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meteorea

Teyo's firegarden

13 years ago

Thought i'd make a topic with some of my experiences and pics of this year, before the season ends :)
Some of you may remember my posts from earlier in the year, i posted pretty regularly in the early parts of the season, when the plants needed a lot of attention. then things slowly caught their rhythm and i had less time with other stuff.

so here are my plants now

and this is what i hauled in yesterday

there were plenty of harvests along this one to satisfy even the wildest chilli cravings :D

anyhow,as you may notice from the images, my plants are still mostly in very small pots, i have only two in something about 15 l, the rest are in 7 and 3, and a couple in construction bags. I stuck with bark based media, only i increased the amount of fired clay so the media was even less absorptive. instead i put the plants on a tarp and made little pools for them. then i kept the tarp watered up as much as possible, with the pots swimming in there. it worked beautifully and created a sort of semi-hydro grow setup.

piri piri, these guys are indestructible

a large chocolate bhut

tsbt

limon, the crazy little bugger

habanero el remo

tsbt

choco bhut that has since matured

jonah, also since matured

and the devil himself, chocolate scorpion

now i'm looking forward to overwintering some plants, i will not have to repot most of them, just cut down and leave them in their awesome unclogging media :)
before that i will pull them out of the bunch and take pictures of the biggest ones, some look really comical growing in tiny pots but tall and lush :)

Comments (6)

  • 13 years ago

    Awesome grow teyo! You obviously have done very well perfecting the small pot theory!

    That chocolate bhut is massive! Any seeds? ;)

    Kevin

  • 13 years ago

    Nicely done!

    Love the garden name, too. I may steal it.

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  • 13 years ago

    Wonderful garden!
    You have an incredible amount of pods on those bushes!

    Josh

  • 13 years ago

    Teyo - Your Firegarden is Wonderful!

    Sandy

  • 13 years ago

    thanks guys, glad you like them!
    it is a nice amount of pods for what is about 20 square meters of tarp :D this way of growing would be pretty nice for people with limited space, but who want to try a bigger number of varieties. i should do a well written document of what i did, so it's all in one place. the usual theory that you need hundreds of gallons of soil for peppers definitely can be beaten.

    woohooman, yeah we could arrange a trade if you want, there aren't that many seeds but enough to get going :) funny that a plant growing in 3 litre pot would produce such a huge pod, i thought they would reduce in size if anything. then again, maybe if it had space this pod would be the size of a banana? scary thought :D

  • 13 years ago

    oh, and that tall tomato in the back, that's a sungold growing in 15 l of pure pine mulch (not even bark) in a plain construction bag used for sand and stuff. that thing is over 3 m high and about 2 m wide,it's a monster,people come over and can't believe it's a single plant. had i pruned the suckers and twisted it on a rope i'm sure it would've reached the roof of the house :D
    i got the idea from a member here who posted how he grew a single sungold every year and it got huge.
    i am seriously considering for next year planting all my tomatoes in the garden first in these bags with cheap mulch, then putting them on the prepared ground and mulching around them. the roots have grown through the bag, but it acts as a cheapo air pot, and my soil in the garden is heavy clay. tomatoes do good in it but not this good. there would be no weeding, and i could set up nice irrigation to each bag,where very little water would be lost to surrounding soil. i'm seeing a lot of potential in this.

    here's the mutant. i'm considering pruning it and then trying to overwinter it, never done that with a tomato, it would be a nice experiment

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