Island_Dan 2013 Glog (First super hot grow season!)

Well everyone thanks to my Caribbean background and heritage, I have always been interested in spicy foods and ever since I heard about the Trinidad scorpion pepper, being a Trinidadian citizen, I have become fascinated with super hots and thanks to this site and to all the great people I have met here, I am starting my first big pepper grow season!!!

Thank you THP for getting me addicted!!!

So to in starting my first season, I planted 7 plants in potting mix about 2 and a half months ago. Those consist of 3 Trinidad scorpion butch T's, a moruga scorpion, a yellow seasoning pepper and 2 bonda ma jaques.

I have 2 moruga seedlings in DWC's running my happy vs stressed experiment and I have put to germinate a lot more varieties. Maybe too much for my first season but here is what I am going to run.

SB7J F1
SB7J F2
Ice Scream Scorpion F1
Ghost scorpion
Douglah
Twisted Chocolate Habanero
7 pot yellow
7 pot chocolate barrackpor
7 pot white
7 pot burgundy
7 pot orange
Naga morich
congo trinidad
fatalii yellow
brain strain
chocolate trinidad scorpion
black naga
Tobago seasoning red
St. Lucia seasoning yellow
CGN 21500
Pi 281429
Antilles Fire
Infinity
yellow bhut jalokia
HP22B
chocolate bhut jalokia
Manzano
Black Habanero
Trinidad Scorpion Yellow Cardi
Beni Highland
Devil's Tongue
Trinidad Scorpion Butch T
Trinidad Scorpion Moruga
Bonda Ma Jaques
King Chile (Unknown dried yellow pod sent from India)

That makes 34 Varieties for this first season and I may add more I am guessing.

I am also growing buttom mushrooms for the first time and will include this in the grow log. I got some wheat spawn off of eBay (yeah I know), and I seeded my substrate. So far they are blooming and the mycelium is spreading through the substrate slowly. When the substrate becomes fully myceliated, I will add the compost layer and wait for my first flush. I may use my myceliated substrate to seed some fresh substrate and that way I can keep a constant mushroom farm going since I LOVE mushrooms.

Here are some pictures of what is already growing, my morugas in the DWC's and what is germinating. So far out of germinating seeds, the yellow fatalii has popped on 1/19/2013.

Also what is in sure to grow cubes will be all grown hydroponically. In the past I grow everything hydroponically but due to the mass number of plants this year, I can only manage 10-13 full grown peppers indoor so the rest will be outside in pots when the weather warms.

Time for pictures!!!!

Damn I can't wait for everything to be grown and producing already!!!!

 

[Pepperhead]

Wow! What an ambitious start! That is a lot of pepper varieties! It's my first super hot year as well and I've got 11 or 12 I'll be starting this weekend but that's my upper limit for space. Your stuff looks great, I might try DWC sometime, but I spend too much on just my soil grow.

 

[sudostahp]

Good luck on the grow! Before peppers I grew a lot of mushrooms. It's a really fun experience, but mold becomes a real battle.

 

[Island_Dan]

Awesome sudo! It's my first time at mushrooms and I love button mushrooms so if I can get 10 pounds out of 3 flushes I will be happy! I will keep using my spawn to seed new substrate and keep it cycling that way but I will look out for possible fungus problems in the future. That you for the heads up. Maybe I should put them in a separate room to avoid contaminating my peppers.

 

[sudostahp]

A little distance is probably for the best. Three flushes is a good goal, but keep an eye on the PH if you see green (the dreaded trich) toss the substrate.

Still waiting on the Primos from Grant, but I'll shoot you a PM so you know when to expect some seeds in the mail.

 

[Island_Dan]

Sweet thanks. I will add it to my glog as soon as you send them to me.

 

[Prehensile]

Nice start good luck!

 

[WalkGood]

Dat list is long, great luck & success in 13

 

[Chewi]

Glad to be watching this one ID!! Quite the list
These in particular sound great!

Twisted Chocolate Habanero
fatalii yellow
Beni Highland
Devil's Tongue

Much luck, look forward to seeing this progress!

 

[patrick]

Looking forward to watching this one, including the shrooms. Good luck Dan.

 

[Justaguy]

Looks like a great start

 

[FireEater101]

Wow that looks like one heck of a list for the first year!! Thats awesome!! 2013 will be my first year to grow superhots as well and I thought I was starting big with 10 varieties. I hope you are really successful in your grow. I am going to start my seeds indoors tomorrow. Oh and you said shrooms mmm delicious love mushrooms. I will check out your glog as the season progresses good luck!!

 

[Island_Dan]

Thanks everyone for the great replies. I have a question for the people who have grown mushrooms in the past. How myceliated should I let the substrate become before I uncover the substrate and begin a more constant misting regiment? Also at what point do I add compost on top of the substrate? I have done my research but answers from those with experience is always the best.

 

[sudostahp]

I used to let mine fully colonize their environment. I also used to use Quart sized jars with one-way valves, so contamination was rarely an issue. Open air may be a whole new beast. I never used compost for either my substrate or wood loving mushrooms. I always mixed the substrate into coco coir / vermiculite / perlite and stuck them in the humidifier.

 

[Island_Dan]

Wow my Stone Age technique seems all wrong now. I guess if I succeed and get hooked then I will invest in more technically advanced techniques. I am growing right now in just a mixture if woodchips and sawdust but I don't want to stir anything else in for fear of disturbing the mycelium. The green fungal growth is not already out in thin white threads so something is working alright.

 

[Island_Dan]

Swapped my lights around and cleaning out my grow room to make space for everything. Broke out the 4lamp T8 and put the CFL over the dwc experiment. Going to set up another grow corner soon and put up another CFL in that corner.

So far only the fatalii yellow and now a Jay's ghost scorpion has popped. The fatalli is getting big fast and ghost scorpion is just hooking. Hopefully in the next couple days, I will have tons of hooks and pictures to post!!

 

[coheed196]

What is this "ice cream scorpion" you spoke of? I've never heard of it.

 

[Island_Dan]

It's a new pepper from butch T that is still in F1 phase.

This is what Butch told me about it,

"The Ice Scream Scorpion is a f1 that showed up in my TS grow out last
year and doesn't resemble or taste like any of the peppers I have grown in years
it may be a genetic throwback to a pepper I was working on back in 2006. In any
case its a very sweet pepper with a unusual color and hotter than habanero's, but
not in the range of the superhots."

I joined the effort to stabilize it and hopefully we can spread this pepper around the growing community in the near future.

 

[coheed196]

Ah, that sounds pretty awesome, good luck with it.

 

[Island_Dan]

Well some bad news. I have had horrible germination using the jiffy pellets. Almost everything in the sure to grow cubes have germinated leaving me to believe the jiffy pellets have been the issue. Out of 30 pellets, I have only had 3 seeds pop.

But all is not lost! I bought some coco coir and seed starter mix and combined the two and will be restarting my seed germination using this new mixture and red solo cups.

The other plants are doing great and I now have a jays ghost scorpion in a dwc. The two moruga's for the experiment are getting big and the 7 plants I had since November and blooming and just got transplanted into two gallon containers.

Picture time!