The Pacific Northwest GLOG 2015

ronaldo_fanbelt · Mar 3, 2015

Very nice Jim!

organic pepper · Mar 3, 2015

Those are really nice Jim! Tomorrow I have to clip off the first set flowers that are starting to pop up on a bunch of them. I just noticed them this morning and didnt have time to deal with them at the moment. Cheers all.

Roguejim · Mar 3, 2015

After consulting Pepper-Guru, and Scott Ostrander of Nectar For the Gods nutes, I'm going to let the buds stay on the plants. I've always pinched them off before, but this time, no.

organic pepper · Mar 4, 2015

This is my first year I'm clipping them. I'm curious to see if it make a difference. I read somewhere about it Just never tried it.

KevinH · Mar 7, 2015

Well last night i had to pot up some plants.. Based on the lack of nutes in plugs it was time.. So 50/50 FF OF and HF add big chunky perlite and in to 4 inch pots. This week end I will start the last of the pepper plants...

Roguejim · Mar 7, 2015

KevinH said:
Well last night i had to pot up some plants.. Based on the lack of nutes in plugs it was time.. So 50/50 FF OF and HF add big chunky perlite and in to 4 inch pots. This week end I will start the last of the pepper plants...

Great choice on potting soils, Kevin. What additional nutes do you use? I can't seem to settle on anything, no matter the results.

I prepped my raised beds today. I'm counting on an early Spring; temps were in the 70s today. Last season at this time, I put down alfalfa meal and composted chicken manure. I know now though that I was low on calcium. This season I'm prepping with feather meal, lime, alfalfa meal, and bone meal. It's nerve wracking switching to something new.

Amendments. I hope I measured correctly!

The raised beds total around 300s/f. I don't normally grow peppers in the furthest bed, but I'll probably sneak a few in this time.

All I do is gently rake back the top layer of mulch that I put down last Fall, scatter the amendments, scratch them in with a hand tool, and rake back the mulch. This is my attempt at "no-till gardening". I was surprised how much the mulch had broken down over the last 5 months, and disintegrated into dark soil. I'll add more mulch next Monday to make sure all the soil beneath is well covered.

Mulch raked back on one side. The whole process gets repeated on the opposite side.

Amendments in place.

Amendments worked in. I was glad to see how dark the soil is. I only saw one worm though. I'm hoping they are deeper in the soil. Mulch was raked back over the top (no photo of that).

KevinH · Mar 7, 2015

I use all the none pot head fox farm items. I'm still looking for a good cal and mag.. this year I will be trying both from Humboldt nutrients.

Roguejim · Mar 8, 2015

I'm using some Nectar For The Gods nutes (Oregon's Only Organics), since they unloaded some serious samples on me, FREE. Herculean Harvest is their liquid bone meal.

KevinH · Mar 8, 2015

Jim how far south are you???

OK quick up date things have been crazy with school and work and working on my race car.

Re potted in to 50/50 mix of OF and HF with big chunk perlite.

Nice and happy in there new pots..

Whats left from the fist run of germination...

Devv · Mar 8, 2015

Good stuff here!

On calcium, I use calmag, and put it in a dedicated "clean" sprayer. I also like to add some seaweed emulsion. I used to have a terrible problem with blossom end rot on my tomatoes. Half a dose (strength wise) twice a week cured that. Of course the peppers get the same dose

I'm going on my 3rd year using a 1 gal jug of calmag, and it's still 2/3 full. A good investment

Roguejim · Mar 8, 2015

Devv said:
Good stuff here!

On calcium, I use calmag, and put it in a dedicated "clean" sprayer. I also like to add some seaweed emulsion. I used to have a terrible problem with blossom end rot on my tomatoes. Half a dose (strength wise) twice a week cured that. Of course the peppers get the same dose

I'm going on my 3rd year using a 1 gal jug of calmag, and it's still 2/3 full. A good investment

Thanks, Scott. Sounds like your own soil is Ca deficient? I'm hoping I may not have to add too many, if any, nutes once the plants are in the ground. In the back of my mind, though, I'm thinking maybe I added too much stuff to the soil. My plants will either be grand, or dead. One more load of wood chips tomorrow to cover it all.

