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OT: How's It Growin'?

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  • Eoin
    Eoin Posts: 4,304
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    Scotch Bonnet harvest part 1 today. Slow start to the year but I used a specialist chilli feed and it's worked well.



    Other hot chillies nearly ready. I didn't note what these are, any idea?




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  • Eoin
    Eoin Posts: 4,304
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    Smoking.


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  • BSR
    BSR Posts: 165
    edited October 2021
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    Eoin said:
    Scotch Bonnet harvest part 1 today. Slow start to the year but I used a specialist chilli feed and it's worked well.



    Other hot chillies nearly ready. I didn't note what these are, any idea?




    So many varieties out there it's hard to say. I've got a handful I've lost track of or just didn't match what was on the package too. So many crosses out there being sold as something else too.

    They do look like Moruga to me but again so many crosses... Either way some really good looking pods.
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  • Eoin
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    BSR said:
    Eoin said:
    Scotch Bonnet harvest part 1 today. Slow start to the year but I used a specialist chilli feed and it's worked well.



    Other hot chillies nearly ready. I didn't note what these are, any idea?




    So many varieties out there it's hard to say. I've got a handful I've lost track of or just didn't match what was on the package too. So many crosses out there being sold as something else too.

    They do look like Moruga to me but again so many crosses... Either way some really good looking pods.
    Moruga rings a bell. I've still got a lot of unripe chillies, hoping it stays mild for a bit longer as they're turning colour now.
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  • BSR
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    They'll be fine right until frost. Cut off the branches with any pods left right before frost and with pods still attached place them under a grow light if you have one.
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  • Eoin
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    Managed to hold 160F on the XL with hickory for 10 hours then it slowly dropped off to 140F. Moved them into the oven at minimum temp (120F) to finish off overnight.


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  • Eoin
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    I moved the plants into buckets in the potting shed because they had so much unripe fruit. It has a big south facing window and a chest freezer running in it that means it's frost free unless super cold out. Never had as good a crop as this. I used a chilli specific liquid fertiliser, and then the late ripening in the shed has been great. I'm going to overwinter the plants to get a faster start next year, these ones are seed grown and with a cool spring they took a long time to really get going. More batches to follow.


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  • Eoin
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    I left the XL on low expecting it to go out and for me to put these in the fan oven at 50C today, but in fact it stayed in all night and was up from yesterday's steady 70C to 100C at 7:00 this morning. A 19.5 hour run for the XL. Looking a bit toasty dry!


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  • Eoin
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    Added some lump and some fresh hickory chips. Picked the remaining Scotch Bonnets (not many, I've been using these as they ripen) and Morugas (I think). On now at 9 am.


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  • Canugghead
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    @EggNorth interesting planters you got there, are they window wells?
    canuckland
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  • Ozzie_Isaac
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    I love this thread.  You all amaze me.  That is all.
    A bison’s level of aggressiveness, both physical and passive, is legendary. - NPS
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  • EggNorth
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    @Canugghead. Got the beds here: https://raisedgardenbeds.ca/
    Dave
    Cambridge, Ontario - Canada
    Large (2010), Mini Max (2015), Large garden pot (2018)
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  • Canugghead
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    @EggNorth very nice. Too big for my postage stamp backyard though. I picked up two of these kits and joined them into an L shaped bed https://www.linkabord.co.uk/gallery/
    Still in good shape after three summers, got them at Lee Valley.

    I also started composting this year, another rabbit hole!
    canuckland
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  • EggNorth
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    @Canugghead - The linked boards looks like an interesting solution.  Lee Valley is one place where I can spend more $ than a BGE dealer  :).  Great store.

    The only composting I do are the leaves from the Maple trees.  I had a compost bin years ago but found mice in it so that was the end of that … I’m already mister popular for my cheery tree which is visited by a family of raccoons each year for a few weeks.


    Dave
    Cambridge, Ontario - Canada
    Large (2010), Mini Max (2015), Large garden pot (2018)
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  • saluki2007
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    Anyone have any experience growing greens or tomatoes indoors during the winter?
    Large and Small BGE
    Central, IL

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  • Gulfcoastguy
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    saluki2007 said:
    Anyone have any experience growing greens or tomatoes indoors during the winter?
    No but I am on a gardening forum also. From what I understand you can pollinate the tomatoes by touching the backside of a battery operated toothbrush to the blooms. No idea about greens since we can grow them at all times except the depth of winter outside. 
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  • fishlessman
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    EggNorth said:
    @Canugghead - The linked boards looks like an interesting solution.  Lee Valley is one place where I can spend more $ than a BGE dealer  :).  Great store.

    The only composting I do are the leaves from the Maple trees.  I had a compost bin years ago but found mice in it so that was the end of that … I’m already mister popular for my cheery tree which is visited by a family of raccoons each year for a few weeks.



    those things inhaled the fruit off my big cherry tree, an apple tree, and my asian pear. i might smoke bomb the neighbors house next year. counted 7 in that house this year
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • fishlessman
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    saluki2007 said:
    Anyone have any experience growing greens or tomatoes indoors during the winter?

    i grow herbs, figs, keifer lime leaves, and found an avacado tree out in the compost that seems to be doing well in a planter. the keifer died last spring. the herbs need misting and a plastic cover with the house being so dry in winter. tomatoes can be done, i dont but people start growing them from seed this time of year indoors
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • Langner91
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    EggNorth said:
    @Canugghead - The linked boards looks like an interesting solution.  Lee Valley is one place where I can spend more $ than a BGE dealer  :).  Great store.

    The only composting I do are the leaves from the Maple trees.  I had a compost bin years ago but found mice in it so that was the end of that … I’m already mister popular for my cheery tree which is visited by a family of raccoons each year for a few weeks.


    Fatten 'em up on Cherries, 275°F Indirect till it probes like buttah, chunk of one of those cherry branches for smoke.  

    WooooEEEEE!  That would be some good eats!  And, you could make a hat out of the "leftovers"!
    Clinton, Iowa
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