I've been waffling on whether to try my hand at a glog, and then decided, "hey, why not?" I figure it's another chance to learn from the rest of you as I track my progress.
There are a few factors at play:
- I am in Málaga and there's pretty good weather here for year-round growing. I think the zone is 10a.
- I don't have much space. Just a small patio that can maybe handle 6 or 7 plants.
- I want to grow peppers that I find interesting, tasty, and beautiful. I don't mind super-hots, but they're not my goal. The hottest I currently have planned is MOA Scotch Bonnets.
- My kids don't want peppers, so I agreed to get some tomatoes going for them if they agree to help out and learn with me.
- And the last factor is I don't know what I'm...
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Hey,
i was sometimes thinking to open a glog to aks my questions there.
I wasnt sure if I use my actually chili plants for completely indoor for a few years or just for these year.
I am nearly sure that I dont plan atm to have chilis much longer than one year because I want to be a few weeks or even month to an other place.
Here are my chilis atm.
I think they are looking much better than a few weeks ago.
But my fan is to load, makes also to much wind and is to cold for the tent.
I dont like the sound of my USB-fan.
It is much quieter than my big fan but it has a very uncomfortable frequency.
Does someone has a cheap alternative?
My tent has round about 15°C and I wonder why my chilis still looks so beautiful.
They dont have...
🌴 Welcome to my GLOG!
🌴 I have a small urban terrace garden where I grow mainly peppers in containers. My location is Chiapas, Mexico. The local climate is tropical with pronounced dry and rainy seasons. The temperatures can sometimes be too much for the plants to bear (especially around Easter), but in general they manage. The climate makes that I can grow peppers year round, although pest pressure is really high. Especially mites are a problem... I apply neem oil copiously, but it does not always work...
🌴 This GLOG will follow my 2022 pepper endeavours. Enjoy 🥵
I will try to document my pepper garden from this year here. I am not very good at reminding to take photos, but i hope i will have enough to post.
I sown the first seeds on January 7 , i had some very old seeds, some were older than 6-7 years... The only ones that germinated were:
- Habanero red
- Chiltepin
- Aji Chiripita
- Carolina Reaper
- one Rocoto that i don't know what variety it is, but to me it tastes like figs...
On january 20 i got some seeds from Sinenomine but i only planted Fatalli and Tepin x Lemon Drop until now, i will be planting some more soon (the varieties that doesn't need a very long growing season).
Two days ago i got the envelope with the seeds from Semillas.de (ordered around january 10...) and sown as...
Hello fellow Capsichums!
I figured I would start a log here, mainly to learn and also share some of my own experience with what seems like a bunch of fellow plant nerds!
I have grown organically(mostly indoors) for about 5 years but am new to growing peppers! I'm still trying to figure out the best way to feed as they grow, as I am used to growing in large 20gal pots, which are much easier to manage with just top dressing and watering, whereas the peppers will be going into 5 gals max and will be outdoors(indoor space is for more..profitable crop...).
Not really the style I'm used to! But I will have over 130 plants once I pop the last few seed packs I have... try filling 130 20gals with soil LMAO
No thanks.
Anyways...the varieties I...
Hello again. Your favorite badger-based sauce guy is back with a new glog for 2022. You may have noticed the lack of updates on my last thread. What happened is the sheep got through my totally inadequate fence and ate all my plants. About 900 of them. It was an unmitigated disaster. I was so pissed I just gave up on the glog. I still wound up with quite a lot of sauce from my other spots, 16 carboys or so. Having learned nothing from last year, I decided to double the number of plants this year, and put up a better fence. Here's the breakdown:
ID variety num plants
1. 2017 yellow 7 pots 650
2. 2021 yellow 7 pots 300
3. 2018 yellow 7 pots 300
4. chocolate habs 400
5...
Happy First Full Day of Winter(snow,sleet,ice,mud,short-dark-days) to all who celebrate!
Which also mean it's the un-official First Day of 2023 Pepper Season.
Seeds just seem to want to grow when the sun turns back.
I appreciate this community being here though my contributions are somewhat lean these days.
