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IMG_6721.jpeg Anyone else ever 30 minutes after getting a few plants in think about “what I will do differently next year.”
The two plants on the left are jalapenos, one standard and one “Megatron.” The Megatron is supposed to be milder, larger and earlier producing than standard varieties. The plant on the right is my every year long thin cayenne. A fresh ripe 50,000 Scoville units cayenne with a bloody ribeye is my once a week guilty pleasure. I wanted two plants but the nursery only had one left. If they get more this week I am gonna talk my neighbor out of the wooden cable wheel on castors that has been sitting at the end of his driveway for two years put a single 20 gallon container and basin (provided I can find one at Lowe’s) on it with another cayenne and maybe a tomato plant (mortgage lifter variety if they are available). Tomatoes have never done well for me out here. After the inevitable horn worm infestation a lot of blossom end rot occurs here. Growing up in cousin fucker country (Roll Tide) we grew them as big as 8” across.

Edit-in hindsight any huge tomato varieties would force me to start canning and that's more work than I want.
 
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I've seed started tomatoes, borage, and marigold since January of this year. I'm quite proud of their progress and they often stay outside most of the day, but March has been brutal to them between the winds and extreme cold when the day before was 75F. They are alternating between cold shock and sun scald due to our rapidly changing weather, often within the course of a single day. They're large enough now that I can't cover them all properly with an indoor light source, so uh. Survival of the fittest at this point.
 
Gruntgar The Indentured said:
View attachment 8781032Anyone else ever 30 minutes after getting a few plants in think about “what I will do differently next year.”
The two plants on the left are jalapenos, one standard and one “Megatron.” The Megatron is supposed to be milder, larger and earlier producing than standard varieties. The plant on the right is my every year long thin cayenne. A fresh ripe 50,000 Scoville units cayenne with a bloody ribeye is my once a week guilty pleasure. I wanted two plants but the nursery only had one left. If they get more this week I am gonna talk my neighbor out of the wooden cable wheel on castors that has been sitting at the end of his driveway for two years put a single 20 gallon container and basin (provided I can find one at Lowe’s) on it with another cayenne and maybe a tomato plant (mortgage lifter variety if they are available). Tomatoes have never done well for me out here. After the inevitable horn worm infestation a lot of blossom end rot occurs here. Growing up in cousin fucker country (Roll Tide) we grew them as big as 8” across.

Edit-in hindsight any huge tomato varieties would force me to start canning and that's more work than I want.
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Blossom end-rot is a symptom of calcium deficiency, ultimately caused by too wet, too dry, or too much rapid change from dry to wet. If you let the soil dry out to near-wilt conditions, and then flood it to swamp-like conditions, the roots will have a hard time taking up calcium. If your soil has a high pH, this will be worse.

Squanto Airi said:
Where is a decent place to by tobasco pepper seeds?
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I got lucky one year, I shit you not, at Wal-Mart. This particular Wal-Mart was in a heavily Hispanic part of town, so their garden center had a surprisingly large variety of pepper seeds. I also got lucky that an independent garden center in the same area also had tabasco seedlings and have kept seeds from those plants year over year.

Though generally, your best bet will be online seed catalogs readily found with a quick web search, like here, here, or here.
 
My fucking nectarine tree got hit by a nasty rain storm and like half of the budding flowers came off, will this affect my fruit yield much? can it still recover?
 
Gap Hag said:
My fucking nectarine tree got hit by a nasty rain storm and like half of the budding flowers came off, will this affect my fruit yield much? can it still recover?
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How long had your tree been blooming? If the flowers were already pollinated, they still might produce, even if the rain messed them up a touch. I've had a few nasty snow storms hit my apricot tree and generally it bore fruit, provided the snow hit later in bloom. But if they got hit early you might be hosed.
 
Zhores Medvedev said:
How long had your tree been blooming? If the flowers were already pollinated, they still might produce, even if the rain messed them up a touch. I've had a few nasty snow storms hit my apricot tree and generally it bore fruit, provided the snow hit later in bloom. But if they got hit early you might be hosed.
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Been only about a week, i knew i should have fucking bought it a mate for cross pollination and higher success rate.
Oh well, i've down the ground work for the soil at least and i should start putting down some damn tomato transplants like right now. i've got a blackberry bush but it's practically dead but i've got the idea that thing can bounce back so i'm not gonna uproot it.
 
