Here goes! My first grow log. Zone 7a/b.
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Peach Biquinho White Hot
Red Biquinho "
Tam Jalapeno Baker Creek
Amish Finger Heirloom Amish Farmer
NuMex Sauve Orange Johnny’s
Baron F1 Ancho Poblano "
NuMex JEP Anaheim "
Inca Red Drop Chiliplants.com
Sprinter F1 Red Bell Johnny's
Antohi Romanian "
Gourmet F1 Orange Bell "
Gypsy Hybrid ...
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So, this is really my first year focusing just on growing peppers. And I figured I'd push it a little over the limit...you know, just so I can see where my limit really is.
This is also my first time starting seeds indoors, so I'm figuring out all the problems that go along with that. I bought a couple cheap LEDs from Amazon. They seem to be working out alright, not ideal, but not bad.
I'll be planting most of these in the ground(hopefully), in a couple of different garden beds. And whatever doesn't fit will be going in pots, and I'm trying out a few of those fabric pots for the first time. I might build a little raised bed if I get time in the next couple of weeks.
Anyway...this is the first round that was started on 1/15/17...
This is my first time doing a blog and first time growing so many peppers. The only thing I've grown hotter than a habanero was a ghost pepper last year that I got one measly pod off of. This year I have changed up my garden and methods of growing.
I have an 8' x 4' raised bed made from 2x12's as well as fabric bags in 7,10, and 15 gallon sizes. Aside from peppers I have many varieties of tomatoes of very color, purple tomatillo, black nebula carrots, and purple artichoke growing.
I started with a Carolina Reaper, Aji Charapita, Sugar Rush peach, Buena Mulata, Midnight dream, and Habanada peppers. I got a little too anxious to get them planted out and after 2 weeks in the 70's at the start of February I planted out everything...
I grow in a subtropical zone where anuums are native weeds so, it is a pretty fun place to garden. Chiles and other nightshade plants are perennials here and I've never lost one to the winter. If they die, it is from birds, heat (looking at you, tomatoes) or soil fungus. Phytopythora and the wilts thrive in the soil and blow in during dust storms so there's no real way to get around it. I'm slowly transitioning to raised beds to get out of the alkeline conditions. Summer gets up to +120f in the shade so I try to replicate the growing conditions of the native chiles and grow in the shade. From trial & error, the more shade the better. I have not yet found the threshold of too much shade, so I'm still experimenting there.
Main...
Hey all!
I know I've failed miserably with maintaining my glogs the past two years but third times the charm, right?
I promise to do much better this year with keeping the glog updated during the season. If I don't, please yell at me or threaten me with aphids (or something) :lol:
After reading Blisters amazing coco glogs I wanted to try myself and I've finally had time to do some basic research into this ahead of the upcoming season. (Thanks Blister for the info in your glogs!)
So about a month ago I felt I had enough info to do some shopping:
There is of course coco blocks to make 22 litres of coco (but I will need more because I forgot about the sifting).
Coco plugs for trying to germinate in coco.
Nutrients, CalMag and PH...
This is my first ever Grow Log. This is also my first year dealing with growing a fairly large amount of plants in my opinion. currently I have approximately 28 Bhut Jolokai, 19 Carolina Reaper, 19 Trinidad Moruga Scorpion and 6 Habanero.
Recently (Last night) I Pruned 3 of each pepper to begin my "research" and develop my own experience and opinion on how, when and how much to prune. I did only 3 of each plant so I have many control pieces. I am hoping my reading and video searches on this subject are leading me in the correct path. I would like to get my plants to about 12-15 inches and with a nice hardy structure before putting them in the ground. I am starting this Glog also to make me aware of the growth seeing as I see these...
Hello all, at this point I am still new to the forum but would like to contribute to this grow log. I might look at doing the other grow log for all of the other things I grow or maybe I will just keep it to the tomatoes. While I think that over here's what the haps with the first peppers of the year.
Set #1
Jan 12, 2018
Put 10 each of the following in a sand-bed to germinate. This is the first time using this method for sprouting pepper seeds.
