I've been pretty much in awe of what folks achieve over here on THP. What I'd give to have the skill and the climate you guys have!
Well, finally I'm sticking my neck out and starting a growlog myself. Great to participate!
I have 3 very different growing areas, 1 inside, 2 in greenhouses. I'll describe them better as time goes on. I have so many, too many varieties for the space that I have. However quite a few are for stem fusing and grafting trials, others for close trimmed "bonchi" projects.
This isn't the full list but most.
Regular grow
Aji Panca
Bell of Gollu
Brown Egg
CGN21500
Cheiro Roxa
Chichen Itza
Murupi Doce
PI595908
Tehrani
Tuccurique Yellow
Guajillo
Congo Trinidad
Naga Jolokia PC1
Peruvian Purple
Dedo De Mocha...
Glogs
Start a Grow Log for your growing season.
What's up, pepper people?
I've been meaning to do this for ages. Here's the updated grow list for this season, including everything from seeds that haven't sprouted yet to fully mature plants. For some varieties I have only a single plant, for others I have thirty or forty. I'm sure I've left a few out, as well.
The stuff I'm intending to sell is either in 4" or one gallon; the stuff I'm going to be growing for production or cloning will be in nothing smaller than 5 gallon; I'm aiming for 15 gal and higher.
My germination mix is currently four parts coco coir, two parts Black Kow, one part perlite. So far, this has worked really well for me. My germination mix is now just coco coir and perlite, in a roughly 50/50 mix.
My grow...
Tried growing last year but it was pretty disastrous, I think I had numerous deficiencies as well as bacterial spot, possibly mites, and a bunch of other problems. I didn't take a particularly methodical approach and didn't document anything so this time I'm going to try and take pics on a regular basis and pay attention to what's going on.
This year I'm looking at:
Fatalii
Grenada Seasoning
Sugar Rush (an Aji I think?)
Aji lemon drop
Congo Black
Mulato Isleno
Aleppo
Pasilla
Shishito
Started germination on 12/28 using paper towels in baggies with water and a tiny bit of 3% peroxide. Only saw a couple tails on the Sugar Rush but went ahead and transferred all of them (today 1/9) to a 72-cell flat with peat/vermiculite/perlite mix...
Here is the actual growing list:
7pot Armageddon
7pot Bubblegum
7pot Bubblegum Buckey
7pot Bubblegum eigen
7pot Bubblegum Schweden
7pot Chaguanas Red
7pot Chaguanas Yellow
7pot Congo Chocolate
7pot Katie
7pot Katie
7pot Lucie
7pot Lucie
7pot Madballz
7pot Orange-Yellow
Aci Sivri
Aji Brazilian Bonanza
Aji Calatenango
Aji Dulce
Aji Panca
Aji Pasco
Akabare Khorsani
Alma Paprika
Alma Paprika
Anaheim
Ancho 101
Ancho Mulato
Ancho San Luis
Apache
Baumchili Orange
Beaver Dam
Bengal Naga Peach
Bhulah Mustard
Bhut Jolokia Caramel
Bhut Jolokia Mustard
Bhut Jolokia Rust
Bhut X Neyde
Bhutlah Gold
Big Bang Choco Naga
Biquinho amarelo
Biquinho Iracema Red
Biquinho vermelho
Biquinho Yellow
Birgits Locoto
Black Bhutlah SLP
Black Bhutlah SLP
Black...
Let's Start
Osmopriming
Scottexbox
Preparation of the pots: two small glass one in an other, the internal punched and with perlite on the bottom
Preparation of the mixture: soli and 20% perlite
Seedlings
Babies getting stronger
Some macros
Time to be transplanted
The long way to the top... aka some experiments
Same mix with perlite 20% added. I prefer while transplanting to insert a copy of the previous pot in the soil as a plate to help the process. Then I let the water with radicant added strain down the board and I put some michorrizal fungi on bottom.
Little by little...
Think Pink
Time for a second Transplant: same process.
A...
After failing miserably last year im just starting a topic ready for when I get the stuff to get planting. :)
Well last year I grew a bunch of seedlings from one of my Reaper pods. To start it was a funky reaper with odd shaped pods. Anyhow out of that batch 3 of the plants produced brown ,very hot peppers. The appearance were all over the map even on a single plant. Some looked Moruga-ish, others longer , some reaperish...
I overwintered the planted and got one single pepper to fruition. From that I grew two second generation plants. Below are a pic of the two plants grown from the pepper that I grew in isolation and a pod growing on one of them. Soon I will know if they retained their chocolate color! Unlike some peppers that seem to give uniform pod shapes none of these seem to whether first or second generation. Slight variations abound...
