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Late first freeze this year. I grew a poo poo ton of jalapeños and they are still happily growing in a frenzy since the weather cooled off. I guess I’ll be eating a few hundred jalapeño poppers in the coming weeks since I only have one potted plant to move inside and the rest are soon to die. I find the listed scoville range of jalapeños laughable. I have eaten jalapeños that had zero heat whatsoever, definitely below 2,500, and I have had a few jalapeños this year that were literally hotter than any whole mature habanero I have ever eaten. Like throat burning and nose running heat from just jalapeños. Granted I’ve only eaten whole raw habaneros like six times in my life, but even if they were lower end on heat that’s still way outside the ~8000 max SHU you see attributed to jalapeño. Also: man, I love the stuff posted in this thread
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I got mine from an old farmer and they are consistently hot except the mutants growing at the bottom of one particular plant, which are lava Going all in on New Mexico chile next year; heritage varieties for green and Chimayo heritage to ripen into red chile
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Oct 19, 2023 23:56
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I want all the drupes grafted together
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Oct 20, 2023 03:38
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Ghost peppers aren’t as bad as some, but I don’t like the smoky undertones in the flavor of most super hot chinense species so I don’t grow them. I have eaten them for the fun of trying them out though. I do like habanero flavor and a local grower had a weird mutt of a chinense that was delicious and had all the fruitiness without the death or smoke. I wish I had a better garden overall this year but it flooded all Spring and I think the soil micro biome got screwed up. Still pretty ok and my peppers in particular didn’t care at all e: I think maybe the peppers did better because their soil was amended more with my chicken poop and plant material compost, which has a great-smelling culture freeedr fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Oct 20, 2023 |
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Oct 20, 2023 13:53
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Discussion Quorum posted:My poor peppers are in a state. It was too hot until a couple weeks ago for there to be any real chance of setting fruit. I had dozens and dozens of dropped blooms all summer. Now that it has cooled a bit, they are getting absolutely murderfucked by aphids. I'll get a few freaky stubby and deformed golden cayennes, but my habanero is likely going to finish the season having produced precisely squat. I thought I would get nothing when it was 105 every day. I considered putting up shade cloth, but decided to see how they would do with nothing except twice-a-day watering plus later afternoon shade and they did great. Had peppers harvested at the start of July through now. Aphids attacked my pumpkins though. In my other yard
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Oct 20, 2023 19:24
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My strawberries survived such a brutal winter but didn’t recover well from flooding this year. Only sparse, small fruits this time. I don’t think they will survive this winter. Plus side of flooding was the thousands of mushrooms we had all Spring!
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Oct 21, 2023 15:08
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All mine had was a bed of leaves. Honestly didn’t expect them to make it. They had snow piled on them a couple of times but not as bad as most areas because their location made the snow drift away from them, so that probably helped. They were in a half-barrel planter.
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Oct 23, 2023 20:24
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Annath posted:Question, unrelated to cherry seeds: It needs a proper grow light at a proper distance for a reasonable amount of time each day. Some also worry about bugs coming in with outdoor plants but I’ve never had that problem. In spring if it’s still going strong after the last frost you should slowly reintroduce it to full sun outside progressively over a few days.
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Oct 25, 2023 16:06
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I use an old leftover smart LED that you can set to grow light (or any other colors) wavelengths but the other LEDs I have definitely don’t work so I just think it’s the safer option to have something that tells you it’s got the right wavelengths to interact with chlorophyll. Maybe I just have lovely bulbs but my garden center also sells grow lights for $5 a bulb by their indoor plant display and they have plants growing under them on display so if I needed a new one that’s how I’d go.
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Oct 25, 2023 19:09
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Hard freezes coming. Harvest time for me tomorrow.
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Oct 27, 2023 13:14
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You can indeed always add beds. I have one special raised bed far, far away from everything else. This is where mint is quarantined.
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Oct 27, 2023 23:26
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Harvested the jalapeños I won’t be able to bring in before the hard freeze. I tried to eat all I could in the past few weeks but still ended up with 67 pods brought in today and another thirty on the potted plant I’m keeping over winter. Guess I’ll find people who want some or I’ll make a mash this week.
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Oct 28, 2023 16:41
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Qubee posted:I'm having such a hard time stopping my plants from dying and I have no idea what it is. Have you tried neem oil? It has worked on any pests I have had. Don’t know about your pests in particular.
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Nov 3, 2023 13:04
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No hot ones left, but I’m still getting dozens of jalapeños off of the one big plant I brought in for winter. 10 days worth
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Nov 8, 2023 16:37
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My compost is leaves + kitchen scraps + chicken manure + a small amount of last batch’s compost. Gets nice and warm and earthy no problem so I’ve never looked into it in any more depth.
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Nov 12, 2023 06:03
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Man. I gotta get somewhere more temperate. A winter only getting down to 20 or 25 briefly sounds delightful.
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Nov 16, 2023 21:28
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My grandson says “compost” the English way, accent and all, because that’s how he heard it on some video series. He just cuts to a different dialect for one specific word and continues being adorable
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Nov 27, 2023 17:09
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I too have ESP
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Dec 1, 2023 20:41
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adeadcrab posted:Birdie’s have a new version of their garden beds out. Not available in Australia yet but you can get them in the USA drat. Ditched their home country for a bigger market. I had a tall Birdies raised bed at my previous house and I loved it. Had no trouble at all except for wishing I had more of them
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Dec 10, 2023 04:58
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I never have trouble just germinating on top of the refrigerator where it is warm. Not that I’m saying that’s best practice or anything.
