This GLOG will be dedicated to some hybrids of interest that have emerged from my pepper garden since 2020. I plan to follow them at least until F3 to see if they are worth it. Please note that no seeds will be shared at this time. Let's grow!
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Oh, I love watching that kind of stuff...
I am not too experienced in growing peppers, I used to grow some tomatoes but since I moved out from my family house, I didn't have space to grow anything. I bought allotment garden (I think that's the word, english is not my native language) but I can't seem to find time to care about it full time from march to october, it's not as near my flat as I'd want it to be but maybe one year I will make my life a little bit less messy and take make it work.
Now I live in the apartment with a balcony, it is at western side and in the summer the heat is kinda out of control. I think it will do! Oh, I dream of the jungle here!
This year I bought some chillies from the supermarket and, as I often do...
I've been told for years that my craziness should be documented somewhere. Well, I'm going to attempt it. Each year I like to start at least 3 times what I am planning for myself. I do fill 3 other (neighbors and family) gardens as well but even so have tons of plants. And on average I have 500 hot pepper plants in our garden, with 35-50 superhots in buckets on deck. (along with 75 tomatoes, okra, tons of cucs in garden) This year I started 42 types of HOT peppers, 12 types of sweet (not for me!). I'll attach photo's later - so in some kind of order) as I have several in my 30+ trays of 48 as I am starting transplanting and putting back under lights until they are ready for greenhouse. There are 3 - 5 shelf shelving units inside...
Sooo... 2022 season is over and most of my 2023 plants are already there - no reason not to start a new thread already! 😃
See my previous glog... https://thehotpepper.com/threads/2022-too-early-to-get-started.75362/
While all my current plants are technically overwinterers, only a couple have grown through the 2022 season and are considered interesting enough to keep for next seasons grow.
Let's start with the famous Schneider farms SB plant, which will be going into it's third season in 2023. It currently doesn't look all that nice but that was also the case during the winter of 2021 so no worries here...
Top view:
Next in row is my Scotch Brains plant...
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And then there's the Humble Servants Homestead (HSH) SB...
Jalapeno x Habanero cross polinated F1 about 12 or 13 plants have survived to the week 5 mark soon we will have the worlds first jalapeno habenero f1 peppers and am soo anticipation if they look like the first parent pepper or if they take on more of the jalapeno shape, the mom was orange habenero but when crossed with jalapeno can see clearly turned bright deep red! taste was that of strong jalapeno smell taste and crunch with heat and fiery breath of habanero added unique tang remnicent of fermented wine pretty neat and decent for a habapeno that i didnt even know would be possible to make, the plants are growing faster then the original much similar in apearance to the habenero but with added vigor slightly thicker leafs seams more...
With some delay I sowed last sunday, 24 february. First I had doubts to start at all since it was already getting late in season but with all the varieties (thanks to all the great people I traded with!) I wanted to try I had to give it a try Keep in mind that the list was over 100 varieties, so I trimmed it down a lot. I intend to keep the 2 strongest plants of each variety except for the Piment d'Espelette. Some seeds are already old like the CGN (±8 years), so I got replacements in case the have popped up in 2 weeks.
The first one to germinate after 3 days was the Coyote Zan White (C. Chinense). The rest followed quickly
Now almost a week later 69% has germinated:
7-Pot Brain Strain Yellow 4/4
Aji Panca 3/0
Ampuis 3/3
Ancho...
Last year I grew a few accidental crosses, so putting this grow log together to capture the second year variations when they come in.
One was a Habanero x Wild Colombian, which is the center right column in the picture below. These were somewhat fleshy, but very juicy, often containing so much water the skins would rip and burst if left on the plant too long. They had the flavor of a Habanero, but more heat and a much longer burn duration, but very tolerable. When they started to ripen they'd take only a couple days to fully ripen. These made a really good hot sauce, or as a modifier to heat up dishes without using a lot of pods. These unfortunately did not dehydrate well, becoming almost like a dehydrated apple, so they didn't make...
