Posted on 08/22/2014 12:34:40 PM PDT by greeneyes
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No suffering in the Misery heat for me this week.
I’m off in the land of fruits and nuts for a tech conference that runs through Thursday. Going to do a bit of touristing here in SF on Friday, then head north to Calistoga for two nights of USAC/CRA sprint cars and midgets at Calistoga Speedway before I fly home on labor day.
I did manage to make some progress on the home front over the past few days. Too much fun and not enough nose to the grindstone during July gave the crabgrass free reign over my victory garden. I took the weed whacker to it yesterday evening so Mrs. Augie could get out there and pick without her lovely legs getting tickled so bad. I looked like the Jolly Green Giant by the time I was finished. Had to take a hose bath in the driveway before she’d let me back in the house. lol
Got in the pond with Nanner Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and removed all of the loose dirt that I’d dug out of the basin previously. I’m going to get serious about finishing that up when I get back home. I really want to build the dock and get the dam closed up before winter sets in.
Were you in the middle of the Great Napa Valley Earthquake of 2014? Legends were made at the Calistoga Speedway… some of them real
Did you feel the earthquake where you were?
I am staying out of the heat myself. Just a dash out to water a bit and right back indoors. The weeds can do whatever, I’ll not be pulling any till it cools a bit.
I guess I’m just like goldilocks. If it’s too cold, or too hot, I’ll just stay indoors.
Absolutely correct.
The rain and wind Saturday night knocked some of the Paw Paws off our tree. Going to make some Paw Paw ice cream later this week.
Never had Paw Paw ice cream. Sounds good.
What a sweetheart!
Heat warning in St. Louis today. Small cooling beginning Wednesday according to Fox’s weather update this AM.
I’m in Frisco. Didn’t feel the earthquake at all. Slept right through it.
Bummer…
Good to hear that you weren’t in any danger from the quake.
I have a question about peppers (Gypsy). I have a plant that is located near my driveway, because I have a scarcity of sunlight. It is about ten feet from a light over my driveway, that I usually have on at night. This plant is still blooming and putting on peppers, but it seems like SOME of the peppers near the top of the plant take forever to ripen. I am wondering if this is because of my driveway light? Do peppers need darkness to ripen?
By the way, I highly recommend Gypsy peppers for central TX. They are sweet, large, and thick walled, with a hint of heat.
Supplemental light will encourage both growth and flowering; generally, red light will be used on seedlings to encourage flowering.
Plants benefit the most from "Full Spectrum light, which includes 'blue light' spectrum.
It is my personal belief that plants do best when they go through a 'rest phase' at night, as I have never had them under continuous light in fruit production.
I would ask what kind of light you are using ? sodium ? Mercury vapor ?.. and at what wattage ?
Delay of fruit production on top of the plant could just be "growers angst".
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