Here's the last of LAST season's harvests now in the middle of February. Though temps are in the 80's this week here

Note to self: Cross Kevin off Xmas card list for rubbing us northerners noses in the warm So Cal temps ;-)

Seriously, that is a nice looking haul. I'm envious!

Bill

This post was edited by ottawapepper on Thu, Feb 13, 14 at 19:44

LOL Thanks Bill. :)

Yeah. The weather's nice here, but it costs.

It's actually unseasonably warm for even here and one of the worst year's ever for rain. It's actually a good thing I had great harvests last year, because with no rain, I'm having to scale back this year. I just started my seeds 2 days ago, which is way off line for me.

But, I'm not whining... I'll take this over the cold and rainy any day of the year.

Kevin

Kevin - Glad you could share a pic of your harvest! At least you're enjoying unseasonably warm weather while us northerners are experiencing one of the coldest winters.

What do you plan to do with your harvest?

Sandy

hahahaha, good one Bill! Yeah, really nice haul Kevin.
Pam

Our low so far this morning is around 42... it's wonderful considering the last few weeks have been teens and single digits. ;-)

Sandy: Thanks. I know you always enjoy the winter pics. I'll Dry these ones whole and store. Since I have to scale back this year, they'll come in handy when I run low.

Thanks Pam. Not to worry on the scale back. I will be growing some Chihuacles and report back to you. 42F isn't bad at all considering most of the country is getting snowstorm after snowstorm. Kind of funny... My deceased grandmother had a house in OKC. A few years ago, I had to go back there in February after you guys had real low temps and a water pipe busted. But, for the time I was there, temps were in the 70's.

Kevin

Kevin,

OK, you're back on my Xmas card list. I guess the cold and snow is not as bad as the drought you folks are dealing with. I hope things don't get any worse!

Bil

Wow, how nice it must be. Only pickled peppers and powder for us winter folk at this time of year.

When do you start next year's plants? I imagine there might be some overlap...that makes me chuckle.

The very thought warms me up on a cold day, thanks for the photo.

Alex

Bill: It's always bad. They're always raising water prices and restricting us of usage, but this year is BAD. Hopefully the rest of this month and march pans out. After that, we get very, very little rain traditionally. All of SoCal is actually considered desert. We have to import the majority of our water. I'll get by --- you can have your 3 feet of snow and subzero temps. :P

Alex: I usually start them at the beginning of the year. But, between a major toothache, contemplation over the drought to do anything at all, and overall procrastination, I just started a few days ago. Looking for the little tails peeking through paper towels daily.

Overlap? Sometimes, not always. I'm usually pulling plants late Dec/Early Jan, but even the little frost we've had didn't do in 3 of my chinenses that still had tons of pods. This year I pulled all my annuums and chinenses that were podless when it got cold(anticipation) and they were just slowing for the winter. I should have let them be, but if a plant is going to sit around for 4 months not producing, it not worth my effort(watering, pest control, etc).

Thanks All.

Kevin

Woohooman- how many plants did you harvest them from?

That's the way it goes around here Kevin. We've had a few weeks of highs in the teens or low 20's and lows in the single digits, the last week we had some snow and ice on monday, but Thursday it was in the 50's, this weekend has been in the 60's. Yep, I will happily take 42 over single digits and heavy snow. ;-)
Pam

MorugaMan: 3, but really 2. There are a few Bhuts in there, but most are Nagas off 2 plants. Not the massive harvests I had last summer and fall off 9 superhots, but it's nice to be getting "something" in the midst of winter.

Pam: Yep. it appears OK is just far North to get some of that Canadian cold and just far South enough to get some of that Caribbean warm. Hence, the tornadoes in the Spring. Ughh.

Kevin

Great harvest!
Hoping that the rain keep a'comin'!
We got another good soaking last night.

Josh

hahaha, yep, we got the tornadoes, just mother natures way to house clean. ;-) I'm one of the weird ones, I think they are fascinating, when the sirens go off we head outside to watch. Once watched a small one bear down on us and about 1/2 mile away went back up into the clouds. It was so cool watching them boil over the house. Our property has been hit at least 2 times over the years. haha, best incident (I don't think it was a tornado) but you know those 12 x 6ft chain link kennels, we had one in back that was 12 x 12. Went out one morning and found the thing up in a tree. Wish I'd taken a photo. ;-)
Pam

Josh: thanks. Yeah. what storms are coming in are staying up North this year. We got a tad about 10 days ago, but it's right back to mid-spring conditions here. Really kinda sucks. The only thing I have going in ground are some onions and leeks and some year old swiss chard and kale that must be grabbing it's moisture deep down.

Pam: LMAO.. love the house cleaning reference. I'd be the same way--- if I lived there growing up, I probably would have become one of those storm chasers.

"haha, best incident (I don't think it was a tornado)"

What in the hell else could it have been???? Treehouse Masters? ROFLMAO

Kevin

If I didn't have a full time job I would definitely be a storm chaser, always regretted not going into meteorology.

Honestly I don't know what it was Kevin, we do get impressive straight line winds. I once looked out the window during a storm and watched a row of around 6- 15ft Bradford Pears slowing blown over taking the chainlink fence down with them.

funny about the kennel, we had a young dog, not trustworthy to leave in the house at night and she was out in the kennel when it was lifted into the tree. I wondered the next morning why she was running around the front yard completely freaking out. I always wondered what was going through her mind when her kennel took flight.
Pam