Chocolate Habanero
Orange Scotch Bonnet
Lemon Drop
These were started on this date based on the projected harvest date, I use this method of determining start date with my tomatoes and some other things I grow. Since I sell to restaurants I have to plan based on the projected harvest dates...
Enjoyed growing alot last season, learned alot from my mistakes as we all do. Ordered some new seeds, and using some seeds I saved from last years grow.
I have one from last year it was a plant I order online, it was suppose to be a white ghost, but pods shaped and end color were not. It also was way hotter than my regular red ghosts, I saved seeds from the phenotype I liked, can't wait to see what variations it throws out this year.
Anyways here is my grow list
1/7 Started
White Ghost *hybrid of some sort*
Red Ghost
Chocolate Ghost
Hayden's Ghost
Chocolate Habanero
Scotch Bonnet
Red Savina
Red Scorpion
White 7pod
Carolina Reaper
Yellow Scorpion
Orange 7pod
Pumpkin Habanero
...
I am starting this GLOG now to kinda give myself a kick in the azz and make sure I document my grow this season. This will be my second real grow; I learned a whole lot last year, but I'm realizing that I still have much to learn and I still feel a bit of of my element.
The plan, this year, is to continue growing in beds at the Community Garden, and build up some beds in my yard as well. Last year, I grew on some bags at home, and two beds at the Community Garden. This year, in hoping to take over three needs at the Garden, and really expand on my garden infrastructure in my tiny yard. My wife has sort of caught the gardening bug, too, so I'll regrettably have to share space with her and her tomatoes and zucchinis and what not. Other...
Hi everybody,
I've started my first "real" hot pepper grow, so I figured I would document it here. It will be a way for me to keep track of what happens along the way, but please feel free to chip in at any time with advice or ideas.
After reading your input in my "Too many strains, how to choose?" thread, I've decided to grow 16 plants in 1 or 2 liter pots in my 3x3 grow tent.
Here's my seedlist. I've already chosen 8 varieties.
Four are in the seedling stage in solo cups:
Jay's Peach Ghost Scorpion
Trinidad Douglah
Bahamian Goat
Naga Viper
Four are currently germinating in Root Riot cubes:
Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Red
Bhut Jolokia
Habanero Brown
Georgia Black
Now I still have to pick eight varieties out of these forty...
Purchased a house this past October and will be having a small grow this year while I build a garden area this summer for next year.
This year I'm only growing four strains and I am growing am from seed exclusively. Grew madballz, Jays peach ghost, Brazilian stars fish, and sb7j. All grown from seeds harvest myself from pods.
I have not started my grow yet so I will start off with the smoking, drinking and brewing.
Today it was a ham shank....89cents per lb. with a brown sugar/mustard rub... and cumin, garlic, thyme, paprika and home grown pepper blend(HGPB)
OVERTOP... a turkey breast with a oil rub and cumin, fenugreek, black pepper, paprika, garlic, sage, season salt and HGPB
WHILE brewing a Vienna Lager and drinking a Red Ale
9 lb Vienna
1 lb L. Munich
1 lb W. Wheat
.5 lb C-60
Used up the last of my Hallertau 1.8 oz (2.5%) for bittering and Cascade 1.7 oz (8.6%) @ 20 min and flame out.
Turkey cage and leftovers for broth with homemade egg noodles. Ham leftovers for ham salad and navy beans.
A weeks worth of meat meat meals for 18...
(Pic 1) This was my Red Bhut Jolokia about a month ago. Just starting to retain blooms and convert to pods.
Had to learn about the over-watering the hard way. explains why many peppers didn't do well before, as we have heat, heavy, persistent rains, and then me. Habanero of the same age is still less than a foot tall, but still alive.
(Pic 2) where we are now, 8 to 10 pods, 1-12 to 2 inches long, with several more smaller ones coming on, and tons of flower buds at the top and extremities of the plant. 1st pods have a slight purple tinge on the green, I am thinking either due to sun or nutrients, but I have not been feeding them heavily, just a mild Miracle Grow solution once a month. Watering from the bottom up through a...
