The Pacific Northwest GLOG 2015

bpwilly · Jun 11, 2015

It might help. I have such low water pressure that I normally wait till later in the evening before I turn the water on for the plants, otherwise I don't have much water flow in the house. Don't need to get the better half mad at my hobbies!

Got some pic's finally. Here is one of the Jalapenos, slowly but surely I will get some again this year.

One of the 2 Goat Weeds I have this year. Will be interested to see how tall this gets in a 5 gallon pot.

One of the Manzanos I got from smokemaster a few years back. Produced pretty well for me last year. Have not overwintered one yet t see if that helps with yearly yield.

One of my ornamental peppers - Black Pearl. First time I have grown one of these. Pretty color so far.

Backside of the greenhouse in 12 gallon pots. Mostly Bhuts and Naga's

Other side of greenhouse

Along the side of the garage. They get lots of sun and heat reflected from the pavement and the building.

The front garden. Much less than last year, but frees open space for other plants in the garden this year, which makes peace with my wife.

Got a few ripe peppers already this year.

Maulies Red Hot

And a few early Jimmy Nardo's. A first year of growing these for me.

So far so good this year.

OCD Chilehead · Jun 15, 2015

bpwilly said:
It might help. I have such low water pressure that I normally wait till later in the evening before I turn the water on for the plants, otherwise I don't have much water flow in the house. Don't need to get the better half mad at my hobbies!

Got some pic's finally. Here is one of the Jalapenos, slowly but surely I will get some again this year.

One of the 2 Goat Weeds I have this year. Will be interested to see how tall this gets in a 5 gallon pot.

One of the Manzanos I got from smokemaster a few years back. Produced pretty well for me last year. Have not overwintered one yet t see if that helps with yearly yield.

One of my ornamental peppers - Black Pearl. First time I have grown one of these. Pretty color so far.

Backside of the greenhouse in 12 gallon pots. Mostly Bhuts and Naga's

Other side of greenhouse

Along the side of the garage. They get lots of sun and heat reflected from the pavement and the building.

The front garden. Much less than last year, but frees open space for other plants in the garden this year, which makes peace with my wife.

Got a few ripe peppers already this year.

Maulies Red Hot

And a few early Jimmy Nardo's. A first year of growing these for me.

So far so good this year.

Beautiful garden Bill. That GoatWeed is magnificent. Go team "SIP". Scaling down isn't exactly a bad thing. I did the same this year. I seem to enjoy focusing on a smaller bunch. I notice if something changes, good or bad. It's all about having fun. Thanks for the update.

Have a good week.

bpwilly · Jun 15, 2015

Interesting thing about the SIP's is that I have no idea how long it takes the roots to reach down far enough to be able to used the water in the bottom. Wonder if there is a good rule of thumb for root growth once the plants have been re-potted. I am sure there are way to many variables, but still curious when they might actually be able to utilize the SIP feature of stored water.

I am thinking that next year I will be focused more on various Pubescens, but that is just the thoughts so far. Need to start collecting various seeds of them.

OCD Chilehead · Jun 16, 2015

I water from the top for a week or so. This year my transplants were in one gallon containers. The roots on some of the plants were well developed. Those plants seem to be doing better then others. I think as soon as it gets hotter they will reach for the water. I can tell when the roots start developing, because of the explosion in growth rate. We've had rain off and on for a couple weeks. I think they'll benefit when the surface soil drys out a bit. Only choice they got is down. LOL

Roguejim · Jun 16, 2015

What are SIP's?

OCD Chilehead · Jun 17, 2015

Roguejim said:
What are SIP's?

It's a container you water from the bottom like a earthbox.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-irrigated_planter

bpwilly · Jun 17, 2015

OCD Chilehead said:
I water from the top for a week or so. This year my transplants were in one gallon containers. The roots on some of the plants were well developed. Those plants seem to be doing better then others. I think as soon as it gets hotter they will reach for the water. I can tell when the roots start developing, because of the explosion in growth rate. We've had rain off and on for a couple weeks. I think they'll benefit when the surface soil drys out a bit. Only choice they got is down. LOL

Chuck,
Thanks for the info. It does make sense, as some of the larger transplants are really starting t take off, but the smaller ones have stayed small and not grown much. I figured they are just spending the time growing roots before they start to take off as well. Just never sure when that might be from a predictability standpoint. They do seem to stand up to the heat well, so something is working right.

FGpepperguy · Jun 17, 2015

Here are some updates, probably overkill. Will definitely grow less hots next year.

Yellow Manzano

Piment d'Espellete

A random chacoense from a seed train

C04392

Zimbabwe Bird

CAP215

CGN19198

SB7J F5 (will be isolated)

Pimenta de Neyde x Naga Suomi F1

Pimenta De Neyde x Douglah F2

Bahamian Goat

Aji Limon

UMCD

Jay PGS x Primo F3 (will be isolated)

TS Yellow CARDI

Madballz 7 Jungle Rain

Yellow Scotch Bonnet MOA

TS Butch T x Douglah Brown F5

Red Scotch Bonnet MOA

Matay

All Habs of different flavors

All jalapenos except 3 Tobasco

bpwilly · Jun 17, 2015

FGpepperguy
Nice clean set up. I like all the automated watering lines. Sweet!

Roguejim · Jun 17, 2015

Yeah, I like all the jalapenos and habs. Smart. How's your weather been, FG?

FGpepperguy · Jun 17, 2015

Weather has been pretty good up here. Upper 70's to low 80's. I have drip lines in the beds on the same channel as the circular sprinklers in the pots. Problem is that the sprinklers put out way too much water compared to the drop line. So I've turned the sprinklers way down and just hand water in the evening.

ronaldo_fanbelt · Jun 18, 2015

Killer guys! More pictures coming soon.

ColdSmoke · Jun 25, 2015

quite in here...is everyone ready for HEATWAVE 2015?

Roguejim · Jun 25, 2015

100F today. 105F tomorrow... Pods and color.

Pimenta Leopards. Odd shape.

chocolatescotchbonnet · Jun 25, 2015

Roguejim said:
100F today. 105F tomorrow... Pods and color.

Pimenta Leopards. Odd shape.

nice to see your pods! by the way, "The Locust Are Coming, the locust are coming"! 8).

ColdSmoke · Jun 26, 2015

and you call yourself a noob Jim. A noob you are not.

Roguejim · Jun 26, 2015

A lot of pods are small. I know that some of these plants were podding up while still indoors.

Roguejim · Jun 28, 2015

Plants are digging the dry, 100+F temps. Pods are ripening all at once. Big clusters of pods this season. Round #1 of harvesting begins.

5' Cacho De Cabra, and growing.

Romas. BUMP!

blorvak · Jun 28, 2015

Bump!

Roguejim · Jun 28, 2015

Thank you.

Reapers.

Bahamian Goats.

Scotch Bonnet Faria. A heavy producer.

Jamaican Mushroom.

SB7Js. Oddly shaped, I think,

From the Philipines, Siling Bilong. Apple-sweet.

Scotch Bonnet FTL.

Numex Easter.