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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 :whistle: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
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My 10 year old is responsible for the artwork on the cups!
 
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By the way...the Shane Strain Lanternafrankenpeno is still pushing out new growth...sans roots! plus the coty's have straitened back out...ish. Think in might be stuck! Only time will tell. I have a little 60w equivalent CFL about a foot from it. The lamp is a 2700k though. I figure it will give it a little light but hopefully not too much. All my 6500's are 100w eq...don't think its quite ready for that yet.
 
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By the way...the Shane Strain Lanternafrankenpeno (Haha, that's funny) is still pushing out new growth...sans roots! plus the coty's have straitened back out...ish. Think in might be stuck! Only time will tell. I have a little 60w equivalent CFL about a foot from it. The lamp is a 2700k though. I figure it will give it a little light but hopefully not too much. All my 6500's are 100w eq...don't think its quite ready for that yet.
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I'd say it sounds very good, Shane the Master Grafter! New growth has to be a good sign that it has taken. Let me know how the barbeque in 3 months turns out!
 
Have you considered LTS - I forget what the initials mean, but its posted over on Pauls Glog... The jist of it is you put your plant rather on its side, tied down, so the growth is forced through the side of the plant... IE through your little scion... I'm planning to try this maybe tomorrow...
 
jsschrstrcks said:
Have you considered LTS - I forget what the initials mean, but its posted over on Pauls Glog... The jist of it is you put your plant rather on its side, tied down, so the growth is forced through the side of the plant... IE through your little scion... I'm planning to try this maybe tomorrow...
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Low Stress Training - Trippa was talking about it. Might be a good idea to try.
 
Yeah, I read that over there...it was on another post a couple months back too. Before I try that I think I'll pull about half the leaves, pinch the growth tips and focus some good light on the graft site. I want the plant to look somewhat normal. Forcing it over may work, but would cause all kinds of bends. I could also tip its planter at a steep angle and leave the scion up. Or maybe just use some of my Bonsai wire to slowly pull the top growth down to get the same results. I think I can get some growth where i put it...if it stays stuck!
If that little light looks to be doing it some good, I'll up the wattage a bit in a few days. Then maybe some real sun next weekend (if it shines, might rain). I think I am still a few weeks from pulling the tape off though. Can't decide it I want to try to stick another one on it yet...hmmmm I have a couple Manzanos and White Habs that need homes.
 
I'm thinking that I'll put some packaging tape over... well I'll take a bunch of pictures tomorrow :P describe it that way.

It doesn't need to be bent over forever, just a time... Just to encourage growth.

The amount of lignification on my host makes me feel like it would probably be alright without tying it down... but, I'm going to tie it any way.
 
Looking awesome man. Vid adds a nice touch. And the graft looks awesome. im pretty interested to see what it looks like when you pull the tape!
 
Here's the little guy...
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See the small hole in the leaf, that is secondary damage from the earwig I found on it...True leaves are pushing out a little in spite of the roots being cut loose...

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Here is the setup I am using...it doesn't normally sit on the floor or the cat would destroy it, I just moved it down there for a pic.


Beehunter said:
Looking awesome man. Vid adds a nice touch. And the graft looks awesome. im pretty interested to see what it looks like when you pull the tape!
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Me either! Its going to be like Christmas unwrapping that thing...kinda like you know there's a puppy in the box, and it you don't open it at exactly the right time, and exactly the right way the puppy dies. lol. I know I'll be nervous when the time comes. I was pretty careful with the pre-tape foam and then the duct tape over so I am hoping its not too stuck anywhere. If it is I will just cut the tape in several places and leave it till it falls off.

On the flip side the other graft is worrying me a little...the scion is healthy and pushing out some new growth, however the leaves that had been forming on the host fatalii have stopped growing, I am hoping it will eventually start to pull from the scions leaves to help the host's recovery. Those are the only nodes on the host, and if they dry up I may just end up with a Yellow bhut with a fatalii root system...which would still prove grafting viable, but not the result I am looking for at all.
 
Damn Shane! You got some serious yardage goin on my friend! I can see you put alot of work into gettin it all ready for your plants. Looking great dude! Watching you plant out already is sure making me jealous! Along with the cali sunshine in your video.. and the fact you live in cali in general.. did I say sunshine yet? lol. Your plants look great, I'm glad the grafting experiment is going well for ya. You could make a killing on those selling them to a nursery (not that you'd want to) We were selling grafted apple trees a few years back for 140-160bucks and they were flying out the door. You look like your off to a great season man. Can't wait to see your yard in July!

Brandon
 
You should come up to my place and grab some of the ladybugs we have. Cant move without stepping on one, funny never see any white flys or anything just bugs too big for them to eat and gnats, darn gnats annoying lil fellers but harmless.

Anywho, looking good man.
 
Wow it is pretty freaking amazing what I miss being out a few days. I can always count on you to go up a few pages and seriously lag my catch-up time. Everything is looking pretty amazing, and love the vid! I love how you snuck a few new seeds in there when the wife was deliberating....don't worry you have soo many already, what is 3 or 4 more? If you live by that you will be reaching AJ status in no time!
 
jsschrstrcks said:
You may still have a hybrid on that one though.

