you look marvelous in this light really you do a lovely evening in july or in june or had june happened and it's not june you wary it's june second year in a row diggity dog so i feel you know i'm not but the calendar i'm not behind on anything but by the season i feel like i am a pla peppers about this time last year too a little ahead of schedule and that's what we're going to do today so i guess i guess those are on schedule corn kind of crapped out we're going to take a look at that real quick and go to plan b went into a nutrient servant you know that when they get cold they so they will pull up the nitrogen to turn yellow and frustrate you a little bit b when they go into in the soil temperatures holding above sixty and with peppers i'd say your nighttime temperatures air temperature should be fifty and above that we're having all the left for the last few weeks before i might have to go back starting my peppers a little earlier again place to start i'm in february like complete half the life cycle down there in the basement not a good idea lapse since that one incident so she's healthy she's happy a wait and see attitude with chickens and she know they will pick up these sort of chronic conditions sometimes nothing life threatening but here see what's going on pods husks is a carbon source for this and i guess it had a bunch of p seeds stuck in it so you see a lot of peas coming up but not a lot of corn and you know if i get six corn plants it doesn't do me much good because you need a rotted off and you know that if you find one like that probably a lot of the other things like that so i i got rolled the dice took my chances did the direct so this year and this is why i don't direct same thing happened last year to watch my room stay as words were for planting sweet corn and that's always problematic we've got ruby queen here we've got breeders choice here so i'm going to do is i'm going to try a free germination technique got x number of seeds enough for about two positions in each of the replant positions and we're going to make sure we're going to be careful how much water we're going to let these so we don't want to we're not making promises here you know when i'm going to soak these for forty eight hours or anything like that we're going to give them a certain amount of water and see if they absorb that water occurred twenty four hours forty eight hours whatever it takes and the minute i see you know fifty percent of these sprouting a little radical root you know that first little white tip that emerges from the seed i'm going to plant them just like i would normal seed that far timed off that you know generally they'll build bloom within a certain window of weather you know so they usually catch up to each other and they're not too far apart that's what we're going to do with the car we're going to try again these are my breeding projects so it takes me a hotdog i spent all the evening last evening sorting out for the winners which are here in the position in relation to where they're going and the say i picked visually this time i had three flats i just picked them out of plants i needed visually you know i'll take these this you know eating you know this you know some trends i have a number of grow outs from last year you know like all of this one you know this particular saved pepper didn't do well at all you know three out of four this one didn't work good so i called you know a couple couple saves there right away and you know kind of a limited them from the gene pool but eight and so i've got all my code sear for that and then this is kind of last year's with notes from the harvest on production and the size and shape plant so many interesting things so can you know so once i've got the winners then i sorted them into you know which ones which are so i can disperse them through the beds you know i don't want all the number five growing together because i want the good characters christic from them kind of crossing over with you know for a zone over here and so i you know it took me a while to spread these out and get them all right and then of course you've got to do the math you know in a tight space like this you need to be pretty precise in your planting and in fact you know even you know the farmers you know on the big farms you know those columbine combine and planters have g p s now to the point where they know pretty tight spaces you know a quarter in starts to matter you know it really does look off you know and the plants know what they will you know if they will if they are off you know don't worry about plants will fill the spaces one way or the other but if you want that nice cement trickle  calcium source and it makes a great marker just laid the tape measure out and use this nice thing is now that i don't have to pull just about sticks and deal with just about sticks and my shoes start  them and much of the morphology comes from them but it's been crossbred with a real much the i was growing next to it you know with that has a very mixed heritage from a lot of the peppers that i grew together so you've got this more of a shaped form which tends to have the more goldfish pepper shaped you know which is sort of a wide shouldered portuguese wrinkled bright orange and then these shorter morphologies with the skinnier leaves have more of the ball gary and it's sort of a short blunt pepper a little thicker flash and that's where the heat is to again bright orange so i'm i'm trying to kind of merge these get a little more heat in these get a more little