Documenting the new season !
Early start because the weather is crummy here in the Netherlands.
Aji Panca, a (very) mild, Peruvian oddball strain that actually tastes like blueberry.
Frickin BLUEBERRY ! How kick ass is that ?
The first leaves ("cotyledons" in botanical nerd speak) are unusually big.
Never seen seen seedlings with such huge cotyledons.
Assorted seedlings, with White Bullets and Choco Morugas in the back.
These are under 6 small neon tubes that I really should be replacing soon.
It's working, but not all that well.
Bonchi fun !
Just a month before the picture of this CAP219 was taken, this was just a little stem without any green on it whatsoever. As I predicted, this strain appears to be very suitable for...
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Well i started not knowing wtf i was doing. I have never GROWN ANYTHING from seed or grown anything in general so take it ez on me. This is my first year and i'm learning everyday !
I started with about 12 varieties which included:
Yelow Fatalli ( swartmamaba )
Choc Fatalli ( swartmamaba )
Red Bhut jolokia ( frankie )
White Bhut jolokia ( pepperlover )
Scotch bonnet ( swartmamaba )
Corni di toro ( wickedmike )
dragon cayenne ( wickedmike )
reaper ( koreansoul )
brainstrain yellow ( pepperlover )
white congo ( pepper lover )
douglah ( swartmamaba )
7pot white ( pepperlover )
aji dulce ( ikf )
and did i mention that i didn't label a thing ? hah i figured since it was my first grow ever i would be happy getting any kind of...
I wish I'd started this sooner, but I've been slammed with research/writing work until now. That's subsiding as the semester winds down and I move closer to being Dr. MaxCap. Things were so hectic over the winter that I almost didn't plant anything at all. Boy am I glad I got some stuff started.
I grow in Atlanta, in two raised 4x12' beds in a community garden. Last year was my first serious grow, and I went broad, starting at least one representative from every major branch of the superhot pepper family. Being that I wasn't sure I'd be in town to finish the season, I dialed it back to my absolute favorites. Powders, sauces, and salsas all turned out great, thanks to help from THP's community. I tried to share a lot of it back around...
Planted 72 cells yesterday 2/27/15. This year we're going with the following varieties:
1. Vulcan
2. Elo De Ecuador
3. Sigaretta de Bregamo
4. Pusa Jwala
5. Criolla de Cocina
6. Piment de Bresse
7. Aji Colorado
8. Numex Conquistador
9. Sulu Adana
10. Aleppo
11. Yalova Charleston
12. Murupi Amarela
13. Jalachuan
14. Bahamian Goat
15. Numex Pinata
16. Purple Beauty
17. Onza Amarillo
18. Orange Rocoto
19. Bell of Gollu
20. Tobasco
21. Traveller Jalapeno
22. Mulato Isleno
23. Peguis
24. Greek Pepperoncini
25. Italian Pepperoncini
26. Jalafuego
27. Fish pepper
28. Trinidad Spice
29. Long red cayenne
30. Padron
31. Chimayo
32. Cheongyang Gochu
33. Numex Mirasol
34. Pimente d'Espelette
35. Jemez Pueblo
36. Alcalde
37. Surinam 8
38. Numex...
Last year was my first time growing peppers. I grew several Jalapeno and Habanero plants both indoors and out in the garden. It was a lot of fun, so this year I am going to try some other varieties. Here is my plan for this year.
Overwintered Plants:
4 Jalapeno Early
7 Orange & Red Habaneros
Started January-February 2015:
2 Banana or Corno di Toro (mixed seeds I found from 2011)
3 Bell
2 Cayenne
2 Serrano
1 Cherry Tomato
Starting soon just ordered seeds:
1 Aji Habanero
1 Trinidad Perfume
1 Bishop's Hat
1 Brazillian Starfish
1 Bhut Jolokia
I only have enough windowspace indoors for one of each variety. The rest will go out in the garden when it gets warm or will be given away.
This is my high tech seed starting /...
I'm back on bussines again! Started my first load of seeds on Jan.,29,2015. Why Phoenix? Because (probably) no one of my 2014 peppers will be in my 2015 list (old story, lack of space....), and my 2015 is a new, reborn list.
