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My first time trying to grow anything from seed - the poor herb sprouts I bought and killed curing covid notwithstanding...
Starting a little late because we've had an unusually late cold season where I am.
I am a little concerned about the humidity buildup inside of the box :think: Probably overdid the initial watering (as I tend to overdo things...).
Going to let it dry out a bit for a while so currently I'm doing the hardest thing aka waiting patiently 😬
Still have a few more seeds coming for the unfilled rows!
Today's the first of the year, so it must be time to start a glog.
That's it, for now, lol.
Hello everyone. It's been a long minute since I've posted anything here. Life decided to throw a lot of health issues my way and while some have been resolved, there are some that never will be. I have been checking out the site without logging in most of the time and see some pepper people I knew are still on here. I'm gonna attempt a Glog and see how that goes. I have lots of seeds in the fridge that are getting pretty old so I thought I'd try to start a few. So far I've tried to sprout some wilds with out much luck. I do have a 2018 model of Galapagos Long from Canedog that popped rather quickly. Looks like it will be my glog pic.
I began with a soak in a H2O2/RO water mix for 24 hours then placed the seeds into Rapid...
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So here goes nothing. I'm late so shoot me!
Not growing so many this year - yes I know I always say that, but it's true this time :shh:
Started soaking the chinense in camomile tea this morning. Next will be the bacs and then, annuals.
Chinense started
Pink Habs
Fruit Burst Habs
Jamaicans
MOA Bonnets
Red Bonnets
Goat Weed (may not be a Chinense :lol:)
Fatali
Fidalgo (ditto above)
Baha Goat
And, as I had some space on the heat mat, a couple of Bacs
Peppapeach
Stripy wotsits
think that's it for pepper seeds
There may some tomato seeds started this afternoon after I check temps in the greenhouse
Jalapeno x Habanero cross polinated F1 about 12 or 13 plants have survived to the week 5 mark soon we will have the worlds first jalapeno habenero f1 peppers and am soo anticipation if they look like the first parent pepper or if they take on more of the jalapeno shape, the mom was orange habenero but when crossed with jalapeno can see clearly turned bright deep red! taste was that of strong jalapeno smell taste and crunch with heat and fiery breath of habanero added unique tang remnicent of fermented wine pretty neat and decent for a habapeno that i didnt even know would be possible to make, the plants are growing faster then the original much similar in apearance to the habenero but with added vigor slightly thicker leafs seams more...
First time chilli grower. Coco, soil and hydro. 🤙
This plant box thing I made, I used four small LEDs around the base to light the under canopy, modest lighting is shared with the fish tank that's under it off camera, lights are situated above it and that's also off camera is reason. Planted seeds in Nov is March now 4 months to first harvest 3 "Purple Tiger" plants{15peppers} the Hallows Eve{3peppers} I also used this for Carolina Reaper but it did not like the water approach so was moved to potting mix and did just fine in the yard, soo this is lovely mood lighting type of peppers garden that continually yields and make lovely decorative fish tank addition
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 again, pepper friends!
Courtesy of @bansho hot sauce, I'm starting out with two Bahamian Goat seedlings (left) and one Bahamian Beast Peach. I'd had an absolutely terrible time getting anything to sprout recently, so these new kids are a real relief.
I retired my Hot Thai and Yatsufusa after I ended up with a few liters of hot sauce and couldn't use it or give it away fast enough, but it's not like I can just not grow peppers. So in a few months, all the sauce should be gone, and hopefully these guys will be giving me something new to work with; I've always wanted to grow Goats, so this is exciting. The Beast variety is something I wasn't even aware of, so that's also fun.
Since I've obviously pared things down a lot (heh...
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...
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!
Hello there pepperheads, long time no see!
I haven't grown anything since the 2018 season which was not a great one for me. Had okayish yield for an indoor grow, but I was swamped at work and tried too many new things which kind of made me burn out on the growing.
