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Hello all!   I had a decent sized grow last year, but this will be my first Glog.   I'm still just growing for fun as the first priority. Some other goals are: to make some white and yellow hot sauces (hence the White Ghost and yellow cultivars), to practice crossing (no specific crosses planned yet), and to practice grafting (so I can OW just one plant with two or three different peppers on it).   Since there are so many varieties out there, I have yet to solidify my 2018 grow list. I'll briefly list a few that I am currently or I am tentatively planning on starting from seed this year.   Aji Mango Yellow Rocoto Peru Bitdumi Red Rocoto White Bhut Jolokia Yellow Brain Strain Bonda Ma Jacques Golden Treasure Chile  Red Bell 7-Pot Douglah...
Hello again after a few years away!   I haven't grown peppers since late 2015 but made a decision a few weeks ago to dip my toe in to the pepper trade once again.  Between now and then I lost the use of my garden due to an overzealous exterminator deciding to dump the remainder (20 gallons) of his termiticide on my garden soil, rendering it unsafe for growing anything for human consumption for the next 10 years.  I was really gutted at the loss because I had been building up the soil for YEARS with infusions of mushroom compost, teas, powdered eggshell and other amendments to make the space produce like Florida sand just never can.  Because of this I decided to take a break from the hobby.  Well, 2018 is here and I'm getting a late...
hi everybody, welcome to my 2018 Grow log, My second years of growing  2018 season i went from 5 kind of seeds for 2017 to , at the time of writing this ,  46  isolated variety  and 22 op variety !!!    i know i’m hooked  ( i’m pretty sure , like a lot of members here,) i’m having + - 60  3-5 g  plastic bucket  plus this year i test 17  5gallons grow bag some black and some white and 5  3gallons grow bag and if i find the fund and time i want to try a small DIY hydro setup in a medium DIY greenhouse ( dreams makes life easier ) here is the list and (source) of my seeds stash that i chose from to start my 2018 season ISOLATED:  (all bought or traded between July 2017 and February  2018) in order that was bought or received . MOA...
i went and bought a greenhouse for my first actual grow this year, after some years of mildly disappointing attempts on my windowsills. sadly, i wasn't able to start any seeds in time so i got a bunch of young plants instead and they are already growing pretty well (for my standards at least) despite the sh#tty berlin weather. the varieties are as follows.   in the greenhouse currently:   -2x 7pot bubblegums -2x trinidad scorpion caramels -2x ghost peppers -8x jalapenos -6 fresnos   outside right next to the greenhouse:   -2x rocoto canario -2x rocoto yellow giant -2x rocoto marlene   i've got some thai demons and rocoto manzano reds coming soon as well.   if all goes well i can finally make some batches of homegrown hot sauce by the...
Getting the seeds organized for what I hope will be a better year! Weather was weak for peppers last year so hopefully it is hot and dry all summer. Working on a final list for plant out starting mid February that will hit the greenhouse in April as well as a second grow list for plants to sell at the farmer's market. Hoping to focus more on fresh pepper sales this season to my fellow Canadians after good initial results last year! I got some amazing peppers from orders and trades this winter so here's to 2018 and best of luck to everyone growing this addictive and painful produce :)     List to follow.        
I just register to these forum, hope I can get useful help and information here I never grow anything before, this is my first time..., my first try...   Date : May 19th 2018 this is my first try to germinate variations of chili pepper, a simple rockwool, with mist generator and water below, just plain water no nutrient whatsoever still learning and watch a lot of youtube videos about growing pepper   Date : May 21st 2018 add some light using simple USB led, and heat insulator in shoes rack, just playing around waiting for seed to germinate, and waiting for my grow led to arrive   Date : May 23rd 2018 first seed to germinate, so happy!, and I just installed little grow led   Date : May 25th 2018 Building new home for my little chili...
