ikeepfish's 2014 grow log...season's end is nigh

I tried keeping a winter grow log of my indoor growing, but I was distracted too much by a girl I had been dating and let my endeavors go to the wayside.  More specifically, there was what I call an "aphidpocalypse" in my aquaponics and hydroponics that I wasn't doing a great job of keeping in check.  Only a few Thai plants survived as well as some plants I had overwintered.  Oh well, I have more seeds than I know what to do with, and I'm gunna keep on truckin'
 
That being said, I'm giving it another go with my seeds and indoor growing, which most will be going into the raised beds and in buckets out on the patio.  My grow list includes
 
C. chinense
 
Reaper
Fatalii
Trinidad Moruga Scorpion
Trinidad Scorpion chocolate
Trinidad Scorpion CARDI yellow (3 different phenotypes)
7 Pot Primo
7 Pot white
7 Pot Bubblegum***
7 Pot Chaguanas
7 Pot Merlot
7 Pot Brain Strain yellow
Aji Dulce
Naga Morich
Naga Viper
Bhut Jolokia red
Bhut Jolokia white
Bhut Jolokia peach
Bhut Jolokia chocolate
Bhut Jolokia X Pimenta de Neyde***
Pimenta de Neyde***
Devil's Tongue white
Murupi Amarela***
Scotch Bonnet brown
Red Savina Habanero
Habanero Yucatan white***
Habanero giant white
Habanero orange
 
C. baccatum
 
Aji Pineapple***
Blondie
Aji de la Tierra
 
C. annuum
 
Thai upright
Alma (overwintered)
Cherry Bomb hybrid (overwintered)
Cowhorn Cayenne***
Nosegay
Poinsettia (Japanese hot claw)
Czechoslovakian black
Sangria***
Tepin
Goatsweed
NuMex Sunrise
Black Pearl
Kashmiri***
Maule's Red Hot
Golden Cayenne (hybrid)***
Dragon Cayenne (hybrid)***
Jamaican Yellow mushroom
NuMex Big Jim and other Anaheims
Jalapeno purple
Hungarian Wax and other sweet and bell peppers.
 
*** these varieties were not started from seed, I will grow them out and see what happens.
 
I'm starting my seeds in the peat pellet self-watering greenhouse kits made by Jiffy, which previously I only used for tomatoes.  I don't have aphids now but I'm trying to be cautious and having them under the plastic lids while they're small.  It looks like I'll probably end up with hundreds of seedlings but only time will tell.  They're being started under T5 lighting in a grow tent.  I'm planting my chinenses one to a pod so I don't feel the urge to cull any but my annuums are two to a pellet pod, I'll cull them if necessary.  I have a few dried pods of various annuums that I'm hoping to get hybrid plants out of, namely some prospective Thai X Anaheim seeds.  We'll see.  I have some connections at a local commune that I trade seeds with and I'm looking at getting some unusual heirlooms from them this week, fingers crossed.  I most likely won't be running any peppers in the aquaponics anymore, I'm 100% certain they get WAY more nutes than they need from the fish water and it's done a lot of damage to my adult plants.
 
Oh, and everyone likes pictures, so here's a few...not so glamorous at the moment, sorry.
 

 
Some overwinters, the sticks are still green, I'm assuming they're still alive.  I water them barely about once a week.
 

 

[Runescape]

How did i miss the update with the black widow spider? Thats insane...
 
plants lookin good, esp the pineapple...

 

[sp33d]

I love the cinder block raised bed...awesome idea...

 

[Seacowboy]

Looking real good bud. I usually get 4-5 black widows in heathsville every year and that 4-5 is way too many. 
We only got .6" from all those storms and the hurricane didn't bring any to the house but 3" in heathsville. But we needed it there badly. 

 

[Helvete]

How did i miss the update with the black widow spider? Thats insane...
 
plants lookin good, esp the pineapple...

I have a soft spot for skinny uprights, this pineapple might be one of my new favorites. 
 