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Dec 16, 2023 23:27
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I underestimated how prolific gladiolus are. They were a favorite of a family member that passed away, so we tossed a row of about 40 corms in a flower bed two years ago. We didn’t really tend to them. They caught the edge of the garden sprinklers’ range and we didn’t have to actively water. Didn’t even fertilize. They grew great. I went to move one of them today to plant something else in its place and  There were scores more of the smaller bulbs all mixed in the soil too. I apparently have 40 bundles of a million gladiolus corms in my garden. This is why local greenhouses say they are too cheap and unprofitable to sell. Still taken aback here
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Mar 3, 2024 00:21
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Is that henbit? I know what I’d do with it. 
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Mar 3, 2024 14:02
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I’m not an expert at this whole thing; I just like growing plants. But one thing I’ve found and loved is composting all of my dry leaves, some vegetal kitchen scraps, etc for the next year. I have prepped my whole garden this year with my own compost with more leftover, plus mulch from my own yard. Mulch is super important. Having my own compost makes it very cheap to add organic nutrients to my soil and revitalize my garden every year. Of course, I also have the benefit of having my own chickens, giving me chicken manure and egg shells for my compost, which seems to really supercharge it. My garden took off after I got chickens. Like others said, just enjoy it and try to be zen about it even when things don’t work out. Lessons learned for next time. You’ll probably be completely hooked once you start getting some good harvests.
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Mar 18, 2024 15:29
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So damned ready for the soil to warm up. Every year I think “ha, why was I so restless last year” and then I get progressively more jittery with anticipation until new plants start hitting the garden in earnest. It’s like releasing a held breath.
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Mar 19, 2024 00:53
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Step 1: seed too many trays so you can thin down to just the plants you need Step 2: expand your garden and plant all of the seedlings anyway Step 3: expand even more and plant even more 
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Mar 21, 2024 03:37
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I’ve never grown strawberries year round, but I have gotten three big harvests in one year. I wouldn’t mind seeing how long a plant would last if the days never got short
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Mar 21, 2024 22:28
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I have it in a raised bed made of bricks. It is contained, but it even worked its way between the bricks to grow out of the sides. It is far from any other beds and surrounded by thick turf for containment. I love having it though, and my daughters like a mint leaf in their tea occasionally, and if you really want to take the pains for the sake of doing it you can extract your own peppermint oil and make candy.
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Mar 22, 2024 14:24
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Justa Dandelion posted:How's everybody's garden going so far? It’s always difficult to wait. Want to get these baby plants in the ground
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Mar 28, 2024 21:25
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Justa Dandelion posted:When's your last frost date? My dude if you are able to divine that for me you are better than all the combined science of meteorology ever, because it’s extremely variable here. But it’s listed in mid-April. My chile plants will need 55°+ overnights reliably though, or at least I want that for them soon so that I have a decent yield. They are looking beautiful, but I don’t have the indoor facilities to pot them up again so I have 3 or 4 weeks max here before they end up stunted. Here’s hoping Mother Nature cooperates because we could have frost or 100°+ heat waves in May just as easily as something pleasant.
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Mar 28, 2024 23:27
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Bindweed is awful. The amount of effort it took to get rid of it all was immense. One of my coworkers used to be a landscape guy and he didn’t even believe I got rid of it. He would not even believe it was possible.
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Mar 29, 2024 16:16
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Trenbolone, testosterone, ghrelin, and cortisol. Bam, done
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Orbs posted:I never use any devices like murdertubes or whatever in my gardening. The way I see it, if pests manage to get my crops despite my precautions, they deserve to eat them more than me. They were hungrier for it and I respect that. I should confess. It’s been me eating your garden. E: but I was indeed very hungry
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Mar 30, 2024 19:51
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 Fuckin love composting. It’s like a magic spell that makes earthy, beautiful soil that smells like happiness. Out of leaves and poo poo. Nice.
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Mar 30, 2024 22:03
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My daughter had to take a botany class as part of her degree and didn’t want or appreciate any of it. She didn’t keep enough class material for me to piggy back off of and she threw away all her cuttings the instant each assignment was over. This made me sad, but to each their own and I love my baby very much
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Apr 4, 2024 00:14
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Shifty Pony posted:I don't know if it's worth trying to actually plant it. Isn't peach rootstock selected for pest and disease resistance, so trying to grow straight from the graft a bad idea? I for one don’t oppose bad garden ideas
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Apr 4, 2024 00:25
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It’s happening.
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Apr 8, 2024 02:05
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confused little guy thought he was outdoors
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Apr 12, 2024 15:43
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Flipperwaldt posted:I put some strawberry plants in an outdoor planter last week and we're back to near freezing nighttime temps in the coming week. Should I worry? I've never done strawberries before. Hmm. Yours might be more sensitive as babies trying to get established, but my strawberry plants survive some pretty severe overwintering no problem so I’d hope they were fine. They do always stop producing fruit for some time after they freeze. I also wouldn’t be sure re: different varieties of strawberry. Mine are some sort of everbearing. Though I do cover mine with leaves when it’s getting super frozen. Overall pretty hardy to a chill though.
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Apr 15, 2024 23:36
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Lawman 0 posted:Hoping the peppers I get do well this year! 🤞 I’m hoping this for you as well. I am growing shishito, jalapeño, and New Mexico chile (Big Jim and Chimayo heritage). I may throw in a habanero or cayenne or something for variety if I find an already-started one at the garden center. I love growing peppers.
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GlyphGryph posted:How deep do most plants beed their roots to go? Any that work well in shallow soil? I have spots where I only have maybe six inches of dirt before hitting solid rock and am wondering if theres anything that will grow there. Might end up creating raised beds just so I can add more dirt since Im guessing thats not enough I’ve grown lots of herbs, lettuce, green onion, garlic in a very small bit long window planter that hangs on my shed
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