Good afternoon.
Here the weather is hot and sunny and has been realy warm for several weeks now. Spring is here. The plants from last year and the year before are growing like weeds. The first flowers of the Jalapeños is almost open and the bell peppers are also making some buds.
The chillies that is now going for their seventh season is going strong too.
This year we have about 25 types growing. A first for us.
Later I will post some pictures.
Greetings
I've been a member for a while but never posted a grow log. My usual garden is too boring for that. I use 20-30 pots and overwinter my mama plants in a hillbilly winter shelter. Our ground here isn't good for in soil gardening and I've not been enthused enough to undertake the work and expense to build raised beds.
Now I have my peppers working the way I want and have the need for a much larger grow to supply a project. The main peppers I'll grow will be reaper, douglah and fatalii. For a couple of years I'll do hay bale gardens and heap tons of organic trash into the area. I have monumental amounts of pine straw, oak leaves and bonfire ash every year to dump in the walkways. I think this will do a world of good to make this new...
Well all my stuff got wiped out by mice. What else is their to say.
Last year Grasshoppers wiped out many peoples gardens as well as mine.
Sine of the times ???
Peppers, Corn, the only thing they didn't like was my Acorn Squash. Its on my porch flowering and has three fruit.
Got about five pepper plants on the porch that survived the Aphid wars, most others did not. About 20 pots from last year.
Might start a few seeds again, gonna rely on some store versions for now.
Night temps still below 0c at times and their calling for snow now and then. Had a bit of hail this morning but only lasted a couple minutes.
Wind is icy cold at times.
Thats about it.
:)
Here we go again. Summer 2021 : I hand pollinated some Aji Ahuachapan (aka CAP 220) flowers with Hallow’s Eve pollen. I was hoping to create a hybrid with the taste and production of the Aji (a favorite of mine) but on a dark plant bearing hotter fruits. I didn't use mini Ziploc bags or any other pollen "barriers" because I wanted to prevent the pollinated flowers from overheating and then falling off. A fruit finally formed on one of them so I thought my first cross was born!
Next year (2022). I grew a single F1 plant. The foliage was beautiful with its dark margins and veins, as were the stems. The flowers looked great too, showing characteristics of both species.
Unfortunately, the fruits took too long to ripen and frost came...
Oh, hello, hello! I've had plenty of pictures to choose the representative image from but this one is just beautiful, so, I couldn't say no to it! It is also a link to my previous glog! Still open, still posting my works!
I will do now a 2024/2025 season in a nutshell! So if you don't like living in the past and wanna go to the section when this one has started, go to the somewhat 4/5th of this post! That's a lot of scrolling!
Season 2023/2024 was so much fun! I've had so much work on the balcony and so much relaxing time it is really my favourite place on hearth right now. I mean, not now, now it's cold and there is still plenty to do and I am kinda running from it gracefully with a cold and on cold medication so very very...
Links to my grow logs:
2021
2022
2023
This picture is of the seeds soaked yesterday. Today I sowed the seeds of C. Chinense and C. Pubescens.
C. Chinense will all sit in the hanging pots in my balcony garden.
In 2 weeks I will sow C. Annuum. I do not have the final list of these yet because I have many seeds from which it is very difficult for me to choose. I will edit this message as I decide.
Hanging pots:
- Fatalii - V2 2022/2023 - 3 plants
- Orange Fatalii - The Hippy Seed Co (thanks MarcV) - 2 plants
- CGN 21500 - Sulsa - 1 plant
- Adjuma - thanks @Sulsa - 1 plant
- Humble Servants Homestead SB - V1 2023 (original seeds from MarcV) - 2 plants
- PI 215734 - Semillas - 4 plants (last year's revelation, I want more this year)
-...
This past season was too good to not have at least started a GLOG! A little late in the game for 2024, but here goes!