This ladies and gentlemen will be my second year growing peppers. A big shoutout to my friends that have helped me on this journey. Mike, Jojo, Rocketman, Spork, Hogleg, Sicman, SORRY IF I FORGET TO MENTION YOU. These folks and the entire THP community has made me what I am in the pepper world. I have grown 20+ plants on a small appartment balcony and had decent success. My list for 2015 is still up in the air right now, but soon to be. Trying to talk the wife into letting me start the seeds inside before Christmas.
Tentitive thoughts about grow list:
Purple jalapeno
Reaper
Ghost
Aji pineapple
Star fish
LemondropXtepin
Gonna try to get seeds planted soon.
Stay tuned.
This year I'm going as big as I can with the pots. My best...
I did start my Pepper plants in 2014, but in honor of the New Year, it is time for a new album. To start off the 2015 Chile Pepper grow log, I bring you the first Brazilian Ghost pod of the season. This is not a great picture, as it is hard to focus on something small in the middle of the canopy.
So this is my first glog other then the one I am doing at home.
Here's my grow list
Grow List
Capsicum Chinense varieties
Bahamian Goat(Buckeye pepper company)
Moa Scotch Bonnet(pepperlover)
Datil(pepperlover)
White Fatalii(pepperlover)
My first super hot form seed Peach Bhut Jolokia S S (pepperlover)
Red Mushroom form lake valley seed via local store(I think there seeds are crossed with habanero)
Red Habanero burpee via menards
Tobago
Cheiro Roxa (pepperlover)
Stuffing Scotch Bonnet (pepperlover)
Capsicum Baccatums
Aji Brazilian Starfish(pepperlover)
Aji Melocoton(pepperlover)
Aji Amarilo (pepperlover)
Aji Cito(pepperlover)
Dulce Sol(pepperlover)
Capsicum Pubescens
Pineapple Rocoto(pepperlover)
March
Farmers Market aka Potato Skin...
This is my first Glog on THP.
Currently finishing my simple green house from bamboo. it's 5MX12M.
Here is my seedlings will occupy their new house:
-BTR
-CPR
-Butch T Scorpion
-Reaper
-Caramel reaper
-Primo Red
-Primo Orange
-Moruga Scorpion Red
-Burgundy Moruga
-Yellow Moruga
-Caramel Moruga
-Mustard Moruga
-Green Moruga
-Orange Moruga
-Moruga UV
-BBM
-BRM
-DouglahXButch T
-ReaperXCarbonero
-PrimoXMoruga
-Brain Strain red
-Brain strain yellow
-Cappy's CBS
-John Ford's CBS
-Judy's CBS
wish me a great season. :)
will update soon..
I know I got a late start, but living in Florida I'm hoping that wont be too big of a deal (although the heat and rain kind of scares me).
Transplanted my little germinated seeds today, the root length was 1/2"-1" in some so I decided it was a good idea to transplant them today. I'm using Solo cups with 3 holes drilled into the bottom in a triangle formation. Planned on just doing 3 plants but we see how that turned out. Didn't have enough cups for all the germinated seeds so just going to let the extras grow some more before giving them away. The trench the cups are in has a nice incline to help drain off extra water to prevent the soil from staying too wet.
Hello Everyone!
I'm finally getting around to posting my first ever Glog and I'm pretty excited about it :dance: . As this was my first year growing, I decided to try my hand at growing one to a few different varieties of peppers and then seeing which ones I like so that I can grow more of that kind the following year (as well as throwing in some new varieties I haven’t tried).
The majority of my plants were grown using pepperlover.com seeds. The service was amazing and I would absolutely recommend anyone to use their seeds for your grow. They will be who I use next year. I originally had purchased some from pepperjoes but the only pepper really to sprout was the purple jalapeños. However, they are much further along than my other...
My first little set up. I have a heat mat below set at 79*F. Just put the seed in there yesterday so I'm hoping it germinates. I used miracle grow potting mix and keep it moist and the greenhouse effect. Ive never grown anything and i really want to start this off right so please let me know if i am doing anything wrong!
![[FR] multi-var hydro and organic.](https://thehotpepper.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FBZ5UHxd.jpg&hash=28fcef310dda0f6a71c87ae23a73e674)
hi
so im starting this glog a bit late most of the plants have already germinated.
im growing all of them in my room in paris, and as most of you know the rent is really high so i dont have as much space as id like :(
i have 2 separate grow spaces, one is a small 50*50*90 cm box, with 125w 6400k cfl light, which is plenty sufficient. in this growbox im growing only in soil and organic, im more of a hydro guy but they get really too big, plus ive never, ever grew in soil in my whole life so i thought it would be fun to try something different.
im using biobizz all mix which works great, and most of biobizz organic ferts, bio-grow, bio-bloom, and topmax which i use maybe every other watering. i alos use plagron pure zym and canna...
