Wow, thanks for the heads up, that's awesome prices!
Damn winter, things starting to go wrong here.
One overwintered plant full of the biggest aphids I have ever seen!
Still dealing with some cases of fungus and BLS
Couple of plants I cut back months ago growing back, but really really light green leaves and ferts doesn't seem to fix it (not over watered as they have been out of the rain and only watered every 2-3 weeks). Other plants I have not cut back are still normal darker green leaves.
I also have to face facts that my favourite plants that got some probelms last year (fungus, BLS and everything), some aren't going to make it. The hardest hit were of course my TS BT, Fatalii, 7 pot red, 7 pot yellow, bonda ma jacques, marouga red and scotch bonnet red. I planted them all in the ground for the winter. Good recovery from the 7 pot red and yellow, the TS BT doesn;t look dead, the fatalii does though, and the marouga red, brain strain and scotch bonnet are touch and go. I'm just going to leave them alone and worry about new seedlings for those varieties I think
Lost 5 seedlings this morning, eaten by slugs or snails (and I hunted and killed about 12 yesterday). So I don't know where the slugs came from, seems like revenge from them, as my plants weren't touched until I starting killing them. I only went on a rampage turning over ever likely hiding spot because there was a nibble on a broccoli plant, that plant is fine, just a nibble. So I hunted and killed them so for revenge that completely ate 5 seedlings.
About 5 more seedlings I tossed as they were under performing and I didn't need them as I had others. BTW the slugs went for the baby seedlings which I only had one off, like my only spare brainstrain, my only choc scorp I was growing spare got more mature seedlings that I started before winter for myself, these babies I was just growing as the one extra to give away to whoever I knew wanted it.
Also 1 jalapeno seedling onto it's 3 true leaves flopped over dead (damping off, rotted way underneath the soil line). Seems to happen a lot with jalapenos for me and only when they get bigger, pretty rare otherwise.
Through out a few seeds that were rotting in the soil, I think with that and the damping off case my potting mix has gone bad, going to keep them in coir longer and the next time I decide to germinate (and get fresh coir at that).
edit: Oh, and the good news: Some of my over wintered plants never stopped podding because I didn't touch them. I should have cut them back a bit because they either made a couple of full size pods, or heaps and heaps of tiny pods, ie next to useless.
The ones I trimmed a fair bit off due to fungus or other issues seem to be bouncing back the best, never lost new leaves, now showing flower buds - I should have done this to all of them.
The ones I cut back severely are growing nicely again (except for the light green leaved plant) but all them them will take a couple of months I think. So I cut them back too much and too late. Some I cut back severely even before winter and they have some full size pods already.
The roots are filling out their pots and cells and are almost ready to go outside.
