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Hi everyone Thought Id start a glog as I wanna keep a log of my grow all in one place. Hoping to update regular updates throughout the year. Today I made a grow tent out of an old wooden shelving unit I had kicking about. I also decided to take the punt on a led grow light as a windowsill through the winter in England isnt the best. Any tips and feedback welcome Happy Growing
Greetings all!   This is my first thread and im planning to write about this year hot peppers grow in Slovenia, Europe. At the moment, we are in the middle of winter, temperatures reaching -15 degrees Celsius and i already started on seedlings for next year. Im planning to grow several different strains, specifics mentioned in the bottom. I will plant the strongest seedling of every strain in the pot, placing outside my house, where they will be getting almost full day of sun. the rest of them will be grown in my garden or smaller raised beds. So far, i have 5 strong seedlings of Tiger skin - purple pheno and 4 seedlings of carolina reaper, seeds for both were bought on ebay, so idont have any guarantee that plants are what are they...
I have never grown anything intentionally before but I wanted to try. Last year I bought some seeds from a local supplier here and tried to germinate them and failed. Not a single sprout. I kinda gave up. But around May I saw a sorry looking ghost pepper plant (at least that's what it was labeled as) sitting at Lowes so I bought it and put it in a small pot. Despite my neglect (and being away for a month during summer), the thing grew and put out a good set of pods. So this year, I'm highly motivated to give some serious pepper growing a go.   Determined to succeed this time, I educated myself and learned about the need for heat mats etc. I also watched a ton of Peter Stanley and Kangstar's videos which were hugely helpful.   I started...
Here is my grow long for 2020, its been about a handful of years since my last garden. I figure it would try to get back at since i bought a home this past Sept, and now I have unrestricted access to what i can and can not do :lol:. It will just be a small garden with a handful of plants, plus my plumeria's.   While I am at it, I going to try and make a cross or two, depending on how successfully I am,   My Grow list will be as follows:   Fatalii Pepper (Orange) for the 2020 grow-down throw-down (sowed 01-12-19) Fatalii Pepper (Yellow) (sowed 01-01-2020) Pimenta De Neyde Pepper (sowed 12-24-19) Aji Lemon Drop Pepper (sowed 01-01-2020 Carolina Reaper x Pink Tiger F4 (sowed 07-24-19) - Faddas Pepper   First ups is the Carolina Reaper x...
This was the day I topped the plant.  This is a plant I bought at a local big box store about a week prior.   The soil is Kellogg Potting Soil with added Perlite to allow for better aeration.  There are no extra nutrients added yet as it is still a fresh transplant.  I have a small indoor grow light box for wintering cuttings, but I am enjoying watching the growth under sunshine.     Less than two weeks later with only fall sun and airy soil.  It looks like there might be a happy plant! :)  
We're relatively new chile fanatics with our first decent home garden crop just this past summer.   I think it's safe to say we too have officially been bitten by the chile bug.  I think we grew around 50 plants to maturity this past summer.   For 2020, our plans are to up the number to 132 and grow 1 plant each of 96 + 6 plants/each of 6 for a total of 132.  The last of the seeds are ordered and the final stragglers should arrive by New Year's Eve.    We're now trying to decide how best to establish the chile plants going into the garden for 2020.   Not quite sure how soon to start them indoors here in Maine.  Last year we started everything around 4/1 but want to build in a buffer of a couple weeks this year to allow us to pinch the...
While I'm (successfully) growing plenty of herbs at the moment, the important stuff is obviously the peppers... and, since I'm pretty sure I baked the first set of seeds I attempted to germinate due to underestimating the power of my seedling heat mat after moving it into the grow tent, we're calling that a swing and a miss and moving on with Batch #2.   Tomorrow night they'll get the coffee-filter-in-a-baggie treatment and a hopefully-more-comfortable place in a lovely fluffy towel on the mat.
76....In English that would be ALMOST TWICE AS DAMNED MANY AS LAST YEAR.   Ah well, Last year I dwelled on downsizing, this year I must have assumed it would be automatic.   I argued with myself over whether to glog at all this year, other than to carry over noobishness from the last two seasons I don't have that much to offer...But everyone loves to see a Zone 3 die-hard gardener scratch and claw his way through a short season!!   Anyhow, this is how my week started---I was particularly proud of my innovative use of the pill caddy.... :idea:     That was the first "load", almost all black seeds. The next day the yellow seeds went in while the black ones found their nests. The sad thing is the seeds I didn't put in; the Paprika and the...