Whatsoever I might know about peppers came from right here, and the garden of course
Germinator 2000 has gotten some upgrades and a new home.
The garage is too expensive to heat so me better half has given me a spot in her basement.
I've ran a crop or two of lettuce under these new LEDs and they seem fine if not excellent.
Most in need of space is my baby orchids right now.
So true to my form, it will be studied chaos by the...
Hopefully, I’ll keep up with this GLOG this year, unlike the previous few years. I didn’t do one last year but, I think my GLOG (if you can even call it that) from 2021 was literally ONE post :lol: I’ve been working 50-72 hour weeks for the last 2 years (6 days a week), but now I’m back to working 40 hours, like a gentleman… for now :rofl:
Anyway, I’m going to start with that pic 👆🏻 from a few years ago (rather than a crappy pic of seedlings under lights) since that’ll be the pic on the “GLOGS” home page, lol. If all goes according to plan, my backyard should look like that again this Summer :)
On to 2023… I dug through my old seed stash, sowed a bunch of seeds last week, and they all started popping a few days ago:
•Reaper SRTSL...
Hello to all TheHotPepper
Today I decided to start a few peppers to find out if they will fruit indoors. Sown today Sweet Banana, Fire Cracker Ornamental, and Sweet Datil and seeds from the crushed red pepper spice bottle. On order Hungarian Hot Wax and Chiltepin. I'm unsure if there will be enough space to grow these peppers to full size but it's just for fun anyways.
Ghost, Propst Arena, Huntsville, AL, Sept. 2, 2022. Papa Emeritus IV and the Ghouls performing Year Zero. My 5th "ritual" as their performances are called. My daughter was right up front at the railing and took this photo... I was up a ways in a nice actual seat.
Well, another season is beginning. We have had a bit of a rough time here since last year. We had a sudden, unexpected death in the family last summer that
made the rest of the season unimportant, so my postings dropped off. I found out a couple of weeks ago I need hip replacement surgery... it's not bad or anything like that right now, so I am going to do it this fall so I can rehab over the off-season. I refuse at my age to have a year not growing anything at all. I'm...
I want to start off by saying I'm excited to be trying my hand at growing peppers again. This is the first time I'm doing any gardening aside from growing some countertop kitchen herbs in the last 8 or so years.
Anyway, I picked up a bunch of seeds from Texas Hot Peppers on Black Friday (fantastic sale), way more than I needed for myself. So I'll be starting seedlings and giving them away to friends and family as I decide what I want to keep in my garden this year. I'll add a post to the glog with the list later once I start prepping plants for what will be going outside, but for now, I'm just growing a few plants for indoors.
Equipment info if anyone is interested:
Spider Farmer SF1000Dv2? v3? Has a dimmer knob and uneven led...
Year 1, year 2, year 3, year 4
I debated if I should do a glog this year. I feel bad if not making some kind of semi regular updates and I barely made it to two pages last year. Anyway, here goes...
Once again I'll be away for 2 months over summer so I'm not going to bother with any hydro and stick to soil. What I will do this time is to put down some covering to keep the weeds at bay. I'm amazed that after being at this for 4 years, there is still so much to learn!
I decided to go low key this year and just ordered some seeds from Sandia and the rest from my stash. I pulled out a 200 site rockwool planter that I had bought last year and not used and stuck it in the tray and started filling. 10 seeds of each unless indicated...
Happy 2022 everyone and good luck with the new season. I suppose it's time to get the new glog going with it being the new year and all. I'll start off with some pics I took over the last couple weeks of plants in the indoor grow. Right now I have two tents with T5HO's for the indoor plants and the OW's about as far away as possible in the house under an HLG 100 4K.
Yaki Blue Fawn - I didn't grow this last year, but after seeing the success PaulG and Dragonsfire had with their Yakis recently I'm psyched to have one going again.
1 of 2 of Uncle E's Naga Smooky Rainbow x 7 Pot Yellow crosses from seeds he sent me.
A couple Uchu Cream x Mutant, 1 filiform and 1 not. Seeds from Catchthebear AKA Matt's Peppers
Together
and later...