I decided to give coco coir a shot back in January based on all the success that Blister has had and posted on this forum.
This is what I am planning for coco this year:
1x Carolina Reaper (seeds from pepperlover.com)
1x Fatali (seeds from pepperlover.com)
1x Brain Strain (seeds from pepperlover.com)
1x CARDI Scotch Bonnet (seeds from Juanitos)
1x Scotch Bonnet Brown (seeds from pepperlover.com)
Current Nutrient Mix:
General Hydroponics Flora 1:1:1 tsp Micro, Grow, Bloom
1 tsp Botanicare Cal-Mag Plus
RO water, ~600ppm total concentration
Lessons learned so far:
- Don't let it dry out like soil, feed when it starts to feel light. Currently 4 day intervals.
- Check runoff concentration for nutrient/salt buildup. Recently burned...
Started 800 plants January 11th. 100 Carolina Reapers, 100 WARTYX, 100 Morugas Scorpions, 100 Yellow Brainstrain, 100 Naga Vipers, 100 Bhut Jolokia , and 200 mystery super hots because I lost my spread sheet on those and who doesn't like a mystery. My plot is ready just waiting for spring. Last year I planted 135 and harvested over 500 pounds. 73 gallons of Mash fermenting and freezer packed. I use LED strip lighting, heat pads, fans.
Since this will pertain primarily to 2018's growing season and not (so much) to over-winterings and other rants from last year, I will say I started seeds indoors in 2017 to try to get a ump on things. Some worked, some didn't. Nonetheless, here we go, and please excuse my lack of scientific nomenclature regarding phylogeny, etc. (what?).
Started from seeds:
Pimento (large, red, for sauce mixing and stuffing, from HD commercial seed pack). These are the biggest plants, with flowers now.
Red Chili (seeds from produce). Medium heat like a red Jalepeno, but I don't think they are the same pepper, based on morphology.
Red Habanero (Seeds from produce). Slower growing, sensative to watering.
Yellow Jamaican Scotch Bonnets (seeds...
Welcome everyone in my topic, in this growlog i'll show you my progress in cultivation hot peppers and tomatoes.
Ther's a list of my plantation:
Tomatoes:
Rose Quartz Multiflor
Garden Pearl
Czerwony Koralik
Indigo Blueberry
Hot peppers:
Big Bang Chocolate
The Violett Cables
Joe Long Cayenne
Jays Ghost Peach
Jalapeno Conchos
Habanero White Giant
Cyklon
Its my first time with growbox, i've made it from pine wood, cardboard and aluminum foil, that set cost me nothing.
I soaked seeds in 12 january.
Happy New Year THP!
Thanks for stopping by for another year! I hope everyone has a great season. I'll try to be more social and do less lurking. :cheers:
The following were started last night just after midnight in Jiffy Peat Pellets:
JPGS (OP 2017)
Biker Billy Jalapeno (Peppers By Mail)
Reaper (Peppers By Mail)
Nebru (OP 2017)
Yellow Bhut
Paper Lantern Hab (Juanitos)
West Indies Red CARDI (Juanitos)
Aji Dulce (Pepper-Guru)
Aji Panamanian (Pepper-Guru)
Chile Aji (Pepper-Guru)
Bahamian Goat (Tail Pheno, OP 2017)
7 Pot Primo (Peppers By Mail)
BTR (Peppers By Mail)
Madballz Rusty 7 Pot (OP 2017)
Fatalii White (Peppers By Mail)
Fatalii Yellow (Peppers By Mail)
Dragon Cayenne (OP 2017)
"Hot" Cayenne (OP 2017)
Long Red Cayenne (OP...
Hi all!
I've decided to open my glog that year too... I wasn't sure to open it since it will be an humble one, not many peppers, just the ones needed...
All seed from Semillas.
I've started 10 Rocoto Cap 363 on 1st january, because i managed to lose one, after a 2 days soak. Today i have my first sprout!
Other seeds i have to start (about 11 per type): 7pod primo orange, Avenir, Serrano and Zuzqua (whatever that is). I guess i start first and second on next weekend and the others in the first february weekend.
