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Post by txdirtdog on Jan 25, 2012 18:13:05 GMT -5
Can't find the camera right now or I'd post a pic.
Jimmy Nardello's. About 8 or so inches tall in Solo type cups. Not one, but 2 different plants. I think that's the fastest I've seen a pepper go from seed to bloom. Sown 11/28.
Time to start pinching.
Lights are 4' T8 shop type lights. One 4500K and one 6000K bulb in each. Soiless mix is Promix BX. I haven't even started the fish emulsion mist treatment yet.
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Post by izzy on Jan 25, 2012 21:32:23 GMT -5
Now that's seeds that cut to the chase - sprouting fully formed fruits from the ground up.
Actually, my peppers and toms didn't freeze this winter, so they are still producing from the fall. Heck, our winter weather is in the mid-80's so far.
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Post by izitmidnight on Jan 26, 2012 0:17:16 GMT -5
Wow!! Jealousy rears it's red head.
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Post by txdirtdog on Jan 26, 2012 9:26:31 GMT -5
Izzy, it's great that you can overwinter. Should be some strong plants come spring. I remember you using the double boxes to protect them before. We have dipped to freezing 3 times. Unfortunately, wasn't in a position to do the protection work and I lost my last 3 tomatoes (orange minsk/JD's C-Tex/Sweet 100 volunteer) about 2-3 weeks ago. Still, it's a much milder winter so far. Greens are flowering here and there - except the bok/pak choy - they are all flowering.
Izit, I guess the peppers have jealousy among themselves. Lol. Usually cayenne are the first to bloom for me, and sure enough this morning I pinched the Nardello blooms and noticed one of the cayenne's was putting out a bud.
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Post by daylilydude on Jan 26, 2012 12:35:00 GMT -5
I planted pepper seeds 2 weeks ago, and not even 1 sprout YET!!
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Post by txdirtdog on Jan 26, 2012 16:52:01 GMT -5
Dld, are they all serious heat types? 2 wks not sooo long for peppers, but I usually have at least a few up within a week.
Anticipation is a pain!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2012 21:53:48 GMT -5
I have pepper plants with 2 sets of true leaves planted on the 8th and some started the same day just now popping through the dirt.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2012 14:23:03 GMT -5
You guys are making me feel so behind! I just started over 50 seeds of various varieties indoors yesterday. We do have a few other pepper plants that are about half-grown now though.
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Post by txdirtdog on Feb 4, 2012 23:03:09 GMT -5
They're going for round 2 and I have the camera this time.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2012 12:45:03 GMT -5
something out in the garden last year stripped all the vegataion on mine left a stem and in a few days plant rebounded back any idea what would eat all the foilage?
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Post by txdirtdog on Feb 7, 2012 15:31:11 GMT -5
Stripped to a stem, could be hornworms. I get them sometimes in the peppers as well as tomatoes. They work fast too.
There's probably several other critters that could do it, but hornworms are the only ones I've actually caught red-handed.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2012 10:42:15 GMT -5
Did not know hornworms would eat peppers bet that was it one day fine next day looked like a tree raveged by a tornado. I am always battling horn worms on my mater plants and last year with the drought and heat my maters did not have much to them sickly looking but the peppers were very full of leaves.
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Post by txdirtdog on Feb 8, 2012 11:49:06 GMT -5
Could well have been. And they don't care if it is a sweet pepper or hot either. I didn't know it until 2 years ago. Couldn't figure out what was stripping the pepper leaves before that.
I've been using BT (baccilus thurengis - spelling?) to control them. It controls any caterpillar type. And you probably are familiar with the parasitic wasp that puts the rice-grain looking eggs on the back of the hornworm. At least there's one natural enemy.
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Post by daylilydude on Feb 9, 2012 6:30:19 GMT -5
Still nothing has sprouted here, but we have so much going on with packing and such for the move that I have neglected them... I'm a bad boy!
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Post by txdirtdog on Feb 9, 2012 9:13:44 GMT -5
For shame!!! Lol.
Well with the move going on maybe that's not such a bad thing. Think you might try starting some fast growing peppers after the move? Or maybe buy some starts somewhere?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2012 11:20:08 GMT -5
I pick sometimes ten to fifteen hornworms a day off my maters have yet to see one with the eggs on it. Just there nasty lil green selfs. Wish I did see it though as yellow jackets wasps are in no short supply here. I battle them suckers all the time. Nothing like walking in the shed to get the weed eater out and getting stung from a new nest that you did not know was there. Not sure if I have the parasitic wasp here but probably do.
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Post by izzy on Feb 11, 2012 16:55:29 GMT -5
DD,
parasitic wasps and tachinid flies won't hurt you - they don't bite. Plant umbels (yarrow, dill), parsley, lemon balm, and alyssum to attract the adult females to your garden. With such a mild winter, I'd bet we are going to have a bumper crop of insects to battle in just a few weeks. Already, some of my tomatoes are getting eaten by hornworms.
TDD,
Your pepper plants are looking purdy - mine are looking war torn and grubby - they haven't liked these grey overcast days, but I've been able to get peppers - both sweet and hot - throughout the winter. I'm eager to see how the orange bells perform in their second year.
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Post by txdirtdog on Feb 11, 2012 18:02:13 GMT -5
Izzy,
A few of them - mostly the fast growers that are trying to flower - were getting a little on the light side so I fed those with a very weak solution of ironite. They seem to be greening up some. I may hit them again next feeding, as I don't think it was quite enough. They are mostly purdy on account of they haven't had to face the outdoors yet.
I'm interested in how your bells perform on 2nd year also. I was planning on trying to get some plants through the winter, but we had a frost/freeze on a night I just couldn't get out there and cover them and it finished them all off. Starting from scratch again this spring.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2012 11:39:58 GMT -5
I was going to try that as well last year with my bells had them in 2 gallon pots but one night I was working my 13 hour shift and a out of nowhere freeze hit when I got home it was to late to bring them in and save them. I was sad they were the ones ravaged and had completly grew back and were loaded with little peppers that set when the temps had cooled.
On another note one of my starts is now 7.5 inches tall and growing 1/2 inch per day. I have measured it 3 straight mornings and raising the light to keep it from touching. I think I may have to get it in a 2 gallon pot as it is in a 2in x 2in one right now. and set it by a window.All of mine were yellowing and small last year my first year to start my own. This one is green and pretty.
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Post by txdirtdog on Feb 15, 2012 22:29:39 GMT -5
DD, I found 3 things that keep peppers yellow and small
Primary: too much water Secondary: too little water Thirdary: too little trace elements
This is definitely not a complete list, but what I've found most often. My first year I waaay overwatered. Sounds like you've changed whatever affected yours last year. Half inch per day sounds like one heck of a start for plant-out time.
btw, the weak ironite feeding did the trick. Everybody nice and green and happy. Watering again tonight.
Even the caterpillar I found on one of the pepper plants seemed happy until I collected it. Flippin caterpillar on a plant that has never been outside. Only thing I can figure is when I brought some of the mater plants in a few days ago he hitchhiked. Grrrr.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2012 10:59:52 GMT -5
Well here is a shot hard to tell but about 9 inches tall as of today.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2012 11:03:40 GMT -5
Even the caterpillar I found on one of the pepper plants seemed happy until I collected it. Flippin caterpillar on a plant that has never been outside. Only thing I can figure is when I brought some of the mater plants in a few days ago he hitchhiked. Grrrr.
All ready fighting critters and it is not even time to go yet lol. Well for you getting close not for me a few more weeks.
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