In the fall of 2023, I decided to break out of my old habits of growing the same C. chinense types (which I've been growing for over 10 years) and rotate in some Hungarian Wax Peppers for pickled banana pepper rings (my son loves them) and also some Sugar Rush Peach just to get the C. baccatum back into the rotation after not growing them since growing some back in about 2015. I also wanted to try the Yellow Scotch Brains after reading so much good stuff about it, plus save seeds from my original Trinidad Scorpion seed line (that I shared with Butch T and eventually went on to win the Guinness Book of World Records)...
Hi!
In the last 6 years my pepper cultivation has always been ecological and spartan: no heating, no lamps, no fertilizers, no pesticides.
But this year, after starting with the usual setup, I decided to change on the fly and upgrade, at least with a radiator and LED lamps, given that the C. chinense and the wilds didn't agree very well with my natural choices, and I am always open to change. So I recovered a growbox from the cellar that I hadn't yet used for peppers.
I'm very late (actually I'm on par with other years, but being surrounded by professionals from two forums I feel the pressure 🙃 ).
At the moment I have 35 live cultivars out of 40: the failed ones are sterile interspecific crosses, problematic wilds or poorly preserved...
According to the Urban Dictionnary, the word "unexpectational" refers to the active state of not having any expectations...
In 2020, I grew a single Devil’s Rib plant, a habanero relative coming from Ghana. To be completely honest, it was without much expectation as I’m not really a big habanero fan! Our summer was exceptional that year so the plant grew very healthy and reached massive proportions. It gave me a shitload of pods averaging 20 grams each, with some weighing just over 25 grams. They were tasty and quite hot too, somewhere between the alleged 414 000 SHU and Ghost pepper level I’d say. At the end of the season I was quite happy I decided to grow it!
As usual, I kept seeds from the nicest pods and planted about 30 last...
Hi Guy's
Here in Scotland we have .....let's face it.....shitty weather.... lots of cloud and often wet, cold summers 😞 however some of us have the chilli bug and feel compelled to grow these beautiful jewels of nature. Particularly when we were lucky enough to grow up in the middle East raised on spicy food and a Grand father born and raised in Kerala India in the 1920's spice is in my families very DNA 🙂
Spicey food has always played an important part in our family over the last few year's I've strived to find varieties that will grow in my particular wee Scottish greenhouse............ First was the Ring of fire cayenne which is a perfect substitute for Indian green chillies only hotter 😎 a ridiculous early tasty variety...
kids pool made into a river raft pond there all exotic peppers buena mullata, purple tiger, habanero red, arbol, explosive ember, carolina reapers, bell pepers, all that and then some is easy simple never need to water is best version of how to grow so far ive found with water is fun and i made a door there for adding the water and juice n all is fun simple container garden blessed gardening weee!
Let's play. I will not grow much more peppers this season than last one, but it's going to be fun like always :) Let's hope for a decent grow. Last year was pretty good even with just 10 main plants - mostly habaneros. They are my favorite and they will play the main part in this season grow also.
Current status: (sowed two weeks ago)
Most of them sprouted and soon they will need to be transplanted in solo pots.
Annums:
- Cherry bomb
- Pimienta (PLM)
- Kapija (paprika)
- another red bell pepper variety
Chinenses:
- Aji Jobito
- Purple Thunder
- Scotch Bonnet Papa Dreadie
- Scotch Bonnet Papa Joe's
- Scotch Bonnet MoA (from 2021 - hoping for some sprouts)
- Fatalii
- Red Savina Habanero
- Calita Red Habanero...
Tough year for growing. First cold with powdery mildew hits than hot, then cold again. Right now we have another of mid 30s heat which is affecting blossoms and new growth. I had most of the peppers just drop their leaves. So spent the month of June heavily fertilizing. I have new growth but I think I am going to have to keep up the fertilizing as I'm behind in growth. Annums such as Hungarian Hot Wax and Mr. Nardello are coming out early. That was to be expected. My personal landrace of Scotch Bonnet and Monkeyface peppers along wall with Hungarian. Mr. Nardellos and Biker Bill Jalapenos struggling on the inside. Note: BB Jalapenos hate it here. I can't do anything right by them. Does not want to grow here period. Will be looking for a...