I live in an apartment in the city, with no balcony, so I'm a strict indoor grower which has it's challenges regarding space, light, and so forth. But I've had quite good yields despite this.
This year is no different, pure indoor grow in the same apartment with the same limitations.
This first post will be a bit long since it covers the first month, but I will do my best to do frequent updates for your reading pleasure.
With that said, let's go back to late 2022, and I...
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...
Links to my grow logs:
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2022
2023
2024
Picture of the only surviving Orange Fatalii clone.
This year I will grow in the hanging pots:
- Fatalii, V2 2023 - 2 plants
- Orange Fatalii / THSC - 3 plants
- CGN 21500 / Sulsa 2023 - 2 plants
- Mako Akokosrade / Sulsa 2023 - 2 plants. Thanks @Sulsa
- Bombay Morich / THSC - 1 plant
- Naga Morich / THSC - 1 plant
- PI 215734 / Semillas - 3 plants
- Habanada / Semillas - 2 plants
In the pots at the bottom of the balcony I will grow:
- Spezzano's Thai, V2 2024 - 2 plants
- Jeromin / MarcV 2022 - 4 plants. Thanks @MarcV
- Chile Rayado / CaneDog - 2 plants
- Zapotec x Rayado F1 / CaneDog - 2 plants
- Zapotec x Orange Spice Jalapeno F1 / CaneDog - 2 plants
- Manzano Amarillo Ollantaytambo /...
Decided to drop a few seeds in december for next year so decided to start a '24 Glog early.
I'm very lucky in that in addition to a small domestic greenhouse at our house I also have access to a significant space in a commercial greenhouse (our little island used to be the UK's leading tomato supplier but the industry collapsed in the face of cheaper imports from warmer climes so there are a lot of huge greenhouses looking for uses here). In it I grow a lot of perennial stuff that needs a mediterranean climate (or is marginal there) - bananas, figs, tamarillos, various passiflora and my peppers sit interplanted with them. With our mild climate it is possible often to overwinter capsicum of all species in ground in these big...
kids pool made into a river raft pond there all exotic peppers buena mullata, purple tiger, habanero red, arbol, explosive ember, carolina reapers, bell pepers, all that and then some is easy simple never need to water is best version of how to grow so far ive found with water is fun and i made a door there for adding the water and juice n all is fun simple container garden blessed gardening weee!
I've been told for years that my craziness should be documented somewhere. Well, I'm going to attempt it. Each year I like to start at least 3 times what I am planning for myself. I do fill 3 other (neighbors and family) gardens as well but even so have tons of plants. And on average I have 500 hot pepper plants in our garden, with 35-50 superhots in buckets on deck. (along with 75 tomatoes, okra, tons of cucs in garden) This year I started 42 types of HOT peppers, 12 types of sweet (not for me!). I'll attach photo's later - so in some kind of order) as I have several in my 30+ trays of 48 as I am starting transplanting and putting back under lights until they are ready for greenhouse. There are 3 - 5 shelf shelving units inside...
Welcome to The First BalcoJungle Year!
Second Year =>
Hi!
Oh, I love watching that kind of stuff...
I am not too experienced in growing peppers, I used to grow some tomatoes but since I moved out from my family house, I didn't have space to grow anything. I bought allotment garden (I think that's the word, english is not my native language) but I can't seem to find time to care about it full time from march to october, it's not as near my flat as I'd want it to be but maybe one year I will make my life a little bit less messy and take make it work.
Now I live in the apartment with a balcony, it is at western side and in the summer the heat is kinda out of control. I think it will do! Oh, I dream of the jungle here!
This year I bought...
Well here we go again! After my friend @Alejandro took the last two plants off my hands (Jamaican red hab and sugar rush cream), I'm starting from scratch for the first time in a while. Very, very humble beginnings: One sprout and one hook!
Granted... they're both basil. :)
Still under the lid, waiting for hooks:
Alma paprika
Looking forward to having these again. I grew them quite a while ago and had good results; hopefully, having gotten a bit better with the hydroponics, this time will be even better.
