How Does Your Garden Grow??????

racerboy71

racerboy71

bud bootlegger
too larry said:
Cherry tomatoes.

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Bought Mammoth Jalapeno.

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hey too larry, i have a question about pepper plants.. mine for the last few years never seem to get real bushy.. i look at videos on youtube, or look at your plants, and they all seem super bushy compared to mine.. do you do anything special to them? i tried topping mine last year as i saw it on some garden site, but i think i did it was too early, and not sure if it ended up helping or hurting them..
i've been feeding them a bit of alaska's fish fert, and i gave them one feeding of some general hydroponics micro feed i had laying around.. i saw about top feeding them with some blood meal, which i do have, but haven't done so as of yet.. any advice? any one really, thanks.
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

bud bootlegger
one last thing, i watched a few youtube videos where they had said that you should pick off any flowers / peppers early on, as the plants will start to concentrate on producing fruit instead of vegetive growth, so i did that a few times now.. i've been leaving them for now, about the last few days or so'ish.
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

bud bootlegger
oops, that was the correct pix my bad the plant on top in the pix is supposed to be a bush cuc, but looks to be some sort of squash or zuch to me
 
too larry

too larry

Well-Known Member
racerboy71 said:
hey too larry, i have a question about pepper plants.. mine for the last few years never seem to get real bushy.. i look at videos on youtube, or look at your plants, and they all seem super bushy compared to mine.. do you do anything special to them? i tried topping mine last year as i saw it on some garden site, but i think i did it was too early, and not sure if it ended up helping or hurting them..
i've been feeding them a bit of alaska's fish fert, and i gave them one feeding of some general hydroponics micro feed i had laying around.. i saw about top feeding them with some blood meal, which i do have, but haven't done so as of yet.. any advice? any one really, thanks.
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I've tried topping too, but they didn't do any better than the others. Peppers are pretty good to bush out on their own. I just get a good soil mix with lots of manure composts going in, then don't feed anymore. The ones in the beds are much bigger than the ones planted in rows with smaller amounts of soil mix.

I use soaker hoses so they have a steady supply of water. They don't like it too wet, so I have to cut back if we get lots of rain.
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

bud bootlegger
too larry said:
I've tried topping too, but they didn't do any better than the others. Peppers are pretty good to bush out on their own. I just get a good soil mix with lots of manure composts going in, then don't feed anymore. The ones in the beds are much bigger than the ones planted in rows with smaller amounts of soil mix.

I use soaker hoses so they have a steady supply of water. They don't like it too wet, so I have to cut back if we get lots of rain.
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i think my soil isn't loose enough this year.. like i said earlier, i tilled it twice, but i guess i waited too long between tilling and planting, plus it rained a few times in between..
it's been super rainy here the last two weeks or so, pretty much rained every day .. just checked out the weather app on my phone, more on the way tomorrow, but that looks to be about it.. getting hotter too, mid 80s or so today while i was out mowing the lawn.. i guess that'll be good for the plants though.
 
too larry

too larry

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racerboy71 said:
i think my soil isn't loose enough this year.. like i said earlier, i tilled it twice, but i guess i waited too long between tilling and planting, plus it rained a few times in between..
it's been super rainy here the last two weeks or so, pretty much rained every day .. just checked out the weather app on my phone, more on the way tomorrow, but that looks to be about it.. getting hotter too, mid 80s or so today while i was out mowing the lawn.. i guess that'll be good for the plants though.
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I was thinking of your question today as I was picking peppers. Keep in mind that my biggest plants are in straight soil mix. The 3 Mammoth Jalapeno are in a kiddie pool. About 45-50 gallons of soil mix. The beds are 2 foot deep of soil mix. The ones I planted in the ground only have about a shovel full of mushroom compost mixed with the soil.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Had a significant weather event last night. Lighting, wind, and rain. At one point it seemed like a small microburst. The corn didn't do so good. The stalks were small probably from being too crowded. I should have thinned it out much more. And one variety is already throwing tassels at only 3 ft. I grew some different varieties when I should have just grown the local Ed Hume seeds proven to do good in my area. I'll get out there put some stakes up and run some lines to prop it back up after it stops raining.

The good thing is that after all the rain I won't have to water the garden for awhile. I still haven't gotten my irrigation setup but I'm ordering a roll of dripline with 6" emitter spacing today.




 
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