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Season 5 - Episode 95 - Pulling the blooms off the peppers · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happened to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So there's a process in gardening where if you want
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  something to put energy into making the vegetable, you have
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  to sometimes pull the bud off that would actually make the
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  vegetable when the plant is too small.
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  And this kills me. Like I have to say, every time I
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  do it, it always makes me cringe because you wait for those to
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  happen. You wait for the flowers to show
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  up. And it doesn't work on all
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  plants. So for those of you listening
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  and taking this as gardening advice, please check whatever
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  plant you're doing this with, vegetables or flowers.
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  Sometimes you should do it and sometimes you should not.
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  Peppers happen to be one of them that you absolutely should do
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  it. And there are tricks where you
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  can pull off those initial flowers and strip off some of
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  those lower leaves to keep the plant so it has enough air flow.
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  And all of a sudden you will end up with a lot more Peppers and
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  they'll be longer and straighter because they're not avoiding
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  those branches. It's just very weird how it
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  works, but it's very true. And Peppers happen to be one of
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  my favorite things to grow. I love making sauces out of
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  them, doing all kinds of things with them.
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  However, it's very important to know that the plants will start
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  flowering when they're really small.
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  And in order to have them progress, you have to pull off
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  the flower. Now, as a coach, I sit there and
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  I look at this and I think, Oh my gosh, isn't this true?
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  You have all these potentials in your brain.
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  You have all these ideas in your brain, and sometimes you have to
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  prune them off to stay focused on the bigger piece of the
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  puzzle, which is growing yourself and getting to the
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  strength where you can handle the idea that you want to do.
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  Isn't that a wild concept when you think of it that way?
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  I love it. It just, it makes so much sense
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  to me. I've had ideas over my lifetime
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  that I couldn't handle. So when I was little, I had this
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  big huge brainstorm. I was in my bedroom.
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  I was probably like 5 if I remember right, four or five.
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  And I was doing something that my parents did not like me to
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  do, which was use the glue, white glue, Elmer's glue and mix
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  it with paint. And my mother used to get so
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  annoyed with me for this. However, I would use make
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  colleges with things that I would find find item the found
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  items out in the world like, you know, go collect leaves,
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  flowers, petals, things like that.
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  And I would want to stick them onto cardboard and make a
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  collage. But every time I did that, the
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  white glue stuck out and it irritated me.
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  Even when I was little, I remember sitting and saying to
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  myself, that's not pretty, That's not what I wanted because
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  in my head I could see it and I wanted it to match the product
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  that I was putting on there or the piece of whatever I was
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  doing. So I would sit and take Dixie
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  cups because she had one of those old school Dixie cup
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  containers in the bathroom so that when you used mouthwash or
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  you were brushing your teeth, you could use the little cup.
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  Even though it never worked because my father would always
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  just put his mouth down to the faucet and scoop up.
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  And my mother was completely offended by him sucking on the
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  edge of the faucet all the time. And she was like, can you just
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  use the cup? So we had those old school Dixie
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  cups anyway. So I would take those Dixie cups
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  and I would put glue in all of them and I would then mix paint
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  in them, paint into the glue. And my mother was like, this is
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  a waste. You're wasting the glue, you're
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  wasting the paint. She got very annoyed all the
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  time. I I, however, thought it was a
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  brilliant idea. And I went to my father one
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  night and I said, I want to make colored glues and sell them.
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  And my father was like, well, that's a silly idea.
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  I don't know how that would ever work.
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  I don't know how we would do it. I mean, I'll talk to your mother
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  about letting you do it, but that's a silly idea.
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  Now think about this. Crayola went on to make an
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  entire business out of this. I was 5 when I came up with
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  this. Had nobody to talk to, nobody to
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  advocate for me because they just didn't think it was
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  something. And it was in the 70s and who
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  cared? It wasn't what they did.
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  They didn't think that way then. So I I had an idea, but it
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  needed to be pruned back. It needed to be that creative
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  energy needed to be channeled into other things, which it was.
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  It could have been a fabulous thing if it had been ready for
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  it, but or somebody had been ready for it, but it, it wasn't,
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  it had to be pruned back. And now I think about all those
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  ideas that flow into my head that I can essentially create in
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  different ways because I've now become the person that can do
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  this, the person that can do it. So I think it's incredibly
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  important to say, OK, I sometimes I've got to put my
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  ideas in a parking lot. We've talked about using parking
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  lots before. If you're not ready to perform
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  the idea or create the idea, but it's a good idea, put it in a
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  parking lot and then when it comes to fruition, do it.
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  So I just wanted to throw that out there today because it's
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  making me think of it because I got to go pull some pepper
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  blooms off the Peppers before I put them in the garden this
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  weekend. So wish me luck and I hope you
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  guys have a blessed day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.