free choice never seen one get fat yet there you are it may look at memorial day sneak enough that come early this year or something and things are growing great what a season last year when we were getting ninety degree temperatures very early in the season i said this will be the season everybody remembers from before the snow pack goes to hell and we have to have water restrictions perfect growing conditions lots of water still but  spring never seemed to soil temperatures like this this early before oh just about all the beds covered or uncovered or hold in sixty overnight high fifty's at least quick and things break down quick soil and it's still dry underneath invent in those greenhouses all the way all the time i'm out of materials i've used all my chicken manure all my compost except for the rarefied pet compost in the basement and i might have to go buy a couple bags to steer because i could see a couple of to really trying to kind of revitalize as the garlic it's kind of been in some shaky beds of limited sun over the years i'm fighting the rust so i'm really trying to this year put them in two good beds lots of sun lots of fertilizer lots of x water trying to you know get those cloves back to their vigorous previous selves so i've got you know another finger or two of fish emulsion here the you know hot days get here in july generally those first couple weeks in july first soft next fall over and then the rest of them are ready generally and then the hard neck take potted these up i did the cold test nice two or the cold test compared with two that were inside the whole time so what happened was that the exact same evening a put two of these outside in green the in house so they've had cooler nighttime temperatures but probably warmer daytime temperatures for the most part you know they've got the natural sunlight  versus the fluorescent grow tubes and as you can see you know hype i pulled just kind of i've got better ones and worse ones but i pulled out to representative ones of the  indoor and you can see i was having a little yellowing here not so much from you know it's nitrogen deficiency but peppers do this when they're too cold they won't take the nitrogen up there is probably nuff nitrogen in here i did give them another shot of the mineral salts for nitrogen they are greening up now that they're outside experiencing these lovely eighty degree days but as you can see you know just the overall vigor of this plant versus that one is night and day you know if i'm choosing two plants to put in the ground the final pick it's going to be this guy so i'm sure hope like it's a special kind of crazy good season spring and maybe that won't work every year but i'm certainly going to be reconsidering my pepper technique especially since i do because now you start these in february and that's why i used to keep human doors for longer but  stage where they put that first bloom on you know it's the plant split sort of like a tomato splits of the top right that first know where the main stem splits you're always going to get that first bloom some plants are put out two or three and you want to get rid of that if the plant is trying to you know it's sensing the limitations of its conditions here and it's thinking i'm going to reproduce i'm going to put on much body much better taste and i'm going to produce a bloom try to pollinate and put out one little pepper with all my energy into the seed and that's not what we want we want the same to get you know waist high you know full of coppers not one little pepper so at this point it's kind of microsurgery and there's the bloom you can just see that little round thing and he does have a little stem a little petty all of his own so he just clipped that  off very tender or goes so you can see you know the whole stem you know an open blossom just get those off and any subsequent ones they use a keep them off till about the end of june i want these things to get at least you know teenage you know know maybe double in size where you start putting blooms on peppers are fairly indeterminate you know if you want to use tomato terminology they don't have a set number of blooms are going to do it's all about conditions you know the warped the moisture the fertilizer so if they've got the right conditions you know in their native you know central america south america you know these things are fairly sort of semi hardy perennials you know they'll they'll grow for several years you know throughout many seasons and get sort of a to be a little woody perennial so you know these things are used to growing and continuing to bloom but keep the blooms off until they cell you know just to see this sort of breeding projects i want to see you know as many individuals as i can pick out the strong ones so crowding here wasn't the issue it was you know i just you know had the right moisture content and the got a little dry over the weekend and i soaked in them that you know saturated soil you get locked up in a row but conditions really screwed them up and they all kind of looked like this they the ceilings were so screwed up this is the first round the big ones over here which have actually kind of recuperated but they look so screwed up that i actually planted another around wondering if i could because he started looking better i wondered maybe i could produce a batch that you know started off better but now they're screwed up and two weeks behind so i'm going with the guys here because they look like they're starting to come around especially since these are the b list these over here are the a