I started a few plants in the fall and have been overwintering them.  I'm mostly focusing on a handful of my special bhut crosses.  Bottom left in this photo is a Chiltepin.  Bottom center is a coffee plant I grew from seed.  I spent a good part of this weekend squishing aphids.     Here's a C. galapagoense that's spent most of its life under grow lights after I started it in the fall.  It flowered and produced fruit without any pollinators present:   I know these don't look very impressive, but I'm just trying to keep them alive until warmer weather.  They are 1/2 C. galapagoense x Chiltepin and 1/2 Superhot (my own mostly bhut cross):  
Since I'm always taking pics of my stupid plants I might as well have a grow log.   Yellow Brainstrain Fatalii  Datil Chocolate Moruga Scorpion Yellow Manzano  Mustard Bhut Goat Horn Rosemary  Purple Cayenne Atomic Starfish MOA Scotch Bonnet Large Orange Thai Hot Beads Aji Amarillo  Aji Margarenteno A few more I can’t think of          
Hello, my name is Damian and I'm from Poland I decided to share my peppers with you. I have about 60 bushes of different varieties. They are all outside directly in the ground. My peppers -Tabasco -Cayenne Long Slim -Habanero Gelbe Zwerge -Habanero Chocolate  -Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Chocolate -Congo Trinidad -Caroline Reaper Red -Jalapeno Orange -Red Savine Photo Today:   Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Congo Trinidad Gelbe Zwerge Jalapeno  C Reaper  Red Savine Jalapeno  Tabasco Long slim 
Ok.  Just started cleaning up my grow area.  Will be starting seeds tomorrow.   Last year was brutal so I am trying  some new things this year.   1. No overwinters.  I am hoping that in the past, the plants I brought in to overwinter were the source of the many aphids I have battled.  I guess the aphids could also be coming in from the soil I purchase, which is either Fox Farms Happy Frog or Miracle-Gro Potting mix.  I haven't nuked the soil in the past because we use our microwave for food.  If I can get a used microwave, then I might try to nuke the soil first... 2. Airflow.  I am going to increase airflow by a bunch.  Looking to get a couple more cheap standing fans and have them on blasting the plants for the period of time that the...
I've got a few peppers growing; if the rain lets up, they might make it to the end of my season.  My tomatoes are loving it, but I know the overly wet conditions are not the best for peppers.  I plan on making as many interesting hybrids to grow later as I can.  I've already made my first 2 pollination attempts with Thai Dragon X Trinidad Scorpion and Bhut Jolokia X Dedo De Mocha.  I've topped several of the plants and pulled the flowers from them to hopefully stimulate vegetative growth.  The tops and some side branches are being cloned.  Pests on the JPGS and one of the Scorpions resulted in them getting pruned back (the plants are relatively small and I don't expect to grow any huge bushes in #3 pots).  I should have another 3-4...
Hello all! I'm a long time forum lurker, first time poster!  I started growing peppers last year in a small 4' x 6' raised box, and cheap store bought seeds. Grew cayenne, orange habs, jalapenos, and serrano last year, and really enjoyed it! Smoked the peppers on the smoker for 12 hours on nothing but hickory logs and made powder, and I put that on everything now.    Anyway, this year: I'm graduating from the raised box! I've bought a house with a back yard and I have about 1000-1500sq ft that I can plant in.    The list ascending in spicy, all from Pepper Joe's website: Pepperoncini Ancho/Poblano Pepper Joe's Giant jalapenos Pepper Joe's serrano Charleston Paper lantern Golden Habanero Jamaican pepper Giant Ghost Morguana Trinidad...
Hello fellow growers!    First glog! :dance:    I’ve been growing chilies every year for about 15 years. Due to the “charming” danish climate, and lack of garden and greenhouse, I’ve turned into a passionated windowsill-grower. I like to keep things fairly simple. No fancy light, relying only on the light that nature has to offer, some chili fertilizer and a lot of love. This year, for the first time, I’m trying out coco coir. My small plants currently sit in 100% coco coir, because I wanted to get a better feel for the medium’s behaviour. Currently, because the danish spring offers temperatures around 5 degrees, the coco coir develop a slightly moldy surface, from sitting on the cold windowsill. This hopefully will be bygone when the...
Just getting started. Have just a couple sprouted sofar and waited to see if the others come up before moving on   Trying these for sure from seeds Miraflores Market rocoto (yellow?)...2 up out of the 8 sofar..TGCM seeds Peruvian Red rocoto..TGCM seeds Peruvian Red mini rocoto..TGCM seeds P. Dreadie SB....cant wait to get these going. Probably grow more and cut back on other habs depending on germination rate...TGCM seeds   Aleppo...replacing my gochu with these just because i cant grow enough gochu for the massive amounts of powder needed for kimchi. I can buy the gochugaru but not good Aleppo powder locally......Ed's seeds   Sandia Select....Didnt get many pods last year but what i got were really large. Using the seeds from those...