No pictures so far (another old story, lazy to upload to photobucket, and put the link here), but will post them. For now, only my list with first load of seeds I have put in the dirt (some already sprouted).
aji pineapple Ajijoe
aribibi gusano Ajijoe
bahamian goat Jamison
bahamian goat Windchicken
bhut jolokia Vikas
bhut jolokia mustard Ajijoe via Kentishman
bhut jolokia peach ...
Alright, here we go again. Most of my seeds hit the dirt today. I will be using a plot at the community garden as well as the beds at my house. I started a few rocoto seeds earlier this year but they have not been too happy so far. I tried a different seed starting mix for them and I don't think I will be using again. I used my mix that I used last year for the big tray. Mix consists of peat, perlite, mykos and some kelp meal. Had great results with it so I will probably just stick with that mix. If it aint broke, dont fix it!
Here is the grow list. There may be some changes additions but this is it....for now.
Aji Chuncho (CGN 22792) Pepperlover
Aji Cito Pepperlover
Aji Golden Walt
Aji Habanero Pepperlover 1/1 Feb 8
Aji Pineapple...
I decided to create a glog so I could share my experiences with you.
Grow list:
Peter pepper
Black pearl
Kraken
Bhut Orange Copenhagen
Red MoA
Datil
Piment D' espelette
Billy Boy red Douglah
Orange Primo
Tepin
Reaper
Poblano Ancho
7pot burgundy
SB7J
Thanks to everyone who sent me seeds this year.
I will probably start some more even though it is getting late to start more seedlings
When I figure out how to add pictures, I will
Thanks for taking a look and if you have any suggestions on how I can make this more interesting or suggestions in general let me know.
Figure it would be good to become more of an active member on these forums and start my own glog. For the following reasons
1. Something to look back and reflect on for my accomplishments.
2. Get expert advice (from all you wise ones, and some of the pretenders :) on what I am doing wrong.
3. To make some new friends and possible trade some seeds and plants in the future!
I am going to start by first thanking chocolatescotchbonnet for the seeds and all the help you have given so far, definitely got the ball rolling for me!
So to start out this is my first time ever growing super hots. I found this site a while back but missed the grow time. Check in from time to time but now decided to jump in, make some friends and give it a...
Not as much to look at as some years wanted to actually start planting stuff i can eat
with a recent turn of event that is my health, i can no longer eat the super hot stuff anymore and if i need anything for hot sauce i have my friend to fall back on, so here is what im doing this season
2015 GROWLOG
HOT PEPPERS favorites ect
KALIDOSCOPE
AUSTRALIAN LANTERN
AJI OMNI-COLOR
WILD BRAZIL
BIKER BILLY JALAPENO
VENEZUALIAN TIGER
AJIJOE,S CHOCOLATE HAND GRENADE HAB
ORANGE AJI TEAPOT
ORANGE AJI BOLSA DE DULCE
ELEPHANT EAR
KRIMSON LEE
FIDALGA ROXA X CGN 24360 (yellow fruit same shape as Fidalga Roxa)
AJI JOBITO
AJI LIENERO
FIDALGA VERMELHA
Hot mystery mix
_______________________________________________________________________________...
And the 2015 grow season has begun!
2015 GROW LIST:
7 POT BUBBLE GUM
7 POT BUBBLE GUM CHOCOLATE
7 POT JONAH
7 POT JONAH X BUTCH T SCORPION
7 POT YELLOW X BONDA MA JACQUES
ACI BONCUK
AJI DULCE
AJU PINEAPPLE
ALEPPO
BIKER BILLY JALAPENO
BRAINSTRAIN
BROWN NAGLAH
CALIFORNIA WONDER
CAYENNE MY 2014
CGN 21500
CHEIRO ROXA
CHOCOLATE DEVIL'S TONGUE
CUMARI DO PARA
DAISY CUTTER MA
DATIL
FACES MA
FATALI EVERGREEN
FATALI JIGSAW
FATALI WHITE
FATALI YELLOW X RED SAVINA
GHOST RED MY 2014
GHOST WHITE
GHOST X PETER MY 2014
HABANERO MY 2014 CARIBBEAN RED
HABANERO MY 2014 CHOCOLATE
HABANERO YELLOW
LEGACY BIG JIM
LUCY; NAGA VIPER X RED 7 POT
MOA RED SCOTCH BONNET
MOA YELLOW SCOTCH BONNET
NAGA VIPER
PETER
PINK TIGER
PURPLE PERUVIAN MY 2014
RED DOUGLAH...