So the grow log now includes
3 x Naga Fire Flame - 3 out of 5 germinated
4 x Bhut Jolokia - 4 out of 5 germinated
6 x Mixed "unknown" hots - 6 out of 6 germinated
Sown - awaiting germination
3 x Orange Habanero
3 x Chocolate Habanero
3 x Chocolate Bhut Jolokia
3 x Trinidad 7 Pod Bubblegum
3 x Trinidad moruga scorpion
3 x Turbo Pube
3 x Riesen Gelb Rocoto
3 x Tropical Orange Rocoto
3 x Peron Rojo Rocoto
3 x Santa Natalia Rocoto
Today launches The Pacific Northwest GLOG 2015, geared towards growers from this region. Since there appears to be disagreement on what states, and areas, actually comprise the Pacific Northwest, I will use a broad definition, in order to include more growers. If anyone thinks the definition could be even more broad, it can always be changed. Come one, come all.
Oregon
Washington
Alaska
Northern California
Idaho
Montana
Wyoming
British Columbia
I am from the Rogue Valley, in southern Oregon, so, I will begin with a couple of shots from my yard, which over looks the Rogue River.
It's still December 2014, but I've been busy putting together my grow list for the 2015 PNW season. My seeds will be planted around the second to...
Well, here's to another year. I wanted to downsize from last year, and ended up practically doubling everything. Started germinating on Jan 22 using paper towel method. Tried 2 ways, one in cups with the seeds on top, other the way I have always done with the seeds in paper towel in ziploc. Both have worked, but the paper towel in ziploc seems faster, maybe better temp control there. So far have about 55 seeds in dirt after 11 days with many of them already popped up and looking happy.
Almost an embarrassing setup compared to many I see on here, but it worked great 10 years ago, and still worked fine last year so I figure no need to change yet.
Will need another rack of lights this year for the increase in volume I have.
Grow...
Not really a Glog in the true sense of the word ... just wanted to keep a bit of a record of what grew and what I did with it.
9 Dec 15
First proper pick of the season.
Took 60 green Cayennes off the one bush mainly because a few were getting a bit of mould when touching the soil and I wanted to free up some energy for the plant to grow new ones.
(this was about half of one 30cm high plant)
Weather's no good at the moment, can't dry them in the window as normal so made a sauce.
60 Chillies
1/2 Cup cheap white vinegar
1/2 tsp seas salt
Whizz up in blender.
Ended up sticking it in a saucepan for 10 mins just to soften the chillis up before adding couple TBSP Olive Oil and blending again just to make it smoother.
End result...
Intro
Besides just fun this year I hope to sell enough to make this hobby pay for itself. If you see something you like I will probably be selling plants or pods at some point in the year, check my website.
I really would like to do hydro dutch buckets in a poly tunnel but don't have enough money/space this year. My dad offered me his small garden plot in the his backyard across town it's about 400+ ft2 so that will be the main grow for 2015 instead of pots like last year(although i'll have a few still).
Updates: links to most notable updates here
germination / into pots
video update seedlings
transplanted outside
drip irrigation test
Some pods showing up
List:
A good variety of heat, flavor, color, and shape that I think will be...
Final Grow List- Updated 3/25/15- 152 Varieties, Around 280 plants:
7 Pot Brain Strain, Red
7 Pot Brain Strain, Yellow
7 Pot Bubblegum, Red
7 Pot Burgundy
7 Pot Caramel
7 Pot Chaguanas
7 Pot Jonah x PDN, F3
7 Pot Jonah, Red
7 Pot Primo, Orange
7 Pot Primo, Red
7 Pot Primo, Yellow
7 Pot White
7 Pot Yellow
7 Pot Yellow x Bhut Jolokia India Carbon
Aji Amarillo
Aji Bolivian Long
Aji Brazilian Starfish
Aji Colorado
Ají Dulce, Orange
Ají Fantasy
Aji Jobito
Aji Lemon Drop
Aji Melocoton
Ají Omnicolor
Aji Panca
Aji Pineapple
Aji Queen Laurie
Aleppo
Ancient Sweet
Bad Brains
Bahamian Goat
Banana, Sweet Monster Heirloom
Bell, Lilac
Bell, Yellow
Bhut Jolokia, India Carbon
Bhut Jolokia, Peach
Bhut Jolokia, Purple
Bhut Jolokia, Red
Bhut Jolokia, White...
