Greetings Everybody,
I've been growing more interested in hot peppers and gardening over the last two years and have decided to get a little more serious about growing this year. I wanted to get a jump start on the season, but didn't quite know how to start. (Especially with lighting.) I asked for some guidance from the forum and received a lot of good input. Fast forwarding a few days, I ordered a 4 bulb T5 fixture and purchased a rack setup from Home Depot. I also have a little Jiffy seedling starter setup and a cheapo heat mat from Amazon.
We had 3 garden plots this past year at our community garden, each about 9x14ft. One bed was for tomatoes, another for peppers/tomatillos, and another for herbs. We'll probably do that...
Glogs
Start a Grow Log for your growing season.
" Full circle glog" , because after 4 years growing peppers with the help of THP I believe I've covered most of the important bases there is to cover . I started with the Annuums , moved to Chinense and superhots , grew and loved the Baccatums and then finally the Pubes .
This year I will stick to my favourites , chosen after careful consideration.
Overwintered
Aji Amarillo
Aji Charapita
Aji Cito
Dedo de Moca
Peppadew ( Malawi piquant)
Roccoto red
Roccoto Guatamala
Rocoto Puorto Rico
Rocoto Costa Rica
Jalapeno
Choc Hab
Just the basics, but my chosen few. :P
Overwintering might sound like an active process , but this winter I've tried passive overwintering.
I put my plants in my garden shed . No lights , no heat , water once a...
I prefer to post from the titular chair when I can. So, here I am, having found the gall to start another glog. There are still another couple few months to go before I get to eat my rookie cap, but my experience has been rich - mostly, I think, from taking my first grow way too seriously. And I've suffered for it. And I've grown for the suffering. This plant will not be suffered over, lol.
I'll be growing one plant over the winter next to my chair here in my little library. Pictured below, then, is a tiny death race. The first to slough his seed case and spread his cotys green and true will live on in glorious victory. The losers will be ceremoniously thanked and unceremoniously discarded. One plant.
Any and all comments or...
2019 was a poor year. I had too many plants and they didn't get potted on when they should nor did they have the space and air and light they needed. Even the plants in my neighbour's greenhouse didn't produce until very late into the autumn and most pods got frosted before they ripened. Generally disappointing.
I am overwintering indoors:
Bahamian Goat - three years old, entering its fourth year; wondering if it's past its best now?
SB MoA - ditto
White Bhut
Caramel Moruga - currently has about 10 pods ripening
Peach Fatalii - currently flowering and has set about 10 pods
Chocolate Nagabrain
Trippaul Threat White - currently flowering but doesn't seem to be setting pods
BOC
Havana Gold
Guyana Rush (Heefy's cross) - not...
Last year I did reasonably well and was happy with the results. This year I have much bigger plans.
From humble beginnings...
seeds started so far.
jalapeno(black, jalora, farmers, biker billy, purple)
long thin cayenne
poblano
Halaby
MOA Scotch Bonnet
Big Sun Habanero
TFM Scotch Bonnet
Turkish Cayenne
Aji Golden
Fatalli
Tekne Dolmasi
Chapeau Du Frade
Santa Fe Grande
Pimiento Cristal
Carolina reaper
bhut jolokia
habanada
Melrose
MOSQUETERO HYBRID
BIGGIE CHILE HYBRID
GOLDEN CAYENNE
ROULETTE HYBRID
SWEET SUNSET HYBRID
PAQUIME HYBRID
ill have to figure out how to rotate this. from my phone with no wifi was a poor choice to try this.
First time gardener here, 9b in Southern California, have around 550-600 square feet of space to use. Starting a garden this year, because its the first time I've had room for more than one or two plants in the last 6 years and I have hated vegetables outside of a small range since I was a kid. I'm hoping I can help kick my issue with vegetables this year by growing them. This all started with a drunken night celebrating and ordering some mystery "Super hot, Pepper Seed mix" off of Ebay. No clue if the seeds will actually be true to their labels, Reaper, Red and Peach Ghost, Trinidad Scorpion and Orange Habanero. Since I made this mistake, and didn't realize it until the item had shipped, I figured I would give it a go anyways. My...
I haven't grown any superhots in the past two years. I'm ready to give it a go, again. I've been digging through my old seeds. I'm hoping that I can get some of these old varieties to sprout. I have a lot of stuff from 2014-2016. Some really cool stuff.
This pile contains some of my favorites.
SO..... here we go again. After the past 3 years being almost duds, 2020 will be the year to turn it around. I apologize for the absence and I am going to make a great effort to be here more like back in 2016/17.
To recap, I had a fantastic year a few years back when I used my ex-inlaws place, had 32 plants produce a great amount of pods. Very few ripened on the plant because they got in so late. The past w years I got skunked pretty much because of personal issues. Went through a hell of a time with my kids mom, lost 75 to 80% of my seed stock due to starting grows and having to scrap them for various reasons. (Some of you know, some do nkt) but if you are curious, or just wanna shoot the breeze, message me anytime. Now I can focus on...
https://youtu.be/kQjoX_GA09Q
Interspecific hybrids... have different species in them.
