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Windchicken Grow 2012

Looks like I'm getting a late start again this year...Should be setting seeds to sprout in the next few days....Anyway, here's the order I made from Beth this morning. It's not really my complete grow list, because I'm planting lots of saved seeds (from my 2011 Grow and from trades with my THP friends) for the first time this year. Also, I don't know that I will plant everything from this order, but I am excited about some of the new varieties:

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Absent from the above list but going in the ground this year:
Trinidad Scorpion
Congo Trinidad
True Jamaican Scotch Bonnet
Thai Chile (Garden Bird Seed variety)
Nambe Pueblo
Birgit's Locoto

Several bird types from THP friends, including, but not limited to (because I can't remember them all right now):
Texas Chiltepin
Prik Ki Nue
Siling Labuyo
Cumari do Para

Edited 1/9/2012 to add the following:

Last minute order from Hippy, plus some other trades I had forgotten about:
Yellow 7 Pot
Douglah
Malagueta
Pusa Jwala
 
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Gary . I here ya on more ferts. :P I have been slamming mine with tons of npk and with very liitle effect. The rain has just hammered them day after day. I love the nursury pots. They are free and the drainage holes are huge. I know I need more drainage those beacause my plants have that wrinkled stop watering me face. :confused: I will be anxiousley waiting by the mail box :dance: :dance: :dance: Thank you you growing machine :fireball:
 
meatfreak said:
Great update, Gary. Lot's of pods ready too pick I see :lol: Love the Brito's Mystery Peach, looks beautiful. Interested in how it tastes :)
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Thanks Stefan! I've been picking everything for the last couple days, to allow the plants to set more fruit.

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Gary . I here ya on more ferts. :P I have been slamming mine with tons of npk and with very liitle effect. The rain has just hammered them day after day. I love the nursury pots. They are free and the drainage holes are huge. I know I need more drainage those beacause my plants have that wrinkled stop watering me face. :confused: I will be anxiousley waiting by the mail box :dance: :dance: :dance: Thank you you growing machine :fireball:
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Haha! I take that as quite a complement that you would be excited about something I grew...

The frustrating thing about in-ground plants is that you can't help it if the weather wants to overwater--If it rains, it rains, and the plants must drink whatever water the weather gives them. Then here comes the yellow leaves! Last year it wasn't a problem, because we had the famous drought of 2011. But this year is a different story, especially when I can see that the plants need more nitrogen, but fertilizing only seems to exacerbate the problem with overwatering, because you have to water the plants to give them fertilizer! At least with the nursery pots you can be assured they will dry out in a couple days, then you can pound them with the NPK!

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Gary, That peach colored pepper looks pretty special. Does it have the peachy-hab flav?
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Thanks, Greg! After you and Stefan asked about the Brito's, I pulled a couple off the bush, took some photos, and gave them a taste...There is almost no heat, but a nice flavor and aroma--not so hab-ish, though. I'm not sure how to describe it. I think my Dad would love them--He thinks Jalapeños are spicy..

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Thanks for the pictures and taste test. They look delish, heat or not the flavor is what counts the most for me and that way I can get my wife too eat more peppers also :lol: Please set aside some seeds for us :) would love too try this next season :oops:
 
Wonderful grow going there, Gary! Your yard is just beautiful - the lawn looks like a fairway.
The row of Yellow 7's is awesome, and in #3 pots. That's about two-and-a-half gallons, right?
I'm amazed how much pepper plant can grow in a relatively small container!
 
Thanks Paul! I have 2 sizes of pots sold as "#3 Nursery." Some are 2.7 gals., but the Yellow 7s are in 3 gal. Pots. Either way, they are small pots! In a couple days they will be potted up into some dirt cheap 5 gal. pots that I found.

Thanks Ausmith!
 
As it turned out, the storm wasn't nearly as bad as we thought it might be. This broken 16" terra cotta planter was the worst damage I had from Tropical Storm Isaac. I think I heard this third-season Chiltepin plant breath a sigh of relief when its roots were liberated from the confines of that tight space...

Thanks to all the THP guys that offered prayers and encouragement when the storm was bearing down on us here in Louisiana!

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Rodney, The sun came out for a while, and it looked like it was all over. I even worked in the garden for a couple of hours.

Now it's raining again...Forecast is for rain all weekend.

Thanks Stefan!
 
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