This is a dedicated grow log for Tristen's awesome cross, which I
have been growing out since 2014. I'll start with a bit of history and
some photos documenting what's happened so far.
In January of 2014, Tristen (Trippa) sent me a little care package of seeds.
In the package were two generations of a cross he had made, which he just
called 'Mystery Cross, F1' and 'Mystery Cross, F2'.
Here's Trippa's Mystery Cross seedlings in February of 2014:
Both generations showing the purple foliage characteristic since the beginning.
Up close look at Trippa's Mystery Crosses, F1 and F2. Both culled to a single
plant after the photo taken, so I only had one plant of each generation:
I have decided to start a dedicated Grow Log for
the Purple Thunder Bhut Jolokia hybrid.
It made its first appearance in 2015:
"This coloration might be the result of the intense
light on these red Bhuts, but only 2/6 show the trait.
If it is a cross,the only purple-y plant near the bhut
was Trippa's Mystery Cross. All of these seeds from
the same pod:"
Links to my Grow Logs:
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
2017 2019 2020 2021 2022
2023
Trippaul Threat Community Grow
Purple Thunder Community Grow
Wild, Indeed Community Thread
Growing in the Pacific NorthWest Community Thread
Dwarf Chiltepin 'Hermosillo', Semillas la Palma 2022
Time to quit dragging my feet and get this season underway.
Last season was OW plants only with two exceptions. This
year I am growing all new plants from seed gathered from
my 2022 harvest and limited to Tepin and Chiltepin varieties.
If the spirit moves me I might try for some OW chinenses
varieties later on.
Welcome to my Grow Log! This is my third attempt at growing hot peppers using a custom-made "space bucket". This setup is two 5-gallon buckets outfitted with two LED lights to create a controlled, efficient environment for plant growth. While my previous tries have taught me a lot about lighting, watering, and plant care, this time I’m aiming for success with a goal of eventually automating the entire system.
My first bucket looked like this:
And although was really cool looking had some flaws. Most notably:
1. The light was terrible quality, and broke after a month or so.
2. The bucket itself was too short, and I think was too intense for the new plants.
3. I was terrible at growing peppers, and didn't understand how to water...
It's that time of the year, cold & gloomy outside, & inside the magic is happening. Those little green pepper plants are pushing up
towards the artificial sun. Who came up first? The early Jalapeño, Serrano, & the Sugar Rush Stripy. A little game we play LOL.
This is the best set up we have ever had before. 4 LED grow lights 2 heating mats, room stays at 66 F at night & 74 F during the day.
With 22 varieties & 50 plants we hope to have a real special grow for the 24 season, with a lot of great tasting peppers. 😀
When I joined THP I had just moved from Fluorescents lights to the new LED lights. Outside everything is about the same, it's the indoor
adventure that has changed for the better. Compact high output...
This thread is going to be a photo dump of my 2024 season. Expect lots and lots of photos as things progress throughout the summer.
Luna is already on guard duty just 2 days after transplanting.
Big Olive Mama. This was a personal favorite from 2023, and I knew I had to grow them again this year.
MA Purple. This is my first year growing this variety. I'm definitely loving the purple foliage on this one.
White Knight. This was a freebie seed pack that was thrown in with one of my orders, and since I seem to have incredible luck with freebie seeds, I had to grow them this year.
this is my bedroom nightstand decorative fish tank i have snail and some frogs and tadpoles in there perhaps am to geting some guppies soon perhaps i will find them at the lake thats where i found the snail and frogs so is easy to see how am gardening any questions is pretty simple set up blessed gardening
Salutations mon amises. I have returned.
So this year I'm scaling way back, mostly because I have too much sauce still aging from last year. I don't have enough empty carboys for everything if I grew another 1500 plants, so I cut it back to about 300. All chocolate habs and yellow 7 pots. I started seeds planning to have more yellows than chocolates, but the winds of fortune and bad germination left me with the opposite.
