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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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Awesome! Im glad to see you are going at it again Gary!
With a great list of peppers too!
It should go easier for ya this year ,now that you got those bermuda runners taken care of!! :cool:

Great luck to ya this year man!

Kevin
 
Excellent list! Now you've got me onboard with the Zapotec and Chilaucle Rojo. Hope to establish a pod connection with the 'ancient' pepperheads who grew these awhile back. I just wonder where they got their ProMix Bx back then..... :cool:
 
wayright said:
Awesome! Im glad to see you are going at it again Gary!
With a great list of peppers too!
It should go easier for ya this year ,now that you got those bermuda runners taken care of!! :cool:

Great luck to ya this year man!

Kevin
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Hey Kevin! Thanks! Good to hear from ya! I'm feeling good about the list...It could change at the last minute, kind of like ordering in a restaurant, but this is pretty close to it. It's funny that Birgit's made it on the list at the 11th hour...I had a bunch of family at the house for Christmas, and they were all pinching pods off my favorite potted Birgit's...Everything else was too hot for them. So I figured I definitely need to plant that one again...

You're right, I'm light years ahead of where I was this time last year. There are a couple of unfinished rows that grassed back over, and some Bermuda snuck into a few places on the main rows, but it's nothing compared to starting from scratch...

Good luck to ya! I'll be watching...

meatfreak said:
Great list of varieties, WC! Goodluck this season :cool: Will keep an eye on this topic.
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Thanks Meat! I'm watching yours, too. Good luck!

Siliman said:
Excellent list! Now you've got me onboard with the Zapotec and Chilaucle Rojo. Hope to establish a pod connection with the 'ancient' pepperheads who grew these awhile back. I just wonder where they got their ProMix Bx back then..... :cool:
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Yeah Ken! Ancient chile heads! Now there's a compelling image! Don't you wish you could go back and talk to them, and share some chiles with those guys and/or girls? Like you said, probably a spiritual connection is just as good or even better...

Eephus Man said:
I too am now eager to try the Zapotecs. Sounds interesting...
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Cool Eric! Looks like there will be a good test, at least in the South, of Beth's Jalapeños this year...
 
Yeah! And I'm flattered you think I live in the South, Gary. My wife will wince at the confirmation. She's a Savannah native, so I have to work really hard to convince her that *any* part of Texas is the South. lol. I need to put in one more order to Beth (peppermania.com for those new to the game here) if I have the chance. Between jobs now and getting ugly here till the new one starts on Feb. 1. We'll see...
 
Did they move Austin to somewhere else? Last time I was there, people still said "y'all"... :cool:

By the way, Beth is planting on the waxing of the moon, late this month. She knows her stuff, and the timing is right for me, too...
 
windchicken said:
Did they move Austin to somewhere else? Last time I was there, people still said "y'all"... :cool:

By the way, Beth is planting on the waxing of the moon, late this month. She knows her stuff, and the timing is right for me, too...
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Good. That gives me time to make more room...and pay her!
 
Thanks for the info on Aji Amarillo. It's not going to like the hot/humid
summers here. Maybe I can find a spot that gets a little shade.

I looked up waxing moon, never heard of it before. Looks like the waxing crescent moon
fall on my birthday 1/24. Maybe I should start a few seeds.
 
Eephus Man said:
Good. That gives me time to make more room...and pay her!
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Cool. Good luck on the new job.

roper2008 said:
Thanks for the info on Aji Amarillo. It's not going to like the hot/humid
summers here. Maybe I can find a spot that gets a little shade.

I looked up waxing moon, never heard of it before. Looks like the waxing crescent moon
fall on my birthday 1/24. Maybe I should start a few seeds.
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Don't let me discourage you. You may do way better with the Amarillo. As for lunar planting, I don't see how it could hurt...
 
A modest beginning to the new season. Not that this chile farming thing is a competition, but most of you guys are probably weeks ahead of me...

The first sprouts of 2012. Aji Limo Rojo:

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Awesome Gary!!! :cool:

Isnt it great to see the first signs of life!!!!!!


Great pic!!
I love seeing the lil babies !!

Kevin
 
Thanks Greg and Meat! You are too kind...That tiny sprout does not look like much to me right now. In fact, the whole prospect of building out another garden like the last one is somewhat overwhelming at the moment.

Baby steps...

Thanks guys, and good luck with your 2012 Grow!
 
I know these plants are way leggy. This is as good as it gets for now :cool: . I'd rather not even show them to you, but in the interest of honest, objective science....

You may not be able to see it in the photos, but there are 3 exceptionally vigorous C. annuum: Coral Reef (wayright), Zapotec Jalapeño, and Garden Bird Seed (O.P-2011). There are only 2 chile varieties which have not sprouted at all: Nambe Pueblo and Cumari do Para. I still haven't given up on them, though.

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What you see here is everything I'm doing for the 2012 season. However, today I will start 6 more Chilhuacle Rojo and 6 of my 2011 O.P. Congo Trinidad. Then that's it, I swear...
 
There is always some more to add Gary! Looks like you've got a lot of work ahead of you. Great start and good luck with your season.

Mike
 
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