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Windchicken 2014

Got some sheet pots in from Grower Supply a couple days ago. I got this type so I could pull out the individual containers and replace them if need be, and they fit perfectly in my 11" x 22" Permanest Trays. Anybody in NW Louisiana need a couple of these? If I keep growing the same size garden every season these sheets should last me around 12 years:
 
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These are the only C. chinense I'm growing this year: The NagaBrain, now in its F3 generation, is the happy accident of Florida THP mentor and all-around good guy romy6; seeds for the F2 Chocolate NagaBrain are from the talented and skillful Florida grower Tmudder; Bonda Ma Jacques x 7 Pot Yellow, the F3 generation, is the creation of the THP breeding wizard Spicegeist; Both 7 Pot Yellow and Naga Morich are from THSC seed; Dystopia is a project of North Texas grower joemomma; and Madame Jeanette comes courtesy of the incredibly generous Netherlands grower Meatfreak :
 
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Thanks Scott! It was juicy, too! I tried to eat it at the supper table last night, but my wife made me move because it kept squirting….:cool:
 
Most all the chinense have sprouted at 80-100%, except for the THSC Naga Morich and armac's 7 Pot Rennie, the former of which I believe is 2011 seed, so it might take a little while, and the latter of which I only sowed about a week ago. That was the same time I seeded a whole tray of bird types: SmiterQ's Texas Pequin, Lytle's New Mexico Pequin, Spicegeist's crosses: Chiltepin x Barrackpore and CAP 501 x Bhut, and CarlosO's Chile de Arbol.
 
Around the first of February I will start my annuum/baccatum tray(s)... :P  :P  :P
 
Gary
 
Thanks Penny!
 
I snapped this panorama shot of my country garden in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana this morning. A work in progress, each raised RCW bed is 50 feet long. Of the 4.3 total beds there will be in the completed garden, I've got 1.7 beds to finish building out before plant-out time, in April. Ideally, it should be finished right now, to allow the RCW-soil-building process some time to start working, but this year I'm still ahead of the game compared to 2012 and 2013:
 
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Gary, can't wait to see the beds loaded up this year!  We just got a little ice here in Texas.  Enough to cause a lot of wrecks though.
 
I spoke with your neighbor this morning.  It's all to easy to forget the value of real art!  I've gotten to used to buying an artist' print over the years to know what an original is worth.  I sent him a lot of my photography to look at.  I think my wife would kill me if I commissioned anything.
 
Have a good day!
 
Mike
 
capsidadburn said:
Gary, can't wait to see the beds loaded up this year!  We just got a little ice here in Texas.  Enough to cause a lot of wrecks though.
 
I spoke with your neighbor this morning.  It's all to easy to forget the value of real art!  I've gotten to used to buying an artist' print over the years to know what an original is worth.  I sent him a lot of my photography to look at.  I think my wife would kill me if I commissioned anything.
 
Have a good day!
 
Mike
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Thanks Mike! I've been doing quite a bit of visualizing myself, standing there at the edge of the garden.... :cool:
 
I'm so glad you talked to Jim. He's a really good guy, very understated, yet always has a smile and a sincere kind word. I hope you two can work something out...I can't imagine any nature photography much more compelling than yours!
 
meatfreak said:
Ain't that a beautiful site :) Looking forward to seeing those beds filled up with your plants! Have a great weekend!
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Thanks Stefan! I'm leaving about 10 feet between the beds, and I'm counting on the plants needing that much room to grow... :cool:
 
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Great.  You might be the only one growing out the CAP 501 x Bhut... this will be quite unique...
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Thanks Charles! It's pretty exciting—I'm like a little kid right now...I must check that germ tray two or three times every hour!
 
Thanks Scott! DeSoto Parish was on the northern edge of a big area of frozen precip that passed through Louisiana the same time y'all got the ice in South Texas. It's interesting that only 30 or so miles north of here, in Shreveport, there was zero snow, and farther south of here, in Natchitoches, they got a solid 2 inches...

This Calabrese A Mazzetto plant (meatfreak) has been cooped up in the cold and dark of my garage since the first freeze hit back in November, except for the times I dragged it out into the driveway on warm, sunny days. I'm not exactly sure, but I think it's doing better now than in the full summer sun on my patio:
 
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Isn't that just crazy?
 
Just a beautiful picture too!
 
I've been doing the same with my OW's, they're out on the driveway right now, all the larger plants are outside (about 95). Gonna let them hang tonight. 39° forecast, which usually means 45-49° here. Winds out of the south and we're high on a ridge..
 
windchicken said:
Thanks Scott! Hauling 95 plants in and out is a pretty good chore...You must have them on carts?
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I have 12-15 in 5 gal buckets that live in the shop when it's cold.
 
The others are in 6" or wannabe 1gal pots, 9 per box. Yeah it's a pain, but they need sun and the weather..they come back in tomorrow..here we go again with the cold..
 
Thanks everyone! It's been even colder and darker since I took that photo a couple of weeks ago…I'm like a whole lot of growers here in the U.S.A., though—dealing with the coldest winter in a couple decades.
 
This is my mother plant of SmiterQ's Texas Pequin this morning. If she pops back after this we'll know that we've got a truly hardy variety:
 
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