Chocolate habanero
Another one I've grown before (not looking to do much new this time around, mostly bringing back the old favorites). I know annuum x chinense isn't the most reliable mix, but if I decide to revive the hybrid...
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Trippaul Threat Community Grow
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Wild, Indeed Community Thread
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Dwarf Chiltepin 'Hermosillo', Semillas la Palma 2022
Time to quit dragging my feet and get this season underway.
Last season was OW plants only with two exceptions. This
year I am growing all new plants from seed gathered from
my 2022 harvest and limited to Tepin and Chiltepin varieties.
If the spirit moves me I might try for some OW chinenses
varieties later on.
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...
Cool list coming. I found some neat things this year. Pic is of my favorite pepper of 2024, I have watched this one grow for months praying it would ripen. It's my favorite pepper I have ever grown. It's a giant chocolate habanero, probably a Jamaican hot chocolate variety. I'm going to grow this one out for a long time hopefully because I want this one to be my legacy. Call it Ripple.
Here we go again. Summer 2021 : I hand pollinated some Aji Ahuachapan (aka CAP 220) flowers with Hallow’s Eve pollen. I was hoping to create a hybrid with the taste and production of the Aji (a favorite of mine) but on a dark plant bearing hotter fruits. I didn't use mini Ziploc bags or any other pollen "barriers" because I wanted to prevent the pollinated flowers from overheating and then falling off. A fruit finally formed on one of them so I thought my first cross was born!
Next year (2022). I grew a single F1 plant. The foliage was beautiful with its dark margins and veins, as were the stems. The flowers looked great too, showing characteristics of both species.
Unfortunately, the fruits took too long to ripen and frost came...
Zapotec Jalapeno (Baker Creek 2023 Seed extra pack I saved for 2024 )
https://www.rareseeds.com/pepper-hot-jalapeno-zapotec
Piranha SB ( variant of Marion's SB seeds form RFC )
Since this is a variant I will refer to it as
Marion's Scotch Bonnet red .
I got the Marion's Red SB because I liked the flavor & heat profile
I grew seed once of papa dreadie of Erin seed stock shared by Gary Montcalm back then .
My was red it looked just like a papa dreadie only red & form what remember it flavor & heat was like this one.
The other varieties was gifted as freebies form Jim.
So I am growing them out I will need to bring my containers over for some of these etc
https://www.superhotchiles.com/product/piranha-pepper-seeds/?v=7516fd43adaa...
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...
So, we're finally in a house and I'm getting ready for my first growing season with an actual yard. The patio back in Málaga was wonderful and never had snow, but I'll be able to grow more than four pepper plants at a time here.
I'm not germinating any seeds for the spring just yet, but I did put together a little indoor germination station and started three varieties that'll go into mini-Kratky systems, and one that'll go into a 5-gal Kratky bucket. Never tried hydroponics before, but thought this was a good chance to get my feet wet. The varieties are: Peruvian White Habaneros and Yellow MOA Scotch Bonnets from Midwest Chile Heads, as well as Aji Ayuyo and Er Jing Tao from CaneDog.
My heating mat is a cheap one off the shelf from a...
Good afternoon.
Here the weather is hot and sunny and has been realy warm for several weeks now. Spring is here. The plants from last year and the year before are growing like weeds. The first flowers of the Jalapeños is almost open and the bell peppers are also making some buds.
The chillies that is now going for their seventh season is going strong too.
This year we have about 25 types growing. A first for us.
Later I will post some pictures.
Greetings
It's that time of the year, cold & gloomy outside, & inside the magic is happening. Those little green pepper plants are pushing up
towards the artificial sun. Who came up first? The early Jalapeño, Serrano, & the Sugar Rush Stripy. A little game we play LOL.
This is the best set up we have ever had before. 4 LED grow lights 2 heating mats, room stays at 66 F at night & 74 F during the day.
