided to just pot up one more time to 1 gallon containers and keep them in the greenhouse a little longer. Night time temps will remain in the 40's for the next month...but daytime in the 70-80 degree range. Afraid the cool nights might hold them back a little...I'm sure I will change my mind at least a dozen more times. I have a ton of new blooms and pods and even my first tomatoes of the season!

Headed to HD and my local nursery now...

Many pics to follow!!!
Thanks for checking my Glog!
Shane

 

[BigCedar]

Lookin good Shane! Man I can't stress enough between your glog and mine how much soil makes a difference. That side by side is nuts! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU again for posting that original soil quote that turned around my season lol.. Glad things are going well for ya, I like the watermark idea.. did you do that on photobucket? I wanna do that once I start posting pod pictures.. I've seen so many members photos being used all over the net.. I want mine tattooed with my name if people are gonna be using em! lol.

Pssst.. If I can get these damn plants of mine to produce I'll be sending a care package your way, and I'm gonna have you pick what you want in it!

Brandon

 

[stc3248]

Lookin good Shane! Man I can't stress enough between your glog and mine how much soil makes a difference. That side by side is nuts! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU again for posting that original soil quote that turned around my season lol.. Glad things are going well for ya, I like the watermark idea.. did you do that on photobucket? I wanna do that once I start posting pod pictures.. I've seen so many members photos being used all over the net.. I want mine tattooed with my name if people are gonna be using em! lol.

Pssst.. If I can get these damn plants of mine to produce I'll be sending a care package your way, and I'm gonna have you pick what you want in it!

Brandon

Back at ya...would like to maybe start a pod train/exchange later in the season with a few folks that have been ultra cool so far this season...but shhhhh can't talk too much about that here or my Glog will end up in the market place. (босс всегда наблюдает!)

Well back from the nursery with 20 more 6" planters, 10 more 1 gallons, some okra seeds, a hanging planter and a couple nursery trays. I am going to try to get a bunch potted up today with a couple excess plants in some of the kellogg soil with some amendments added will post photos/recipe once done. So glad I weaseled my way into a 3 day weekend!!!

The watermark is just added text under the edit then decorate tab on photobucket...there's gotta be a better way, but it works!

 

[stc3248]

Some more soil stuff...

Can you tell which 2 of these 4 Mucho Nacho Jalapenos I replanted into the new soil?

Recycled the Kellogg soil that I took my plants out of and amended it initially at about 2 parts kellogg soil to 1 part compost then screened down to 1/4 inch...

This is the result...

Then mixed at about 4 parts Peat Moss, 4 parts soil/compost to 1 part perlite...

This is how it looked after I was done...

Put this Cayenne in it....

Cayenne labeled My Mix...

Then 2 new Manzano sprouts, one in MG Moisture control on the left and 1 in the kellogg/compost/peat/perlite mix on right. These two are side by side on the grow shelf under the lights...The peat was from MG and had nutes added, plus the kellogg had nutes to begin with so I will not feed either and see what happens!!! Each of these are from seeds out of a store bought Manzano pod...

Ok...now for my next experiment...I have way too many Jalapeno plants and 1 of my new ones looked like the perfect recipient for my grafting attempt...(first attempt...I am sure there will be many fails on the way to success...here goes!

Momma (on the rt) is a 2 month old Jalapento, baby in the peat pellet is a Red Lantern Habanero. I scored the side of the seedling and the host site on the mother plant THEN...

It duct tape to the rescue! I wrapped the scion/host tightly together with athletic foam pre-tape so hopefully the duct tape adhesive won't rip them apart when I decide to cut it loose...

Nice blurry close up! Momma was in need of a little extra support so I used a bamboo skewer for a stake...

Don't know if this one will be successful...I was a little tentative scoring the stem of the scion because I was afraid I was going to rip it in half...on the flip side, the scrape on the host may be too wide and the scion may not be in contact with all the layers of the host necessary for a successful union. We shall see. Next time I will make more of a groove on the host instead of scraping it...or slice it and pull the rind back and place the stem under it and tape it all back together and see if that works...

If this one appears to be successful I will try another on the same plant in a few weeks. Next time I am going to deprive the seedling of light to get it nice and leggy so I have more stem to work with...

