Dennish 2016 - Bacca to the Future

mpicante · Jan 16, 2016

Splendid variety list.The best of luck to you on your 2016 season.

D3monic · Jan 16, 2016

Does sound like a cool cross. Look forward to seeing how it turns out.

t0mato · Jan 16, 2016

That Cardi scorp looks awesome. I love how the base of the plant turns into a big ole' tree trunk. I feel like 2016 will be a decent year. Best of luck.

sirex · Jan 16, 2016

Jezzus!!! Look at the trunk on dem bitches!!! NICE!!!

dennish · Jan 18, 2016

mpicante said:
Splendid variety list.The best of luck to you on your 2016 season.

Cheers mpicante, the same to you [emoji3]

D3monic said:
Does sound like a cool cross. Look forward to seeing how it turns out.

Me too thanks! My first cross attempt, so hugely excited to see the results.

dennish · Jan 18, 2016

t0mato said:
That Cardi scorp looks awesome. I love how the base of the plant turns into a big ole' tree trunk. I feel like 2016 will be a decent year. Best of luck.

Thanks! His trunk gets fatter and more gnarly with every year and even makes a beautiful houseplant at this time of year too, helps me camouflage it from the wife :-)

sirex said:
Jezzus!!! Look at the trunk on dem bitches!!! NICE!!!

Cheers Sirex! Just pleased it's looking like I'll get another season out of the old boy.

Plantguy76 · Jan 19, 2016

In my opinion you can't go wrong with Scotch Bonnet varieties & there hybrids along with baccatum varieties
You got a great list there Dennish

dennish · Jan 19, 2016

Plantguy76 said:
In my opinion you can't go wrong with Scotch Bonnet varieties & there hybrids along with baccatum varieties
You got a great list there Dennish

Cheers for the comments Plantguy, couldn't agree with you more!

I grew SB Foodarama last season and loved them, I tried and failed (somehow - mystery disease struck) with SB MOA when the seed first broke a few seasons back so really looking forward to trying with these again. I always try and have at least one bonnet type incorporated into my grow...

SBJ7 come highly recommended from our mutual friend John/Trident, another I'm really looking forward to.

And as you can see above can't get enough c.baccatum!

Trident chilli · Jan 19, 2016

Awesome CARDI what a bonchi ... looks like it's going to be another great season for you and you won't be disappointed with SB7J

dennish · Jan 27, 2016

So quick update from me...

Lemon Drop Fantasy crosses continue to do well, growing quickly into healthy young plants...

Group shot, have re-potted quite a few as you can see.

az1000 · Jan 28, 2016

Nice work !

dennish · Feb 20, 2016

Quick update from me...

Looking pretty crowded now under the Growlight Garden, should have started a month later like I said I was going to do! On sunny days I have now started to put the plants on the windowsill in the daytime.

Baccas on the left and chinenses on the right...

Chinenses getting nice big deep leaves

Death Cap in particular looking beastly

Lemon Drop Fantasy crosses growing well, will be picking the strongest cross and backcross for potting up soon. As you would expect the plants look pretty identical at F1.

The odd couple... Orange Blob on the left, looking more annuum than chinense at this stage. Rocoto Montufar on the right looking hairy

Overwinters doing well… Quick snap of the venerable 5 year old TS CARDI, bristling with promise for the season ahead!

Aji Melecoton has been topped and coming along nicely too

Trident chilli · Feb 20, 2016

With you on that front Dennis ... larger plants moved out of the grow tent onto the dining room table which has the little lady all in a strop ... largest south facing area I can find this happens every year so she must be used to it ..... this means I can get more juveniles in the tents .... roll on Spring my friend

PS saved you a MoA Red if you still need one

dennish · Mar 9, 2016

It has begun. Can you feel the crackling of magic compost in the air? The Pottoning! A bit like The Quickening in 80's classic 'The Highlander', but with a compost scoop instead of a sword.

"There can BE ONLY one." Um... actually, no love... there are about 30 of them, don't worry they will be in the greenhouse before you know it...

:lol:

(sorry, I know I use this 'joke' each year, but it makes me laugh)

(check out the giant box in the background Amazon sent this in, complete with those giant air-bubble wrap things, what a massive waste of time and resources)

So last night I took the plunge and potted up the majority of my chinenses plants, all straining at the leash and becoming potbound in their 9cm pots after mid-January start. Now potted-up into 1l pots with Terra Canna Professional soil mix

Note to self when reading this back: don't plant till mid-Feb next season, you fool! :evil:

So here they are in groups as a record of progress at this stage.

And here is a shot of them on the windowsill, my wife is less than happy! I'll take a similar pic in a week or so to show you how quickly they kick-on from here.

You can see my two bacca crosses on the ends, I've now whittled these to just one plant of each type. I have to be ruthless with space at this stage in the game.

EDIT: Just noticed the pooling water in the garden on the last photo, rain coming down in stair rods here and the ground is totally saturated - my lawn is like a bog.

fred42 · Mar 9, 2016

Women like flowers so stick some plastic roses or plastic geraniums in every other pot...She will love them then..
Been there...Done that.

dennish · Apr 5, 2016

So quick update from me... things zipping along, general space headache indoors and too many plants for the final positions available - nothing new there then! :lol:

Windowsill chinenses doing really well, will be another month or so before I consider moving them outside to the GH. I really should have started a month later. :cry:

Some highlights...

Fatalii x Cleo's Dragon Yellow, very strong growth.

Scotch Bonnet MOA, fingers crossed this year!

Orange Blob - definitely more than a hint of pubescens on the leaves and stems now.

Peach Congo

And here are the rest, a mixed bag of annumms, baccatum and a few chinenses. I'm resisting potting on for now due to space limitations.

Also exciting news with my crosses which are bursting out of their 1l pots. Lemon Drop Fantasy F1 is 1m tall and setting it's first pod despite the limited pot size, hopefully I'll get a glimpse of what is to come before deciding how much time/space/energy to put into these plants.

Also, Mexican Sour Gherkin hiding amongst the chillies...

Trident chilli · Apr 5, 2016

Dennis all is coming along nicely you must be proud of your efforts to date

az1000 · Apr 7, 2016

Looking good Dennis.

dragonsfire · Apr 7, 2016

Great looking plants