list and yeah i  eight plants you know that looks a little when be but i think he's coming around and it's the plant i really want to grow so well you know go with them i found a fairly good looking plants here especially when i'm looking for is trunk you know this is a particularly good specimen you know when you see a trunk like that you know and you compare it to for instance this one that's not doing so good much plant in as little space now these are are going to be you know become you know these seven foot binds but for now i want to squat and of course most of the ceilings are going to be because i keep those lights right down on i'm also looking for you know  leaf shape you know you know if i come over here i see one that's maybe bigger than this guy you know but i can see it's leaf shape screwed up you know he had a little more he was affected more from that nutrient deficiency you can see the same stage at the same stage this guy suffered from it but not as much so you know just overall vigor i like you know if they get a big you know that's a point against them you know just pick out your most vigorous plant this guy's also got the advantage of he really wants to root as all pimples along the stem there that's advantageous rooting about to happen those are little root nodes kind of when the let's hit the conditions those away root up real good so we're going to actually plan i'm a little deeper just like the tomatoes sometimes the undrafted tomatoes and all that will become so it's guys ready to go the maybe if i direct seed some of these conditions you know i can get these really good seedlings that have their tap root all the way down in the ground it's going to be great well they look great but unfortunately they're also three weeks behind yet so these are going to come so maybe next year i put some little bell jars out here sorry kids and you know put the seeds direct see the tomatillos in late february early march and they can know they'll they'll we go all right jane but number two big early and yellow these are the results of years of growing purple ones next to yellow ones next but is sort of a real serious mix of the things this one is yellow which is sort of the early mexican yellow that i was growing but it also has a little b been this pot for particularly long so it's not root bound it's just hitting the edge of the pot it's a little deeper and any goes just a little deeper than he was like it said just like a top tree leaves and that sort of thing i'm not into that you know the soil is warmer up closer at this point is an advantage system having a little   purple or green so it looks sort of like a novel comes in different combinations this will one however looking at the tag is what i was calling moonglow last year because it came out as a  completely super pale yellow almost like a white it was almost like a albino for so i'm growing one from that just to see if i can because i'm going to go pretty deep with him and those catalinas were right by the soil line so i'm just going to get them out of the way he's done with those anyway  modified this one with rigid boxes kind of going up because i was trying just strains you know i used to use clotheslines of these things just get way too out of me and start criss crossing into each other really making a mess so i've gone to the more rigid situation where they're you know as they grow up they're in a box school and they go crawling over each other right purple green number two how this did show the eyeball but it was more of the green and purple colors sort of a darker variety so it goes in this is the perfect time to transplant and just when they're down at all so that they've never stressed about the pot size when they hit this heat they're going to love it this is you know another soul an ace a plant from down south you know other heat lovers sun lovers a little worried about these guys in the back row like this guy  ecause the fence starts to shade them in the afternoon but they also get the early sun so it's maybe all even  sherbet you know purple green is the point i can describe it was a green purple and even when you pulp it wasn't just the skin the pulp was this very sick color that is it know see see where that water got to you know check the overall saturation you know from top to bottom and give a little more if necessary back off if necessary and those guys are going to grow great along saw one that was bigger than these driving to work you know gardening is a blood sport it was a cheater plan no you know one of those two gallon things from the earth i got some catching up to do math digging around in there you can see it's it's dark you know compared to the top soil here it kind of packs but as you can see it's not wet you know and this soil if it saturate it gets pretty muddy there's enough the darker growth appears those showing it's a little more nitrogen will more nutrient pick up when a little too far in the first week didn't water quite enough because we're having those eighty degree temperatures but now they're up and running and i think i've got that bad balanced out they do get locked up at night you can see their little notes on the cover comes up the soil i just checked the temperature it's about seventy degrees right now and it's been holding at sixty so anything over fifty degrees and you're gaining you're growing gross degree days you know you you started a base in tomatoes case it's fifty degrees and and then take the top temperature of the day above fifty and then that's your growth three days it's a good way to go instead of