First time doing a Glog. Super excited for some feedback! I killed a bunch of seeds my first attempt by drowning them in jiffy pellets, but I started over and things have been going... well, I'm running out of room. Early results from round 2, starting to get some babies!
Hi All,   A bit late to the party, but here's what I'm up to in Kent, UK. Had a hot dry summer so far. After a few years trying to grow *everything* with not much space, less is more this year – just 16 plants on this grow. A couple of years ago we built a ghetto poly tunnel and installed autopots for 8 plants.         I'm doing a roll-the-dice grow out of Aji Umba X Purple Jalapeno F2 - three plants:           And last year I crossed the F1 with Madame Jeanette, and getting some interesting stuff, a couple of plants:         And the rest are:     Birds Eye long from the CP collection at Puckerbutt       Targu Mures, a Romanian Paprika type, I'm told       Cumari Alongado       A 3 year old 'Chris Fat Red' bonchi       Numex...
Hello all, thanks for looking in. I hope to do a better job this season updating through the busy months of summer.   I will be dialing things down this year and concentrating on less strains since i have enough XXX powders to last many years.     Just put seeds into my soaking solution - 2 tsp clonex liquid to 1 gal H20.   Current seed list 2018, all gifted from THP members or from pods I grew last season also from THP members.   PaulG - PDN x Bonda F6....Two phenos (reg and late season purple as the label indicated)   Devv - Brainstrain - THP Growdown (Supplier Pepper-Guru)   Hogleg - Red and Orange Rocoto    Wiriwiri - Short Yellow Tobasco and Guyana Tragedy   Unknown? - BBG7 Red (possibly Texas hot peppers? Moruga welder?)  ...
Grillcheese reporting in from Canada capital, Ottawa, zone 5b. Its been a real pleasure gaining info from numerous members here over the years. 10(?) years ago my sister gave me a paper lantern habanero plant as a housewarming gift. That was the hook. Red Savina was king. What a decade :) I'm finally proud of all my trials and errors over the years, basically nailing it this year. :) My primary goal now is to keep parent plants and try doing my own crosses, as well as provide isolated seeds eventually. So, ya...for now, all my plants open pollinated. Recording, labeling and isolating was somehow not my top priority. If I can pass off advice to newbs, record and label EVERYTHING. My bad...so some plants OP. Allright..the list...half of...
Hello pepper people. Thoughts have been rattlin around in my noggun for about a month now about what I'm gonna do for 2018. This weekend being the last of 2017 I thought I should get off my Duff and get going. I've set aside a few bucks to get some better lighting this week end. I plan on setting up a hanging florescent rig with a couple daylight bulbs to welcome new seedlings. I've been thinking along these lines for a while and am ready for the change. In the past I have used just a couple regular type lamps with sunlight bulbs. The florescents size will give me more coverage. I do have a heat Matt and have a good system that has proven successfully for my seeding bed. I tend to use small Solo cups that sit in a aluminum turkey pan...
Hi all! I've disappeared for a while and here it is my new glog! Smaller than ever. Just 3 varieties and an overwinter. And no supers.     Just started. 11 Dedo de Moca 11 Datil 11 Brown Jalapeno   And the overwinter, a red rocoto (that has been somewhat devastated by hail):   Ripening pods!!!! Really, that one did set some pods but noone ripened... I decided to leave them be and then that surpise!   That's just all for now!
i'm getting a real early start on 2019. i figure i can get some seeds started now and take advantage of natural light from my garden window at first. by the time winter comes, hopefully i'll have artificial lighting sorted out.   this is my first time growing anything.   i started these 8 with the paper towel method (didn't soak the seeds beforehand) in a takeout container:   Aji Ahuachapan Aji Lemon Drop Scotch Bonnet WHP Scotch Brains Bahamian Goat 7 Pot Brain Strain Yellow Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Yellow I Scream Scorpion     i also ordered these, but they haven't arrived yet:   Aji Painapple Yaki Blue Fawn Safi Red Galapagos Isabella Habanero Jays Peach Scorpion Fatalii (Yellow)   i really have to think about how much lighting and...
