So, here's the new glog for the coming season. With the indoor grow culled pretty hard now I can focus more on getting ready for what's ahead. Hoping for a great year, but I’m already a bit behind - the germinators are packed right now and I've still got a round of annuum seeds waiting for their turn. I guess it wouldn’t feel much like pepper growing though if everything were going perfect.
My focus was going to be rocotos with a side of bonnets and some other stuff, but I found I kept planting more and more wilds. Eventually I just kinda went all-in with them and they took on co-main event status.
I’ll start things off with some pics of some of the earlier pube’s. There’s not too many at this point. Unfortunately, the vast...
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Long-time THP veterans mourned the loss last August of Amarillo, Texas musician/songwriter/silversmith/chilehead Erin Mason, known to us here on the boards as P. Dreadie. Erin was an enigma, one of the most interesting and creative, yet gentle and loving guys I ever knew. Many of us may be unaware that he played harmonica in one of the original Austin, Texas bands of the early 1970s "Cosmic Cowboy" era, Alvin Crow and the Pleasant Valley Boys. When Erin decided to step off of Alvin's perpetually-touring bus and return to Amarillo, he travelled to Jamaica, fell in love with the Reggae beat, collected the best Scotch Bonnet fruit he could find, and his alter-ego Papa Dreadie was born.
In 2013 Erin sent me a few pods of the Scotch...
Hi Peeps!
I hope to grow some Padron peppers to spread around to friends and maybe a few to the local market. At the very least I hope to have a Tapas to go with my Bombas! Fry them up with oil and sea salt and wait for the hot one! We dont get Padron peppers here due to climate, so I decided to try and grow my own. I like to cook. Many recipes from many places and the worst part is not being able to get the ingredients or spices. Unfortunately, I live in a zone 8 area, far from Spain, with months of cold and a lot of rain. It was 33deg this morning and 64geg this afternoon, and humidity is 35...
So here we go! Noob inside start!
(Dirt in my area is very nutrient rich)(sorry I didnt take pics from the start)
I bought my Padron seeds...
Well... you guys know me and i know you guys....
I was seriously planning on taking it easy this year, but somehow it happened again!
The past few years were crazy productive and my household is completely saturated with peppers.
Dried, frozen, canned, you name it we got it. Actually my house is starting to look like a spices warehouse of the VOC (east india company)
Wich makes sense, since i'm living in Middelburg wich played a major role in this part of Dutch history.
Even today my town still breaths the spirit of that time and so the need and greed for more is both genetic as well it is a product of my surroundings so it can't be blamed on me, right?
Middelburg skyline in 1615 (hasn't changed much actually! 😁)
As i was saying, i...
About the Grow:
The (hydro) spice must flow
This year I am starting Pepper Joe’s Leutschauer indoors and transitioning them outdoors
The entire grow will be using hydroponics
Once finished I will produce several lifetime's worth of Paprika, also cornering the market
I'm starting 10 seeds and will do a pheno-hunt in my indoor tent for a mother plant
Once the mother is established I will do about 10 clones and transfer them outdoors
Stages of Growing:
Seed starting
Solo cups
5 gallon bucket
55 gallon drum (outdoor)
I'll document these methods in following posts
About Me:
I'm not exactly a master grower but I have successfully created crosses and done quite a bit of pepper growing in the past
I can't handle any heat...
confession: your very own @growyourown calls himself a pepper lover and has never grown scotch bonnets! BLASPHEMOUS, i know; i intend to rectify this in 2024. i have several varieties to try, and am excited to do so. i just gotta write this now partially because i have the seeds and i'm excited, and also because if i get this intro crap out of the way, it's a quick post to make once i actually drop seeds over christmas.
HERE'S THE SEEDS I BOUGHT FOR THE YEAR (note asterisks):
bonnets:
scotch bonnet trinidad red 900k *
scotch brains yellow 1M+
scotch bonnet 6-colour mix:
--choc/peach/red/orange/yellow/safi
others:
chin – fatalii yellow 900k
chin – congo black X butch t choc 1.1M **
pube – rocoto giant yellow 50k
frut – hijo puta...