I've started germinating a few seeds for 2015. I'm using the wet paper towel in sandwich bag method for the first time. For each seed type, I soaked the seeds in 3% hydrogen peroxide for one minute, then rinsed before putting on the paper towel. I've got all the bags in a plastic box, sitting on a germination heat mat. I put a half plastic egg carton on the bottom so they won't get too hot.
It looks like a few of the seeds have something white poking out. These are ajijoes Chocolate Hand Grenade Habanero and Pepperlover's Mustard Moruga Scorpion.
I started them on 12/19. I'm going to move any germinated seeds to cups containing Fox Farms Light Warrior. This will be the first time using this as well.
Here's my...
It's been a while since I've been on here. Well. I'm back, same tent, but this time, with hydro! I'm running a 25 gallon DWC setup, with clones and a mother. I'd use HPS if I had one, but I hope that MH will do fine. The growth rates in hydro have been outstanding, and I'm excited to see what the yield may be.
The mother. Stands at nearly 2 feet tall now, and clipped numerous times for clones/topping off. I can count at least 2 dozen flowers on her right now!
I hope the density of plants will not be too detrimental. The clones stand at a few inches, to give a comparison.
What is the aim of growing so many superhots, you may ask? To make a hot sauce that could be an analog of thermite! I'm going to name it... "Master Wong's...
So far behind this year, have not even made a list for 2015. This shall be the week to shed the lazy!
Hello everyone, yes it's a tad early and I am not going to start anything yet, but soon as I have found it gets cold pretty fast in northern Arizona. I hope next year goes better than this past year, I didn't start anything early enough and ended up having to buy plants. Out of the 10 plants I got, 1 lived and that was a bust too. So I am OW-ing that one, it's a peach bhut. Here is my very small list. It is going to expand pretty soon as I hopped on Scorched seed train round 3, I am very excited for that.
Jonah
Coral Reef(no idea what that is)
Zimbabwe Bird
Chocolate Brain strain
Aji Lemon Drop
Peach Ghost Scorpion
Have a good day everyone.
On the left is my Carolina Reaper. I planted the seed for this on in February 2013. This will be it's third winter.
On the right is a Chocolate Bhut that had really nice pods. This is it's first winter.
Close up of the trunk.
Hello everyone (if anyone is even reading :) ). I know I've started this a little late but I finally decided to get around to it. This is my very first year starting from seed and my first year with such a large grow. Over the past 15 years or so I've always ordered seedlings from CCN or gotten them from a nursery and only ever around 40 plants at the most. It was always jalapenos or habaneros until the Red Savina came along. I actually did grow 10 of those from seed when they were released. A few years later the ghost chile made its debut and things have just exploded since then. That was when I went from growing maybe a dozen plants to 30 or 40 each year. Have No complaints with CCN and always had a great experience and great plants...
Edit 03/09/15 - This OP was such a mess with multiple lists, Old Seed, New Seed, Saved Seed, Gifted Seed, etc., I'm redoing almost the whole post. All of the lists have been merged into a single mega-list. I am actually trying to grow at least two or three plants of almost everything on this list. For those marked with a leading (x), I am currently out of stock of seed (though may have OW plants). Those marked with a leading "*" are not currently planned to be grown in 2015. Trailing numbers refer to the seed source, keyed at the bottom of the list. The sourcing information is currently incomplete. Many varieties I had linked to descriptions, but the formatting didn't survive the copy/paste. I'll try to fix that at some point. ...
Five of my Bahamian Goats before transplant.
Hey Guys,
I have started early this year... Real early hahah
I already have over 60 plants started, not included my 16 or so over wintered.
I finished my move from Germany to Kansas and as of now, I am starting my own plants. The over winters were gifts from Jimmy. I am glad to be back to growing and really ready to hunker down and have an amazing year, I am planning on anywhere from 200-350 plants, but we all know how that goes. Hahaha
Enough about that, and more about Chillies!
I don't have a set plan as far as varieties go. I just kinda dig in my seed drawer and pick a few to throw in every time a couple spaces open up. So far I have
Cap 1144 x3
CGN 19198 x1
C. Galapagoense x1
C. Rhomboideum x1
C. Spp. x3
CGN 24360 x1
GRIF 9238 x1...
so yeah, hey everybody... I just couldn't wait anymore
put some seeds in the dirt and we're good to go
me and my brother in law built this new "grow-box"
I'm gonna put a fan or two in those holes .... to keep the humidity down when the box is going to be closed
this is how it looks now.... in my bedroom ... the wife said something about someone who's a little crazy but I don't know who she's talking about :rolleyes:
so, this is what I'm growing this year:
Baccatum
- Lemon drop (seeds from rghm1u20)
- Brazilian Starfish (seeds from rghm1u20, added on february 12th)
- Aji Brazilian Red Pumpkin (seeds from Rory, added on february 12th)
Chinense
- Bhut Jolokia
- Aji Umba
- Fatalii yellow
- Caribbean Red (seeds...
