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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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Thanks, guys! It's interesting that only the plants with large, thick, multi-stemmed stumps like these seem to be re-sprouting. Probably I'm jumping to conclusions, as there aren't really enough plants of each type (skinny, single-stemmed trunks vs. large, multi-stemmed trunks) to make that correlation reliably, but it seems that way right now...

Meat: I will definitely save you some seeds from this Bonnet. I feel good about its making it all the way to fruit-bearing size.
 
I wonder if it would help to heavily mulch around the plants at the end of the season?
To produce more shoots, that is

Greg
 
FWIW, my climate is very similar to Gary's, and I had four plants come back after cutting them into stumps as well. All mine were in pots (less thermal protection) and it appears (I won't know till fruit, if I get it) that there was a 50/50 mix of chinenses and other stuff - probably annuums, but possibly a baccatum.

I bet mulch couldn't hurt. All about protecting the roots and (I suspect) getting them minimal water.

Interestingly, the plants I cut off and sprinkled lettuce seeds over survived at a 0% clip. Possibly TOO much water, keeping the lettuce alive? All my resprouts were neglected pots.

It was a VERY mild winter, even by our standards. Probably a half-dozen freezing nights, but just on the cusp of freezing. Last year we sustained teens (F) a couple of times. I think there was never a night worse than high 20s(F) here.

Gary, was your freeze pattern similar, and did it rain fairly regularly there, like it did here?

We can't control the weather, but it'd be cool to be able to hypothesize about resprouts based on winter conditions each year...
 
PIC 1 said:
I wonder if it would help to heavily mulch around the plants at the end of the season?
To produce more shoots, that is

Greg
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You are reading my mind Greg...my thought exactly!
Eephus Man said:
FWIW, my climate is very similar to Gary's, and I had four plants come back after cutting them into stumps as well. All mine were in pots (less thermal protection) and it appears (I won't know till fruit, if I get it) that there was a 50/50 mix of chinenses and other stuff - probably annuums, but possibly a baccatum.

I bet mulch couldn't hurt. All about protecting the roots and (I suspect) getting them minimal water.

Interestingly, the plants I cut off and sprinkled lettuce seeds over survived at a 0% clip. Possibly TOO much water, keeping the lettuce alive? All my resprouts were neglected pots.

It was a VERY mild winter, even by our standards. Probably a half-dozen freezing nights, but just on the cusp of freezing. Last year we sustained teens (F) a couple of times. I think there was never a night worse than high 20s(F) here.

Gary, was your freeze pattern similar, and did it rain fairly regularly there, like it did here?

We can't control the weather, but it'd be cool to be able to hypothesize about resprouts based on winter conditions each year...
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Yes, very mild here, Eric...Certainly it never reached into the teens. I'm thinking maybe below 32ºF only 3 or 4 times, maybe. You can bet I've been "studying" on how to keep more of my in-ground plants viable through next winter...These cold snaps never last for more than 1 or 2 nights, so conceivably one could even just cover the plants...
 
Those sprouting stumps are so cool I had to come back for another look!
Man, if a guy could harness that process a little...
Good luck moving ahead with your grow season!
 
Unfortunately it's way out of the question here. Too wet and cold in the
winter - but overwinters indoors? Heck yeah! It will be cool to see how
those stumps grow out. They should produce awesome bushes with
their root systems already well developed!
 
I'm counting on it, PG! Thanks!

My first pod of the season! This plant is one of two overwintered Caribbean Red Habanero, now entering their third season. These little guys volunteered from windfall pods from plants I bought at the hardware store in 2009:

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A modest potting-up of 24 plants this afternoon. These narrow windowsill trays work really well—It seems to be the only way I get consistent results without grow lights...

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Thanks, Eric! I love these trays—If I had 10 or 12 windows on the south side of the house, I would be set! Too bad there's only two that I can use...

Everything is going outside now, anyway...
 
Here's a few of my babies, waiting to be in the ground. Right now the garden rows are hosting a burgeoning thicket of lush, well-nourished weeds, and the little container plants are standing by, waiting, itchy to be in the Louisiana dirt. There are lots more of the little fellas at my house. Pix later.

Congo Trinidad, seeds from PIC 1:

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California Wonder:

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Chilhuacle Rojo:

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Zapotec Jalapeño:

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I almost forgot my overwintered Aji Panca:

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NIIICE! lol @ the weeds comment. And how did you get all those CTs to split like that so early?

BTW, your lone CT in my garden is doing well. Just showing some first buddage. Debating on whether I want to let it roll or snip it off.
 
Hi Eric! Good to hear from ya! The Congo plants are actually 2 plants to a pot, so it only looks like they've already made nodes...I intended to clip them to one plant per pot, but I reckon I must have forgotten to do it....

Thanks for the update on your Congo baby! It's exciting to hear about them...
 
windchicken said:
Hi Eric! Good to hear from ya! The Congo plants are actually 2 plants to a pot, so it only looks like they've already made nodes...I intended to clip them to one plant per pot, but I reckon I must have forgotten to do it....

Thanks for the update on your Congo baby! It's exciting to hear about them...
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Ah. That makes sense. That Panca is FINALLY ripening! Holy cow, man! :)

And I'll try and keep you in the loop on the CT here. My chinenses are starting to take off. Have a Datil, a Fatalii and the CT that have surged in the last 10 days. Woo hoo!

Can't wait to see yours hit the ground.
 
Dern-skippy!! I wish I could over-winter in the ground. Would make life a heck of a lot easier. Plants are looking great Gary!
 
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