That's pretty much all for now, photos when there's something interesting to see.
I guess that year i'll post some pics of mountains and still some of pizza.
Now i go to hang my light, earlier than expected, i thought CAP...
So I'm scaling back a lot this year. Got my seeds soaking overnight. Should have gotten these guys going weeks ago. Once soaked, I'll remove them and put a damp piece of napkin on the bottom, put the seeds back on and the lid and let them germinate in these jello shot cups.
Anyway my list for this year is:
Bahamian Goat
Yellow Brainstrain
Island Hellfire
Chocolate Brainstrain
Yellow Primo
Szentesi Kossarvu
Criolla de Concina
Sivri
Moruga
Ethiopian Fire
Goat Weed
Criolla Sella
Fish
J. J. Jalapeno
Tursijara Domaca
Dzuljunska Sipka
Szedgedi Edes Fuszer
Kalocsai
Long Semi Hot Myra
Fizani Sladki
ukramsky
Aufrechte Cayenne
Szentesi Piazos
My winter grow took my 10 favorite plants from this year's grow to overwinter and started 8 More in my hydro tub. Using my on 1000w mh bulb and ballast already reflowering pics to follow!!
https://youtu.be/yKjs4qoSZ0c
Welcome my Friends ! I didn't think i'd be planting this year , due to extensive shoulder surgery in Nov. ,
but Thanks to my P.T. & T.H.P. friends support , I'm feeling it !
So sit back & Hope you enjoy the ride ,
Best of Luck to all ! And so it begins ,
Living in QLD we get hot humid summers and mild winters. After seeing a friend's vegepod i bought myself one to try and grow my peppers all year round without the need to overwinter.
I planted my first batch of seeds 4 months ago (mid winter) and these grew quickly and were transferred to pots to grow out.
A new batch was planted 5 or 6 weeks ago and are 4-5 inches. Some are smaller.
Most are grown and shared with family and friends. I have white ghost, 7 pot choc, choc habs, white peruvian habs, fatali, primotali, apocalypse red, yellow reaper, carolina reaper, moruga scorpion, rocoto manzano red, thai red, capsicum & cayenne.
I was supposed to create a glog 4 months ago when I started, but life happens & been busy. A well better late than never.
This pic taken on 16/09/17
This pic taken on 26/09/17
Another season has come and gone. Time to start a new one!
Although I did already a few weeks ago :shh: . After last years dismal (late) start I jumped in a bit early to insure I could have viable plants come dirt day. I can always cut them back, if I need to. I have to compile a list yet, but I'm growing the full spectrum. Sweets, to supers, based upon what we will actually use. Most of my list is to make LB happy; I'm really glad to see her infuse peppers in more and more dishes. Can't beat that when the wife takes interest ;)
Not the best pic; but the shelf is being sketchy, and I don't need all the babies bouncing off the floor.
Good luck to all this season :party:
Greetings all!
Long time lurker here...
I have learned so very much from all the incredible growers here and I wanted to start by sending out a general thank you to the awesome community here!
Starting off with a tentative list of varieties for the season. This definitely has potential to grow substantially if I can secure more growing space...
7 Pot Brainstrain Red
7 Pot Brainstrain Yellow
7 Pot Jonah
7 Pot Jonah Yellow x
7 Pot Bubblegum Orange
7 Pot Bubblegum Orange x Naga
7 Pot Yellow
Morovar's Yellow x SR Strain
Scotch Brains
Black Naga
Chocolate Nagabrain
Brown Bhutlah
Dorset Naga
Moruga Scorpion Satan Strain
Reaper Long Pheno
Devil's Tongue
MOA Scotch Bonnet
WHP Scotch Bonnet
TFM Scotch Bonnet
Jamaican Long Scotch Bonnet...
One of these biggest improvements to my grow this season is the conclusion of my grow room i started in December 2015 :lol: as i say to her indoors , no point hurrying and making mistakes :crazy: :lol: :lol: .All sealed in now with Poly carbonate roof and sides so loads of light and i hope a natural humid habitat. This will be known as Sims santuary and home to my specials and isolated plants.