Finally put my Reaper that I'd overwintered outside. All the other peppers in the same pot died. Unfortunately I damaged its root structure in the process of removing the other plants (should have just cut them off at the surface) that it currently can't stand on its own. Stupid. It would suck if this plant died despite thriving all winter (albeit not producing peppers).

I've buried it a little deeper in the soil, staked it to keep it standing up, and given some water and fertilizer. It doesn't appear to be wilting or dying at least, so it may have enough integrity to survive.
 
I'm taking another stab at heirloom tomatoes. I have a Cherokee Purple growing in a 30-gallon grow bag. It's growing a couple small tomatoes. I have two marigolds in there with the plant; one is doing okay and one is looking rough. Perhaps the tomato is siphoning all the nutrients. I am cautiously optimistic.

I have a few Everleaf Emerald Tower basil and Amethyst Cream cherry tomato plants that I grew from seed. They are ready to transfer from the trays and I'll be doing that tomorrow, culling the weakest so that I am left with 3 - 5 of each plant.

My roses are doing well. A few of them will need to be repotted soon. I can tell the Floribunda handles the heat better than the Hybrid Tea for sure. My Julia Child is just exploding in blooms and it's attracted bees, wasps, and flies.

I had about 25 monarch caterpillars on my milkweed and it was far too many; a lot of them got sick and died. In the future, I will cull to keep them below 15.

My bog pot is doing well. I have drosera capillaris (pink sundew), drosera filiformis (Florida red), and sarracenia leucophylla (white pitcherplant). All of them are coming back after winter dormancy and die-back. I have moved the pot closer to my blooming Julia Child and it's been catching some of the bugs.

Some months ago, I put up a pergola and I have several vines I am attempting to train up it. Morning Glories, corkystem passionflower, Carolina jessamine, Confederate jasmine, bleeding heart, and wooly pipevine. Going for a mix of display flowers and native species that are hosts for butterflies and other pollinators.
 
Old people say to plant your potatoes on Good Friday. I say he’ll yeah to that. I have kohlrabi, spinach, broccoli, raspberries and strawberries going right now.
 
Seeing a functioning gardening thread on KF makes me wanna retry my hand. Got discouraged after the last Florida hurricane destroyed my bonsais.
 
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(My peas. the middle is a seed I planted last year but it never sprouted til now.)
Year two of growing for me, learned ALOT through trial and error and a lot of what I started died, however I did manage to grow a single small pumpkin, green beans, and Dragon's Breath peppers. I had a bunch of Dragonfruit cactuses but they bore no fruit, and died during the winter (I really wish I brought one in at least, was a gift from a friend).

This year I expanded my garden plot and planted some tomatoes, green beauty peas, and spicy jalapeno peppers. I let some of the Dragon's Breath peppers drop last year and it appears some of the seeds were germinated and survived the winter, as I'm seeing some sproutlings grow. Plucked a bunch from those peppers and tomatoes to let them thrive (learned to do that the hard way last year). The bean seeds from last year's bush also produced some seeds are and growing fast as we speak. And for fun, I planted some sunflowers and have three little sproutlings growing right now. I might add some sweet potatoes and corn later, and pumpkin around July. Last year's pumpkin produced a bunch of male flowers and I only got two female flowers with only one pollinated. I am 100% sure I threw off the nutrient balance which is why I got nearly all males.

Catching up with the thread now, on July of last year and you guys are giving a bunch of great advice, really appreciate it!
 
Big Miss Steak said:
As a fellow Floridian I would advise starting with natives, or cultivars that are designed to do well in Florida.
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Man I would love to have some acreage in South Florida, where you can grow tropical fruit. Pete Kannaris is a Florida landscaper on youtube. Has a lot of good videos IMO - especially the ones with farmer Jim Kovaleski (sp?). He made a living just from his little yard in Florida, selling mostly leafy greens at a farmer's market.
 
AnOminous said:
Finally put my Reaper that I'd overwintered outside. All the other peppers in the same pot died. Unfortunately I damaged its root structure in the process of removing the other plants (should have just cut them off at the surface) that it currently can't stand on its own. Stupid. It would suck if this plant died despite thriving all winter (albeit not producing peppers).

I've buried it a little deeper in the soil, staked it to keep it standing up, and given some water and fertilizer. It doesn't appear to be wilting or dying at least, so it may have enough integrity to survive.
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I wonder of something like rootone would help is a situation like this. I have lost transplanted plants before because I overwatered the remaining healthy roots. I probably should have pruned a bit as well but lesson learned at least.
 
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