What's up everyone? It has been quite a while. Last time I was active was in 2017, when I lived in Arizona, I am in Houston now. Figured I would start a Glog for 2024/2025. Had a few plants this year that were doing fantastic and were starting to produce but hurricane Beryl had other plans for them. So instead of going crazy and not growing anything, I decided to start one little Lemon Starrburst plant in DWC and it's doing awesome. Will photo dump but the plant is a couple weeks old now. Started the seed in soil and just moved to the bucket a couple days ago.
Here is the lineup for 2025:
Primotalii
Carolina Reaper
California Reaper
Lemon Starrburst
Super Bhut Jolokia
Yellow Naga
Not much but about all I room for. All seeds from...
Just starting this glog now so it's one less thing to do in a few months when I'm knee deep in compost and getting things in the ground.
Not much to report at the moment. Strains yet to be determined, but I'll probably end up growing too many like always...lol
Only thing that's going on right now is a clean back patio and the chickens doing their part turning over my compost pile on the daily. Intersted in seeing how the soil microbes appreciate the added chicken poop!
Hope everyone has had a decent winter so far and here's to happy germination!
EDIT UPDATE: This glog has turned into an ongoing overwintering, greenhouse and soil building how-to!
I've opted to keep details of my crossing projects in this dedicated thread rather than include it in my 2021 Glog
Edited this post to summarise what crosses I've got and where they are at, I will try and keep it current. Dates in status column reflect when I've updated the information not when the cross was actually made. I've not included every historic cross I've ever made and ignores anything where I haven't got at least F1 seeds unless I thought it was useful to record. Information might be useful to someone at some point.
ChilliCrosser Cross
Current Status
X001 : Bolivian Rainbow x Cheiro Roxa (C.Annuum x C.Chinense)
🅿️16/8/21: F1 seeds, not grown on yet.
X002 : Fijian Bongo x Cheiro Roxa (C.Chinense x C.Chinense)
❌16/8/21...
"I feel reborn. I'm like a phoenix rising from Arizona.”as Frank Costanza would say. Been awhile, let's go. Peppers where gifted to me yes in a pizza box. TFM yellow SB that were from long family of peppers ,from seeds gifted to him by moi ,from seeds peppers from yes, the Trenton Farmers market. Breath. The other a bhut/reaper mix that he likes for sauces. Ok, let's start, seeds where taken from ripest pods and air dried in coffee filters then zip locked. Germ went good with both being viable stock. Getting 18 hrs under 150w CFL and plant gro bulb. Thinned weakest and planted 2nd germ. Starting second sets of true leaves on 1st and growing strong. Maybe solo cups soon.
Hi everyone,
I am Max and I grow Hot peppers for fun, I am based at north east Italy (Friuli), this year I started early because I wanted to do multiple harvest during the season.
In my place I reach the desired temperatures from early/mid april till late October.
I aim for 18/20 Celsius (64/68F) during the day and not under 13 Celsius(55F) at night time.
I started planting 15 seeds in solo cups in potting mix , then placed the cups in a humidity dome that has a heating mat underneath.
Placed my thermostat at 26/28(72/74F) Celsius and waited.
7 days later 13 of the 15 seeds sprouted and then I selected 5 between the heltiest plant .
I gave them about 18 hours of light and 6 of dark and grew them indoor for about 10 weeks, 10/15 days...
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
I'm at it again my season for 2024 has just started. Watch me go nuts again.
Give it a week or so watching the dirt for my seeds to pop through the soil and I'll likely look like this.I was gifted 10 industrial strength tomato cages. The ones that are 5ft tall and 20 inches wide. BEEFY
Sooo im gonna try to grow some matters from seed.
Also I have sewn, Aji Limo, BOO's babies ghost, and Farmer's jalapeno.
I have a light, a small fan, a small heater, and a heat matt.
The tomato varieties are pictured.