wrinkle in here so i you know grow pretty close together the one thing i'd like to point out to is the cold test i put you know what i transplanted these most of them went indoors under the fluorescent lights in the sixty degree base but the time you know when it was considerably cooler at night for sure outside i put  plants out in the greenhouse so they had cooler nighttime temperatures but they have brighter sun and probably some more you know periodically warmer temperatures during the daytime and first you know is a pretty even race but at the end here and this is like maybe the biggest one from indoors and one of the bigger ones and here's another one that you can see just the overall vigor of these of this plant compared to all the others and it's funny because the other ones the same way just like you know this big you know wider leaves better green further along so i think next year i may call it depending on the conditions  tight on the edges and it kept it's been really perfect moist condition there's a lot of biological activity you worms bugs slugs everything right on on top of the surface that black plastic which is a good sign of the floor  hold that in i just haven't seen what the roots look like here sold in the five dollars hold and like you said these are in the position that they're going to go in they've all been  the positions already set so this is a goldfish pecker number three and you take a look at these plants first they start to bloom on top of already removed the first bloom on all the plants and as they're starting to split on top you can see these little pro flowers says that they're big to get a piece of tweezers in there a pluck i'm going have to go through all of these and and then you know in another you know i like to let them put on a little height you know it's maybe start putting on some branches on these leaf nodes before i let them bloom pens on the conditions i've plucked blooms all the way into july and then on certain plants that just wouldn't perform i just kept him off and eventually in august they do start taking off and  so just keep those off for now if another thing you'll notice is i've got some advantages rooting down here at the bottom this is the same thing that you know tomatoes do when you plant them deep you know they start putting out this sort of proto root and this is sort of a cell at this point but it's obviously going towards the root so i'm going to plant these a little bit deeper and take advantage of that when you see that peppers normally you know i don't plant them very deep i'm not going to plant this one very deep will probably plant maybe up here you know put a couple of those under under the ground also helps you know with wind gives them a little better footprint and then you know it was a fairly easy glossy leaves and i don't feel they're not quite as prone to fully or diseases the tomatoes i feel more comfortable handling them they're nice stout plant take a look at these two these have been in the pots very long they've only been for two or three weeks and i could said they were kind of catching up for a lot of that sort but there's definitely not  soil that fell off is just soil it's no i didn't lose any root there you know and this is in this car where i want to be you know i don't i don't want them to complete half their life cycle down the basement like i used to so we're going to and you know i kind of like to get some of that you know nursery mix kind of that i you know my potting mix off of there and it's done its job it's kind of a specialty thing as for being in pots now i want these guys to get the all those trace minerals which are damn near impossible to recreate in the indoor environment not always a matter of a of presence as much as availability so we make sure that tags in there and i like to shake them thank you to do the whole bed before i water man no water you don't need to saturate the bed too much you make sure each little planting hole gets a good shot so pushes some of the air out barely packs you know it could use just a shot basically when i water these and i'll be at the perfect place as far as that goes yes let's plant this beauty cold test g f p number four it's going to be a good year to be number four and then once again the roots are better so this plant is just all in all healthier happier with the same treatment except that it went outside go figure as killing them with kindness all these years now when you get to the root you know like this works on the outside i like to do is hollow that out where they are not make a little pyramid in the middle of the hole and that way the roots spread out more all and then you know you can look at your other dots the same technique you can kind of adjust your spacing and that's good for about an inch one way or the other to far off  you know because it's a lot easier to have it down out of the way of the plants and then you know rearrange it once the plants are in the stuff does twist and flop it's always got a twist in it and it'll take that plant out without any problem whatsoever so it's like to try and lay it down i you know it's not religion or anything have a bunch of front of you know pepper ones and you know two thousand and eleven zone with the g f p you know whatever appellation but i'm down to one and one surviving strong one it's a goodie so now they're just number one number two or three number four really good this year last year somehow just bulked up and i was doing the bio char in this bed for a little bit and you know