Wow! Should've planted RICE instead, huh? Hope you recover Armageddon.

Kevin

I'll be keeping an eye on your updates. I know you like to throw something crazy into the mix, like a turkey pan full of bhut seeds. Hopefully this rain will clear out soon. We've had almost a week straight where we've gotten rain everyday. I was thinking about taking volunteers for building an ark. I'll keep you guys posted, going to need a lot of help gathering 2 of every animal!

Tim

small list of some plants we are growing this season

Peppers
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Bhut
Moruga Red & Yellow
Butch T
Brain Strain
7 Pot Jonah
Douglah
7 pot yellow
Tepin
Tobasco
Fatalli Red & Yellow
Nu mex halloween
Devils Tounge
Jamacian hot pepper
pequin
Chocolate scorp
yellow scorp
peter pepper
Grim Reaper
Aji lemon
peppadew
bell
also a couple random mini sweets

Others
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Corn 5 types
tomato's Lemon Boy,Black Seaman ,Beef steak
Wonder woman, White Wonder, White Cherry,Better boy,
and a couple others
wonder beans
3 types pumpkins
5 types watermelons carolina cross ,sugar baby,crimson,and 2 others
radish
collards
cucumbers
lettuce
onions
potato's
sweet potato s
turnips cabbage broccoli
Squash
And i have missed a few things but thats close ...

So maybe around December you'll have time to take a breath? I hope those Reapers pan out, I'll be in the market for some seed trading. Keep us posted, I loved reading your updates last year. I always get a little jealous. I'd love to have half of the land you plant on.

Tim

here is a photo of a smaller garden i have going this season it is a test area used to check growing speed & size of there root system i have a few extra projects i am working on this season with Breeding,Gafting & more

here is a pic of a Reaper Cross he is just about to spread his wings will be potting him up to a 25-30 gal pot

wait, a 25-30 gallon pot? that's a heck of a lot of dirt for one plant. lucky plant. I thought mine were happy in their 5 gallon buckets!

How do you already have a reaper cross? I assume you did this yourself?

Tim

took some more photos a week or so back but have not had a chance to get them posted the odd weather got me ill and just starting to recover but here are a few more from 1 of my larger gardens there in the distance you can see my good ole guard dog hard at work terrorizing the rabbits,deer & ground hogs after eating about 10 lbs of rib bones .... lol

This post was edited by Armageddon on Wed, Jul 10, 13 at 23:15

this is the 2nd photo of the garden just across from the last photo still no grand total of plants in the ground yet still trying to play catch up .

there is still plenty of land this this is approx a 20-30 acre area total next season it will also be turned into larger gardens the land just beyond the tree line is also ours but its rented out to a local farmer this season .

the Blue super sized tote you see in the photos is another test/project i am working on its not peppers though it would be Sweet potatoes someone challenged me said sweet potatoes can not be grown here and that they have tried many many years with no success at all so ....i aim to prove them wrong we will see at the end of the season when i unveil the results with video footage the tote is filling very quickly faster than expected so it will maybe be a stack of totes by the end of the season

here is photo 2 of the potatoes then pic 3 to follow not sure how to add multiple photos to 1 post anyone know the trick ?

and here is photo 3 from the Sweet potato test . i needed to add more soil before the photo but was not feeling to great .

getting ready to head outside for some potting up i will grab some more photos to share .

Armageddon: here's a tutorial.

Kevin

Here is a link that might be useful: multiple pics tutorial

here is a photo of the Reapers root mass just before the transplant he is standing at over a foot tall and just going crazy some roots are thicker than a spaghetti noodle and he is starting to mass produce many Pod Chutes

here are the roots

Here is a close up of the roots .

and here is his new home its either 25 or 30 gal maybe larger i plan on harvesting these peppers from the 2nd story window ....(smile)

this next project im working on i will show some photos but his info is still classified (Smile) he is a Very special Melon i can tell you that much i will also update photos on him trough the season . he was just transplanted into the same size pot as the reaper its 25-30 gal or larger .

Looks like things are starting to progress. It won't be long till you have pods. I can't wait to see the pics of the 2 story reaper plant. Melon......I'm intrigued.

Tim

here is a photo update of the smallest garden i have going this season it is really starting to take off and fill in there is over 100 pepper plants here along with 5 test tomatoes and 2 test melons 4 test potatoes and a couple random veggies my buddy added along the left side .

This post was edited by Armageddon on Sat, Jul 13, 13 at 14:17

here are some updates from the first garden it is filling in very fast super happy with the results so far also this garden is loaded with ladybugs .

here is a side shot from the same garden

time for a couple updates my gardens are starting to fill in great lots of pods forming here are a couple photos to share this pepper here is the Jamaican Red First time growing this pepper so i dont know what the true heat level or how the flavor is yet just waiting for 1 to ripe up so it can be sampled

Here we have a small Numex Halloween he has been struggling but has managed to put out a few pods

here we have a Tepin along with a real close neighbor

here is a Aji Lemon just starting to put out a lot of pods

this guy here i am still trying to figure out he surly does not look to be the reaper i planted ... so far 2 reapers down and 7 others to still check .

this guy is a 7 pot Brown a couple pods look to be changing color so i will be able to test the heat very soon .

That's a gnarly looking pod, similar to my douglahs. I predict that when you test it "quite warm" will be what you write since you will be unable to speak for the bandages on your tongue.

BTW, where are you?

DM i am in michigan and so far i have 3 takers that are going to sample that first ripe 7 pot brown so it will be in 1/3 not to bad still will have quite a bit of heat ......i had 1 pod on the plant that had a bug hole so my buddy broke it open looking for the bug and forgot to wash his hands he touched his eyes and head wiping sweat and well he was running for the water .... he thought with it being still green that there was no heat yet .... lol

well i picked the pod from the 7 pot brown and 1 guy backed out on the taste test so me and the other guy halved it ...... had a real good fruity flavor then a few seconds later the heat was quite intense my buddy starting using his Tea as mouth wash ... lol first it hit the back of the throat then moved to the top of the tongue seemed a bit hotter then the 7 pot reds i have tried . will have to run a few more test i will let the next ripe one sit on the plant for a couple weeks to build up more heat

here is another shot of the 7 pot brown plant it's loaded with pods that are ripening up fairly fast now .