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Walchit's Glog 2018

Well started germination yesterday, got a little carried away.

I'm too lazy to type out my list for you guys so here are some pics.

Sprouting these from Justin/whitehotpeppers



And these from the auction of labeled pods from Garth/texashotpeppers



Then there are these from trades and seed trains



I may have officially lost my mind! Thanks for stopping by.
 
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Costco has Pro Shield 4ftx220ft for under $30 a roll. That is close to half price. I have places with this stuff down going on over 4yrs old and its still in great shape.
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Walchit said:
 I didn't add any ammendments to my soil and won't be able to feed them for another week. Hopefully this horse poo is enough to get them going
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I'm sure they'll be fine. I was in the same boat with my soil not having it tested but you would be surprised how rich soil is if it's never been farmed. When I tilled my plot it smelled like compost cuz it was so rich. All I added was a very thin layer of compost (VERY thin) and put a handful of worm castings in each hole and everythings kickin ass.
 
Walchit said:
Thanks guys! Next step drip irrigation, any suggestions?
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Well, I got some ideas. :)
 
If you do dripline it's a lot more involved that it probably needs to be.. but easier to roll out. 
 
We've got 26,000 feet of dripline to run this year (4.92 miles). I've already run 8,000 feet of it, and we still have another 18,000 feet to roll out.
 
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For a small scale grow I would do a 3/4" lateral polytube off of a low flow inline netafim pressure regulator (that'll drop the pressure from 60psi down to something the drip line can handle.)
 
https://www.berryhilldrip.com/3-4-Poly-Tubing-Blue-Stripe-or-White-Stripe-POL007.html
$22 for 100' of poly tubing
 
pressure regulator inline low flow;
 
https://www.berryhilldrip.com/Pressure-Regulators-by-Netafim.-3-4-up-to-3-in-Size.-Plastic-and-Brass-Regulators.html
(if you have more than 700' of linear row get the 12 psi 3/4, if you have LESS than that get the LOW FLOW version; both are $14)
 
 
A 6,000 ft roll of 5/8 Dripline (that will last you several years) is $147. You can run this aboveground or below.
 
https://www.berryhilldrip.com/10-Mil-5-8-T-Tape-6-000-Ft-Rolls-Medium-Weight.-Minimum-tilled-soils-double-cropping-or-where-more-resistance-to-abrasion-and-insect-damage-is-desired..html
 
Then .400" connectors to 5/8" dripline. 
https://www.berryhilldrip.com/400B-06-LS-Drip-Tape-x-Poly-Connector.html
 
Each row needs a connector to go from the flattube to dripline; $0.40 in qty 50.
 
If you don't want to buy the end connectors just tie the dripline in a knot. Or spend $0.40 on the 5/8ths end plugs. 
 
Then the punch tool for the connectors;  DP-400S is the .400" diameter one, it's $26.
 
https://www.berryhilldrip.com/Punches-for-Drip-Tape-Poly-Headers-Sprinklers-and-More..html
 
That's about it. You can order a couple of pressure gauges (use a 1/8" or smaller drill to make holes for those) if you want to watch pressures. 
 
It costs me $3.10 per 100 foot row or $5.55 for a 200 foot row. Most of the parts, except the dripline itself, are reusable year to year. If you got like, 1000' of rows (pretty big garden) you'd have to buy a new spool of dripline every 6 years. 
 
(Get the .45 gpm 12" spacing for peppers, BTW, good results with it this year)
 
If you want per-plant stakes and a system that costs $0.29 per plant, check the recommendation I made here; 
 
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/66925-genetikx-2018/?p=1555960
 
For larger scale grows the dripline beats individual emitters hands down (75 annuums per 100' row for $3.10 is hard to beat - that's 4 cents a plant), but for a more targeted smaller grow it's hard to beat 0.29 per plant. I just bought the stuff to do 150 isolation plants in a high tunnel and the whole dang setup is cost me $71.50 including the punch tool and regulator. 29 cents per pot plus $28 for the regulator and punch tool.  :)
 
 
 
Thanks Trent! I've been looking at your setup already. Those links will be helpful. 
 
I have 2 rows with tomatoes in them I'm pretty sure I spaced them at 2 feet. They are about 40 ft long. And have 20-21 plants in them. Then I have 2- 40 ft rows of peppers. I know when I planted them I was realizing I wasn't gonna fit all my peppers in the ground so I can't remember exact spacing. But there are at least 40 in each of those rows, they are 4 ft wide with two rows of peppers down them
 
Then I have 4 - 30ft rows setup like that with 2ft spacing between them. So I think they end up having 30 plants in each of those too. 
 
And my last row has 60 jalapenos of various types from Midwest chiliheads and a couple seed trains. They are in 2 rows with 1ft spacing. 
 
My water is really hard too. Btw
 
Damn storm blew off a bunch of my weed mat. I didn't have time to get mulch down the center of all the rows, so I guess the wind got up under there... At least it didn't destroy the plants. 
 
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Here's a sugar rush red. Starting to get some pods! Was gonna get more pics for you guys but I noticed the weed mat after I took this one
 
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I guess the plant right next to the sugar rush red in the picture was broken off lol. I didn't notice til later on in the day lol. It was also sugar rush red and it broke right below the fork smh. It has some bottom growth so we will see how it does. One chinense was broke too.
 
Glad you caught the issue before it got out of hand. Wind can be a real pain in the arse..
 
I've had my share of wind damage in the past. One day the plants would be all on the ground pointing to the west. We would fix that and then the winds would come out of the west and blow them the other way...sigh..
The best thing I did for that was to re-purpose the 16 year old decking material into a fence when we pulled the old pool up.
 
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