Hopefully it is true that duct tape fixes anything!

Thanks for looking...cross your fingers!
As always comments are very welcome!

Shane

 

[jsschrstrcks]

keep us posted what are you hoping for from the offspring?

 

[MGOLD86]

SENIOR!! Don't worry, no need to Shellback...been there, done that.

BUT, those plants look pretty freaking amazing. I can already tell that mine are turning around now that I put them in the promix. Gotta love the difference good soil makes!

Keep the pics comin...and don't worry about momma, just tell her the increased interest in photography is connected with peppers, so they are in fact one in the same.

 

[gnslngr]

Nice Grill Dr Frankenshane! They make a green horticultural tape that sticks to itself, or you might try that blue stuff for paint masking...duct tape is very tastefully applied though, and I mean that completely nontortationally I want you to know. My only grafting experience is with a limequat tree, and a v notch
on a satsuma trunk.It has just survived a replanting, and although several satsuma branches eventually came out below the notch,a they died back completely(like crispy straw dead) and the lone surviving shoot is the grafted limequat. Never seen this method, but I am retorted.

That duct tape job and watch has me suspecting you were supposed to be diver, or God forbid were one....and yes, thats a retortical suggestion.

 

[stc3248]

Nice Grill Dr Frankenshane!
That duct tape job and watch has me suspecting you were supposed to be diver, or God forbid were one....and yes, thats a retortical suggestion.

Thanks man! Need to fire those grills up this weekend! As for the Duct Tape...I'm just STICKING to my ROOTS... I dive...but not a "diver" as far as the watch goes, it was a gift. It has seen some depth in its day, but can't take the pressure anymore. It soaked up a little water in a hot tub in Panama City Beach...so I keep her dry now.

SENIOR!! Don't worry, no need to Shellback...been there, done that.

BUT, those plants look pretty freaking amazing. I can already tell that mine are turning around now that I put them in the promix. Gotta love the difference good soil makes!

Keep the pics comin...and don't worry about momma, just tell her the increased interest in photography is connected with peppers, so they are in fact one in the same.

I'm not even going to attempt that just yet...anything connected with these peppers is automatically under suspicion these days! Shellback huh??? Where'd you cross?

keep us posted what are you hoping for from the offspring?

Will do! Hadn't really though of what a Red Lantern and Jalapeno would produce as a hybrid??? Maybe a heat lamp! I did place the graft where I thought I might be able to force some secondary growth later...for now I am just hoping for a successful graft.

Shane

 

[jsschrstrcks]

whats a shellback?

also I'm thinking about repeating the first graft tomorrow but with tape sticky side in as you've done... also following your first idea... going to scrape the scion, and cut a flap on the host, and insert the scion inside the host, and tape the crap out of it.

might even go do that now *mad scientist chuckle*

 

[stc3248]

whats a shellback?

also I'm thinking about repeating the first graft tomorrow but with tape sticky side in as you've done... also following your first idea... going to scrape the scion, and cut a flap on the host, and insert the scion inside the host, and tape the crap out of it.

might even go do that now *mad scientist chuckle*

Shellback is a Navy tradition associated with sailing across the Equator.
I used a foam athletic tape prep like this to prevent the tape from sticking to the graft site...

http://www.sportstop.com/core/media/media.nl?id=3721&c=734395&h=166893c31db8cf1d9af1

Look up t bud grafting...good luck!

Shane

 

[megahot]

Some real beauties you have there! and wow! I never thought you could get a plant that big from just a pellet!!! Lol lets see that root ball

 

[jsschrstrcks]

hah, I have read about that before, but I tried: scrape the scion 80% of the way around, cut a flap, push scraped scion into flap, tape liberally (using my backwards tape method) leave roots attached to scion, and hope for the best.

 

[megahot]

Didn't get around to it today...maybe tomorrow between changing the oil and sparkplugs in the truck, installing the sprinkler system mods and potting up my Jalapeno and Goat's Weed overwinters...

I did get to home depot and picked up about 15 cf of potting mix along with some soaker drip lines and drip adapters for my risers. A new grill!!! Oh yeah...and a few little additions to my grow shelf...