This begins with overwintering of Scotch Bonnets, Habaneros (red, orange), and Red Bhuts, plus an occasional Tabasco and Red Chili.  New additions are more Scotch Bonnets seeded over the winter, plus some Reapers purchased from HD recently, and some Red Bells.  Some small Thai germinating too, although my parent plants did not survive.  Also trying to germinate some Piri-Piri.  Was a warmer, wet winter here.this year.  Still drying out.    
Hi everyone! Last year I gave growing hot peppers a try for the first time and managed after quite a few setbacks decently well, by late summer I had a pretty nice Carolina Reaper that gave me plenty of fruit which later on became great Christmas presents, it will probably last most of them (and me) a few years I think... :)   But for this year I wanted to grow more with a larger variety and not only superhots. I also became a dad this summer so had to "quarantine" the area to make sure she never ends up crawling over to one and taking a bite later on.. So what I ended up with is a grow tent (100x100x180 cm) in my home office, not the prettiest thing and we're probably the 1% that is actually growing something else then illegal stuff...
Well its gunna be the first year devoting more space to Ghost level heat and above. In the past i just grew a couple as novelties but there are a couple that sounded interesting to try.     Hotter than habs Jays Peach Ghost Scorpion from RFC seeds 2-3 plants Brown Bhuts from Trents seeds. Supposed to be rather nasty from his older open pollinated Pepperlover seed stock. 4 plants Naglah Brown from MWCH seeds. 1-2 plants C.Reaper CCN strain seedlings. 2 plants Dragons Breath CCN seedlings supposed to be Pepperlover strain? 2 plants 11-13 plants planned   Hab heat level TFM bonnets from Trents seeds 2-3 plants P Dreadies from TGCM and maybe some from my select pods too. 3-4 plants 5-7 plants planned   Pubes Mini Red rocoto from TGCM seeds...
Hello everyone.    It's my first time posting a grow log here, so if I do something wrong please yell at me.     I finally had time to put together a list of all the peppers I have started this year.  I also relabeled every plant with giant labels using a grease pencil.   I'm tired of running into mystery plants halfway through the season!   It's a busy time of year at work for me, but things are finally starting to slow down a hair.     Still haven't pushed my babies out of the nest yet.  Had some hail a couple days ago that scared me off putting them out.  Maybe next week. :)   I plan to put about half of them in the ground and the other half in pots.  Would like to be able to easily isolate certain varieties when they start...
It's  always  exciting to acquire hard-to-find seeds of  wilds and take them to the next few levels  in the hope of achieving the ultimate goal of pods ....Mingled with the wilds will be some others that should make for an interesting season..Will be  adding some more to the list.     Cap  499 Wild Chacoense Cardenasii Chacoense Most Prolific Cheltepin Cappuccino Eximium CGN 24332 Flexuosum Flexuosum Purple Flower Galapagoense Lanceolateum Madre de Rios PI 439528 Praetermissum Rocopica Rocopica X Cardenasii F2 Tovarii Ulupica Giant Yellow Ulupica XL Yellow F4 Wild unknown      
Well, it's finally time to start. Again. :)   Finished taking inventory of seeds today, and started the 2019 grow list. Since the 24x96' isolation high tunnel is done, I'll be growing a crazy long list this year, as we'll be growing for 2020 seed inventory. With the soil mix equipment, it should be a lot less work on my back this winter! (Even more so if I get the indoor grow areas plumbed and set up on drip irrigation, still not sure I got the budget for that yet tho)   Some of the seeds I'll be pulling from are damn near 10 years old now, so I expect many of these to eventually get crossed off with 0 germination. Everything I have ever saved or traded is getting planted, though. There's 203 on the list right now, many duplicates...
The list:   2019 GROW LIST Brown Large Scorpion cross - Mine Big Black Mama cross – Mine Gnarly Chocolate Bhut Jolokia - Mine ScotchBrain – FreeportBum Red Primo (from saved seed 2017) – Primos Peppers Chocolate Primo/Reaper (CPR) – White Hot Peppers Chocolate Primo/Reaper (CPR) – ButchT Primo Chocolate – White Hot Peppers Jay’s Peach Ghost Scorpion (JPGS) - RFC Jamaican Hot Chocolate Habanero – Trade Winds Reaper/Naga Morich - Peppernorth Ecuadoran Hot Lemon Cayenne - Burpee   Trying to cut back on number of plants, if I do two each, that will be 24 plants. Last year, I had 34 in the raised bed, 8 in The Box, and 6 more in growbags, 48 total.   I may start some plants for friends, if they want.   Target start date is February 9.    