With 22 varieties & 50 plants we hope to have a real special grow for the 24 season, with a lot of great tasting peppers. 😀
When I joined THP I had just moved from Fluorescents lights to the new LED lights. Outside everything is about the same, it's the indoor
adventure that has changed for the better. Compact high output...
Well all my stuff got wiped out by mice. What else is their to say.
Last year Grasshoppers wiped out many peoples gardens as well as mine.
Sine of the times ???
Peppers, Corn, the only thing they didn't like was my Acorn Squash. Its on my porch flowering and has three fruit.
Got about five pepper plants on the porch that survived the Aphid wars, most others did not. About 20 pots from last year.
Might start a few seeds again, gonna rely on some store versions for now.
Night temps still below 0c at times and their calling for snow now and then. Had a bit of hail this morning but only lasted a couple minutes.
Wind is icy cold at times.
Thats about it.
:)
I planted these seeds a month ago and the progress is 3 times as fast as growing in soil. Its my first time doing it in a system like this. Im not sure what to expect. If anyone has experience with this way of growing having any tips for me let me know!
This past season was too good to not have at least started a GLOG! A little late in the game for 2024, but here goes!
In the fall of 2023, I decided to break out of my old habits of growing the same C. chinense types (which I've been growing for over 10 years) and rotate in some Hungarian Wax Peppers for pickled banana pepper rings (my son loves them) and also some Sugar Rush Peach just to get the C. baccatum back into the rotation after not growing them since growing some back in about 2015. I also wanted to try the Yellow Scotch Brains after reading so much good stuff about it, plus save seeds from my original Trinidad Scorpion seed line (that I shared with Butch T and eventually went on to win the Guinness Book of World Records)...
Hi Guy's
Here in Scotland we have .....let's face it.....shitty weather.... lots of cloud and often wet, cold summers 😞 however some of us have the chilli bug and feel compelled to grow these beautiful jewels of nature. Particularly when we were lucky enough to grow up in the middle East raised on spicy food and a Grand father born and raised in Kerala India in the 1920's spice is in my families very DNA 🙂
Spicey food has always played an important part in our family over the last few year's I've strived to find varieties that will grow in my particular wee Scottish greenhouse............ First was the Ring of fire cayenne which is a perfect substitute for Indian green chillies only hotter 😎 a ridiculous early tasty variety...
Thanks for the advise and knowledge given. Here is what I have going. The coleus is a rescue from under some Cana.
Buena mulata
Scropion
Anything noticeable? Please let me know.
Anthony
With some delay I sowed last sunday, 24 february. First I had doubts to start at all since it was already getting late in season but with all the varieties (thanks to all the great people I traded with!) I wanted to try I had to give it a try Keep in mind that the list was over 100 varieties, so I trimmed it down a lot. I intend to keep the 2 strongest plants of each variety except for the Piment d'Espelette. Some seeds are already old like the CGN (±8 years), so I got replacements in case the have popped up in 2 weeks.
The first one to germinate after 3 days was the Coyote Zan White (C. Chinense). The rest followed quickly
Now almost a week later 69% has germinated:
7-Pot Brain Strain Yellow 4/4
Aji Panca 3/0
Ampuis 3/3
Ancho...
Last year I grew a few accidental crosses, so putting this grow log together to capture the second year variations when they come in.
One was a Habanero x Wild Colombian, which is the center right column in the picture below. These were somewhat fleshy, but very juicy, often containing so much water the skins would rip and burst if left on the plant too long. They had the flavor of a Habanero, but more heat and a much longer burn duration, but very tolerable. When they started to ripen they'd take only a couple days to fully ripen. These made a really good hot sauce, or as a modifier to heat up dishes without using a lot of pods. These unfortunately did not dehydrate well, becoming almost like a dehydrated apple, so they didn't make...
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I'm thinking of eating tons of hot peppers this winter, so it does'nt get chili inside.
