Pepper grow update 6/25/17

Update

The drip system plants are responding well to increased ferts. I think the fertigation is going to cost me quite a bit this year in Dyna-Gro though. It would pay for it self within one or two years to invest in a second injector and mixing chamber and just run Masterblend.

My porch plants are doing well. The Chiltepin is pushing out little pods. The fruits on the deep-reservoir wick bucket are ripening to a deep orange. They are supposed to be CARDI Yellow Scorpion, but not sure if they are true. The flavor is excellent, very sweet and fruity, a little more than habanero level. The low pressure aeroponic Helios hab is producing a lot of fruit, and consuming a gallon every one to two days. It currently takes around 7-8 gallons to top off all the other porch plants after two or three days.

I still have a bunch in the basement that need to o out. Also planning to move the Manazon from the AeroGarden Bounty down to the basement in a DWC bucket under the 400 watt light. This will stage it for going outside.

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Hi this is Peter Stanley, welcome to my channel

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it’s June 24, 2017, going to give a

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pepper grow update

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start on the porch peppers, this is my

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chinese red pepper

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got lots and lots of fruits on here

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some starting to

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actually I’ve had some

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turning ripe but some are

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the bigger ones are starting to turn

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and this is

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the one that’s got the long ascension number, but it’s the small creme habanero

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I think it’s got some flowers on it

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this is the Thai Dragon

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it has lots and lots of fruits

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none are really ripe yet but

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probably won’t be long

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my Chiltepin yellow has the first ever

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pods on it

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there’s one of them

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there’s another, yeah here’s a better one

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there’s that

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I’ve been growing this since last year, but never had it out where it could really grow

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this is my

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one of my aji painapple plants

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and

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in a shallow reservoir wick bucket

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and it was looking pretty bad for a while

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but it’s actually coming back and

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it has a lot of flowers and

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and blooms, and I think a few tiny pods on here

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forming

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this is a mess of stuff that still needs to be

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moved

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and

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my white devils tails

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and one of these has fruits on it

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the one in the

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large reservoir container

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had fruits

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there’s one there

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there’s another one

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the one that’s in the self watering container is actually a nicer looking

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plant

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both of them are good, this is a little bigger plants

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but its fruit production is

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is slower

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low pressure aeroponic helios hab plant

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is

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producing pods now, here’s one

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it’s gonna have quite a few it looks like

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there are a bunch about that size, some are smaller

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there’s another one

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my CARDI

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yellow scorpion

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in the hempy bucket

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is looking really good

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but there are no fruits but

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the one in the larger reservoir wick bucket

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has a lot of fruits and they are

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starting to turn ripe

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this one’s almost ripe

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another

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some back here starting to change

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I think I counted there’s probably 30 fruits on this plant, maybe more

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one more back in there

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so I noticed with the large reservoir wick buckets

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there’s

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you get kind of a

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I was talking to Matt Garver on this

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I think it has kind of a small pot effect

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where the

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there’s not as much room for the roots

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initially so it starts throwing out pods earlier

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so I’ve got lots of

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early fruits on this plant

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none on the

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hempy bucket one, but the hempy bucket one is a bigger

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nicer plant so in the long run this will probably be better

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give an update on my sunflowers, some of these are kind of falling over

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a lot of rain

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these look pretty cool

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some flopped over

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these over here

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look great and there are some that

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I think I’d estimate

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about 8 feet tall

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here’s my drip system

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plants on it

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for the most part these look great

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I bumped the nutrients up, starting to get greener leaves

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this black bhut is looking a whole lot better

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Chocolate Bhutlah

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seed from Anthony Nunez

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looks really good

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this Brazilian Red Olive

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has got a lot of really pretty

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peppers on it

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7-Pot Olive

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I need to tie this up better

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but it’s

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it’s got a lot of

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a lot of fruits

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I mean it’s pretty much

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all over it

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here’s my Puerto Rican Yellow

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I think it’s

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doing much much better since I got it outdoors

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getting lots of really nice looking growth

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and it did put out a bunch of

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smallish kind of pods, but these are

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some that are starting to turn ripe

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see the yellow starting to come through on that

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there’s some on the other side as well

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this is my Datil

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and there’s a couple pods on it, the bigger

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one of the older ones is down here

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this is my Queen Laurie

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seed from Trent Nolan

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and it’s a really nice looking plants, doesn’t have

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pods yet but it does have a lot of flowers

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this is my sugar rush peach

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a bunch of nice looking pods that haven’t turned ripe

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and my cereja da amapa

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has a few fruits

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this is my Tien Tsin or

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Chinese Red Pepper that I’ve got growing

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on my drip system

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nice tall plant

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this is one of my other aji painapples

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it’s a clone of one I showed just a few minutes ago

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and

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this is mako kokoo

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from, seed from Jesus Rosario

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plant’s really starting to

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grow it threw out a lot of small

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pods

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but I think it’ll, I know it’ll push out more pods when it gets established better

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and this is Peach Clavo

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and this is my

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Jay’s Red Ghost Scorpion

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possible cross, I’m not sure

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but these are the pods I’ve got on it

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the pods from the last plant didn’t

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have the Jay’s Red Ghost Scorpion shape

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and these don’t either

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but I really love the plant

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this is the mayan plant I got from the

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nursery at work and it’s starting to push out

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some little peppers on it

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get the weeds out of the way, this is my yellow dystopia

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and I noticed it has a pod

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that’s cool, actually

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there’s some bigger ones I hadn’t noticed

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got those growing too

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aji charapita

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that’s starting to put out little fruits

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the elysium oxide is a really

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nice looking plant

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see the first little fruit

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on there

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this is Andy’s King BOC

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this is my Chocolate UnReaper

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and this is my

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el scorponero f2

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it’s a D3 cross

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don’t think this has any

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fruits yet but this is my 7-Pot Primo

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and my crossed kpakpo shito has some

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peppers, these look the ones

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from last year

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there are one or two more back there

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there’s a few others I didn’t show you

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overall I’m happy, I’m still increasing the nutrients on my

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fert injector but

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I can see the plants are responding

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like I’d hope

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anyway, hope you enjoyed that

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thank you very much for watching

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