Santa fe Seeds drying in the paper bowl...and Manzanos under them (stacked just for the photo)

Added 3 CFL's to my grow setup, 100w equivalent 6500k only 1600 lumens each. I also switched out the outermost T8's to 4100k bulbs. Hope to see some increase in the growth rates in here. They've been doing really well out in the greenhouse, but kinda slow in here. Since I am pretty much loaded outside I needed to make a change.

Leave comments please!

I love your tanning bed set up! VERY NICE!

 

[stc3248]

Thanks...The plants really do seam to love it too! I have the cfl's and one set of t8's on 16/8 and the other set of t8's stays on 24 hrs. Here they are after 2 weeks. Same flat of plants except the one in the black pot which was just coty's when the other photo was taken. One of my Douglah's had a weird leaf curl thing going on so I removed it just to be safe. They were all transplanted into the MG Moisture control last weekend.

Thanks again!
Shane

 

[megahot]

very nice!!! My douglahs have leaf curl too! One is worse then the other! The really seem to be sensitive to over watering/edema

 

[stc3248]

very nice!!! My douglahs have leaf curl too! One is worse then the other! The really seem to be sensitive to over watering/edema

Wasn't the issue with mine...I should have taken a pic. It sprouted with problems and was stunted out of the box with odd color even when it just had cotyledons. Then when it finally put out true leaves they looked like two wadded up pieces of paper with strange colors as well. I think it was a leaf curl virus of some sort.

Oh well, I decapitated and isolated it. We'll see it the next leaves come out AFU, if so I am going to trash it.

 

[gnslngr]

those stem are lookin nice and fat...or is it "phat" now...!?

 

[stc3248]

those stem are lookin nice and fat...or is it "phat" now...!?

* * *NEWS FLASH!!!* * * FINALLY GOT SOME WHITE HAB HOOKS!!! AND SOME APHIDS...

2 hooked up...one more expected. After over a month in the germ tray and nothing a couple weeks ago I dumped the rest of the harvested white hab seeds in a container with a moist paper towel and finally got some tap roots day before yesterday. Popped a couple in pellets and one in some soil and the two in pellets are showing hooks this morning!
Still no Kavals...but I'll take it! Thanks for the pods gnslngr!

As for the other note...I just nuked them all with bug b gone.

 

[stc3248]

Well...I went to move the White Habs out of the germ station and under the lights...and guess what I saw! The final Yellow Bhut decided to hook up after almost 2 months in the tray! 58 days to be exact! Woot! So those guys go 4 for 4...now the only hold out with 0's are the Orange Bhuts and Kaval F1's...Got some others still cooking but at least 1 of everything else I planted is now up and running. Spent the day battling aphids again. Funny how I can spend hours out there and not notice the issue then BAM! Once you're tuned in...you find them on every friggin plant. I didn't mess around this time went with the strong stuff. Made sure to hit each and every leaf top and bottom...

Was going to put a couple of the Jal overwinters and Mucho Nacho Jals in the ground today and accidentally found the sprinkler line the hard way. So Instead spent some time patching PVC instead of planting. Composted 2 of my raised bed areas as well. Tomorrow I am going to finish digging the holes and figuring out spacing as well as starting some perty's to keep momma happy. I have Dahlia, Caladium (love these because they go in the spots too shady for my stuff!) and some Alaska mix nasturtium thanks to Pash! My son's beans will find some more homes around the garden tomorrow. The fungus nats really took a toll on the beans. The leaves came up really chewed and a couple didn't sprout at all. When I finally took a look today. The larva were everywhere in there...so I also invested in some mosquito dunk today. They went in the unaltered Kellogg soil...will be interesting to see it they move into the amended soil as bad as they did on the original...

Sorry no pics today. I did snap a few pod pics yesterday, and I may post them later...during my aphid inspection I found dozens of new small pods. Poblano, Goat's Weed, Mucho Nacho, Jals, Cayenne and Anaheim, also now have flower soon to open on the Pequins...once they start throwing out pods its going to be game on! So the annuums are kicking true to form. Can't wait for my first Chinense...going to be close between Trinidad Scorpion, Fatalli, and Caribbean Red...We shall see. Think I am still at least a month off before the big dawgs start blooming.

Pics to come soon!
Shane