Long time no read.
Unnecessary history -skip to A at will.
My last glog was 2015 it appears. I just evaporated. A medical issue in '14 took me forever to get adjusted to the meds and by '15, I just threw in the towel out of frustration I guess.
The garden got shoved to the back burner. I helped with my daughters small plot, but that was 350 miles away. I was there every other weekend because my wife had moved in with her family to help with grandchildren You have to have priorities I guess
. The overall plan was for me to stay and sell the business and our house and move in too until we found a place close by. That operation completed the first week of spring 2020 when a moving truck rolled up to our new house (almost attached to our daughter's house) with 40 years worth of "accumulation". It had been in storage for 2 years and I'm just now getting thing under control sort of.
A
So, between sorting junk and building Ikea furniture, I did manage to get some peppers going.
I dusted off and fired up the old Germinator in our unheated garage.
Took forever, and I almost despaired of finding it in the chaos, but my seed bank showed up. In the last place I looked of course.
This is already mid-April -no chance of getting a chinense in the works.
On 4/22/20 I soaked (44hrs -maybe too long):
Red Marconi
King of the North
Jimmy Nardello
Cabe Mereh Basar
Aci Sirv
Aji Colorado
Nada. On 5/6/20 the Basar sprouted -so it took a full 2 weeks . It was the last of a seed lot a friend smuggled from Indonesia ~7 years ago. I got one coty.
So I picked a few more and most of these seeds were a few years fresher.
On 5/4/20 I soaked:
Arledge
Ancient Sweet
Beaver Dam
Jim NarYellow ( a yellow sport that popped up in my 2015 grow, so un-tried)
Large Jalapeno
They mostly popped starting 5/14/20 only 10 days, but I seen faster.
I ended up buying a Red Habanero from a greenhouse, ouch
So 06/01/20 I bought a yard of leaf compost from the local mill. I amended it with some rock phosphate, green sand, kelp meal, crab meal I had left over.
I have used this compost before with good results, but I still like to let a fresh bed mellow before planting -if the season isn't rushing me.
VERY small plants.
The season had finally warmed and I kept them watered but they just took for ever to turn the corner. The plants yellowed, even the store bought Hab.
They didn't like something I was doing. The plants over the plastic are eggplants.
27 days out of July were above 90 degrees.
The plants hated it. I wasn't thrilled either. Rain was spotty to none. I set up a bit of drip feed with some Netafim tape or every thing would have fried.
But August brought some rain, and tiny bit cooler, and the plants got some color, set some fruit, and began to ripen.
So In the ground I had
3 - Arledge (a Louisiana family pepper)
0 - Ancient Sweet (ran out of space)
2 - Beaver Dam (Hungarian via Wisconsin)
3 - Jim NarYellow (Classic Italian frying pepper - a yellow sport that popped up in my 2015 grow, so un-tried)
1 - Red Habanero
1 - Cabe Mereh Basar
Crammed into a 42" x 60" area
A mildly productive Red Hab
One of the Beaver Dams
Is B Dam has a less normal phenotype. I think it normally has a wider shoulder
Both seem a little hotter than I expected. Maybe my parent got crossed.
Always loved the Jimmy Nardello, a frying sweet Red normally.
My NarYellow is every bit as sweet.
This is the first set C.M. Basar, so the seed should be true.
Just turning here.
I'm a let this puppy get soft ripe to make sure the seeds get fat.
And on the counter:
9/3/20
Thanks for the read.
Hopefully I can keep this up better.
JJJ
Unnecessary history -skip to A at will.
My last glog was 2015 it appears. I just evaporated. A medical issue in '14 took me forever to get adjusted to the meds and by '15, I just threw in the towel out of frustration I guess.
The garden got shoved to the back burner. I helped with my daughters small plot, but that was 350 miles away. I was there every other weekend because my wife had moved in with her family to help with grandchildren You have to have priorities I guess
. The overall plan was for me to stay and sell the business and our house and move in too until we found a place close by. That operation completed the first week of spring 2020 when a moving truck rolled up to our new house (almost attached to our daughter's house) with 40 years worth of "accumulation". It had been in storage for 2 years and I'm just now getting thing under control sort of. A
So, between sorting junk and building Ikea furniture, I did manage to get some peppers going.
I dusted off and fired up the old Germinator in our unheated garage.
Took forever, and I almost despaired of finding it in the chaos, but my seed bank showed up. In the last place I looked of course.
This is already mid-April -no chance of getting a chinense in the works.
On 4/22/20 I soaked (44hrs -maybe too long):
Red Marconi
King of the North
Jimmy Nardello
Cabe Mereh Basar
Aci Sirv
Aji Colorado
Nada. On 5/6/20 the Basar sprouted -so it took a full 2 weeks . It was the last of a seed lot a friend smuggled from Indonesia ~7 years ago. I got one coty.
So I picked a few more and most of these seeds were a few years fresher.
On 5/4/20 I soaked:
Arledge
Ancient Sweet
Beaver Dam
Jim NarYellow ( a yellow sport that popped up in my 2015 grow, so un-tried)
Large Jalapeno
They mostly popped starting 5/14/20 only 10 days, but I seen faster.
I ended up buying a Red Habanero from a greenhouse, ouch
So 06/01/20 I bought a yard of leaf compost from the local mill. I amended it with some rock phosphate, green sand, kelp meal, crab meal I had left over.
I have used this compost before with good results, but I still like to let a fresh bed mellow before planting -if the season isn't rushing me.
VERY small plants.
The season had finally warmed and I kept them watered but they just took for ever to turn the corner. The plants yellowed, even the store bought Hab.
They didn't like something I was doing. The plants over the plastic are eggplants.
27 days out of July were above 90 degrees.
The plants hated it. I wasn't thrilled either. Rain was spotty to none. I set up a bit of drip feed with some Netafim tape or every thing would have fried.
But August brought some rain, and tiny bit cooler, and the plants got some color, set some fruit, and began to ripen.
So In the ground I had
3 - Arledge (a Louisiana family pepper)
0 - Ancient Sweet (ran out of space)
2 - Beaver Dam (Hungarian via Wisconsin)
3 - Jim NarYellow (Classic Italian frying pepper - a yellow sport that popped up in my 2015 grow, so un-tried)
1 - Red Habanero
1 - Cabe Mereh Basar
Crammed into a 42" x 60" area
A mildly productive Red Hab
One of the Beaver Dams
Is B Dam has a less normal phenotype. I think it normally has a wider shoulder
Both seem a little hotter than I expected. Maybe my parent got crossed.
Always loved the Jimmy Nardello, a frying sweet Red normally.
My NarYellow is every bit as sweet.
This is the first set C.M. Basar, so the seed should be true.
Just turning here.
I'm a let this puppy get soft ripe to make sure the seeds get fat.
And on the counter:
9/3/20
Thanks for the read.
Hopefully I can keep this up better.
JJJ