No grow log for the 2018 season other than the Pimenta de Neyde x Bonda Ma Jacques thread dedicated to Trippa's cross. That one is an ongoing community project going into second year and a test of the F7 generation. I imagine I will mention it once-in-a-while in this thread, but the details of its progress will be in the dedicated thread.   I am deciding on a grow list for the 2019 season after growing only Trippa's cross this season (2018). I definitely have some old favorites that will comprise the great majority of the grow. I have limited space, so I'm counting on nature to help me make the final decision. I'll probably start lots of seeds since I'm gun-shy from the poor germination rates the past couple of seasons.   Here's the...
Starting this GLOG to track and update my progress. This will be my 2nd year of growing hot peppers. Last year I had good success with my ghost peppers and thai peppers. Anticipating some hiccups this year because I am starting from seed this year where as I brought live plants last year.   Hopefully this year also will be a good one with all your guidance and help.   Approved grow list: 7POT CINDER F3 AJI LIMON BHUT JOLOKIA (GHOST) SOLID GOLD BISHOP CROWN CAROLINA REAPER CAYENNE LONG JOES GOLDEN CAL WONDER GUNTUR SANNAM HUNGARIAN WAX JAYS PEACH GHOST SCORPION JIMMY NARDELLO LEVIATHAN GNARLY SCORPION MAKO AKOKOSTRADE MINI RED BELL PINK TIGER X PEACH BHUT ROCOTO MONTUFAR SRILANKA CHILLI SWAMP THING TEKNE DOLMASI THAI DRAGON     Waiting...
Been thinking about it.. pretty sure I'm growing peppers because I'm bored.  Like, deeply, existentially bored.  Plus, a little harmless pain never hurt anybody, right?  Hell, it's probably even good for you.  We'll see if those are good enough reasons, I guess.  I bought me some "Scotch Bonnet Orange" seeds from Amazon before I found you fine folk, lurked around here for a while, then planted them anyway along with other, infinitely less suspect seeds I ordered from far flung places around the globe(!) as recommended by the very venerable Vendor Vault.  I've got them growing here by my chair.  I sit here and read. (The wall to my right as I took this picture is lined with bookshelves I'm slowing filling as I try to forget the world...
Hello everyone!   After taking a very long (four season!) break from gardening to focus on work, I am FINALLY preparing to start back with my true love of growing things. My hometown is Jacksonville, Florida and that is the only place I have ever had a legitimate garden up to this point. I've been living predominantly in Austin, Texas since 2016 and have only had a little patio garden at our apartment for herbs, green onions and a four-year old habanero that I've kept alive for companionship more than anything. :)   I come from a long line of hot pepper gardeners that unfortunately skipped my mother's generation. I'm really interested in medicinal plants and I also love growing pretty flowers and weird vines. In 2015, I was able to meet...
Hi everyone! It’s been quite a few years since I’ve posted and after lurking around for the last couple months all excited about growing peppers again I decided it was time for a THP reunion :party:  I’m happy to see a small handful of familiar faces still around and I’m Iooking forward to getting to know the rest of you guys and gals!   Quite a bit has changed in the last 6 years. Life was pretty crazy for awhile. The best news I feel like is that we are now homeowners on 5 acres. Left the rental in the city for a home in the country :) We lived in a trailer for 7 months while it was being built. It was one heck of an experience my family and I will never forget that’s for sure!   It’s been a full year since we got in our house. We...
Alright everybody, here we go; another year, another round of trying a range of different peppers and methods to grow them. After having a lot of fun last year, I'm of course trying to keep everything low key, but am already struggling to keep my growlist to a bare minimum so I will be able to handle the plants while also having enough time with my soon-to-be one year old son and significant other of course. There's just so much choice and reading about all the different types in various glogs etc means that we all need a lifetime of growing to find our favourites. :) The biggest step forward this year is to really start from scratch (i.e. seed), as otherwise good luck finding those exotic varieties you cannot get at your typical...
This year I decided I wanted to bulk up my garden and turn it into a hopefully marketable garden. I've bought a rack and lights, seed trays, seed cells, dirt, seeds, weed barrier, shade cloth, and probably more stuff I'm forgetting.   I've probably been given or traded for around half of my pepper seeds. One great person on reddit sent me a huge pack or seeds and I am forever thankful for. A few others on reddit sent me a couple as well. I offered them hot sauce that I made and is finally ready to ship this week. I got here on THP a little late this year, but all ready I have made a few trades with some great people.   I have bought from White Hot Peppers, Lawrence Family Farms, Burpee, Baker Creek, Sow True Seeds, MIGardener I'm sure...