It will be on the first node of the scion if its going to happen at all.
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I hope so...I just tried to stick 2 more together...The host is a Pequin that's in pretty bad shape anyway, and the scion is a Peruvian White Bullet Hab...I thought those 2 would look cool on a plant together, and maybe give some kind of Cumari...ish offspring if I get a hybrid. Went even deeper on the scion this time, and the host was hurting already so another long shot!


richphitzwell said:
You should come up to my place and grab some of the ladybugs we have. Cant move without stepping on one, funny never see any white flys or anything just bugs too big for them to eat and gnats, darn gnats annoying lil fellers but harmless.

Anywho, looking good man.
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Thanks for the offer, I just found the first of the ladybugs in the garden today...They were thick last year, so I think they'll show up soon!


MGOLD86 said:
Wow it is pretty freaking amazing what I miss being out a few days. I can always count on you to go up a few pages and seriously lag my catch-up time. Everything is looking pretty amazing, and love the vid! I love how you snuck a few new seeds in there when the wife was deliberating....don't worry you have soo many already, what is 3 or 4 more? If you live by that you will be reaching AJ status in no time!
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Sorry to take up so much of your time...I have 3 kids (16f, 14f, 11m) the new kid smell wore off them long ago, but I understand how valuable your time is right about now! As far as AJ status, a long way off from that! I am planning on planting something on about 50 acres of my land when I retire. I may even build a big ass greenhouse and really go all out. Maybe just contract to grow out people's hybrids while I tinker with some of my own. Don't even really need to turn a profit, just keep the agricultural exemption for tax purposes. I dunno...I know for sure I don't want to raise cattle or cut/bale hay...
 
Ok all you chili heads! I could post this in the growing hot peppers forum, but I am just going to see what responses I get here. My chocolate varieties and my Primos have some pretty intense purpling of the stems and some of the veins. I have read a few things and think I have narrowed it down to running my lights too long (been keeping 1 set of T8's on 24 with the rest on a 18/6 cycle. The main reason I've been keeping the one light on is for temp and not so much for growth. I just put them all on 18/6 and I may even go to a 16/8. The other possibility is phosphorus deficiency??? I think since they're all in the same soil and most of them look normal that this isn't the case. They're still growing like weeds and are some of my largest plants, so I am not too worried yet, and they actually look really cool. So, should I be worried???

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The yellow appearance to the leaves is due to the floros shining through they are nice and green. What you think?

Shane

oh and BTW... courtesy of weather.com,


... STRONG COLD STORM FOR NEXT WEEKEND...​
A STRONG COLD PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INLAND THROUGH CALIFORNIA LATE IN THE WEEK THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH THE MAIN IMPACTS ON SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA FROM FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY MONDAY. WHILE THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO THE TIMING AND LOCATION OF THE MORE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS... THE PERIOD FROM FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY MONDAY SHOULD BE MUCH COOLER... WITH PERIODS OF STRONG GUSTY WEST WINDS... ESPECIALLY IN THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS... AND PERIODS OF LOCALLY HEAVY PRECIPITATION WITH LOW SNOW LEVELS.​
WEST WINDS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS COULD GUST TO 75 MPH AT TIMES... RAINFALL TOTALS FOR THE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY MONDAY PERIOD COULD RANGE FROM ONE TO TWO INCHES NEAR THE COAST TO 3 TO 5 INCHES IN THE MOUNTAINS WITH AN INCH OR LESS IN THE DESERTS. SNOW LEVELS COULD LOWER TO 2500 TO 3000 FEET... POSSIBLY LOWER... WITH SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOWFALL AT LOWER MOUNTAIN ELEVATIONS POSSIBLE AND LOCALLY A FEW FEET AT HIGHER ELEVATIONS. THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL OR GRAUPEL... AND WATERSPOUTS OVER THE COASTAL WATERS. THIS STORM IS ALSO EXPECTED TO BRING HIGH SURF TO THE BEACHES.​
THIS WEATHER COULD BE DEADLY FOR UNPREPARED CAMPERS OR HIKERS​

Can I get a mulligan on my decision to plant out???​
 
purpling is an indicator of stress, usually associated with sunlight.... But I've read where things like overwatering can cause it as well... Here in FL, its almost always a sign that they are being sunburnt a little bit... I forget the name of the compound that turns the plant purple, but it can be used as a sun burn preventative in people (or so I've heard).

Oh Anthocyanins I believe... they are concentrated and used as flavoring, and are a good indicator that your PH is good as anthocyanins change color depending on PH...
 
Your grafting experiments are way good reading, Shane!
Your into a great grow season, for sure! I've lost track of
how many grafts you've got going!
 
Great minds Shane...

I started three more grafts today... I didn't cut them, just used narrow strips of plastic to tie the two seedlings together (after twisting them).

Hopefully it works.

I was up potting them, and decided to give it a go.

More will be done tomorrow... Figured I'd post the pictures all at once.
 
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