Hey All!!! Got one I've personally never experienced before...
Treated a week or two ago with a small dose of liquid nitrogen, as the plants showed very clear signs of NIT deff. (Yellowing leaves all over the plant, slowed growth, etc) Haven't had a heck of a lot of trouble with pests on these plants so far this season, minus a small bout with some spider mites that I managed to nip in the bud early, a solitary snail (who is very happily munching the apartments ground cover plants downstairs with his hundreds of buddies as we speak ^.^) , and two or three leaf hoppers I had to scare off.
This 2nd Yr Jal plant was surrounded by a Hab (young, first season), a 7 Pot(2nd yr), Catnip, Rosemary, Thyme, Lemon Sage, Spearmint, Agave, and a...
Finally, after getting the greenhouse built, I'm able to start one of these :P I have been dying to get things growing but wanted all my ducks in a row. Anyway, in the ensuing pages you will find details on my plants and what I did to get them to where they are going to be (either awesome or dead, we will see!).
This is my first true attempt at growing anything. My girlfriend had flowers, herbs, squash and a bell pepper plant on the deck. One day months back I was curious to see if I had a green thumb or if I was a plant killer, so I started trying to take care of things. There was much suffering. After research, trial and error, I was able to get things to grow a bit but the bugs (aphids and whiteflies) thwarted me. I'm not dealing...
Hello Again.
This is my first year growing peppers. It all started with a free seed giveaway on you tube (thanks Scott). And me thinking this was the year to stop traveling for work and grow some plants. Well that's not how things happened. In fact I started the first seeds in February if I'm not mistaken. Once they started growing I wanted more. long story short I have 120 5 gal grow bags on the carpet. + another 50 or so in the ground. I hand mixed my medium Starting off with 1/3 sand 1/3 top soil 1/3 coco adding blood meal, bone meal, Epson salt, dolomite lime, osmocote flower and vegetable, and I used Alaska fish fertilizer to water inn after transplanting. I took pictures all along the way and lost a lot but will include what I...
I was just wondering what everyone's favorite way to start pepper seeds and which methods give the best results? Thanks
Well, off to an early start this year.
I'm planting left over seeds from last year, to start, so I'm putting them in a little early just in case some don't pop.
Sorting last year's stash I kept tucked away from Pepperlover
And the first tray of 2015
I didn't plant any Nagas this year. Probably won't. Not doing reapers again, have plenty of heat in the brown morugas, brain strains, and barrackpores.
The next tray I do will be the rest of the non-annuums in a couple weeks, plus a replant of anything that hasn't popped by then.
Shooting for about 80 plants in the ground this year.
One full row of annuums, 5 jalapeno plants, 10 cayenne plants (never seem to grow enough of that!). 15
4 1/2 rows of Chinense, 10 per row...
I am finally getting things growing this year! I have several types of seeds on top the fridge to germinate using the wet paper towel method...
#1) One of my friends took me out to where plants with these peppers were growing wild along a fence line in a large pasture. Dry they are between 1/4" and 3/8" in diameter.
He calls them "Buckshot Peppers" because they are about the size of buckshot. LOL
I am trying to germinate some of these seeds and when I get viable seeds, I will post more photos of these as they grow.
#2) The same friend also gave me a couple of "Grove Pepper" plants that he had pruned back from last year.
#3) My Dad's friend gave me this baggie of peppers from the Grove Pepper plants that my Dad had...
Finally found a site that converts the photos easier!