WISH ME LUCK
YOU WILL ALSO GET MANY MANY UPDATES AS MY OUTDOOR FALL GARDEN PROGRESSES
THE BOOKS ARE THERE TO TEACH THE YOUNG SEEDLINGS TO READ. DR SUESS OF COURSE.
Hello All,
Well, it's that time of year to start pulling out the Heaters and Grow tent to get them super hots and long-season peppers started... I will be starting my adventure on or around the first of the year. I'm just getting things cleaned up and ready. Clearing out old seedsio logs, and waiting on the seed train to see what I want to grow from there. Reviewing my notes from this year's grow season to see what changes I need to make. I will say I have chosen a few plants to over winter. I will be changing my garden's layout this year... and supplementing the beds a bit differently. I know I want to try my hand at goji berry this year... both black and red. I had an interesting hot sauce made with them and I want to try to make...
Not sure if any of you recognize my name, but I'm the guy who insists on growing tropical peppers in a frigid Canadian wasteland. And fails. Over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And over.
I think summer falls on a Tuesday this year, so I'm wildly optimistic!
I had a bunch of plants started in my basement, waiting for last frost. Then i went away for a week for a work thing, and everything rained for two+ weeks, and the humidity coalesced into the physical form of the grim reaper and slaughtered a bunch of my poor babies.
I went to a nursery and bought a bunch of replacements of various varieties.
The rain continued, humidity skyrocketed, and half of these replacements rotted and fell over.
So what am...
I've never successfully grown peppers before. My attempts to grow mutants ended in failure. But this season, I'm trying again. I'll exclusively be trying my hands at a variety you guys have probably heard of, known as the Peter Pepper. It's a pepper variety known for being shaped like a private part. I'll be growing the red ones, which are the most phallic. I received the seeds from a shop in Belgium known as Badskin's Garden.
Using tricks learned from Khang Starr, I have used a plastic soda bottle and a plastic bag to contain a plant. I put three seeds in there and added water. I put the contraption in my windowsill.
I hope this works. Keep in mind this growlog will be updated semi-sporadically.
Hello and Welcome to my first pepper grow journal. I am not a gardener and I don’t have access to a garden, so I am limited to growing in my basement. I WELCOME INPUT, SO PLEASE JUMP IN IF I AM DOING SOMETHING WRONG. I will be using a 2x2x6 grow tent to keep the plants warm and reflect more light. I have a 150 watt ViparSpectra LED for the space. I see that most of the pepper plants that I ordered are only expected to grow 2’ tall, so I’m hoping to squeeze four plants in the tent. This will put them 12” apart which is a little too tight I suspect. I will buy a larger tent (3x2 or 3x3) if it gets too tight (and if I enjoy this new hobby). I’ve been doing a lot of reading and preparation for this hobby….i hope it proves to be a...
Hello and welcome to the Grow!
The garden is in sunny Tampa Florida zone 10 a.
Some seedlings are growing, some just got planted and another twenty varieties were just ordered.
Mild to wild heat levels.
Common to less common genetics.
Most varieties will have a 10 gallon grow bag with roughly 7-8 gallons of custom mixed fast draining soil.
Nutrients will be
Happy Frog organic all purpose 6-4-5 for veg,
bone meal for flowering,
liquid fish and cal mag extreme at discretion.
Super thrive when stressing plants/ planting/ propagating.
Planning to stay as natural as I can with feeding.
I welcome to any insights you may have to organic fertilizers as I mainly have experience with synthetic fertilizers.
The chart is the garden...
I've been hesitating for a long time before starting a new Glog,... last year a lot of things happened and I had a hard time keeping it up to date. I hope that this year I'll manage to be more regular.
In January, driven by the desire to sow some seeds, I put some in my aerogarden...