Just got to make up a removabledoor so it can be closed up overnight and opened during the day for air movement .
The theme of my grow is trying to find some good tasting chocolate peppers , iv included Swiss Choc & Chocolate Bhutlah SM as these are the best 2 tasting chocolate peppers iv eaten so far. I had to include BBG,s as iv been lucky...
Happy New Year Folks. The official, unofficial list is below. Hope everyone has a great upcoming season, Keep It green.
Scotch Brain A+ F4
Scotch Brain Long A+ F5
TFM Yellow A+
7 pod Mustard A+
UBSC Brown A+
RedGum Tiger
PeachGum Tiger
BBG7 Peach
BBG7 White "small" F2
BBG7 White "large" F2
BBG7 Creamy Mustard F2
BBG7 Caramel "Burgandy"
BBG7 Cluster
BBG7 True Orange
BBG7 Tobago Treasure
BBG7 Naga Peach
BBG7 Naga Orange
BBG7 X Reaper
BBG7 X HP50
BBG7 Yellow - Big and Bumpy
BBG7 Yellow - Smooth
Ulupica XL "yellow"
Pineapple Rocoto
Rocoto Lima MKT # 1
Aji Ahuachapau
Hatch
Shishito
Islander
The following are some of my crosses I've decided to grow this upcoming season.
TFM Yellow X Yellow BBG7
TFM Yellow X OrangeGum Tiger ...
After a lazy January I finally got under way today. I'll deal with some pics once there is something to see other than nothing to see.
The final (well...maybe, maybe not) list, in no particular disorder:
Ms Junie 1
Aji Llaneron 1
Peach Bhut Jolokia 1 - seed from peppers that grew from last years Not White Bhut Jolokia seed
Not White Bhut Jolokia 1- last year this seed yielded a damn good Peach Bhut
Shishito 3
Aji Angelo 1
Jalapeno Yellow 2 or 3
Aji Jobito 2 or 3
Cream Fatalii 2 or 3
Aji White Lightning Bolt 1
Tepin x Lemon Drop F5 1 or 2
7 Pot White 1
Brazilian Starfish 1
Santorini Episkopi Gonia 1
Sugar Rush Orange 1
Dong Xuan Market 2 or 3
Aji Rosita Yellow 1 or 2
Legacy Big Jim 2 or 3
Kampanaki 1 or 2
Bhut...
A wile back I posted this forum about my plan and if it would work http://thehotpepper.com/topic/66583-cross-breeding/
In this glog, I am going to post once or twice a week, about how the cross works out and the problems I am probably going to face. sadly my reaper and scorpion have died due to a hard frost and mushy stems. I planted the seeds I need a week ago and will post a picture when I see sprouts. the cross is going to be between a (scorpion x reaper) x (bhutlah x scottch bonnet). hopefully I get some cool looking, hot pods that taste great. I want the heat to pass the reaper (90% sure it will) with a great taste. If there is a pod that you a bunch of you guys like the look of then I will stabilize that cross and try to send some...
12/25/17
Merry Christmas!!!!!
I now have 15 plants 10 of which have been transplanted in to 1 gallon pots , 1 into a 2 gallon pot and 1 into a 3 gallon pot.
Last 3 still in solo cup.
This bunch lives in a 3x3 tent that just got a 1000w led ( Thanks Santa).
In the cabinet I now have a 45w panel led(REPLACING* homemade cfl lamp) for my seedlings.
I have 4 small plants from my start that are still in with my new sprouts.
Among the new sprouts I have:
Carolina reaper x2 of 3
Scotch brain x3
Premium mix x2 of 9
Pictures of plant growth off cfl lamp prior to 12/25. New 1000w led added 12/25
*Picture #6 grow cabinet.
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Well, its a little smaller than last year. I need to cut some out of this, will need to find some strength to do it. There is about 10 that I don't have listed yet some late arrivals. Most of the Chinense are now started minus a few.
Here's the list - it will definitly change some but this is the start.