Pics on the way, but the list is as follows;
Overwinters
2 x Chocolate Habanero
1 x Orange Habanero
1 x Butch T
1 x Reaper
1 x Bhut Jolokia (red)
1 x Fatalii
1 x Ring of Fire Cayenne
1 x Serrano
1 x Rocoto Roja
Newbies
2 x Reaper
6 x Cornish Naga
5 x Peter Pepper
1 x Scotch Bonnet
1 x Ubatuba
2 x 7 Pot
1 x Numex Twilight
Non Chillies
5 x Yellow Beef Tomato
5 x Red Beef Tomato
1 x White Grapevine
1 x Black Grapevine
With some of the chillies that I have a few plants for, I have planted some in SWPs and some in the ground, but everything is in the greenhouse I spent all autumn and winter building.
So i've never been one for being meticulous or well organised which is why i have various plants at different stages, i could blame this on being new to chilli growing, or having 2 children, 2 dogs and a husband to run around after but really it's because that's just how i roll lol
so here are my plants already grown...
^^ Basket of fire, about 3 months old i think, looking a bit sorry for herself after being re-potted, i'm going to prune her today ^^
^^ The Scotch Bonnet twins, again about 3 months old ^^
^^ Cayenne, there were 2 lil fledglings at the start but one morning one had disappeared, i blame the pesky birds! also roughly 3 months old ^^
all of these so far have been grown outside, simply throwing the seeds...
I have never done a glog or any form of blog. I feel rather embarassed to even post my grow because I cannot even begin to compete with most of yall. However, I got some awesome equipment to work with this year. After my dad passed I inheirited all his gardening supplies. He was an avid indoor grower so I have a lot of sweet lighting to work with including 2 UFO (LED) lights, more florescent grow lights and hoods than I care to count and about half a dozen HPS/MH setups (which won't see any use due to power usage). I also have his greenhouse that he rigged up with auto-watering systems, fans and old fridges that he turned into raised beds. It will be a lot of work cleaning everything up and getting it ready, but this will be hands down...
Started a bit late this year so we'll see how it goes. Just spent the past 40 minutes trying to fix the broken on/off switch on my T5 fixture. $100 piece of equipment taken down by a 2 cent piece of plastic. :banghead:
All is well now, at least.
Not doing much heat this go around. I've finally come to terms with the fact that I'm more of a pepper appreciator than a pepper lover, I grow them for the novelty factor more than anything. I ended up giving a lot away last year, still have tons of superhots in my freezer, think I might invest in a dehydrator this year.
Anyway, here's the preliminary list.
Overwinters:
2 x Aji Amarillo
capsicum baccatum 'Mini mini'
capsicum baccatum 'Bolivian small red'
capsicum chacoense 'Most prolific'...
This year I started 50 seeds. 5 each of Primo, Brainstrain, Moruga Scorpion, Butch T Scorpion, Reaper, Bhut, Pimenta de Neyde, Yellow Manzano, Red Manzano, and an unknown black pearl hybrid that I liked the flavor of. There were much less than 50 plants though, the greenhouse where I work has a lot of sub-par temp workers come through and steal a lot of plants. We have plenty of "bad" material we can not sell but is still healthy and you are allowed to take, but they took my custom seeds. Oh well. I ended up with 3 Primo, 4 brain strain, 4 moruga, 2 butch t, 3 reaper, 1 bhut, 2 pimenta, 1 yellow manzano, 0 red manzano, and all 5 of my black pearl hybrids
I got most of the plants in the ground a couple weeks ago and have grabbed a few...
Year 3 of trying to yield some good produce from the back yard gardens. I did a massive pile of super hots last year and was giving them away as fast as I could but still ended up tossing a lot of pods simply because i didn't have any good use for them. This years goal was a lot more variety and flavors that could be used in the kitchen and as gifts for non-chilihead family and friends. So heres what I've got going on this year (and where i got the seeds):
New guys for the 12x5 compost filled bed:
Jalapeno (Juanitos)
Piment D'Espelette (MarcV)
White Bullet Habanero (Juanitos)
Chocolate Habanero (Juanitos)
Aji Lemon Drop (Wicked Mike)
Venezuelan Tiger (Wicked Mike)
Corno Di Toro Giallo (Wicked Mike)
Aleppo (Wicked Mike)
Maras Biber...
