D3monic's 2015 Glog. Lots of Pods.

D3monic · Jan 15, 2015

Removed all the grow equipment from the grow room and bleached the walls and floors. Letting it dry overnight before hitting it with a lil ortho home defense. There was tons of dead aphid dust all over. Hope it got them all. Wiped my baker rack down with bleach and will wipe all the lights down and everything as I move them back into the room.

Soaking my first batch of seeds in a weak earl grey tea solution. Used a pill dispenser to keep them separated (first thing I found that seemed useful)

Sun-Bhut Orange Copenhagen x9

Mon- Jays Peach Scorpion x9

Tues- Fatalii from Hells hot peppers x12

Wed- Bonda Ma Jaques x12

Thur- Butch T Yellow x9

Fri- 7 Pot Yellow x9

Sat- Sweet Datil x9

Will be planting 3 seeds to each solo cup and culling down to one plant each once the beans pop and I can tell who the weaklings are.

ohmatic · Jan 15, 2015

haha love the pillbox

D3monic · Jan 15, 2015

First batch of seedlings moved to solo cups and on the heat mat

D3monic · Jan 16, 2015

Next Seed batch is going to soak in the pill box. These are my more everyday edible varieties.

Sun- Bulsa de dulce

Mon- Aji Omni-color

Tue- Aji Limon

Wed- Fidalga Roxa

Thurs- White Bullet Hab.

Fri- Paper Lantern Hab.

Sat- Jamaican Hot Chocolate hab.

D3monic · Jan 17, 2015

Seedlings got moved from their pill box and into solo cups. Moved everything down to the basement on a bakers rack. Was in the lower 60's down there so I opened the only vent in that room and positioned the rack under it. between the vent and lights it's around 74 and slowly warming at seedling level. Hopefully in a few days the room should be warm enough to make them happy.

D3monic · Jan 21, 2015

No seedlings popped yet, I do have a couple seed trades in the works and looking forward to adding them to this years grow. Incoming are White bhut, White 7pot, White white fatalii and maybe a few other goodies. Looks like I will have a all white section in the garden and smell some crosses coming to mind.

organic pepper · Jan 21, 2015

Nice list! I started off with a list but well, Its morphed into something totally different. Good luck with your grow.

D3monic · Jan 21, 2015

Thanks, this is my favorite part of the grow next to harvest. The excitement of getting and planting new varieties.

of my seedlings planted Butch T yellow is the first to break the soil

WE HAVE A WINNER!

Peter S · Jan 22, 2015

Looks like a great start, nice list too! Look forward to seeing the progress. Good luck this season.

D3monic · Jan 22, 2015

Thanks Peter!

Had some more sprouts this morning. Looks like i'm getting a good germ rate from the Butch T in all three cups

Also Bulsa de dulce sprouting under humidity dome. Only one cup so far

D3monic · Jan 22, 2015

Aaaaand fungus gnats popping up already. Good thing I plan on bottom watering. Hate those little turds as much as aphids.

KiNGDeNNiZ · Jan 22, 2015

Add perlite... will help keep them away..

D3monic · Jan 22, 2015

Yea I really wish I had some but only had $13 that was barely enough for the crappy organic miracle grow. I'm unemployed right now so money hard to come by. If i do come into any I will probably buy a different soil mix all together. I don't like the way this stuff looks and well... it's already hatching out gnats. Once the seedlings pop I will put a layer of sand on top. That should help along with some mosquito dunks. But i've never won a battle against gnats. They are persistent little bugs.

D3monic · Jan 24, 2015

Lots more sprouts, lots more fungus gnats... can't wait to get some money to get different soil. Maybe lightwarrior or some promix. I'd say half the cups have spouts in them at this point. Haven't done any watering since initial soil soak. Going to try and keep things as dry as possible to fight off the gnats. Even hit the soil with a lil safer spray hoping it may have an effect on them.

D3monic · Jan 24, 2015

Moved some stuff around on the plant rack, set up a few of the LEDs over the seedlings so I can start the next round. Got two more spare LED pendants I can use.

Reds so heavy almost can't make out the seedlings in the pictures. I was going through my garden since it's in the 40's today and found a bag of perlite and manure. SCORE! Also selling some my old ps3 and ps4 games get a little scratch. Going to the hydro store SUN for a bag of proper soil.

These ones where in the humidity dome a little too long and look like they are a little heat stressed. They should perk back up now that it's 70 over them instead of 85.

Group hug

Also starting my Next batch of seeds.

Had a hard time deciding what was next but going with

Sun- White Fatalii
Mon- White Bhut
Tue- Urfa Beiber
Wed- Inca Berry
Thurs- Carribean red Hab

That just leaves a few I need to decide on.

Options are
Taquila hot (same as taquila sunrise? dunno, it's from ajijoe)
Orange Wild Brazil
Pecquilla
Aji Pineapple
or a Mystery cross I got from a batch of red savina I bought at the nursery that ended up more orange and shaped like a Bhut.

Started a poll, leaving the last two choices up to the public

http://thehotpepper.com/topic/52812-poll-help-pick-2-seeds-to-start-ends-tonight/

D3monic · Jan 25, 2015

Aji Pineapple and BG7 have won the Poll and gone in to tea soak for a few hours with the rest. Not nearly as long as the others though.

I wasn't happy with how chilly the rack was so I re-wrapped it in plastic. This time the panda plastic for light reflection. Just a simple wrap job not trying to turn it into a oven. Big slit down the middle so everything is still easily accessible. Only sitting at about 73 degrees F because the built in fans on the LED units.

Babies on the heat mat and watered with Zombie Juice.

Also started a couple Pineapple ground cherry tomatoes. Those and a tomatillo plant will be the only tomatoes I do.

D3monic · Jan 25, 2015

Checked on the plants this morning. All the ones that are up look good and not stretching or burning. Most cups have sprouts in them so far with poor results from bonda ma jaques, y 7pot and BOC. The BMJ seedlings are really small and weak looking, Y 7pot only has one sprout out of 9 so far and I think there was two BOC one of which is a helmet head and probably wont free itself.

Temps are still on the cool side since the addition of the LEDs. Their built in fans really cooling things off. Even with shelf wrapped in plastic and sitting under heat vent it's 73F right at seedling height.

D3monic · Jan 26, 2015

pics because, you know. There isn't any thing else to do at this point.... :mope:

Even with phones flash on the LED drowns out all other light. At least there isn't any stretch :party:

Can't wait until it's warm out and I can stain the garden fence and all my other woody items I installed last year. I miss summer so much

Not bad for being only grass and mud back there at the beginning of 2014

D3monic · Jan 26, 2015

Cold and snowing out. Chickadees hitting the feeders. Miss seeing all my Golden finches.