Many types here. Carolina reaper, red ghost, chocolate ghost, yellow fatalii, lemon lime scorpion, unknown lemon lime scorpion variant, peach habaneros, orange habaneros, various Caribbean habaneros, orange Thais, boonies, tiny Thais, purple Thais (ripened to red), red Thais, bahamian goat, scotch bonnet, lemon drops, cayenne, aji rainforest, 7 pot, paprika strain, sante fe, and Trinidad moruga scorpion
Welcome to the JuanitosPeppers 2019 glog   Thanks to all the long time readers and people who followed last year. I hope to make this glog a little bit better!   I’ll try to do weekend update format with photos and captions. I’ll be happy to answer questions or discuss growing during the week too.     Last year was pretty successful.   Saved lots of seeds   I spent all winter break thinking about what varieties i wanted to grow. I want to keep a good balance of flavor, heat, color, species, cost, size. Looking to expand my seed stock so i’m growing a couple collections (brainstrain, ghost) also trying a couple wilds for fun, a few mild peppers for normal people, and the best medium peppers (moa, bahamian goat). Can follow along to...
Here we go again! ;)   This year will be a mix of in the dirt and container growing. Mostly in the dirt. I have some OW's going, 5 are cut back, 6 are pubes that still spend time outdoors as the weather allows. I have pH issues in the dirt, working on that, and hoping for some better results this season. One thing the wife and I decided is to NOT grow into the fall again. I was pulling plants the same weekend I started my seeds. I'm using 4 2 bulb T8's with 6,500K bulbs, and 1 4 bulb T5 with I believe 6,500K bulbs.   So here's the list:   Planted 12-3-17 ~Aji Amarillo ~Aji Dulce ~Scotchbrain ~Scotchbrain-Morugawelder ~P. Dreadie's-Windchicken ~BOC-Windchicken  JA Habs ~Aji Oro ~pdn-bonda w PaulG ~pdn-bonda p PaulG ~pumpkin...
Never been good about this but going to give a Glog a try.  It's time to start seeds here in Kansas.  Some do it earlier ..... now is when I do it.  I've selected my seeds and divided them into Group A and Group B. Group A will be started this weekend.  Group A includes most of my hotter varieties.  I use the paper towel method to germinate seeds in lidded cups on temperature controlled heat mats.  Then I will transplant to 3.5" pots  .... more on this later.  I use T5 lighting systems.  Depending on the variety, I will ultimately look for 1X-4X starts.  I growout in 37 raised beds.  I grow as a hobby, to give away, small time sales and to process.   Group A germination candidates are: 7 Pot Burgundy...
hello to all, my growing season has already begun for some months, I'm 'cultivating mostly wild and pubescens, recently I also added some chinense and ornamental annum, many plants are already great in pre flowering, others are born recently . the first part of the cultivation I did indoor, 110w neon lamps and 50w led light, the second part of the cultivation is outside the cold greenhouses until the temperatures will rise again, this will happen in mid May. some varieties I'm growing are: tubocapsicum anomalum c.caedenasii c.tovarii c.flexuosum c.praetermissum c.chacoense c.chacoense purple wiriwiri c.praetermissum cumari pollux c.eximium c.galapagoense baccatum var baccatum (brasil) baccatum var baccatum (bolivia) jamaican bird...
I started to sow a month ago and finally have something to show for it.  Here is the story before I get to the pictures:   Back in 2014, I got to enjoy the exquisite flavor and perfect heat of a Pimenta de Neyde x Bhut Jolokia - F6 Open Pollinated. I saved some seeds and grew it out the following year.  I only grew one plant, but it grew true and produced 220 pods in a 5 gallon bucket.  I had some pods tested and they came in at 158,400 SHU.   Excellent heat, but far from deadly and a perfect compliment to the sweetness.  I saved those seeds, but took a four-year break from growing from seeds.  The cool thing about that plant is that it grew literally right next to a Yellow 7 Pot and I'm welcoming a cross.  I labeled seeds from...
Getting harder to source true Scotch Bonnets but the challenge continues. Each season I thank those that have helped me continue the quest to grow every variety and log their history. As with any variety there will always be favourites but I have tried to mix up this years grow and go back to those that sometimes do not get grown and those that are new to me especially the white bonnet I started on the 11th January with a few no shows I sowed the second batch a week ago and overall germination has been good so here is the list : St Barts Market - stc3248 Belize City - stc3248/Jedisushi06 P. Dreadie Yellow P. Dreadie Red - Texas Hot Peppers Cappuccino St Lucia Papa Joes FreePort Orange Foodarama Yellow Jamaican Long White -...