KevinH said:
Jim how far south are you???

OK quick up date things have been crazy with school and work and working on my race car.

Re potted in to 50/50 mix of OF and HF with big chunk perlite.

Nice and happy in there new pots..

Whats left from the fist run of germination...

I'm in the Rogue Valley, Grants Pass. I'm too lazy to go back in this glog to look, but, are those your 1st, or 2nd rounders?

EDIT: Now I see most of these are your 2nd rounders.

KevinH · Mar 8, 2015

Roguejim said:
Thanks, Scott. Sounds like your own soil is Ca deficient? I'm hoping I may not have to add too many, if any, nutes once the plants are in the ground. In the back of my mind, though, I'm thinking maybe I added too much stuff to the soil. My plants will either be grand, or dead. One more load of wood chips tomorrow to cover it all.

I'm in the Rogue Valley, Grants Pass. I'm too lazy to go back in this glog to look, but, are those your 1st, or 2nd rounders?

EDIT: Now I see most of these are your 2nd rounders.

Them be 2nd ye> i went thru and replanted some and planted new ones as well..

turbo · Mar 10, 2015

Fed them nutes for the first time last week, and I've had some good growth since. Everybody is looking really happy. I'm getting better leaf density than I did last year. Last year my plants were much leggier.

Is it plant out season yet? I can't wait!

Roguejim · Mar 10, 2015

Turbo, what are the purple ones?

Here's the monster Choc Handgrenade Hab that germinated around 12/21. 19" tall today.

Brown Moruga, not much shorter.

Crappy photos of the grow space, under the HPS lighting. Usually, I've always gotten vertical lines in the photos from the lighting, but they''re not there now. All chinenses had to be re-potted to #2 pots.

Shorties.

Tallboys.

Whole group. 2nd rounders hidden in the middle.

KevinH · Mar 10, 2015

Any one here have some reaper Seeds they can part with. I don't think mine where harvested at the right time.

turbo · Mar 10, 2015

Roguejim said:
Turbo, what are the purple ones?

Its called a Cheiro Roxa (I got the seeds from PepperLover). It's pods are purple / pinkish, but all the pictures I've seen of the plants show green leaves, so I assume it'll grow out of the purple leaf phase at some point. I hope not though, it would be beautiful if it kept those leaf colors as it matures.

That Choc Handgrenade is huge for this time of year!

ronaldo_fanbelt · Mar 11, 2015

Still looking good guys. I will try to get some pics this weekend :dance:

ColdSmoke · Mar 12, 2015

Good start fellas. I just potted up my plugs into 4 inch pots. I just took the soil from last year and added vermicompost from my worm farm along with some powder organic fertilizer from root organics (Ingredients: Bat guano, worm castings, fish bone meal, kelp meal, greensand, soybean meal, glacial rock dust, alfalfa meal, feather meal, langbeinite, fish meal, dolomite, montmorillonite, composted chicken manure, crab meal, blood meal and nettle leaf.) Great product! I'll post pics soon

PaulG · Mar 12, 2015

Roguejim said:
After consulting Pepper-Guru, and Scott Ostrander of Nectar For the Gods nutes, I'm going to let the buds stay on the plants. I've always pinched them off before, but this time, no.

organic pepper said:
This is my first year I'm clipping them. I'm curious to see if it make a difference. I read somewhere about it Just never tried it.

I have resisted clipping buds since my first season.
I figure if the plant is wanting to flower, I'll let it, sort
of letting it do its natural thing. Just need to keep it
healthy, watered right, and in a big enough pot.

KevinH said:
Any one here have some reaper Seeds they can part with. I don't think mine where harvested at the right time.

Yes. I can send you some red and some peach.
Will send them today or tomorrow.

Still on Charter Place, right?

PaulG · Mar 12, 2015

KevinH said:
Any one here have some reaper Seeds they can part with. I don't think mine where harvested at the right time.

Seeds went in the mail box a few minutes ago, Kevin.

Good Luck!