This Years List (subject to germination & revision.lol)   Annuum Sugar Cane PL Tekne Dolmasi Stuffed Red GIant Plamyra Bonnet Bell PL Tri Color Snacking Pepper-Orange F4 Ethiopian Brown Pepper South American Collection-Black to Red-similar to a Jalapeno but more cone shaped and hotter Gatherer's Gold Sweet Italian Explosive Ember Purple Flash Filius Blue   Baccutum Sugar Rush Cream CF(bell pheno) Aji Delight x PDN Trepedeira Werner x PDN Trepedeira Werner     Frutescens MOJO Frutegum F3 Cabai Burung Ungu   Chinense Aji Jobito PInk Habanero Habanada Trinidad Perfume PI281317 Pimenta de Neyde Peach Gum Tiger Thick Walled Red Habanero Thick Walled Red Habanero variant or hybrid F2(will determine from this grow out) Kathumby Black 7 pot...
I kinda hijacked the Most Anticipated Pepper thread so thought I'd just post some pics of my garden here (hope this is the right spot!).  I grow everything from seed and started the peppers on 2/28 and the tomatoes on 3/14.  This year I used salt peter on 6 of my hottest pepper and it really helped with germination, and not sure but my hottest are doing better than any other year.   I ended up with 56 tomato plants and 81 peppers -- I planted 21 tomatoes (the Good & Early croaked early) and 71 of the 81 pepper plants.   Peppers: (mild): piquillo, shishito (medium): Picante Calabrese, Fresno (red, yellow and orange), Danny's (they are some kind of midly spicy Italian pepper I got from Danny, the Italian gentleman that lives on the park I...
Here are some photos of what's growing so far. Trying a little bit of everything this year. The goal is to grow as much food as I can at home instead of buying from the store. This will most likely be just a picture glog because I'm horrible at documenting progress. Salad and romaine lettuce Okra Idaho Potatoes Mustard greens Tobacco Florida Sumatra and Connecticut broadleaf. Cherry tomato Broccoli Cabbage Yellow onions Flowering early jalapeno Nectarine tree Santa Rosa plum Just a tulip to add color Pansy another nice flower Herb garden Trimmed up the pecan tree before it started getting leaves. The best cooking wood in my opinion This is the backyard only. I've got a bunch of stuff growing in the front and...
GLOG attempt, not sure how long i'll last but here we go.    This would be my 2nd year of growing chillies, pretty much plan to grow 2 of each variety, sowed twice the amount of seeds required so only need a 50% germination rate. This time I decided to try out a product called eazy plugs instead of jiffy pellets.     Grow List   Jalapeno Jalapeno Mammoth 7 Pod Barrackpore Bahamian Goat Bhut Jolokia Carolina Reaper Choc Bih Jolokia Fatali SB7J Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Yellow Jay’s Peach Ghost Scorpion Scotch Bonnet 7 Pod Bubblegum Aji Cito Aji Lemon Aji Amarillo Sugar Rush Peach  
Hello all,   I am starting my grow log for 2018. Here is what i have so far.   Growing:   1. Habanero 2. Jalapeno 3. Guam Boonie 4. Philippine Sili Chili   Germinating: 1. Smoking Ed - Carolina Reaper 2. Tokuyama Pepper   I have been piecing together all the stuff to grow indoors. so fare I have a grow tent, General Hydroponics Nutrients, CoCo Coir, and CFL Lights. My next purchase is going to be an LED light but haven't been able to decide on a good one that will work well in my tent. after switching to the COCO i had a few plants i belive got too much water as you will see in the pics. To alleviate this i will let the COCO dryout so the plants can perk back up. any advise is welcome especially for the LED Light. More to Come! :)  
Hello everyone, I'd like to just post up my journey as a beginner.   I started a garden this previous year, all outdoors, and had more tomatoes and cucumbers than I could even use. My bell peppers did awful, I think I got two or three tiny mutated looking peppers. Jalepenos did good as well as my little red mexican chilis (pretty sure thats the exact name that was on the seed labels.) Perhaps my proudest was my ghost pepper plant, which produced probably 60 pods.   Unfortunately, I thought I could harvest them early as the first frost was fast approaching, and hopefully they would ripen well like green tomatoes in the windowsill. Eventually they just turned mushy and nasty. Only a few actually turned red and the rest were lost. I chalk...