Here we go again, Round 2 ding ding ding! If you are interested at all, here's the thread of my last grow. Sometime around mid-summer I got busy and stopped updating for a bit.
This year I am downsizing my grow a bit and focusing more on flavor/uniqueness/everyday useability instead of pure heat; family were complaining they couldn't eat anything I was growing ;-)
Here's my grow list for 2015:
-- EDITED 2/17/2015 --
Ecuadorian Sweet
MoA Scotch Bonnet
Aji Jobito -- Couldn't get any of these to germinate so have removed them.
Goats Weed
Jalapeno
Poblano -- Swapped these out for Urfa Biber
Giant Mexican Rocoto -- OW could be dead, but we will see.
Rocoto PI355812 -- OW could be dead, but we will see.
Tepin x Lemon Drop (F3) -- This...
Hey Everyone! Looks like its time for round 2!!! Back this year with a better setup, still fine-tuning the hydroponic system as I go, turns out I took a few shortcuts last year that I'm gonna have to fix this year so I can get the thing up to par again! Also, Started everything a little bit back, so we'll see how it goes this year!
Ok, First up, my 2013 Jalapeno still catching up from a slow start, putting out some beautiful pods!!!
My 2013 7 Pot, had quite a struggle last year, doesn't seem to be picking up very quick, still only got 1 pod last year. Can't wait to see how it holds up this season! (Btw, I cut back a good bit of the leggy/dead/damaged growth from last year to try to focus its nutes on getting stronger... Pics...
Hey all,
This is my third year growing hot peppers, but my first glog. Last year I've gone overboard and tried taking care of 50 plants, all in coco - which was a bit much for me and the results were not that great (also we've had REALLY cold weather last summer).
This year I am trying my hand at a RDWC with only 3 plants grown on my balcony.
At the beginning of march I planted 5 varieties in rockwool:
Carolina Reaper (last year's seeds - didn't sprout)
Jay's Peach Ghost Scorpion (last year's seeds - did sprout)
Bubblegum 7 pod
Black Naga (which is just hooking right now, after 3 weeks +)
Bhutlah SM
Next post I will get some pictures up with the indoors setup.
Thanks!
As a start to my participation on the forum, might as well go full on with the activities and stop the boredom trends of whats wrong. Everythinig is going along fine! So far... :D
So what's happening here?
Here I have a small to medium sized operation mostly in pots. There are few overwinthered plants in the garden but they will get some attention as soon as they perk up from the stresses. :)
In pots, on the pics, we currently have some Douglahs(3), Red Savinas(3), Orange hubs(2), semi hot "sweet" bananas (2). 10 in total which are under the shading control space.
This has to happen no matter what! :)
There are few reapers, primos, ghosts still there in the gardan which have'nt got any attention picture wise. Time will come... :)...
I have decided I will post some updates on my grow-out this season here after making some more space in my online photo album. :) It has been a crazy season so far with very big temperature swings, an unexpected frost last week and more. I have been working hard trying to get this to come together. I have about 90% of my crop planted now. I'm thrilled the finish line is nearby! I hope all the hard work pays off and some interesting things coming out of this years' grow-out. Updates to follow. If only there were was more time in a day, right?
Chris
So as I mentioned in my introductory post I'm growing on a balcony for the first time. It's not exactly cramped, but there's not a ton of space to work with. Along with some herbs (Thyme, basil, flat leaf parsley, sage, cilantro, rosemary, oregano) and a lonely tomato plant I'm doing four types of peppers; Cayennes, pequins, bonnets, and Butch T scorpions. I really only have experience growing habs, so these are all firsts for me. I'm looking at 3-5 gallon containers for each, and plan on topping once the time is right. Everything was started from seed, and with the exception of the bonnets (they were late it coming up) everyone is on their second set of true leaves.
I have never glog'ed before, but since I'm starting from seeds this year it seemed only appropriate to start now! I've never actually followed a glog, so apologies if mine misses the mark a bit...
On March 8, I started seeds for Dragon Cayenne (I saved these seeds last year and I'm not entirely sure they'll be dragon cayenne, but I'd be happy with either Thai dragon or cayenne so I figured I have nothing to lose!) and Cherry Hot (these guys haven't sprouted yet - hopefully they will!).
