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Hey growers! We're about to ring in the new year!
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So here goes nothing. I'm late so shoot me!
Not growing so many this year - yes I know I always say that, but it's true this time :shh:
Started soaking the chinense in camomile tea this morning. Next will be the bacs and then, annuals.
Chinense started
Pink Habs
Fruit Burst Habs
Jamaicans
MOA Bonnets
Red Bonnets
Goat Weed (may not be a Chinense :lol:)
Fatali
Fidalgo (ditto above)
Baha Goat
And, as I had some space on the heat mat, a couple of Bacs
Peppapeach
Stripy wotsits
think that's it for pepper seeds
There may some tomato seeds started this afternoon after I check temps in the greenhouse
Hello everyone, welcome to my 2025 Glog.
2024 was a great year for peppers we grew many new varieties with great tasting pods.
2025 is looking good so far we just got the seeds planted & on the heating mats.
A little later than last season however with LEDs we needed to start the plants later.
Last season the plants were a little root bound by plant out..
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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...
Welcome to the The BalcoJungle, season 2024/2025 GLOG!!!
<= First Year
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!
Ok, I will show you my growing list for the year now, then do a really long summary of the last season - this was my first one, I get to be excited and brag a lot about what I learned and what do I love about what etc etc. It will be in a spoiler, because it is SO MUCH TO READ and nobody should be forced to see that wall. I am proud of pictures tho...
And then I will go into the next season, because it has already started.
Have an amazing time here, you beautiful soul! <3
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GROW LIST:
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My new Capsicum pubescens "Outdoor Scottish" trial has began 😁 seeds sown today 👍 in commercial seed mix topped with vermiculite in heated propergater.
Having to grow hot and superhots in a Greenhouse here in Scotland space is at a premium so personally I won't "waste" space on mild species such as pubescens however anything hottish that will grow outdoors I see as a free bonus 👍🙂 however my journey into Rocotos has surprised me by how fond I've become of them 🥰 they are truly one of the most beautiful chilli species you can grow if you haven't I'd highly recommend one or two as a side project but be warned they are highly addictive and rather tasty not to mention having a different burn making them seem hotter than they...
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!
*DRx GLOG
I am very excited to start from seed this year.
I don't have a lot of experience with (hot) peppers so I decided to do a trial for a several varieties of one specimen.
Initial plan is to have chinenses in unheated greenhouse (and maybe in pots?), while annuums/baccatums outside (again, maybe in pots).
Current list to grow:
Carolina Reaper
Habanero Chocolate
Habanero, Golden
Naga Morich
7pot Primo
Moruga Green
Yolo Wonder
Jalapeno Ruben
Anaheim
Shishito
Sweet Apple Kampe
Jalapeno
Black Cobra
Jalapeno, Mucho Nacho
Wild Purple Guatemala
Zebrange
Champion
Habanero, Mellow
I planted the chinenses on Feb 3rd to give them a head start. I was a bit too excited, so I decided to also start a few more:
Carolina Reaper
Habanero Chocolate...
Hi all,
To start this Glog first this years list. 15 plant i try to overwinter yet half of them are more likely dying than thriving. anyway on newyears day i will start sowing the chinense. next to come in febuary. Have a good one and may 2025 be the year all aphids kill themselfs before the try to eat your chiliplants:fireball:
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...
Top view:
And then there's the Humble Servants Homestead (HSH) SB...
My first time trying to grow anything from seed - the poor herb sprouts I bought and killed curing covid notwithstanding...
Starting a little late because we've had an unusually late cold season where I am.
I am a little concerned about the humidity buildup inside of the box :think: Probably overdid the initial watering (as I tend to overdo things...).
Going to let it dry out a bit for a while so currently I'm doing the hardest thing aka waiting patiently 😬
Still have a few more seeds coming for the unfilled rows!
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...
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Porch Plants still good. Started a few seeds, only couple inches tall and not growing much.
I plan on restarting small. I ordered Chocolate Reaper seeds from Matt's Peppers (ETA Tuesday 2/14) and will be using my patio to grow the plants. I measured it out, and with the 5-gallon Home Depot buckets from my previous venture, I should have space for 24 on the balcony, using drip irrigators and a fertilizer injector.
I'll be sure to post up pics soon when I begin the seeding process.
Update 2/14/2025: Here's the first pics. Thanks to Matt's Peppers for the quick delivery and the freebies included in the package. I'll be starting my grow this year with Chocolate Reapers.
I've done some glogs before, but the last two or three I've failed to update after a while during the season.
So I figured it would be better to have a glog that will be continuous, documenting each year of growing to the best of my abilities, no promises though. :eh:
Anyway, I've mostly been an indoor grower and 2024 was actually the first year I could do a partial outdoor grow. Granted it was on a balcony, but that counts, right?