I update the following spreadsheet pretty much daily with information about the plants, etc. This also allows me to keep track of when to expect/allow flowering to occur. This is the first generation of my spreadsheet designed by myself.
Download My Veggie Tracking Spreadsheet
Sprouting Setup Overview. I’m using a 2ft 2bulb T5HO shop light with a pair of 14 watt Warm White bulbs. I’m considering picking up another one of those lights to match so that I have a total of 56 watts to make strong seedlings with heavy-duty stems.
From left to right: Ring of Fire Cayenne, Hungarian Hotwax, Scotch Bonnet, Super Sweet 100 Tomato, Super Sioux Tomato, Yellow Pear Tomato, Calico Pepper, Fish Pepper, Bell Mix
Peppers I plan to sprout ASAP...
Hi all, thanks for watching. Will be keeping a small glog this year to share progress with my friends. I've started my grow on 26th of January, everything has popped by now and true leaves are being formed. Like every year I will be growing multiple "new" Jalapeno's I've collected so far, about 21. The rest of my grow will exist mostly out of crosses I made previous season and new crosses/phenotypes from friends. Goal was to keep the amount of plants limited because I want more time on my hands for of course family and to grow other veggies to.
I hadn't had enough time to sit down and actually get this going but i figured better late than never. I also want a way to document my season so if anything i can go back to reference good and bad things that happen.
I'll start with the grow list in no particular order:
Caribbean Red Hab (overwinter)
Jalapeno x Pepperoncini
Early Jalapeno
Purple Jalapeno
Carolina Reaper
Aji Pinapple
Aji Mango
Aji Limon
Chocolate Hab
Chocolate Bhut
Red Bhut
Large Red Bhut
Big Sun Hab
Unknown Brazilian
White Hab
Hot Lemon
TMS Yellow
TMS Red
Pimenta de Neyde
Douglah
Sweet Cherry
Yellow Fatallii
Yellow Scotch Bonnet
MOA Scotch Bonnet
Chocolate Scotch Bonnet
Jamaican Hot Chocolate
Brazilian Starfish
SB7J
Tequila Sunrise
7 Pot Yellow
7 Pot White
7 Pot...
Going to start in coir around first weekend of February.
The list so far, subject to amendment:
BROWN LARGE SCORPION-saved seed from last year
7-POT YELLOW-saved seed from last year
ORANGE(ISH) BRAINSTRAIN-saved seed from last year
ORANGE DOUGLAH-saved seed from last year
CHOCOLATE BHUT JOLOKIA <REPLACED ORANGE DOUGLAH
CARAMEL MADBALLZ-seed saved from last year <ADDED
NOT PEACH (ORANGE(ish)) GHOST-SCORPION-seed saved from last year <ADDED
RED BRAINSTRAIN
YELLOW BRAINSTRAIN
CHOCOLATE BHUTLAH
BIG SUN HABANERO 25 seeds, not one germinated. However, the vendor gave me 8 starter plugs for free to make up fo it. Unfortunately, none were the Big Sun. I found another vendor that had Big Sun (or Yellow Sun, as they called it)...
First, let me preface everything by saying this is my first year growing peppers and I've learned a TON from this community and everyone's contributions. I've been lurking and reading on this site since May and finally decided to register and post.
I started with a 'can' of Carolina Reapers I bought from a retail store in Tennessee (the novelty little can that you pop open, pour water in, and set on window sill). Since then I've tried more 'cans', bought seeds from several online sites, and been trying a little bit of everything.
This summer I grew 2 Reapers, several cayenne, several Peter peppers, a few habanero. I've since tried germinating chocolate habaneros, ghost, Bolivian rainbows and have had zero success (I have some...
NOTE: Skip to the later pages to see my latest grow. Most of this is a log of my previous grows.
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I saw quite a lot of grow logs out here, which inspired me to make one myself. I thought that I could also use this as an opportunity to learn from the more experienced growers as well. A bit about me:
1. At this point in time, I'm 16, likely making me one of the younger growers here.
2. Although I like to mess with all things technology, I also like gardening as well
3. This is my first time growing peppers, so I'm hoping that everything goes well!
Now, onto the peppers.
The Story So far
The peppers, Bhut Jolokia on the right, Butch Ts on the left
The first sprout, and...