Gardening: My Tomatoe and Pepper Progress

[applescrap]

Update. Anyone know what kind of plant that is? It made it over the winter. I think its chives.

 

[HoppyDaze]

what does is taste like? Looks like lemon grass to me.

 

[z-bob]

Kinda looks like garlic chives. (flat leaves. I'm pretty sure regular chives have round leaves)

 

[HoppyDaze]

Not liking the pigment on these plants. Time to feed I guess

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

just starting to bloom now, these are Brandy wines so they have a ways to go

 

[Apple_Jacker]

Er, a dozen cayennes? What are your plans?

Hot sauce and salsas

 

[applescrap]

Kinda looks like garlic chives. (flat leaves. I'm pretty sure regular chives have round leaves)

My wife seems to think it is garlic chives. The flat leaves are throwing me off. I was expecting round leaves from chives. Must be garlic chives, thanks.

 

[passedpawn]

My wife seems to think it is garlic chives. The flat leaves are throwing me off. I was expecting round leaves from chives. Must be garlic chives, thanks.

taste it?

 

[user 211287]

Not liking the pigment on these plants.

I had 3 plants all in the same mix as the others. All got the same nutrients but those 3 were not nearly as green. I gave all 3 a little bit more nitrogen and magnesium. They snapped out of it after a few days.

I gave all of mine some calcium nitrate early today. 2 tbs in 5gallon of rain water plus 2 tbs of CNS17 Grow 3-1-2. Gave each plant a quart of it before watering a little more this afternoon.

Im fairly certain now my mystery plant is a Naga Morich.

 

[user 211287]

Asian chives are pretty easy to spot. Just pluck a leaf and smell it. It will be very obvious if its something else like lemon grass.

 

[applescrap]

I tasted it, but didnt want to sway anyones opinion before answering. And also, sadly, i dont entirely trust my judgement, but i should. I dont trust my golf game either . Tasted like onion, or chive. Perhaps a little garlicky too. Never seen flat leaves before or had anything last a winter. Just wanted to make sure before i started feeding the kids.

 

[applescrap]

Oops

 

[applescrap]

This isnt our first rodeo. We saw it coming and raced home from pool. Swmbo and i worked together and just in time.

 

[passedpawn]

haha

 

[estricklin]

applescrap, hope the hail didn't damage anything, it looks like serious hail.

I was out weeding with my dad today, everything is coming along well. My tomatoes are about 5-5 1/2 foot so far. Corn is doing good, lots of watermelons. I'll take some pics of my peppers next.

 

[applescrap]

Wow, im just getting started here. The garden looks awesome estricklin.

 

[brewbama]

applescrap, hope the hail didn't damage anything, it looks like serious hail.

I was out weeding with my dad today, everything is coming along well. My tomatoes are about 5-5 1/2 foot so far. Corn is doing good, lots of watermelons. I'll take some pics of my peppers next.

Squash is lookin good too. We sautéed up our first three yellow squash of the season for supper last night.

 

[estricklin]

Squash is lookin good too. We sautéed up our first three yellow squash of the season for supper last night.

Thanks. Yeah we are only on week 2 of the squash pickin, the photo shows about 1/3rd of my squash plants. I plant some in succession since they are prone to pests.

 

[user 211287]

Poddage galore!!!

Mystery plant but its hot...i know i ate part of one before i made the vinegar.

No heat hab types...Aji Dulce and Trindad Perfume

These MOA reds from MWCH are crazy. Never seen so many peppers on a plant this size

Ripe Aleppo is so cool looking. A few more are just starting to turn too.

This Aji Arnaucho is just 18" tall...crazy

Miraflores is doing way better in more shade but its gunna get reall hot soon. Probably lose all the flowers too.

 

[applescrap]

Beautiful chillis. Are you hand watering? The gardens look great. What are you fertilizing with. You have inspired me to try some heatless chillis next year.