The grow season is a bit short here, so I will keep doing indoor grows but moving plants outside as soon as temperature permits and space allows.
Since this is just a short introductory post I think I'll finish with links to my previous glogs and the list will be updated with links to the first post in this...
I starter growing my first peppers this year and I'll need a lot of help to make them survive.
My growbox:
Jalapenos:
Chilli:
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions please post.
Thanks
Here we go for this year. 3rd time's the charm? Started getting seeds into the ground a couple of weeks ago when it decided to rain and then freeze for two days.
Not really trying much new here. I am always finding myself going back to these powders over others. Last year was a huge battle with no rain, wind, no humidity, the never ending sun, aphids, and spider mites. It really does appear that I was extremely spoiled in SoFla with that tropical climate. Learning Texas while working nights for the first 1.5 seasons has been rough. Upgrading from 5gal to mostly 15gal grow bags this year. The misters I've had for a year are finally going to be installed under my grow canopy. As soon as walmart severely discounts promix again some 25...
Hello everyone. It's been a long minute since I've posted anything here. Life decided to throw a lot of health issues my way and while some have been resolved, there are some that never will be. I have been checking out the site without logging in most of the time and see some pepper people I knew are still on here. I'm gonna attempt a Glog and see how that goes. I have lots of seeds in the fridge that are getting pretty old so I thought I'd try to start a few. So far I've tried to sprout some wilds with out much luck. I do have a 2018 model of Galapagos Long from Canedog that popped rather quickly. Looks like it will be my glog pic.
I began with a soak in a H2O2/RO water mix for 24 hours then placed the seeds into Rapid...
CHAPTER #01 - LIKE REPTILES
It's never too early to say "it's never too early to get started" :seeya: so this year, to counterattack a possible fake summer effect like in 2024, I started 3 months in advance (18th of december).
Chiltepin cappuccino - 2024
I sterilized the seeds with a 9:1 water/bleach solution, and presoaked them for 24h, then I put them on paper towel on every heater of the house.
As soon as the roots emerged, I put them in soil (instead of waiting for the cotyledons to open on the paper, that maybe was causing more stress to the roots).
My friend gave me reptiles heatmats and a reptile UV lamp, that I'm using to heat the soil filled pepper cups (my apartment is cold, now I have 5C degrees more).
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Soil is a...
Hello all.
As every year I grow some variety of plants and since i just started new season with this cotton sprout I had an idea to run a grow log. Hopefully I will find time to document my progress here.
This year I have couple of jalapeno plants in mind, large orange thai i've got form this forums couple of years ago and maybe cayenne and some suave/dulce habanero type chilis (yet to be obtained).
Beside peppers i'm looking to grow some classic tomatoes (costoluto/red pear), bottle gourd, cucmbers grafted on pumpkin and variety of pumpkin/squash and mentioned cotton (pots, indors). Last frost date is May 15th to give you some idea on a climate.
Cheers.
Before we get started, I wanted to post this image for the GLOG cover. This was one of the last harvests I got from my 2024 plants, which were picked later in December:
This is probably the earliest I've ever started pepper seeds! Usually seeds are started between 3/1 and 3/15, but this year I'd like to experiment a little.
My reason for starting this early is that I'd like to get split crops from my C. pubescens next year (a spring and a fall crop). Looking at the average temperatures for my area, it looks like the best temperatures for fruit set are from about 4/15 until about 6/1. Afterwards, it would be too hot for fruit set until September:
Considering the typical 8-week time frame between germination and plant-out...
Ok, the craziness has started at JAB FARM! I had fun posting last year so will attempt to do again with better updates as we go. I know we picked well over 20,000 peppers last year and think with the fertilizing schedule I worked with last season, I think we can do more :)
Seems like it's been forever since I made a glog post, but 2025 is right around the corner and as someone once said, it's never too early to get started! Last year was a tough year with aphids getting into my early season starts and generally cool sucky weather, so I'm hoping for better in 2025. I'll kick things off with some pic's of my current indoor grow, which I've taken over the past couple/few weeks.
First up is a Scarlett's Chili x Poblano. They're cool looking plants with great tasting mild peppers. I'm doing a lot of work with Jalapenos and planned maintain this variety going forward while also backcrossing it a bit toward its jalapeno roots.
Another Jalapano type I have growing inside is Chile Rayado. I like how fuzzy...
First time chilli grower. Coco, soil and hydro. 🤙
Hi Guy's
The madness has begun again ! 🤪 😜😗
My 2024 superhot chilli trial turned out far from ideal trying to find superhots I like but most importantly will thrive in my particular micro climate (my wee Scottish greenhouse)
Firstly 2024 weather was rubbish little sun alot of cloud and temperatures much lower than previous year's 🙁 and let's face it "Scottish sumers" often cool and wet for long periods at best !