I love the cinder block raised bed...awesome idea...

lol those cinderblocks have a story that ties into the "family feud" I was talking about earlier in the glog.  The biggest issue I have with them is grass growing like wildfire in the holes in the blocks and having to weedeat...VERY carefully so I don't clip the peppers.  I've got plans to fill them with sand or gravel or something or even top them with flat 2" blocks but haven't gotten around to it
 

Looking real good bud. I usually get 4-5 black widows in heathsville every year and that 4-5 is way too many. 
We only got .6" from all those storms and the hurricane didn't bring any to the house but 3" in heathsville. But we needed it there badly. 

oh man, I can kill one a day if I wanted to.  We have a (ironically) widow's walk that gives us access to the entire roof around the house...I can go up there and probably kill 20 in one lap around the house....if the wasps don't make me break my neck.  I had monsoon rains from Arthur with no wind, now the temperatures are very cool, probably around 70 right now.

 

[sp33d]

Yeah a little sand in there would work like a charm..

 

[Seacowboy]

<p>Screw that with all those widows. I was bit on my foot by a brown widow in my garage when I loved down in Florida and if was nasty. Had hundreds of those suckers pop up and declared war with a torch and sort of nasty spray.&nbsp;</p>

 

[Dhfreak82]

<p>Screw that with all those widows. I was bit on my foot by a brown widow in my garage when I loved down in Florida and if was nasty. Had hundreds of those suckers pop up and declared war with a torch and sort of nasty spray.&nbsp;</p>

Id be doing the Same thing. Fu@k poisonous spiders. We have hobos, and brown recluse up here. I have seen a few black widows. And pretty much ran the opposite way! Haha. I just about stepped on a rattler snake last summer out hiking. That will make ya jump out of your own skin.

 

[Dhfreak82]

How's everything lookin man? I wanna see your pineapple and your pmd bro.

 

[Helvete]

Id be doing the Same thing. Fu@k poisonous spiders. We have hobos, and brown recluse up here. I have seen a few black widows. And pretty much ran the opposite way! Haha. I just about stepped on a rattler snake last summer out hiking. That will make ya jump out of your own skin.

Brown recluse cases here are usually misdiagnoses of something else...however near military bases, ports, and airports they can sometimes crop up --it gets mostly too cold in Virginia for them to live here.  But we have the pleasure of having the largest widow species in the world XD.  And timber rattlesnakes that get over 6 ft, copperheads, and cottonmouths.  Also 6 foot rat snakes (they are pretty cool though)
 

How's everything lookin man? I wanna see your pineapple and your pmd bro.

my plants dropped some flowers over the holiday weekend because of some cooler temperatures, kind of upset because my big reaper was affected.  here's some pics though
 
here's my big Pimenta de Neyde, it has about a dozen pods on it right now, none are bigger than a half inch...you can see my second one behind it, slowly catching up.  It just started noding really good

 
one of the aji pineapples...the other one actually started budding, it's kind of a runt compared to this one though

 
ok...my MYSTERY plant is not an annuum....or maybe it is....it looked like one when it was younger and now it looks chinense....I'm so confused by this one.

 
Thai plants about to ripen up

 
Dragon cayenne ripening.  I'm actually very impressed with these plants, I started some F2 seeds.

 
Sangria full colors.  I harvested it right after this shot, it'll be pushing out more buds soon I'm sure

 
two Takanotsume plants blooming

 
aaaand  7 pot bubblegum (one of ten)

 

[chile_freak]

Looking great bro!

 

[Helvete]

I'm getting a whole lot of flower drop, plus this so called "polar vortex" is bringing temperatures in the upper 50's to Virginia XD.  I'll have some ripe Fatalii pods soon. 
 
In the meantime, here's the man behind the mission
 

 

[Dhfreak82]

Nice update bro. Sorry to hear about the blossom drop. I've been dealing with it too, however mine is from high temps. It's been over 90 for a week now and my vegetive growth is explosive. After I moved the plants so that they are in partial shade. I've gotten some ghosts to set.

 

[Helvete]

I'm gonna have a lot of pod updates in the next week or so.
 
here's some news
 
flowering Czechoslovakian black

 
my Fatalii in the Ocean Forest is apparently a cross, I'm thinking Fatalii X Moruga

 
 
a BBG7 in the fishtank

 
Speedy Fatalii......any day now!