My grow list for this year is:
(There is no guarantee that I won't sow more)
- Pepapeach Stripey (Growdown 2023) : C.Baccatum
- Pepadew South Africa (from Welsh dragon Chilli) : C.Baccatum
- Pepadew Peach (from Welsh dragon Chilli): C. Baccatum
- Rocotto, Mini Olive (Fataliiseeds): C.Pubescens
- Rocoto Marlene (Fataliseeds): C. Pubescens
- Aji Gusanito (Fataliiseeds): C.Chinense
- Arroz Con Polo (Refined Fire Chili): C.Chinense
- Biquinho Red...
Thanks to Bhuter for prodding me with his pics of my Crosses, I've decided to grow another round for this fall/winter. Barring any disastrous hurricanes, I hope to get the Pepper band back together as it were.
I dropped seeds from 6 of my crosses (plus Datil) yesterday on a heated tray inside my garage/storage room. If the heat tray doesn't cook them, and with any luck, I should have some sprouts in a few days.
In this batch
(BSxHA)xPB (Lolo) F2, F3
(BSxADY)xGC Sunspot F3
BSxAP Aji Sunrise F4
JBxBJB Jabooty F3, Brown
CDNxGC Sungold Habanero F3
And Datil from Pure Plorida
Depending on how these go, I may drop a few more soon.
I have one or two more crosses left to plant.
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Snowdrops out and the early signs of daffodils are abundant here in the U.K. ... we are reminded that winter is all but done however looking at next weeks temperatures I am not so sure. I am late this season I normally sow between Christmas and New Year but last season I was too advanced and the Growtents were bulging before I could get the plants into the polytunnel.... my propagation is crammed full of all sorts of chilli seeds germinating away after their tea soak ... big year for me as I retire in June but really looking forward to this season as I have managed to secure more true Bonnets and a few new Bonnet Hybrids. A massive "thank you" to all that have helped me continue my Bonnet/Hybrids/Hot Chinense journey especially Simmy...
This first post is picture heavy.
I originally wasn't going to do a glog this year but have decided as I am going to grow less variety this year there may not be as much posting involved. The pepper list for this year is JALAPENOS, yep, thats it...........although there will be TWO varieties. I have started MUCHO NACHO and EMERALD FIRE, from new seeds no less.
Here is the signature image for the blog which was actually from a couple of years ago:
Now on to a couple of pictures I took over the last couple of months of the new plants.
My wife wanted a jalapeno plant she could keep in the screen porch so naturally a Kratky plant. Here are some earlier pics and current ones will be posted later.
It all started with a culled seedling...
It should be a good year for growing peppers. My goal is to find the most productive varieties that thrive in the Texas heat. The growlist will consist of mainly Annuums but there will be a couple non-Annuums here and there. I'll post the official growlist later. Cheers!
Grow List:
Serrano (Ferry-Morse)
Jalapeno Zapotec (Downriver)
Jalapeno Pecos (Downriver)
Jalapeno Gigantica (Downriver)
Jalapeno (Terroir Seeds)
Jalapeno (Seeds of Change)
Black Cobra (THP)
Peruvian Cerezo (THP)
Cantina Gold (THP)
Thai Scorpion (Ramey Plant Farm)
Aji Amarillo (TGCM)
XL Antep Aci Dolma X (Downriver)
Chiltepin (Terroir Seeds)
Peri-Peri (THP)
Torres Cattywampus de Arbol (Downriver)
Datil (Ebay)
Datil (Tim)
Datil (Pure Florida)
Datil...
I always grow more peppers than I need, so my goal this season is to grow less. My freezer is full of scotch bonnets, so I am focusing more on annum peppers this year.
My seed starting grow tent in the past has been in a cold unfinished basement. This year I have the tent in an unused bedroom. I am excited to see how much better everything grows with the warmer temperatures. In the basement, air circulation and heat were competing variables. I could heat the tent if it was closed and unventilated, but then I noticed negative effects from lack of air circulation. From my reading, I think the plants probably weren’t getting enough CO2.
I have a west facing window in the new tent location. Not sure if a little natural sunlight...
Hi pepperlovers!