Add to the above by a number of mistakes by me 🙄
Such as leaving my horticultural bubble wrap on for most of the season, I'm sure it exacerbated into the natural poor light levels of 2024 :whistle:
Then my lack of seed continuity labelling :banghead: which lead to my culling my only Dorset Naga :seeya:
And a "gigantic"...
HELLO AND WELCOME ALL TO THE 2025 EDITION, WHERE I GO ALL BLACK EVERYTHING:
in the past, i have been enamoured with the lovely look of purple/black foliage plants. my mystery plant from two years ago was a pleasant surprise as it should have been possibly a purple reaper, but turned out to be something much different-looking which kept me interested to see it play out. the peppers themselves were nothing great, but the plant was so magnificent-looking.
therefore, it's always been back of mind to want to try more black/purple plant varieties. so this is the year and we're going full tilt with 11 different types in this theme, all of whom are purported in the 1M+ heat range and are strikingly beautiful from the website's pictures which...
Keeping it simple for 2025. Last year I started in early to mid March and the faster growing plants got out of hand. First seeds went in today March 25th. We can get a surprise freeze through the end of June even though it's 85 today. These are my first 12 varieties but many more to come plus tomatoes, herbs, etc. Germination trays will move to a repurposed stand up freezer with a controlled heat mat and basic led panel. Then grown under stronger lights and likely transplanted before being moved to small unheated greenhouse when nighttime temps stay 45F and above. A larger, heated or at least somewhat insulated greenhouse would make this much easier. Can't go cheap on the greenhouse though because we see regular strong winds...
The goal is to (have fun and) breed a pepper that has purple skin, purple flesh, purple foliage, good flavor, and medium heat (~30-50K SHU).
I’ll also experiment with fermented sauces, paprika, etc.
If you want to give me feedback on what makes the “perfect” purple pepper, take this survey!
Time for a new glog!
Last year's grow went okay. It could have been better, but I'll take what I learned and try to improve.
In particular, a number of varieties from one specific vendor all failed to germinate or failed really quickly after germination. Before I realized they were specific to one vendor, I started looking for a better heat mat and fan.
My brother gifted me what seems like a much better heat mat and a much better fan, so I'm hopeful that'll help all the seeds/seedlings do better this year. Not necessarily top of the line, but better than what I was working with. Next up, I think I need to upgrade my lights. I'm using some SANSI bulbs that have been good, but I've got my eye on this panel. And I'd like to think...
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Filius Blue
I'm going to be trying to grow a few of these to crossbreed them with my peppers
I'm trying to breed them.
To give my peppers bigger fruit
and different color combinations
This will be my
First time growing
Blue Colored peppers.
Thanks for joining
Let me know if
you are interested in trying some of
These seeds......
I have plenty to share.
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This plant box thing I made, I used four small LEDs around the base to light the under canopy, modest lighting is shared with the fish tank that's under it off camera, lights are situated above it and that's also off camera is reason. Planted seeds in Nov is March now 4 months to first harvest 3 "Purple Tiger" plants{15peppers} the Hallows Eve{3peppers} I also used this for Carolina Reaper but it did not like the water approach so was moved to potting mix and did just fine in the yard, soo this is lovely mood lighting type of peppers garden that continually yields and make lovely decorative fish tank addition
Well, shoot. I don't know that I should start a new glog with as poor as I was about updating my last one, but here it goes. My offseason season started late, with most of my plants being probably four to six weeks old now. I'll start by posting a few of the newer ones.
This guy is an Oxkutzcab/Oxkutzcabian Orange Habanero. I have three of these growing and a couple Caribbean Red Habanero that are smaller. The Oxkutzcab seem to be out-pacing the reds, but they've also been around a little longer. In this pic I particularly like the transition in the stem at the cotyledons.
@HeatMiser sent me some of his wild texas tepin seeds - what, a couple years ago now? - and I've been trying to grow the variety to production ever since...
Hello again, pepper friends!
Courtesy of @bansho hot sauce, I'm starting out with two Bahamian Goat seedlings (left) and one Bahamian Beast Peach. I'd had an absolutely terrible time getting anything to sprout recently, so these new kids are a real relief.
I retired my Hot Thai and Yatsufusa after I ended up with a few liters of hot sauce and couldn't use it or give it away fast enough, but it's not like I can just not grow peppers. So in a few months, all the sauce should be gone, and hopefully these guys will be giving me something new to work with; I've always wanted to grow Goats, so this is exciting. The Beast variety is something I wasn't even aware of, so that's also fun.
Since I've obviously pared things down a lot (heh...
Just getting this started so I can get a url.