7 Pot Brain Strain Caramel
7 Pot Brain Strain Chocolate
7 Pot Brain Strain Yellow
7 Pot Bubblegum Chocolate
7 Pot Bubblegum Chocolate Elongated
7 Pot Bubblegum Cluster
7 Pot Bubblegum Red Long
7 Pot Bubblegum MAMP x JRGS
7 Pot Bubblegum Moruga
7 Pot Bubblegum Naga Orange
7 Pot Bubblegum Naga Peach
7 Pot Bubblegum Naga Yellow
7 Pot Bubblegum Orange Large
7 Pot Bubblegum Peach Ghost Jami
7 Pot Bubblegum Red
7 Pot Bubblegum Red...
This is currently a placeholder for what i will attempt to piece together as a Glog for this year
I took hardly any pics of my seedlings, :( and when the weather was finally warm enough at night for my plants to go outside; They got shredded by hail, nearly drown in rains for days straight, tore up by winds. :mope:
Long story shortened, my season has had a rough start and most of my plants don't look so good :neutral:
So, although my plants are not nearly as nice as many others who have Glogs i have been following.
I will attempt to keep a log of this years grow anyway :)
Pics to follow soon...
:cheers:
It's been awhile since I've done a glog (2014-2015) But I'm back and hoping 2018 will be as good of a season as 2015!
Currently on my grow list
C3PO
Chocolate Primo
Reaper
Jay's Peace Ghost Scorpion
To Be Continued. (Debating on other super hots or to add some Mild/sweet peppers into the mix)
Currently I have a few seeds sitting in damp paper towels on a heat mat set @ 88 F, these plants will be grown indoors to see if it's feasible to grow to fruit indoors for my current setup. Currently as of 12/05/17 1 C3PO seed has popped, going to get this guy into some seed starting mix until it starts to show it's first true set of leaves and then I'll get it into some Ocean Forest mixed with some perlite.
*Pics to follow shortly*
Sorry 'bout the glitch... still learning how to use my new "smart" phone. Sometimes it seems like it's smarter than me... :rolleyes:
The year is almost over, but here is my 2017 Grow Log:
I want to thank the people who started and are maintaining the cooking and fishing threads, as without them, I wouldn’t be doing anything at all here.
I haven’t grown anything indoors or on my balcony since 2015, and this year’s main outdoor season was awful. I had intended on growing a number of Superchile plants as they thrive in my garden which doesn’t get a lot of sunlight, but by the time I went to order them, Cross Country Nurseries was sold out. I bought a number of Tabasco starter’s, but none of them took. The only thing that produced pods was something that my local nursery sold with a label that read, "Pimentas de table Hot Fajita."
They had good heat and decent...
Hello all...while I couldn't grow every variety of pepper seeds I received I did come up with a nice list for this years 2017 grow.
I was going to start in soil, but I had great results last season with Grodan cubes and I already had them left over.
I started with 2-3 seeds per hole, but midway went with poking extra holes in the cubes to isolate each seed.....I will cut the cubes apart later when transplanting.
There are 2 cubes of the Aji Lemon drop for the 2017 GT, everything else will be grown or gifted depending on success.
The numbers after each variety of pepper is number of seeds sown, I make a final grow decision from what comes up
Aji Lemon drop x5
Rocoto Red x3
Giant choc Hab x4
Sadabahar x4
Cherio Cre'me Hab x4...
there are 3 chili trees that attack disease.
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Hi THP!
I've finally decided to make an account, and make my own grow log, instead of just reading yours!
This will be my third year growing peppers, and I will try to keep my grow small and around 6 plants - (a promise I've made the past, but never held)
I'm planning to put the plants in the ground around May.
My grow list is as follows:
- Aji Lemon Drop
- 7 Pot Brainstrain
- Trinidad Scorpion Peach
- Numex Suave
- Pimenta de Neyde
And then I'm hoping to participate in the Growdown Throwdown this year.
I've already started my seedlings, as I have a lot more room this year than previously, and I'm planing on topping to plants at some point. (Probably started too early anyways, but that's a problem for the future me)
I'll...