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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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Put them in 15 gallon fabric pots, the hot weather is still holding them up up. According to AJ, a couple weeks from now it will cool down enough to start getting peppers again. Just hanging on.

Charlie liking the water?
 
Nice! I've never seen it so hot that Thai Birdseed stopped producing...I'm betting you have pods any time now.

Charlie is always ready to play. This cool weather helps the old dogs be more playful, so it's been a big ol' party back there the last few days....
 
armac said:
Gary......any updates?
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romy6 said:
Yes you have been slacking G man ;)
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KiNGDeNNiZ said:
prolly like some.. got lost in his jungle....its okay gary... im mad too that right now they're the "AINT's" but you gotta update us....
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Thanks for thinking about me guys! After the hurricane there were a couple of hot, dry weeks when all my plants just seemed to shut down and produce no flowers or fruit. Maybe it was a combination of being thrashed hard by the wind for 2 days and then baked in the 100ºF heat...Production is beginning to come back, though. I should have some pix in a few days...
 
Getting some nice pod sets now that the weather is finally cooling off...This Thai Garden Birdseed plant is 7 feet tall:

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Prik Kee Nue, seeds from Junglerain:

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Chilhuacle Rojo:

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Zapotec Jalapeño:

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Guampinha de Veado, second-year, in-ground overwinters:

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Texas Piquin, seeds from SmiterQ:

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Bahamian Goat Pepper, seeds from Capsidadburn:

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Mulato, seeds from the CPI:

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Thanks, Greg! This has been a tough season...nothing at all like I had planned it, plenty of lessons learned, more "improvisation" than I would have liked, but still some nice chiles making it through to the end...

I took some shots of your Congo Trinidad babies this morning, but they were too blurry. I'll get some good pix up soon.

I like your idea on what to do with the Guampinha bounty--I believe I will dry them for powder. I was hoping one of my co-workers would pick them, but I don't think that's going to happen....
 
windchicken said:
Thanks, Greg! This has been a tough season...nothing at all like I had planned it, plenty of lessons learned, more "improvisation" than I would have liked, but still some nice chiles making it through to the end...

I took some shots of your Congo Trinidad babies this morning, but they were too blurry. I'll get some good pix up soon.

I like your idea on what to do with the Guampinha bounty--I believe I will dry them for powder. I was hoping one of my co-workers would pick them, but I don't think that's going to happen....
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Garden looking good, Gary! They dry great, as you know.

I'm finally getting some more fruit set with cooler temps and some rain/ferts, too. Hoping winter this year is as mild as last. I culled about 60% of my plants in September, but kept my favorites.

One of the GDVs that I planted out "wild" in my yard is acting like a local. No water through a brutal late August/early September, and it somehow bounced back with the rain and is setting fruit. It speaks volumes to how tough that strain is that I literally haven't watered it since about July. And rain here has been better than last year, but by no means frequent or regular. Tough variety!

Hope you're well, buddy. Life has been up front for me lately. Hoping to have a little more free time to hang 'round here this fall.

-E
 
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