Sounds good. Making my hungry as a matter of fact. I got called into work early, so I skipped lunch. The wife just called to invite me to eat with her and some of our friends when she gets off work. I'm putting a note on the door and hauling ass.
Rofl....
go Larry get out while you can brother.
Ever grow those yellow pear tomatoes? High producing but They're like a vine and grow ridiculously tall. Hundreds of wild grown yellow pear seedlings appear each year now. I like Lemon boy better, those plants won't fall over onto my other crops, and taste is better too. To each their own and good luck.
Call me crazy but I feel after I pick my first few peppers my plants really start to produce. Thats outside at least. Looking good though.Alright, small update.
Culled the brazilian ghost since it was pretty runty from the start and never produced flowers. Now down to 5 buckets, 4 varieties.
Gave the remaining plants all haircuts. Hacked quite a bit off several of them since they were really starting to stretch out. I want them to stay bushy and manageable in size, so any side shoots they grow as a result of the trim is welcome. Not much to be done about the 4' tall reaper and moruga trees in the back, just got to keep them from growing any taller.
Freshened all the buckets with fresh nutrient solution eC 1.2, pH 6.5. The roots on some plants are pretty crazy and have completely filled the 3.5 gal bucket and taken the shape of it.
When I started the thread they were on a table in the middle of my basement under a miserable 400w MH.
Now they are on the edge of a 12'x5' nook in the corner of my basement, which 10'x5' is used for growing ganja and lit by 2 1000w DE HPS. I just upgraded from 3 600w lights and the extra light this DE fixture throws out lights up the corner perfectly to put the peppers under
Humidity is fairly consistent at 60%, temps are 68 night time, 72-74 day. If this isn't a perfect environment to start popping a shitload of peppers, I'm not sure what is....
Lights off:
Lights on:
My one and only ripe-ish pepper:
This is my first time with this tomato. It was an impulse buy. I saw the seed packet in Lowes, and I picked it up. My new favorite {after I grew them for the first time last year} is Pruden's Purple tomatoes. I took a tomato out of the freezer yesterday and planted the seeds from it. Soon I will be giving away lots PP plants.
My peppers usually blow up after the first shitty harvest. Once they drop those first peppers and shed those few leaves then I really see them blow up. Bell peppers/capiscum doing the same thing
Nice. Have you decided which varieties?
Thanks. Have heard good things about wax peppers. Have you grown them before and do you recommend them? What's the flavor and heat like?
Well, I picked my first habanero yesterday, so hopefully you guys are right and these things start producing. Going to use my harvest in a chili recipe I'm cooking up this evening.
Get ur soil or whatever medium ur using full of nutrients. Whether it's your own compost or a pro-mix style bag. Hoe and till it all in nicely. If you drain to waste discard in the garden. And Epsom salts every 2 weeks or so. Start your plants early inside and get them big before planting in the dirt. Make sure u put the in a shaded area for a day or 2 to adjust to the sun just in case. Last step.. make neighbors jealous. Try to avoid planting peppers in same location as last yr. Also avoid where tomatoes and strawberries were planted in previous season.
Tasted like and had the kick of the store bought one I got the seeds out of. Used pretty much the whole thing in some slow cooked chili but it didn't have enough spice to really even tell it was there. I need to add more next time but I'd really like to see how one super hot would do instead...assuming I can start producing them.