Hello all.  Last year was the year I intended to "go big" and start my hot sauce company, but as chance would have it, the soil at my largest garden spot was terrible, all clay.  I had planted about 150 plants there but none of them grew over 6 inches tall.  I had another spot where I planted about 35 MOAs, just one variety because I wanted to get a bunch of non-crossed seeds.  So as it turned out those bonnets were the only plants I had.  But I estimate they produced about 4 lbs per plant, which was way more than I expected.  I still started the hot sauce company, but I wound up with only about 320 bottles of sauce.  I just sold out of it last weekend, people seemed to really like it.   This year I have a new garden spot with much...
Hey everyone!   Been a while since I posted, but I thought I'd let you guys know I am still cranking peppers as I do every year! I didn't really run my glog last year, so I thought I would show you guys what I am up to.   We're moving to a new house in the summer, so I have a stripped-down setup because I intend to plant at the Shiloh Field garden rather than in my backyard. We've got 30 pepper plants, some big and some small. However, I planted everything in October - November to really get big plants.My lights run from 8am - 10pm every day.         In addition to peppers I am growing a mixup of onions, tomatoes, zucchini, lettuce, garlic, and shallots.   My pepper varieties this year include: Orange Bell Pepper Red Bell Pepper...
Hi Everyone!   I am new to the gardening and pepper growing scene and wanted to document my first grow, mainly for your entertainment value but also so I can look back in a few years and say WHAT THE  :censored:  was I doing...   I'm a long-time spicy food/pepper lover but never had an itch for gardening. The only thing I've ever been able to successfully grow are purple and green sprouts from potatoes left in the cabinet too long. But one day I happened to be walking through a store and found a packet of Big Thai Hybrid Hot Pepper seeds and before I knew it I found THP and started doing a buttload of research. I was a little upset when I found out that May 6th is a *little* late to start sowing seeds (especially in zone 6 :rofl: ), but...
This year my glog will (necessarily) be all-YouTube-all-the-time, and that's all I'm saying about that...This post, featuring my Capsicum chinense plants, should follow a video of my Capsicum annuum plants, which have already been outdoors for several weeks, but that video will have to come later, because I have yet to make it:  
Growing peppers out at my workshop this year, using leftover stuff from past years at the house. Hoping to get a few in dutch buckets, but will settle for getting any to grow at all. I've never done hydro so I am starting with what I know, and what I know, is how to kill a BUNCH of plants. Good part is, if they survive me, NOTHIN' will keep them down.   But if you're gonna kill a bunch of plants, you have to *start* with a bunch of plants. And that's where we are now.     I'll start with these old 3" square nursery pots I found up there too. Filled them with Miracle-Gro seed starter mix, that has been in a sealed bag for at least a year, but left on the front porch. Put some seeds in a paper towel, got them to sprout out, and into the...
After the cats damaged my plants they decided to finish them off the rest of the way. In about a week or so I should have the panda film and heating gear to make a more secured grow tent and not have to leave the door open for the space heater, so I've got some more seeds terminating by coffee filter method on top of the cable box in my bedroom. I was really hoping to see how well this little grow light was gonna perform a bit sooner but now I'll have room for four pepper plants after eliminating the corn project after two of the stalks got damaged so I'll revisit that expirement after I get more lighting. The only thing left under the grow light is a tree cutting that is rooting in a large ziploc bag so no heed for extra heating so I...
I caught the garden bug again.    It's been a couple years since I did much of any gardening - I moved to Asheville for a year and a half and had two 'gardens' that ended up being rather disappointing and producing very little of anything. What they did produce was quite disappointing - weirdly stunted tomatoes, oddly shaped peppers... I'm sure I was doing many things wrong, but nothing I tried helped! It also didn't help that the bear and her cubs tromped through and broke a bunch of my plants.   Anyway, I bought a townhouse with a nice deck late last year, and I've spent the winter eyeing the deck thinking about how I can utilize the space for gardening. When I walked by the stacks of $2.50 5-gallon buckets yesterday, I was struck...
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