Hey THP...been a while and much has changed for me and my family. We accepted orders to Charleston, SC and now reside in a small town just north of there called Moncks Corner. I haven't really had a grow in three years, so it is going to be nice getting back out in the dirt. My modest list thus far:   Red Brain Strain 7 pot:   coheed Orange Brain Strain 7 pot: gnslngr 7 pot Monster Infinity: gnslngr Trinidad Scorpion Chocolate: gnslngr Reaper  Charrapita Yellow Primo X (my cross) Jay's Peach Ghost Scorpion Jay's Red Ghost Scorpion Bhut Orange Copenhagen SB7J: Romy 6??? Naga Reaper Fatalii 7 Pot Primo 7 Pot Barrackpore Large Yellow Brain Strain Yellow Bhut: Spicegeist Yellow 7 Pot Primo: Romy 6 UBSC 7 Pot Rennie Brown Moruga Butch T...
This is sort of update 0, as I haven't finalized which peppers I'm growing yet. But I show a rough list and some ongoing projects I have in the basement. I'll post another update when I start seeds in a week or so. Here's the rough, working list of the seeds I'm starting so far. I'll probably change it around a little before I start them.   https://bit.ly/2Qu8bTH
Going to try to have a little glog, mostly pictures probably.  I am sure I will lack the time to keep it up as usual, but hopefully can update some pics from my phone.   Crude grow list is below.  Tried to update it for plants that didn't get in, but is roughly correct I think.   7  Pot Congo Chocolate 7 Pot Brain Strain Red 7 Pot Brain Strain Yellow 7 Pot Burgundy 7 Pot Cinder 7 Pot Douglah 7 Pot Jonah 7 Pot Madballz 7 Pot Orange X 7 Pot Slimer 7 Pot White 7 Pot Yellow Long 7JPN Aji Margariteno Amnesia Andy's King BOC Andy's King BOC (Purple) Apocalypse Giant Armageddon Arribib Gusano Avan B9BPO Bahamian Beast Peach Bahamian Beast Red Bahamian Goat BBG7 Ghost Jami Orange BBG7 Naga Brown BBG7 Orange x Jay's Pink Purple BBG7 Red BBG7...
I pretty much took the year off as I did not plant a single seed for 2019. All I had were overwinters that I neglected a bit and due to a poor summer did not produce anything to speak of.2019 is over and I am looking forward to 2020 for several reasons. But politics aside I will address the grow.   i am going to grow, chocolates!  Yes, Chocolates sound like a great idea.   I have grown fond of bhutlahs in addition to some old standbys like brown moruga chocolate bhuts, maddballs etc.   I plan to grow several selections in containers as usual but if I can get my ducks in a row I may be going back to in-ground grows. Looking back over the past 5 -6 years I have found my plants did much better in-ground vs container grown. I feel this is...
Well folks, let's try this again. I wonder why I do this, am I a glutton for punishment? Do I really need all of this? The world will never know. I believe it is time well spent and I enjoy it. So here goes. Last year was a bust, took some time off and regrouped. This year, I have a master plan. We will see what unfolds from here. No photos and no list yet just because I am putting the soaked seeds in the dirt in the AM. There are 14 on the list right now but that number is expected to double, if not triple. I am awaiting seeds from different sources and they will be added to the list. Once I have a few minutes and everything in front of me, I will finalize () my list and post it. Wish me luck, this year should be exciting. Stay tuned...
I was thinking about possibly taking a year off.   Last year was my best year growing but the pepper maggots turned me off so much that I lost interest and left way too many peppers on the plants.  I can't let this happen again.    All this talk about the Sri Lanka Chili Red in the growdown for this season has gotten me pumped up.  I started looking at the ole seed collection and have come up with the start of a plan.  I gotta get those Sri Lankan Reds planted so here is my first group of peppers that I will plant.   Starting with all Chinense and of course a few cells for the Sri Lankas.  Using the same Parks BioDome's that I have used successfully in the past.  60 cells in a 10 row by 6 layout.  I split it down the middle and do 10...
It's my first time doing this, so please correct my mistakes and.. Be gentle.. :) I started some of the seeds in late 2018 going through to febuary 2019. Due to harsh weather conditions my plants has only been placed outside recently on a permanent basis. There is a lot of wind where I live, and in this country the temps have been going up and down - much like how the wind blows.. Some plants have been severely set back by these conditions. I expect nothing special of my plants - with a few exceptions where som plants have been producing flowers and pods for a while now. I grow Peppers etc in soil but am using coco coir during the winters, occassionally. Im experimenting with fabric pots to see if they work any better than plastic...
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