Glogs

The Hot Pepper · Dec 30, 2024

Hey growers! We're about to ring in the new year! Use this Group Glog in 2 ways: Perhaps you don't want to start your own Glog, and that's fine! Just drop your progress posts here! You might have your own Glog but it is very specific, that's fine, drop your more random posts here! Either way, have fun, and enjoy your 2025 grows! THP

TouchedMyEyes · Dec 14, 2024

TouchedMyEyes 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

JAB Farms · Mar 12, 2024

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...

FroggyMamma · Nov 1, 2024

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!

FroggyMamma · Oct 27, 2024

FroggyMamma · Nov 12, 2024

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...

SatanicFlatIron · Dec 30, 2024

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). 🐢🐍🦎 Soil is a...

hadanero · Dec 22, 2024

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...

wiicek · Oct 15, 2024

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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GROW LIST: I -...

jgundo · Monday at 8:36 AM

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..

Ohjay · Dec 24, 2024

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...

MarcV · Dec 3, 2022

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...

Isotope Chillies · Jan 23, 2025

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...

dragonsfire · Jan 4, 2025

-11c Porch Plants still good. Started a few seeds, only couple inches tall and not growing much.

NJChilehead · Dec 29, 2024

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...

wiicek · Nov 26, 2023

Welcome to The First BalcoJungle Year! Second Year => Hi! 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...

internationalfish · Jun 1, 2023

Well here we go again! After my friend @Alejandro took the last two plants off my hands (Jamaican red hab and sugar rush cream), I'm starting from scratch for the first time in a while. Very, very humble beginnings: One sprout and one hook! Granted... they're both basil. :) Still under the lid, waiting for hooks: Alma paprika Looking forward to having these again. I grew them quite a while ago and had good results; hopefully, having gotten a bit better with the hydroponics, this time will be even better. Chocolate habanero Another one I've grown before (not looking to do much new this time around, mostly bringing back the old favorites). I know annuum x chinense isn't the most reliable mix, but if I decide to revive the hybrid...

Englander · Dec 14, 2024

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"...

DWB · Oct 20, 2018

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...

Englander · Dec 15, 2024

Hi Guy's 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...

growyourown · Jan 8, 2025

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...

CaneDog · Dec 18, 2024

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...

PaulG · Feb 8, 2024

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.

Pepper-Guru · Jan 26, 2014

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!

growyourown · Dec 14, 2023

confession: your very own @growyourown calls himself a pepper lover and has never grown scotch bonnets! BLASPHEMOUS, i know; i intend to rectify this in 2024. i have several varieties to try, and am excited to do so. i just gotta write this now partially because i have the seeds and i'm excited, and also because if i get this intro crap out of the way, it's a quick post to make once i actually drop seeds over christmas. HERE'S THE SEEDS I BOUGHT FOR THE YEAR (note asterisks): bonnets: scotch bonnet trinidad red 900k * scotch brains yellow 1M+ scotch bonnet 6-colour mix: --choc/peach/red/orange/yellow/safi others: chin – fatalii yellow 900k chin – congo black X butch t choc 1.1M ** pube – rocoto giant yellow 50k frut – hijo puta...

Downriver · Jan 1, 2025

Today's the first of the year, so it must be time to start a glog. That's it, for now, lol.

Dougthehead · Mar 13, 2024

Drunken Bee · Dec 21, 2023

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...

Dougthehead · Dec 27, 2024

Cool list coming. I found some neat things this year. Pic is of my favorite pepper of 2024, I have watched this one grow for months praying it would ripen. It's my favorite pepper I have ever grown. It's a giant chocolate habanero, probably a Jamaican hot chocolate variety. I'm going to grow this one out for a long time hopefully because I want this one to be my legacy. Call it Ripple.

Bou · Oct 7, 2023

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...

PaulG · Dec 31, 2020

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!

ChilliCrosser · Jun 28, 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...

Plantguy76 · Mar 1, 2024

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...

windchicken · Jan 16, 2016

Long-time THP veterans mourned the loss last August of Amarillo, Texas musician/songwriter/silversmith/chilehead Erin Mason, known to us here on the boards as P. Dreadie. Erin was an enigma, one of the most interesting and creative, yet gentle and loving guys I ever knew. Many of us may be unaware that he played harmonica in one of the original Austin, Texas bands of the early 1970s "Cosmic Cowboy" era, Alvin Crow and the Pleasant Valley Boys. When Erin decided to step off of Alvin's perpetually-touring bus and return to Amarillo, he travelled to Jamaica, fell in love with the Reggae beat, collected the best Scotch Bonnet fruit he could find, and his alter-ego Papa Dreadie was born. In 2013 Erin sent me a few pods of the Scotch...

Bou · Jan 4, 2023

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

hadanero · Jan 3, 2024

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...

Linyera · Sep 30, 2024

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

Marturo · Feb 21, 2024

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...

dragonsfire · May 1, 2024

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. :)

Blackcobra · Nov 21, 2024

I planted these seeds a month ago and the progress is 3 times as fast as growing in soil. Its my first time doing it in a system like this. Im not sure what to expect. If anyone has experience with this way of growing having any tips for me let me know!

NJChilehead · Sep 21, 2024

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)...