Figured I would start up a GLOG as this will be my first big year. Last year all I did was Carolina Reaper and got 9 plants out of 10 seeds. They took forever to germinate. Started 5 in paper towel/zip lock bag. Nothing happened after 2-3 weeks so moved them into hydro seed starter. Also put 5 into jiffy pellets in a seed starter. Those germinated pretty quickly and eventually the seeds in the hydro seed starter germinated.
All 9 of those plants are still alive although my 4 are the biggest. My buddy has 4 and his got mites and he had to trim them to nothing and bomb them with neem, but they are coming back. My other buddy has 1 and he has struggled with it and he grows a lot of Hab's so he knows how to grow peppers.
This year I just did seeds straight into soil in a seed starter tray on a heat mat. Soaked them in straight water over night(about 18 hours) and then into the soil. Got about a liter of water in the bottom of the tray and then misted the tops with filtered water.
Started the following:
Bhut Orange Copenhagen x 8
Jays Peach Ghost Scorpion x 8
Aji Pineapple x 6
Aji Sugar Rush x 6
I started double what I want to eventually end up with and will give away what I dont use. I have a few more seeds of each type if these dont do anything. I tried to pick out the better looking seeds in the package. All seeds came from Refining Fire Chili's so I am hoping for good germination rates.
In Dallas I should be able to be in the ground around March 1 so the plan is to get these up and going and transplanted into either solo cups or some small plastic garden pots(found various sizes online for like 30c a piece) and then be ready to go into the ground with them.
Ive also got 4 varieties of bell peppers, 4 varieties of tomato, 2 variety of cucumber, and 2 variety of beans that will also get planted.
Im all ears for advice as like I said, this is my first big year, but my Reapers are still alive and slowly look to be popping pods. I now know a lot of the things I did wrong with those and hope to not repeat the mistakes. Most of those mistakes were simply over watering and not re-potting in a timely fashion and allowing the plants to get a little root bound.
All 9 of those plants are still alive although my 4 are the biggest. My buddy has 4 and his got mites and he had to trim them to nothing and bomb them with neem, but they are coming back. My other buddy has 1 and he has struggled with it and he grows a lot of Hab's so he knows how to grow peppers.
This year I just did seeds straight into soil in a seed starter tray on a heat mat. Soaked them in straight water over night(about 18 hours) and then into the soil. Got about a liter of water in the bottom of the tray and then misted the tops with filtered water.
Started the following:
Bhut Orange Copenhagen x 8
Jays Peach Ghost Scorpion x 8
Aji Pineapple x 6
Aji Sugar Rush x 6
I started double what I want to eventually end up with and will give away what I dont use. I have a few more seeds of each type if these dont do anything. I tried to pick out the better looking seeds in the package. All seeds came from Refining Fire Chili's so I am hoping for good germination rates.
In Dallas I should be able to be in the ground around March 1 so the plan is to get these up and going and transplanted into either solo cups or some small plastic garden pots(found various sizes online for like 30c a piece) and then be ready to go into the ground with them.
Ive also got 4 varieties of bell peppers, 4 varieties of tomato, 2 variety of cucumber, and 2 variety of beans that will also get planted.
Im all ears for advice as like I said, this is my first big year, but my Reapers are still alive and slowly look to be popping pods. I now know a lot of the things I did wrong with those and hope to not repeat the mistakes. Most of those mistakes were simply over watering and not re-potting in a timely fashion and allowing the plants to get a little root bound.