Bents winter experiment

[bentalphanerd]

hows everyone coping with the cold? My experiment with temps & daylight hours seems to be working well.
I moved a couple of stunted, stagnating 7's around to the sunny side of the house last week and they've grown 2" & got flower nodes already. Will move a plant or two every few weeks and see if i can ride out the winter lull.
I don't want to pre-count my chickens - the proof will be in the ripening.

[talas]

hiya bent keep us informed,love to no how things go week by week,got my own little experiment going in wales,to see how some bolivian/hybrid types can cope with higher/cooler/windier conditions:)

[Omri]

Interesting. well for me it's actually too hot. I'm boiling here. :(

[bentalphanerd]

exactly - we dont get to freezing here apart from a day or two if you factor in the wind chill. So no reason I can't produce pods year round.
These plants think they've sprouted & grown for a few months in winter. It looks like they will flower ok - its the pod ripening that seems to hit the wall. That seems to have more to do with temperature & not so much to do with light.

[Omri]

We have a lot of light too. no clouds and can't get out without some sun glasses or a cap.

[rainbowberry]

Interesting. well for me it's actually too hot. I'm boiling here. :(

We have sun in England (wow, it's big, yellow and hot) and I have a very unhappy, floppy Orange Rocoto.

[bentalphanerd]

don't talk to me about sun lol...they're already mentioning the 'D' word (drought) again in the news.

I'm back to bucket watering :(

[Omri]

We have sun in England (wow, it's big, yellow and hot) and I have a very unhappy, floppy Orange Rocoto.
The plants are happy (well most of them), but the people are not.
Can't go outside between 2 to 4 without getting burned, even for just a minute.

[rainbowberry]

We're not happy when it rains either. Our heat is really sticky.

[bentalphanerd]

how hot is it?...or is this wedding talk :think:

[Chiliac]

I think it'll start to rain soon. When I walked down to the food store an hour ago, the temperature was around 25°C.

[Omri]

how hot is it?...or is this wedding talk :think:
Back home about 25c. here about 40c.

[rainbowberry]

how hot is it?...or is this wedding talk :think:
Er about 22 degrees :oops:

[chilliman64]

hows everyone coping with the cold? My experiment with temps & daylight hours seems to be working well.
I moved a couple of stunted, stagnating 7's around to the sunny side of the house last week and they've grown 2" & got flower nodes already. Will move a plant or two every few weeks and see if i can ride out the winter lull.
I don't want to pre-count my chickens - the proof will be in the ripening.

always thinking two pots ahead!

[Omri]

Er about 22 degrees :oops:
It's like breathing fire, eh? :lol:
BTW I'm back home. 23c... nice and cool.

[rainbowberry]

:lol: yeah we have a heatwave kinda thing right now, we can turn off the heating and even open windows. Almost at the point of putting the A/C on in the car :)

[talas]

ill second that rainbowberry,but at least we have some sun at last,emptied the greenhouse and all chillis in the sun..except habs/hot bannas/ which seem to wilt if left to long:shocked:

[Omri]

:lol: yeah we have a heatwave kinda thing right now, we can turn off the heating and even open windows. Almost at the point of putting the A/C on in the car :)
Sounds like a good weather to me. hope you'll enjoy it and if not, at least get the type of weather you like.
I like it at the 20-25c range, and where I live the humidity is off the charts. the only way to get more humid is taking a bath. :lol:

[rainbowberry]

hope you'll enjoy it and if not, at least get the type of weather you like.


I like rainbow weather :)

[Omri]

I like rainbow weather :)
:lol:
Should have seen that coming.

It's Israel's national independence day on Thursday and we're having this "event" at work. all the big shot people and their families will be there, so there will be some children activities. what I'm trying to say is... we'll have PONIES!!! :lol:

[rainbowberry]

I bet they don't have purple coats, super long multi-coloured hair and pretty pictures on their back sides with a twinkle in their eyes though.

[Omri]

I don't know, maybe... :P

[talas]

is this the my little pony fan forum :shocked::stop:..thank god rainbow brite isnt here..o my god rainbowberry you didnt get the name frommm..o the fear :rolleyes:

[rainbowberry]

Rainbow Brites not quite the same though (OMG I can't believe I've just looked that up the Rainbow Brite site on the internet). I have to say with fingers crossed that I honestly don't own any my little pony's.

[rainbowberry]

Here's me naked boys



















http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s275/tuliptwinkle/rainbowberryphonepics.jpg Rainbowberry:)

[Chiliac]

aawwwwwwwwwwww!

http://www.smilies.4-user.de/include/Tiere/smilie_tier_107.gif

[ABurningMouth]

Here's me naked boys


Mmmm. That's hott.

[Omri]

Here's me naked boys
I have a big screen, so I actually saw the picture before reading your post. still funny though.

[ABurningMouth]

http://www.imageuploading.com/ims/pic.php?u=163580Jg14&i=103318
That's so cute.

[teh purple penguins]

hot pink :\
i too omri, but i keep it at 1/2 screen for surprises just like this.. and the fact i use too much space on my screen at ALL TIMES

[rainbowberry]

Trust Omri to see me naked first ;)

Anyway last month we had snow and I was worried about leaving my seedlings on the window sill over night. Today it's meant to be 25 degrees- that's sun-stroke weather for us :) I went up to the greenhouse this morning and found this on my Jalapeno Grande.

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s275/tuliptwinkle/Image002-19.jpg

I swear it wasn't there yesterday. I started this plant later than a lot of the others. For some reason the seeds were pink, anyone know why? Sorry about the crappy photo, I was trying to dodge the sun.

[POTAWIE]

Pink seeds are probably treated with thiram

[rainbowberry]

Why though Potawie?

[POTAWIE]

Its a fungicide.

"Thiram is a widely used seed-applied fungicide offering important disease protection on a variety of crops:"

[Omri]

Trust Omri to see me naked first ;)
Is that an offer? ;)