I think it is time to get a grow log started for the season 2023. I hope you will join in and follow along. Feel free to give me advice, critics, ask questions and leave comments of any kind! :D
As I already mentioned in my introduction post I am growing peppers since 2019. I am lucky I have enough space to try a lot of vegetable growing, but my favourite are peppers of all kind :hot:
First of all lets get started with my two main spots for the growing. The first one is directly at the house where I grow the plants mainly in buckets. Here will be the plants I want to visit daily (actually several times a day :D) and have a really close look on. The second spot is an outdoor garden some minutes away. Here I will...
Hello
Decided to publicly post my attempts at growing peppers this year. Would appreciate any advice given.
So I am currently growing
2 Aji Limons (one planted on the 27th February, the other on 4th March)
1 Numex Twilight (planted on 4th March)
1 7-Pot ( planted 4th March I think)
1 Bulgarian Carrot (planted 4th March)
1 Pumpkin Pepper (planted 27th February)
1 Habanero (planted 27th February)
1 Jamaican Hot Chocolate (planted 27th February)
1 Bhut Jolokia (planted 27th February)
1 Bird's Eye Pepper (planted 27th February)
1 Chimayo (which germinated but later found to have died due to damping off)
Habanero and Pumpkin Pepper were the first to hook which was on the 4th March. Aji Limon on 5th March. JHC and Bird's Eye on the...
Back again and trying to get my first decent grow going in a few years.
Experimenting a little with an aeroponics setup for some of my starts.
Not certain how that will go but taking a punt.
Have a bunch of different varieties down from varying age seeds (some from 2011-12 right through to 2022 all stored in fridge since early 2015)
Most seem to be doing as they should and germinating. Some are being a little stubborn as expected.
Once germinated they are going under a 500-600 watt LED panel with extra natural light in the greenhouse on a heat mat.
Only thing I am lacking is a fan to get some more robust/less leggy seedlings which you can see in the seedling pictures.
Multiple strains of myself and PaulG's Trippaul threats plus...
8,000 feet above sea level, low temps, low humidity, let's see if we can grow hot peppers at the top of the Rocky Mountains.
Strains
Round 1 Germ: Transplanted to 3 gal grow bags
Carolina Reaper - Baker Creek
Death Spiral - Baker Creek
Dragon's Breath - Refining Fire Chilis
Apocalypse Chocolate - RFC
Romanian Sweet - RFC
White Moruga - Bohica
Round 2 Germ: In cups awaiting transplant
7 Pot Chocolate - BC
West Indies Red Habanero - BC
Scotch Bonnet - BC
Sugar Rush Peach - BC
Round 3 Germ: Started 12/19
Pink Tiger x BBG7 - Texas Hot Peppers
Bahamanian Goat - THP
KS Peach Starrkist - THP
Hallow's Eve - THP
Thor's Thunderbolt - THP
Round 4 Germ: Started 12/28
Black Panther - THP
Scotch Brains Red - THP
Anyone that has grown...
This year I was focused on my proprietary genetics, and others (updating)
Indy pepper - 2019 - 1
Indy pepper - 2022 - 1
Indy pepper - 2022 pheno 1 - 1
Indy pepper - 2022 pheno 1b - 1
Indy pepper - 2022 pheno 2 - 1
Aji Charapita - 1 (non-growdown-showdown)
Douglah - 4
Goat - 2
Gourmet Jigsaw - 1
Peach Ghost Scorpion -1
Red Ghost scorpion -1
Bubblegum -1
White Bubblegum -1
White devils tounge-1
White devils tounge pheno-1
Zapotec Jalapeno -1
Hungarian paprika -1
Chimayo -1
Thai - 1
Just popped:
Hallows Eve - 1
Germinating:
Buena mulata -2
Zing -1
Bahamian beast - 2
Testanera - 1
Mustard maruga x gator - 2
Hallows eve - 1
Swampthing- 2
Final batch:
Sugar rush peach stripey -2
Blue ghost peach -2
Pink ufo - 2
More are likely...
Here we go again!!!!