On March 15, I started 7 Pod White (yikes!), FilFil Baladi, Tekne Dolmasi, and Turkish Charleston (all from pepperlover.com).
As of yesterday (3/15), I have two Dragon Cayenne hooks sprouting up! Now I'm trying to figure out the best place for...
This picture is old I think from around decemeber! I also have another grow room I think I have close to 60 plants all different varieties from
Carolina reaper
Kraken scorpion
Jays peach ghost scorpion
Sapporo hot
Serrano
Habanero
Chocolate moruga
7 pot bubble gum
7 pot madball
7 pot brain strain
Brain strain
Trinidad scorpion
Brazilian ghost
Yellow moruga
Yaki red
Red cherry
Chocolate reaper
That's my kraken scorpion I will upload more pictures later since I have my plants scattered from my house to my brothers house and mothers house!!
Hi all. With Christmas having come and gone for another year, it's time to start preparing for the new season. I decided for the 2015 season to grow a lot more sweet-hab range peppers, as we use much more of those than the superhots as that's all my wife can handle. Still growing a few supers for my own use in cooking, sauces and powders though.
Anyways enough babbling-this (should) be my list for the season, however based on last year, 1 or 2 may still make their way in-
Superhots-
Yellow 7 pot-windchicken (OW) *
Nagabrain red-windchicken (OW)*
Bbg7-kingdenniz
Nagabrain yellow-windchicken
Nagabrain Chocolate-windchicken
Chocolate bbg7 - prodigal_son
Hot-
Peri peri - Refining Fire
MoA Scotch bonnet - Jamison (OW) *
Congo red -...
A bit late to the party, but better late then never I guess :D
In no particular order this is my grow list this season:
Giant Mexican Rocoto
Cracked Jalapeno
Purrira
Naranga
Poblano
Early Jalapeno
Malawi Piquante
Giant Orange Rocoto
Moruga Choc
Black Kongo
Murupi Amarela
Lava Red
Djuljunska sipka (Bulgarian variety)
Locato
7 Pot Bubble Gum
Moruga Scorpion
Lava Choc
Carolina Reaper
Trinidad Scorpion Cardi
Dorset Naga Orange
Bhut Red Cross
7 Pot Brain Strain
Scotch Bonnet Orange
Super 7
Bhutlah Red
BT Miss
Red Peruvian Rocoto
Cayenne Red
Cayenne Yellow
Big Jim Anaheim
Plants are already big, anuums are flowering, so everything is going as it should be, I just hope I will be able to keep this blog up to date :)
Pics coming later...
First let me say THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL MY FRIENDS AT THP YOU ARE THE GREATEST!! Haven't been on in a while trying to finish up a project for the funds to start shipping out GOODIES to those who've been waiting so patiently! To juanitos,SmokenFire,Grant Michaels,jcw10tc, I again would like to say thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!! :) your in my thoughts every day !! Will repost my grow list later these pic of the raised beds in my front yard are all from you guys!! :) the trellis is for Boston cukes, also some tomato plants from members
Will post pics of the rest of my garden in proper forum!! Cheers
Well hello everyone! Here we go again. So last year was a great year for my peppers. I did over 200 plants and 57 varieties but ya know what.....that was just too much to handle. I made several sauces (still have 4 ferments to run), powders, dried pods, froze pods, you name it. I gave so many away as well. With that said I am cutting it back this year to 25 varieties across 35 plants. I am going to be more proficient with my plants. I want to grow some monsters! I will be growing many other things along with my peppers. I am big into green juices and smoothies so I am increasing that. I kind of voodoo grow as well. Some interesting plants and trees for my region.The weather totally sucks here in the Niagara area. Currently snowing and...
One Last try After my wiped out because of the damn pepper weevils and mites...
thanks to Dennis for sending me seeds to start over...
and my old glog
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/28727-pinoy83s-continous-glog-2013/page-58?hl=pinoy83
My Grow List
and the only plants mature plants i have right now is Black Tongue Scorpion and 7pot Douglah