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Papi Chingon

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I believe some squash and melon can pollenate and you get some hybrids
Might have some of that wrong but we have gotten some hybrids in the garden before
It would make sense since they are all in the same family. No experience with breeding, but I could potentially see how that ma happen.
I think it's more of a case of seed companies fucking up seeds though.
 

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It would make sense since they are all in the same family. No experience with breeding, but I could potentially see how that ma happen.
I think it's more of a case of seed companies fucking up seeds though.
Probably more often than not.
However mine was my fault.
I seed-save & believe I put them in sandwich bags next to each other & it kinda just happened.
If all goes as it should my cantaloupe will taste like a radish.
I'll call it a rad-a-loupe & patent that muddafukka
 

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Here's another happy mistake, whatever this is.
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High tunnel heirlooms are taking off.
 

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Here's another happy mistake, whatever this is.
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High tunnel heirlooms are taking off.
I have a "mistake squash as well, not sure what it is
We planted too many Tomatoes(16-20) and we are getting 35ish lbs a week, too much work
Marinara/Enchilada Sauce/Salsa are what we have been making

Dry them if you want easy processing...so much quicker than canning
Cut them 1/3ish inch thick and throw them on food drier
Flavor/Sugar will be concentrated and easy to rehydrate later to be utilized

Your crop looks really tasty
Your hard work is paying off
Congrats
 
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I have a "mistake squash as well, not sure what it is
We planted too many Tomatoes(16-20) and we are getting 35ish lbs a week, too much work
Marinara/Enchilada Sauce/Salsa are what we have been making

Dry them if you want easy processing...so much quicker than canning
Cut them 1/3ish inch thick and throw them on food drier
Flavor/Sugar will be concentrated and easy to rehydrate later to be utilized

Your crop looks really tasty
Your hard work is paying off
Congrats
Yes, I've been watching sundried tomato recipes.
Unfortunately most of mine are black krim, super fleshy & not ideal for that.
 

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Yes, I've been watching sundried tomato recipes.
Unfortunately most of mine are black krim, super fleshy & not ideal for that.
I would try a few anyways just to confirm, can end up really tasty and last for years

Black Trim look so juicy I would cut thick and dry a long time to test their potential
 

Papi Chingon

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I sowed genovese and large italian basil, cilantro, beni hoshi, green, and red streaks mizuna, green shiso, florida broadleaf and red giant mustard, dill, homemade pickles, national pickling, and calypso cucumber seeds today. I'd take pictures but I'm pretty sure everyone knows what dirt looks like.
 

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Peppers were growing wonky & had to prune.
What should I make?

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more info?...

overwatering
cold temps
lack of light
not enough calcium carbonate waterings

Those are my guesses but I need more input
Well, hard to know, lack of pruning, or pruning correctly. Obviously it's producing wildly.
 

Papi Chingon

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Look man, I don't need no stinkin' tree doctor, I need a pepper man STAT.
Papi Chingon @Papi Chingon , wtf do I do with all these friggin cayenne's?
You can make a puree with a grip of them, add garlic, salt, vinegar, and olive oil. You can make various types of salsa and freeze for future use. You can freeze all together. You can make chili oil. You can dehydrate for spice. You can shove them right up your ass. Options are limitless.
 

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Look man, I don't need no stinkin' tree doctor, I need a pepper man STAT.
Papi Chingon @Papi Chingon , wtf do I do with all these friggin cayenne's?
Let the green ones turn red, they will ripen and turn even off the plant

I thought you wanted a diagnosis for how the plants were wilting

I am pretty experienced with pepper plants

toss them in a cardboard box not more than a half inch deep
 

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Madness.
I call this canta-cuke cherokee nachos.
Cantaloupe/cucumber salsa with swerve & my magnifique apple cider vinegar. Garlic onion chips topped with avacado/med.olive/cherokee purp. toms., colby jack. drizzled in cayenne canta-cuke sauce & garnished with meshed chunk cayenne canta-cuke salsa.

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Rock salt meatloaf. Used every kinda pepper in the garden, & toms., ground cumin, minced garlic, farm eggs & almond flour, and crisped the top.
I wanted this to last the week, it won't see Tuesday.
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Then froze peppers, made a bunch of salsa, marinara..sun dried, etc.
 

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That looks very nice

How do you know when your cannabis is done and ready to harvest
I have a weeklong rainstorm moving in starting Saturday and they seem a bit early, no red hair/no amber tricombs, not full buds(will end up Pinner buds if pulled now)

Really hoping I don't have to pull early

If I do an easy up to shed the rain the mites will take hold and the humidity will be quite high the next week so mold will start on the worm damaged areas of the flowers)

Fuk
 

Papi Chingon

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That looks very nice

How do you know when your cannabis is done and ready to harvest
I have a weeklong rainstorm moving in starting Saturday and they seem a bit early, no red hair/no amber tricombs, not full buds(will end up Pinner buds if pulled now)

Really hoping I don't have to pull early

If I do an easy up to shed the rain the mites will take hold and the humidity will be quite high the next week so mold will start on the worm damaged areas of the flowers)

Fuk
It depends on whether I'm growing inside or outside, and also depends by strain, so a difficult question to answer. There is no blanket answer for you. You could get precise and use magnification (like a jeweler's loop), or you could count approximate weeks since flowering started. If outdoors, I typically add two weeks to whatever the breeder recommends, roughly. Most of my outdoor grows have been kush varieties, and I pull mid-October. I personally go with 70% amber with kush and people don't know what hit them. I don't measure trichs based on tops of colas. Dates mean little since you are so much farther north than me. We have different light.

This Purple Lemonade is an auto variety, so it means nothing for this conversation.