 
 
I also have a ton of aji pineapple and PDN pods that will be ready any day

 

[beerbreath81]

just catching up on your glog, man everything is looking really good, great job! the peppers in the aquaponics look very healthy too, I really need to whip mine back into shape...having some calcium deficiency issues. But fish seem to be happy.
 
Those black widow spiders are nothin to mess with, since moving I have found a handful around my house and even a few in my basement. I actually never seen one in real life until this year. They really are a beautiful looking spider, but since venemous I kill every one I see, which is ALOT and there egg sacs. Heres one I caught, I always thought the red was on their back not thier belly. This picture was the first one I saw, looking at it I thought it was a black widow but really didnt see the red hourglass then i snapped a picture with the flash and BOOM there it is.
 

 

[Helvete]

just catching up on your glog, man everything is looking really good, great job! the peppers in the aquaponics look very healthy too, I really need to whip mine back into shape...having some calcium deficiency issues. But fish seem to be happy.
 
Those black widow spiders are nothin to mess with, since moving I have found a handful around my house and even a few in my basement. I actually never seen one in real life until this year. They really are a beautiful looking spider, but since venemous I kill every one I see, which is ALOT and there egg sacs. Heres one I caught, I always thought the red was on their back not thier belly. This picture was the first one I saw, looking at it I thought it was a black widow but really didnt see the red hourglass then i snapped a picture with the flash and BOOM there it is.
 

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yeah the aquaponics are doing much better than my regular hydro, I had a mishap and forgot to use hygrozyme or  peroxide and got slime and it got in the stems before I noticed.  I'll have to take a peek at your glog and catch up too
 
it helps to be able to identify male black widows too just in case you don't know what they look like
 
here's some more pics from today
 
friendly fellow this guy, a wheel bug on wild cherry

 
aaaaaand
 
Ripe pod on the speedy fatalii!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

 

[beerbreath81]

yeah the aquaponics are doing much better than my regular hydro, I had a mishap and forgot to use hygrozyme or  peroxide and got slime and it got in the stems before I noticed.  I'll have to take a peek at your glog and catch up too
 
it helps to be able to identify male black widows too just in case you don't know what they look like
 
here's some more pics from today
 
friendly fellow this guy, a wheel bug on wild cherry

 
aaaaaand
 
Ripe pod on the speedy fatalii!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Cant see the pics?

 

[Helvete]

Ok, oops, I forgot to give some updates, so here you go!  The Scottish weather finally cleared and I'm getting a lot of activity finally!  Pod pr0n anyone?
 
red bhut blooming

 
 
second wave of pods on big PDN plant

 
Murupi Amarela

 
 
Aji Pineapple

 
 
Unknown fatalii cross

 
 
Reaper.  Still dropping buds, no pods XD  if you look close you can see a ladybug

 
 
Yucatan white habanero

 
 
slow ass Moruga finally budding

 
 
second wave Thai blooms

 
 
Corno di Toro

 
 
aaand that's 10 I need a bump

 

[ribbedturtleneck]

Bump

 

[Helvete]

thanks man!
 
Takanotsume!

 
 
NuMex Big Jim

 
 
Big ass BBG7 plant in the raised bed

 
 
Giant jalas.  I mean huge.

 
 
I finally let my black krim start fruiting

 
 
Elisir is finally budding too! (Bhut X PDN)  Very slow plant.  Definitely an overwinter candidate

 
 
Speedy Fatalii with the little guys, it's finally pushing out new growth and buds for the 2nd wave.  Gonna be freakin loaded

 
aaand one of my other projects, this is a Datura stramonium that's blooming and fruiting.  The bugs f'n love these things.  On on the left is up to my chest, one on the right is a runt but it's pushing out a lot of nodes right now.

 

[Spicegeist]

Love the Pimenta da Neyde, such great color on that.
 
Datura stramonium in pots?  Hmm... not sure about that though... I see it as a weed all over the place here.  They are cool looking plants , just put them in the ground next year though.