Welcome, my esteemed peers, to my 2nd annual glog. This will be my best attempt by far. No way it could be worse than my pitiful entry from last year, not even going to include a link to that stinky p.o.s.
#1 – WIN BEFORE YOU BEGIN: i did what i said i was gonna do, which is get my own setup to grow from seeds. Flexing my new LED light, heat mats, and seed trays. Also awesome is that they are sitting on a card table that was just passed down to us at Christmas (just a cheap metal folding-leg table with vinyl-covered sponge top, but it belonged to my wife’s grandmother, and my mother-in-law had been using it up until now to grow out her own seeds on every year, so it is a very lovely gift from a sentimental standpoint).
#2 – MAKE IT...
New Season, New Duck!
Links to my Grow Logs:
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
2017 2019 2020 2021
Trippaul Threat Community Grow
Purple Thunder Community Grow
Wild, Indeed Community Thread
Growing in the Pacific NorthWest Community Thread
2022 Pepper Grow - sowing date, hook dates, days to first hook, germ. ratio
Wilds / Semi-Wilds 2022 (12)
CGN 22795 - c. praetermissum, 2019 my seed - sown 11/19/21 - 12/15 x 2, 26 days 2/4
CAP 1491 - c. eximium Hunziker ‘Ulupica’, Bolivia, @Wiriwiri 2020 - sown 11/19/21 (pulled 1/5) No Show 0/4
CGN 20497 - c. cardenasaii ‘Ulupica’, Altiplano Bolivia, @Mr.joe - sown 11/19/21 - 12/19 x 2, 30 days 2/4
c. tovarii - Peru, @Mr.joe - sown 11/19/21 - 12/28, 1/2/22, 39 days, 44 days 2/4
CGN 22795 - c...
Happy New Year!
I've been debating whether I should start a Glog this year or not given that I most likely won't have time to update it as frequently as previous years. I decided to still go for it in case somebody wants to know how a particular variety is doing, and also to document my progress.
We moved to a bigger place last year, and now that we actually have a decent sized yard, my outdoor grow will be expanded accordingly and my indoor grow might not happen at all. This year I'll be focusing on a couple of things:
1) Refreshing seeds I've bought over the years. Some of these are 10 years old
2) Experiment with two big (50 Gal) Kratky Setup. I'll be growing Zapotec Jalapenos and Lemon Drops since these are family favorites...
As already stated in my welcome thread i'm fairly new to growing peppers. This is gonna be my second year of growing them.
Last year was quite a succes, started out with ten variaties that i could find locally and ended up with a garden full of lush plants and dito harvests. The climate here is not ideal for growing peppers, especially the 2021 season was quite wet arround here. Hoping this year will be a bit more favourable.
The plan for upcoming season is all about diversity in varieties. I'm trying to find the peppers i like the most and find good use for in the kitchen. Also cutting down on the number of plants per variety so i will not have to proces tons of peppers wich i don't really like.
Below my growlist for upcoming...
I've put this off long enough and now it's time to start "gloging".
On January 1,2022 I picked the Brainstrains again.
1423 grams this time.
And that means two more 1 1/2 pint jars for the freezer.
And they're still alive and producing.
All the pepper seeds went in very late this year as the seedlings were cooked in the greenhouse. I did manage to save a couple of plants.
I cannot overwinter plants, no room in the house and greenhouse is unheated, temps drop very low in the winter and chilli plants wouldn't survive.
I grow as many plants as I can mainly for seed collecting for the following year and for making chilli pickle which I dish out among friends.
Apologies for photos, phone is shit and so is the camera on it. Hopefully this will give you a gist of what goes on chez Tink
I just need to figure out how to upload photos ;)
First off the veggie patch, again this is late and I only grow what we can use.
First pic - mini sweetcorn - never grown this before so it's...
First bunch of seeds, hope for a better year, probably end up with indoor/outdoor grow since I had the best results inside last year, as long as their not attacked.
