NeedsWork 2017 - Year Three

Trident chilli · Jan 2, 2017

SB7J and NeBru7 both in my top three for SB hybrids .... if you haven't grown these before you will be treated to two great peppers. Wishing you all the best for 2017

PaulG · Jan 3, 2017

Nice evenly distributed varieties across the heat range, Nick.

Good luck this season!

D3monic · Jan 3, 2017

nice rounded list. Following

NeedsWork · Jan 10, 2017

Trident chilli said:
SB7J and NeBru7 both in my top three for SB hybrids .... if you haven't grown these before you will be treated to two great peppers. Wishing you all the best for 2017

Thanks!! Now I'm excited!

PaulG said:
Nice evenly distributed varieties across the heat range, Nick.

Good luck this season!

Thanks! It's tough to constrain my grow to my small city garden. Every year we find more favorites.

D3monic said:
nice rounded list. Following

Thanks, I always have to grow a few supers for the one night a month I feel like ruining my morning. :flamethrower:

January 10th update
Not as much progress as I would like after about a week. My first issue was my fan. It was moving too much air around inside preventing the germ trays from reaching 83F. Then my temp sensor fell out of the germ tray and heat soaked. This caused the exhaust fan to run all night, dropping the ambient temp. THEN my HPS bulb failed sometime last night so I had to swap in my MH from last season. Those are my excuses for a slower germ rate compared to last year.

Let's hope all of the issues are out of the way. Knock on wood

Good news:

New seeds from Pepper Joe (PJ) and Juanitos (J). That should end my pepper seed starting for this year.

PJ Pumpkin Hab
PJ Hungarian
PJ White Hab
PJ Jalapeno
PJ Boldog Paprika
PJ Jigsaw
PJ Yellow Ghost

J SBJ7 F5
J Chocolate Moruga
J Jays Peach Ghost Scorpion
J Scotch Brain F4
J Paper Lantern Hab
J Scotch Bonnet MOA
J West Indies Red Hab
J Cumari Do Para (These smell amazing... I almost ate them instead of planting them)

I ordered a replacement bulb for the light:

We will see how dual arc works. Seems like more to go wrong to me...
https://www.1000bulbs.com/product/88210/PX-LU1000MHDA.html

Germination update:

Carribean Red Habs OP 2016
Carribean Red Hab OP 2016 with spiked pods
Long Red Cayenne
Bahamian Goat OP 2016 with long tail
Chile De Arbol

There might be others but I didn't want to lift the lid.

Some photos:

NeedsWork · Jan 17, 2017

MH + HPS bulb arrived. It has been a slow start to the year, but the supers are starting to pop.

tsurrie · Jan 20, 2017

Nice crowd over there at your place... good luck with the grow.

Essegi · Jan 20, 2017

Nice list!
I hope no more equipement failure now!
Good luck!

NeedsWork · Jan 20, 2017

tsurrie said:
Nice crowd over there at your place... good luck with the grow.

Thanks! They are slowly starting to wake up.

Essegi said:
Nice list!
I hope no more equipement failure now!
Good luck!

Let's hope so! Thanks!

I did some potting up tonight. Some of the plants were a little small, but I'm not sure when my next opportunity will be. I'm trying some cheap containers this year in place of solo cups. The hope is they will be easier to bring in and out later in the year.

3.5" deep pots: http://www.greenhousemegastore.com/product/black-form-pots-hobby-pack/seed-pots
Trays: http://www.greenhousemegastore.com/product/form-pocket-trays-50-case

It might be cold, but I'm really happy that I sealed and painted the floor in my office / project room.

The dirt is in the box to keep the cats out... but the cat ended up camping in the box.

The mess cleaned up nicely.

Thanks for stopping by! :onfire:

mrwrx · Jan 20, 2017

Looking good, all the best with your grow.

Devv · Jan 21, 2017

Nice start!

And good luck with your grow!

And regarding pets, the first garden fence was to stop my dogs from "helping". For some reason they just needed to dig up anything I planted, because they could :rolleyes:

moruga welder · Jan 21, 2017

looking good my friend ! :party:

NeedsWork · Jan 26, 2017

mrwrx said:
Looking good, all the best with your grow.

Thank you!!

Devv said:
Nice start!

And good luck with your grow!

And regarding pets, the first garden fence was to stop my dogs from "helping". For some reason they just needed to dig up anything I planted, because they could

Thanks! Furry friends seem to like to 'help' in any way that they can.

moruga welder said:
looking good my friend !

Thanks!!

Slowly picking up speed

I moved some more little ones to pots. 100% transplant survival so far.

I have a long way to go to get to this random motivational photo from spring last year:

NeedsWork · Jan 26, 2017

My overwinter Bahamian goat hasn't done anything. Underperforming plants are subject to experimentation. Enter nearly zero dollar Kratky. WILL IT LIVE??? :hell:

FiresOfNil · Jan 27, 2017

I start with ocean forest too, just had some guys at a local Hydro shop tell me it's too hot for seed starting.
That would explain the seeds that popped 2 days after sowing without pre-soak /sarcasm.

Anyways, I'll be following your grow, looks good so far!

Devv · Jan 28, 2017

I'm liking your progress

On the way to a killer grow!

NeedsWork · Jan 29, 2017

FiresOfNil said:
I start with ocean forest too, just had some guys at a local Hydro shop tell me it's too hot for seed starting.
That would explain the seeds that popped 2 days after sowing without pre-soak /sarcasm.

Anyways, I'll be following your grow, looks good so far!

I've heard that too, possibly from the same hydro shop

. I've never had a problem with seedlings in ocean forest. Maybe other plants are more sensitive...

Devv said:
I'm liking your progress

On the way to a killer grow!

Thanks!! I only have room to plant out 40-50 plants, but I like giving/trading away the extras.

Everyone in pots:

De Arbol (2)
Infinity Monster (4)
7 Pot Brainstrain (2)
Pasillo Bajio (2)
West Indies Red Hab
Nebru Australia
Bhut Jolokia - seeds from 2nd season plant (8)
Trinidad Scorpion
Paper Lantern Hab (2)
Cayenne Joe Long (4)
Jay's Peach Ghost Scorpion (2)
Yellow Bhut (3)
Bahamian Goat - long tail pod
Dragon Cayenne (2)
Long Red Cayenne (7)
Carribean Red - spiked pod (4)
Carribean Red - large pod (4)
Chocolate Moruga (3)
Madballz Rusty 7 Pot (2)
SBJ7
Reaper
Padron
Jalapeno (3)
Cumari do Para
Scotch Brain
Jigsaw
SB MOA
White Hab (3)

Three year old bhut is flowering

Edit: typo

NeedsWork · Feb 4, 2017

One month since soaking the first batch of seeds. All of the plants received their second watering last night. The nearly zero dollar Kratky experiment has greened up after ~1 week.

NeedsWork · Feb 14, 2017

Hey pepper people - love stalking the glogs every morning!

Life has been pretty crazy. I'm in the process of changing jobs. I've only had one job - so it's new territory for me.

This is also week six of no alcohol during the week. Before Christmas, I would kill 3-4 craft brews a night. It was killing my waistline and my wallet. So shortly after the new year, I switched to drinking hot tea during the week and doing Body Beast.

Thus... the poor peppers have been neglected. Hopefully this weekend I will get a chance to space them out. Thanks for stopping in!

Essegi · Feb 16, 2017

Looking good!

NeedsWork said:
Life has been pretty crazy. I'm in the process of changing jobs. I've only had one job - so it's new territory for me.

Well, good luck!