Started on 02/25
Germination on 03/03
More germination on 03/04
03/14
Potted up on 03/31
Bottling some berry sauce on 04/04
Bottling some yellow 7 pot 04/06
Bottling curry sauce 04/06
Plants 04/08
Plants 04/21
Moved outside 04/30
Plants 05/11
Preparing the soil. I cashed in all my...
Decided to drop a few seeds in december for next year so decided to start a '24 Glog early.
I'm very lucky in that in addition to a small domestic greenhouse at our house I also have access to a significant space in a commercial greenhouse (our little island used to be the UK's leading tomato supplier but the industry collapsed in the face of cheaper imports from warmer climes so there are a lot of huge greenhouses looking for uses here). In it I grow a lot of perennial stuff that needs a mediterranean climate (or is marginal there) - bananas, figs, tamarillos, various passiflora and my peppers sit interplanted with them. With our mild climate it is possible often to overwinter capsicum of all species in ground in these big...
I am starting this thread for folks who received some Pubescens seeds from me through the Pubescens giveaway. I figured it would be fun to see everyone's progress, plus have a general place to share any pics, growing techniques, and general Pubescens knowledge. I wish everyone great success in their gardens this year.
Even if you didn't receive seeds from me, and want to contribute info about your Pubescens plants this year, please feel free to share.
Zapotec Jalapeno (Baker Creek 2023 Seed extra pack I saved for 2024 )
https://www.rareseeds.com/pepper-hot-jalapeno-zapotec
Piranha SB ( variant of Marion's SB seeds form RFC )
Since this is a variant I will refer to it as
Marion's Scotch Bonnet red .
I got the Marion's Red SB because I liked the flavor & heat profile
I grew seed once of papa dreadie of Erin seed stock shared by Gary Montcalm back then .
My was red it looked just like a papa dreadie only red & form what remember it flavor & heat was like this one.
The other varieties was gifted as freebies form Jim.
So I am growing them out I will need to bring my containers over for some of these etc
https://www.superhotchiles.com/product/piranha-pepper-seeds/?v=7516fd43adaa...
So, we're finally in a house and I'm getting ready for my first growing season with an actual yard. The patio back in Málaga was wonderful and never had snow, but I'll be able to grow more than four pepper plants at a time here.
I'm not germinating any seeds for the spring just yet, but I did put together a little indoor germination station and started three varieties that'll go into mini-Kratky systems, and one that'll go into a 5-gal Kratky bucket. Never tried hydroponics before, but thought this was a good chance to get my feet wet. The varieties are: Peruvian White Habaneros and Yellow MOA Scotch Bonnets from Midwest Chile Heads, as well as Aji Ayuyo and Er Jing Tao from CaneDog.
My heating mat is a cheap one off the shelf from a...
Hey folks, this dedicated thread will be all about growing the 7 Pot Savannah in honor of the late Dustin Jain/Nagacanario. According to his brother Christopher, he was not only a true pepper enthusiast but also an avid fisherman!
Photo courtesy of Christopher Jain
The following is a copy-paste from the thread that started it all back in 2021 (by @Guitarman), a summary of the character and his pepper: "He got his nickname from two of the things he loved the most: growing peppers and Presa Canario breed dogs. Some of us talked about keeping his memory alive back this year by letting people know about his creations and grow them, but it never happened. Dustin was from Savannah, GA and almost 10 years ago started selecting pods from an...
This is my third year growing peppers since moving here; my first year was pretty good (completely accidentally), last year was a bit of a disaster due to unusual weather and my general gardening ignorance, so I can only hope for 2024 I can apply some of the lessons I have learnt on the way, and I am so happy to find such a treasure trove of knowledge and experienced growers here in this forum!
There are some specific challenges to growing here: in addition to the annual monsoon/rainy season, Kyoto City sits at the bottom of a valley system surrounded on three sides by mountains, which causes cold, dry winters and hot, humid summers. Summers are particularly hot since we are a long way from the sea, so we get no nice sea breezes or...