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I have been slacking on updating this. It's been a bit of a rough grow season, the plants are 1-2 feet tall in 3" grow pots now. Just put them outside to start hardening off, they're desperate to get out of the pots. I also messed up a few weeks ago and didn't water them for... several days and...

PaulG: It was a lot of work! I don't have a ton of plans for amendments, I know I should get a bunch of compost at least and dump it back there. The lot needs to be leveled back out, hopefully I can get some top soil / compost back there before I start leveling it. I'm open to suggestions on the...

Well I only had one ghost and one scorpion sprout, I think I dried out the soil too much. Planted the rest of the seeds a bit ago, went with 5x poblano instead of 10, also planted: 2x peppadew 2x pepperoncini 2x more Trinidad moruga Scorpions 2x Peter peppers I would've planted more ghosts too...

I see black pearl is in your list, I have some seeds but never planted them. Are the peppers any good off of them?

Even though I live in Columbia, and I'm not a huge fan of the University of Missouri, this is one of their strong suits. Looks like you could send in for a full water test for $60 http://soilplantlab.missouri.edu/soil/water.aspx My reasoning for not liking them is not agricultural at all fwiw...

Only had enough seeds for 3 ghosts. So far one ghost and one scorpion have sprouted. I put my cinnamon tree on the warming mat and under the light, it likes it there a lot better than the window. Getting to cold by the windows for it, high 8 tomorrow low -6 what I'm hearing.

Got my package today! The penis pepper freebie cracked me up, definitely making it on my grow list this year

Looking forward to following this glog, sounds like a hell of a grow list.

This year has officially started for me! I started last year in a new house with a backyard that hadn't been touched in a decade. Just clearing out a space large enough for peppers in time was difficult, and I learned that the soil is pretty well drained of any nutrients. I put 10 wheel barrel...

Order placed, went ahead and paid full price, least I could do for all the enjoyment I've gotten from this thread!

Looking back through my labeling I may have made a mistake. It's possible this is a Tobago treasure pepper

Does anyone recognize this pepper? Bag was labelled as aji charapita. Grew two seeds from the bag, one grew true, this is the other. I'm guessing the seed got mixed up haha

Haha I bet those birds are creepy! I think I heard somewhere they lack the taste receptors to get the spicy sensation from the capsaicin. Could be why they're so interested in your peppers

Here in Missouri there's something called a cottage food law, if I recall you can make and sell food at Farmers markets without using a commercial kitchen as long as it's less than $50k per year. Wonder if your state has a cottage law?

Here's a picture of the garden, most of the plants are about a foot tall. The one in the far left row second in is about 4 feet tall. I need to weed it bad right now, and that grape vine growing on the fence isn't doing me any favors

Yeah I'm not going to lie, I've begun to miss my morning routine of coffee and catching up on this thread haha

Harvested my first peppers, 6 pepperoncinis. Little disappointing since it's almost August, but it let's me know I need to amend the soil more for next year.

Feeding the plants has really turned them around. Who'd a thought that needed food? My famers market jalapeno is the first to set pods, but most of the annums are blooming now. I have had two plants now, just die really suddenly. No idea what's going on, the base looks really woody and brown...

Yeah all the wood chips are from the compost, now that you mention them stealing nitrogen I think I've heard that. Fed the plants a couple days ago and they've started to look better. Gave them a lot of blood meal today to help nitrogen, fertilized, and did a foliar spray of calmag+Epsom salt...

It's squirrels, I caught them in the act. Also had a rabbit eat all the leaves off one of the plants. Put chicken wire around the garden, hopefully this helps. Plants seem super slow to grow, they're 3 1/2 months old and most are less than a foot tall. My fertilizing routine hasn't been great...