Looking back at the 2022 season i can only conclude that it has been a succesfull and very productive season, wich ofcourse fueled the pepper madness in me even more! :D
Fact is i grew way more peppers than i can possibly consume or give away under normal circumstances and it would be wise to cut down a bit on the amount of plants in the coming season. I decided to get rid of all the overwintering plants and start all fresh this year.
No plants to take care of this winter, no fungus gnats all over the place and in my humble experience the overwinterers did not outproduce the fresh seedlings but did need more space. Pound for pound the seedlings were more productive.
Plan was to cut down on the varieties too, but as...
Hey,
I want to grow vegetables again this year.
Capsicum should not be missing, of course. :D
Planned are:
Hot pepper:
Aji Guyana (Capsicum baccatum; 6/10)
"Gelbes Rüsselchen" (Capsicum annuum; 5/10)
"Lila Luzi" (Capsicum frutescens; 7/10)
Capsicum (Anuum):
Kyra
Corno Giallo
Tomatoes:
"Rotkäppchen" (balcony tomato)
"Zuckertraube" (cherry tomato)
Cucumber:
"La Diva" (snack cucumber)
(I ordered from a German store and unfortunately can't find the English names for the hot peppers and tomatoes)
Unfortunately, so far I have only been able to get the Aji Guyana under the "soil" (Eazy Plugs), as the other seeds are still stuck in the post.
Since I have done a few experiments with lettuce and the Kratky method, I would like to try...
After a couple nudging pm's it is time to get things rolling...well, get a list situated atleast. I won't be starting my seeds until March 1 this season. This list is subject to change, and I'm betting it will before I'm done typing. My two goals this season are 1.) Take less pics and better quality 2.)Sow later and achieve similar yields. My germination techniques and set up are not inspirational or extravagant so the bulk of my updates will be after early june plant out. Fert apllication and medium are changing a tiny bit but staying simple with it.
c.annuum
Big Jim
Elefant
Giant Aconcagua
Goat's Weed
Jimmy Nardello
Mucho Nacho
Purple Pequin
c.baccatum
Aji Cristal
Birgit's Locoto (growdown)
Yellow Bouquet
c.frutescens
Boonie...
Well, shoot. I don't know that I should start a new glog with as poor as I was about updating my last one, but here it goes. My offseason season started late, with most of my plants being probably four to six weeks old now. I'll start by posting a few of the newer ones.
This guy is an Oxkutzcab/Oxkutzcabian Orange Habanero. I have three of these growing and a couple Caribbean Red Habanero that are smaller. The Oxkutzcab seem to be out-pacing the reds, but they've also been around a little longer. In this pic I particularly like the transition in the stem at the cotyledons.
@HeatMiser sent me some of his wild texas tepin seeds - what, a couple years ago now? - and I've been trying to grow the variety to production ever since...
Hello guys and girls,
as I told in the Welcome-Post I will let you know about my updates in my homegrowing-story ;)
The content is primary translated from German to English. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK if something seems strange... My English is not that good...
In the past I tried to document everything right and complete to last percent to achieve a 100%, but I now know that it takes too much time. Repeated: If you have any questions feel free to ask (Setup, Preferences, Sorts)
In this picture are 2 Dwarf Chiltepin from seeds from Semillas that sprouted on February 15. One of them shows signs of starting to branch out. A very nice growth habit for this variety. One of them will turn into a bonchi.
Links to my grow logs:
2021
2022
Hanging pots:
From the varieties grown in previous years:
- Fatalii - V2 2022 (original seeds from Semillas) - 2 plants
- Fatalii - V1 2022 (original seeds from PaulG / Cane Dog) - 1 plant
- Papa Dreadie SB - V1 2022 (original seeds from Sawyer G3) - 2 plants
New varieties:
- Humble Servants Homestead SB - MarcV 2022 - 2 plants
- KS Lemon Starrburst - Semillas 2022 - 2 plants
- PI 215734 - Semillas 2022 - 2 plants
- Aji Dulce Peruano - Thegreenchilemonster 2018 - 1 plant
- Aji...