Intraspecific hybrids... same species x same species
You can check out the rest in the video
Hello friends, acquaintances, and strangers! I didn't grow much this past season, just a couple of plants to tide me over. This year I'm doing a small grow to continue a few things I'd like to keep going. Much of the seed I'm attempting to germinate is a bit old, so I'm starting some now to see how it goes. I put them in the grow medium on Nov 18 and my first two hooks came up today on Nov 25 - not bad!
Well, last year, i had a pretty successful grow, but an utter failure of a GLOG. I wasn't nearly as diligent with updates as i ought've been, and i never got good with the pictures while posting from my phone, which is downright pathetic. I have to confess, i was posting more on FB, i guess because it's so convenient to upload pictures whilst you're taking them. But, overall, the FB Pepper Ppl aren't as rad as THP Pepper Ppl, not by a mile. I guess there's lots of overlap, and lots of cool pepper ppl on FB that ain't here on THP, but there's just a zillion douches on FB and I'm sad to admit it, but the truth is.... FB turns me into a Douche, too.
One exception is a tiny and mostly inactive cabal of Scotch Bonnet Afficionados, populated...
Hi all pepper enthusiasts.
I live in Scandinavian, or more precisely in Denmark, where unfortunately the weather can be pretty brutal. Ironic we currently have the hottest sommer I can remember. However, I can't rely on the weather all year round, especially because I don't have a garden.
So I decided to upgrade my old windowsill garden, to a better hydro setup. This way I can grow year round :).
My setup consist of:
Grow tent: Homebox Vista medium.
Light: Quantum board 260W LED.
Drip irrigation system with drain to waste.
Air intake: Black Orchide Ø 150mm
Air circulation: Secret Garden Monkey Fan 30W
Water pump: Micro-Jet MC 450 Oxy Pump
Medium: Rockwool
The brain of the system is my Sonoff 4channel Pro with this I control...
After waiting for a very long time some of my seeds have been germinated so here is my glog.
I am running a small grow tent with 4 T5 double bulbs at 55w each.
I removed one of the bulbs because the fixture runs hot. There is a small fan blowing on the plants 24/7 and the lighting is also 24/7 at this point.
These are planted in double cups in coco coir and perlite. The bottom 70% layer of medium is a mix of coco and perlite at a 70:30 ratio and the top 30% is just coco.
The bottom cups have a small layer of hydroton (clay pebbles) at the bottom to make sure the plants aren't sitting in any runoff.
They are being fed from the top until 20% of the nutrients drains out into the bottom cup and then the runoff is emptied out. They...
Whats up yall!
Time to get some peppers going again!
I gave DWC a shot two years ago and it went fantastic.....until I got some kind of root bugs and thrips that I could not kill off (I tried three different root dips, sns, and even a friggin bug bomb, spent over $120 on treatments before I caved in)
My 1st go round is here:
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/65938-first-shot-at-dwc/
I moved and started completely fresh with a new tent. Just finished building the DWC tub and it has been fully water tested. Found a sweet airpump for $30 on amazon and its a beast, each of the big stones fills half of the tub with bubbles. Tub is 27 gallons and when full holds about 20 of nutrient solution so it should hold temps stable and not have to...
So I started again. A little later than usual (used to do it around january 25th) but still early enough I think.
Thought I tried if some of the older stock is still viable. I'll see how they'll do.
And some of them are from the last season, just to be sure.
Annums:
Kurtovska Kapija
Alpina (yellow bell pepper)
Sulu Adana (rghm1u20)
Goatsweed (Hogleg)
Farmers Market Jalapeno
Jalapeno Hercules
Pubescens:
Rocoto
Chinense:
Yellow Douglah (Hogleg)
Aji Umba
Chupetinho
Dorset Naga
Caribbean Red Habanero (rghm1u20)
Caribbean Red Habanero (from my old stock)
Jamaiquinho (rghm1u20)
Habanero White
MOA Scotch Bonnet
Habanero Golden
Habanero Maya Red (Nulle)
Habanero Cappucino (Nulle)
Crosses:
...
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! :)
I am starting an indoor grow experiment so I might as well start the new years glog at the same time. Today I threw 3 seeds in the dirt(hoping for 66% germination). I will keep 1 in dirt and 1 in Kratky. These will stay in my grow room under my 8000K T8 shoplights from the beginning through fruit.
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...
First year with rainwater harvest system up and running out at airport. Growing peppers in containers ...
I intend to use this GLOG to share and learn.
Pics and commentary to follow.
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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...
Started some seeds and will be expanding.
-Kung Pao
-Hot Portugal
-Red Habanero
-Pumpkin Habanero
-Paper Lantern Pepper
-7 Pot
-Bulgarian Carrot Pepper
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...