Hey there pepperfriends!
I've decided to try to keep a glog again. Last time didn't go so well because of moving mid-season. I'm a little bit behind on schedule because of some logistical problems concerning my growing gear. My warming mats, thermostat and humidity domes were supposed to come in a big package of stuff from Portugal, but it didn't. I started some seeds without it just to have something to do, haha. All my stuff finally arrived last week, so I'm already up and running by now. Maybe it was a blessing in disguise because I don't have enough space (that sounds familiar) for all my plants in the house.
I'm prepping my garden at the moment. When I moved in here the whole backyard was covered with clinker bricks, probably...
Glogs
Start a Grow Log for your growing season.
Just kicking things off with a small intro, and then logging current progress.
I've grown hot peppers before. Mostly habaneros and jalapenos, but also some datils and some variety of caribbean peppers from a seed blend. I've also done some hot jelly and hot sauce-making, but nothing too serious.
Since moving to Colorado, the drier air and more-intense sun have challenged me the last couple of seasons. Particularly, since I don't have an in-ground or raised-bed garden, I only have pots to grow in. I have a feeling that my primary nemesis is the sun, causing the pots and soil to heat up and scorch the roots... I'll need to come up with a solution for this conundrum, because last year I barely got any fruit before the plants...
Time to get this glog going, I actually started growing from seed Jan 22. Most of my seeds this year came from TexasHotPeppers...so big thanks to Garth. I did have some from my usual vendors (Tradewinds and Baker Creek).
I used a mix of Promix and Coco Coir for growing medium and my germ rates were really good everything has come up except for Golden Greek Pepperoncini. Wont be long and these will be ready for new pots.
Not much to look at right now but here's a few pics leading up to present
Jan 22
Feb. 1
Feb. 7
Feb. 11
:cheers:
So I've not long been on here although I've been a member of chillis galore for years. Here is the current state of affairs
Bonda mahala darker green pheno must have hundreds of pods on now
Stunning pods on the lighter green pheno of bonda mahala
What is now naga morich
What is now hainan yellow lantern
Topped Freeport orange bonnet
Untopped Freeport orange bonnet
7pot yellow
Fatalii
Aji mango
Sweet peppers have been like this for weeks and weeks. They are pretty shadowed now with other plants taking over the greenhouse
I love building things, particularly electronics. That lead me to building a grow light of my own. I used to be an HID kinda guy; think of High Pressure Sodium, LEC, and the like. LED lighting has never been for me as far as the red, purple, blues (think of Mars Hydro, Black Dog, KindLED, etc) but now, I really think they are. Here is the parts list:
It was built using two 5-foot sections of 3/4" angle aluminum to cover a 6ft table. the rest of the stuff is from cobkits.com
6x Citizen CLU048-1212 90CRI Gen 6 chips in 4000K spectrum
Meanwell HLG-185H-36A
6x BJB COB chip holders
6x Arctic Thermal Pads
10x WAGO 3 wire connectors
6x 133mm Passive Pin-Fin Heatsinks
All together it costed about 280 before separate tools (hand held hacksaw...
I wanted to share my overwinters with everyone....
Starting with my grow down plant.... Large Orange Thai #1....
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...
I have been making youtube videos documenting my growing this year - there is 29 of them to date, in this playlist. Any thoughts welcomed! Photo is my garden as of Wednesday, it was a hit on reddit.
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!
hey i know i am early, but want a good head start on next seasons grow.
i will be growing peppers in a raised bed, and in 5 gallon buckets outside.
getting a few started 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...
I have some pepper plants I'm currently growing which include ring of fire, pimenta de neyde, white bhut jolokia JW, bhut jolokia peach, Jamaican hot chocolate, Scotch bonnet MOA yellow, Scotch Brains and sugar rush red. I will post some photos as soon as my camera arrives
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...
Overwintered plant. Went from nubbin pods to ripe in about six weeks.
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