 

[user 211287]

Well we had several days of rain. A few of mine dont like that much rain. One of the rocotos REALLY hates too much water and they are a PITA to grow in my climate anyway. They grow ok its just hard to get any peppers off of them.

I mostly hand water from a rain barrel. I use mostly Alaska Fish Emulsion 5-1-1 and supplement it with kelp based products and CNS17 Grow 3-1-2. When i cant use liquid nutrients i use Alaska vegetable and tomato dry pellets. Its 4-6-6 with 7% calcium too. Its also made from fish and kelp. You dont need to buy expensive liquid seaweed. Its simple to make from dry wakame or kombu if you have an Asian market. A couple ounces makes at least 5 gallons. A little epsom salts 1-2 times a month. About a tbs per gallon of water.

Alaska Fish Emulsion is around $20 a gallon. You only need a tbs or 2 per gallon once a week.
The dry pellets are $7/3lb bag at Menards and $10 a bag at Lowes. 1-2 cups is enough per 5gal pot for around a month or more.
I also get calcium nitrate just in case i need a fast calcium boost. A 4lb bag is only $6. About a tsp per gallon per week is enough most of the time unless your other stuff is really low in calcium.

Botanicare CNS17 Grow is a great hydro nutrient if you want to keep it simple.

This all depends on how much rain you get and how often you need to water. Lots of rain/water tends to wash out the pots. Thats when the dry pellets come in handy. The pellets also have lots of the other trace elements that are missing in lots of fertilizers. You could just use kelp meal if you wanted instead of the pellets but its not much cheaper.

 

[user 211287]

Ouch...Got Milk?

Those are a couple days old. So they might be ready today. I leave the first few on a bit longer for seed stock.

 

[applescrap]

Awesome advice evilgrin. Im not familiar with any of those products but they sound great. I need to look into them, thanks.

 

[applescrap]

My update pics. Safe to say the squash like their new home. Massive, not sure how this will end. Sorry for my lawn shoe pic, but I feel it gives some scope to the lettuce. I wear a size 12 double wide. They are huge. The tomatoes are doing well and you can see them peeking out. There are 5 more tomato plants that I thought had blight which I'll send a picture of later.

 

[estricklin]

Harvested 142 ears of G90 after a long vacation. I had someone picking the garden for me while I was gone but a few things got missed as you can tell.

 

[HoppyDaze]

Here’s a nasty one.

 

[user 211287]

 

[user 211287]

317 grams worth today and more almost ready
5 Naga?, 8 MOA reds, 2 Arnaucho, 2 mystery peppers (supposed to be Bell of Gollu?), 1 Bell of Gollu and 3 Jamaican Gold from CCN with the wrong pheno. Damn things are hot though.

A few from a couple days ago. Ground squirrel bit into my Brazilian Starfish so now its war. RAT ZAPPER INC!!!

 

[z-bob]

The first of my Serrano peppers should be ready to pick soon. And I'm getting a few cherry tomatoes but not many yet. I need to give my big tomatoes a good shot of nitrogen fertilizer to get them to put on a bunch of leafy growth to get ahead of the blight that's just taking hold. They are a blight resistant variety (Celebrity) but we've had so much warm humid weather and night-time rains they are losing a lot of lower leaves. (The cherry tomatoes don't care, if they lose a leaf they just put out a new branch to replace it)

The weird tepin x Lemon Drop peppers are just starting to set fruit. I had a scare with them the first time I saw the plants at the end of a hot day. The ends of the branches curl up in the evening like they'd been hit with 2,4-d herbicide (and I've had problems almost every year with the city illegally spraying herbicides thru the fence into my garden.) And it's not curly-top virus either; next morning they uncurl and continue growing.

 

[user 211287]

The 4 yellow ones are Trinidad Perfume and the little red one next to it is a Aji Dulce. No heat at all from the perfume and just a hint from the Dulce. Smelling both you would swear they would light you up. They smell just like a habanero.