I will post more about this in a couple of days.
Happy New Year, 2021!
I've opted to keep details of my crossing projects in this dedicated thread rather than include it in my 2021 Glog
Edited this post to summarise what crosses I've got and where they are at, I will try and keep it current. Dates in status column reflect when I've updated the information not when the cross was actually made. I've not included every historic cross I've ever made and ignores anything where I haven't got at least F1 seeds unless I thought it was useful to record. Information might be useful to someone at some point.
ChilliCrosser Cross
Current Status
X001 : Bolivian Rainbow x Cheiro Roxa (C.Annuum x C.Chinense)
🅿️16/8/21: F1 seeds, not grown on yet.
X002 : Fijian Bongo x Cheiro Roxa (C.Chinense x C.Chinense)
❌16/8/21...
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2024 Winter - 2025 Summer Grow Log
-50/50 double buffered coco & perlite mix
-2x4 tent at 70-75°
-VPD 0.5 - 1.0
-300 watts full spectrum LED’s
-18/6 at midrange DLI appropriate for age
GH Flora + CaliMagic at 4ml for all per gal
EC @ 1.0 - 2.0
PH at 5.8-6.2
Watered once daily
Most seeds sprouted early November
Will update with varieties as they make it into adolescence
Ghost
White Ghost
BOC
JWGS
JPGS
SCORPION
Follow along and see what pests, weather conditions, and other setbacks I'm fighting this year. Who knows.. maybe I'll get some pods?
C. rhomboideum
Tiberius Mauler Caramel
BBG7 Orange Purple Flower
Tiger Fang F2
Volante Peach
Yellow Cyril
Mini Olive Rocoto
Chiltepin x Lemon Drop
Aji Guyana x Variegated Sugar Rush Stripey F2
Pimenta Barra Do Ribeiro x Variegated Sugar Rush Stripey F1
Mattapeno
((Aji Guyana x Black Biquinho F1) x Variegated Sugar Rush Stripey M3
((Aji Guyana x Black Biquinho F1) x Aji Trinity F1) F2
7 Pot Primo Heatless
Variegated Sugar Rush Stripey M4
Leopard Reaper
Fatalii x Batman BBG7 Orange F2
Aji Trinity F3
C. flexuosum
JBVariegrande
C. mirabile
Venezuelan Tiger x SRTSL Yellow
Aji Challuaruro Amarillo
Aji...
Well its that time of year again when i start round 1 of my peppers. In the Grow Tent.. i want to wish you all a great growing season. I hope I'm better about staying on top of things this year.. LOL ... Below is the starting of the list. Round 1 are in the boxes after 30 days i will sort and start Round 2. i will work on Keeping things UpToDate as i go..
Just starting this glog now so it's one less thing to do in a few months when I'm knee deep in compost and getting things in the ground.
Not much to report at the moment. Strains yet to be determined, but I'll probably end up growing too many like always...lol
Only thing that's going on right now is a clean back patio and the chickens doing their part turning over my compost pile on the daily. Intersted in seeing how the soil microbes appreciate the added chicken poop!
Hope everyone has had a decent winter so far and here's to happy germination!
EDIT UPDATE: This glog has turned into an ongoing overwintering, greenhouse and soil building how-to!
Hello there pepperheads, long time no see!
I haven't grown anything since the 2018 season which was not a great one for me. Had okayish yield for an indoor grow, but I was swamped at work and tried too many new things which kind of made me burn out on the growing.
I live in an apartment in the city, with no balcony, so I'm a strict indoor grower which has it's challenges regarding space, light, and so forth. But I've had quite good yields despite this.
This year is no different, pure indoor grow in the same apartment with the same limitations.
This first post will be a bit long since it covers the first month, but I will do my best to do frequent updates for your reading pleasure.
With that said, let's go back to late 2022, and I...
It should be a good year for growing peppers. My goal is to find the most productive varieties that thrive in the Texas heat. The growlist will consist of mainly Annuums but there will be a couple non-Annuums here and there. I'll post the official growlist later. Cheers!
Grow List:
Serrano (Ferry-Morse)
Jalapeno Zapotec (Downriver)
Jalapeno Pecos (Downriver)
Jalapeno Gigantica (Downriver)
Jalapeno (Terroir Seeds)
Jalapeno (Seeds of Change)
Black Cobra (THP)
Peruvian Cerezo (THP)
Cantina Gold (THP)
Thai Scorpion (Ramey Plant Farm)
Aji Amarillo (TGCM)
XL Antep Aci Dolma X (Downriver)
Chiltepin (Terroir Seeds)
Peri-Peri (THP)
Torres Cattywampus de Arbol (Downriver)
Datil (Ebay)
Datil (Tim)
Datil (Pure Florida)
Datil...