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
I thought it's about time I started this season. It's been an uncharacteristically sustained period of below freezing temps at night over the last month which has definitely killed all chilli plants that I grew last year. When it warms up a little, I will have to go out and clean everything up in preparation for this year.
So this time I thought I'd be extra lazy and bought these 100 seed rockwool trays rather than the 1"cubes I usually use. Two lots in a 1020 tray gives me 200 seeds with the hope of getting 30 or so plants. It's sitting on the heating mat set to 85F with the dome on and no lights for the moment. The plan is to fish them out once they pop and go straight to net pots or soil (assuming the weather...
Here's where it all starts at Sideshow Gardens. The seedling room. Heat and humidity controlled. The trays will only spend a couple days here til they get moved outside. Our daytime temps have been wonderful lately but night time temps are still pretty low so they all get brought back inside at night. Quite the chore since the seedling room is upstairs and I currently have way more trays than what is pictured. I've started tomatoes and peppers so far but that accounts for only a quarter of what I'll be growing. Stay tuned for further updates. Thanks for looking!
Hey everyone.
Recently we moved to Arizona and this is my first time trying to grow outdoors here so we will see how it goes. We got here last year in June and for experimental purposes I planted a cayenne, scotch bonnet and a morouga scorpion that overwintered naturally outdoors and are still going now, although they don’t look the best. I planted them late last year so the SB and the morouga didn’t produce anything at all, but the cayenne was productive. Now the SB from last year is loaded, while the morouga produced only a single pepper so far.
In January or February I started a bunch of others, another MOA, a fatalli, yellow 7 pot, Caribbean Red, and a red 7 pot.
I have them all in white ceramic pots and I tapped into my...
[ Over Winter 2021]
3 - serrano's
Are supposed to be five for sure Trippaul Threat Peach F3
But there are 3 I know for sure are Trippaul peach two tall ones & a short one in the kitchen all three of those have this tree thing going on then there these two that are different.
I know that once there outside they will start to turn purple as they was for the short time they was out
So it will sort itself out.
1 Jamaican Red Hab
2 Peach Hababon F2 or possibly back to F1 crossed with unknown cap annuum
Total pepper plants 11
[2022 Peppers]
[capsicum chinense]
Papper Lantern OP - CraftyFox
Jamaican Red Hab A++ 2019 - Paul G
[Capsicum Annuum]
Possibly Jamaican Mushroom specially selected for UFO pheno type form 2017
Ive been...
My real start of the season is still months away but I couldn't resist to put something in the soil already - Tasmanian Black! :dance:
Today is Jan 1, so time to start a Glog and THINK about what to grow. The answer is most likely somewhere in here. I'll figure it out shortly. :think:
This was May 15th.
May 22th
Current:
Red habanero
The red habanero has pods already
2 Chocolate habaneros
Madame Jeanette, a normal growing one, and a stunted one.
Mystery peppers, they were just marked 'chili pepper'
One mystery pepper plant has already 2 ripe peppers.
One of my inside cayennes
And the little ones : Thai, and an extra Madame Jeanette
Edit: forgot this one : Spanish pepper
I have seeds ready for 2022. Will start by reviewing varieties from past seasons, then discuss what I am growing in 2022.
2019:
Orange Habanero: delicious. Will grow again at some point.
Shishito: Nice peppers, but will not grow again.
2020:
Trinidad pimento: excellent pepper, will try to keep my freezer permanently stocked with this variety
Trinidad perfume: Nice pepper, will probably grow periodically in the future.
Red foodarama scotch bonnet: I enjoyed this pepper, but I preferred both of two red varieties I grew in 2021, will not grow again. Of note, taste had minimal resemblance to the foodarama yellow.
Foodarama yellow scotch bonnet: Nice scotch bonnet with classic Jamaican scotch bonnet flavor that you would get in a...
It is time to start the new growth for 2022.
Link to my grow log 2021.
Last fall I kept a Tepin x Lemon Drop plant that I tried to grow as a bonchi. He's not the best candidate for that, but he looks pretty good. It even has a flower that seems to turn into a pod.
I will sow C. Chinense on February 20 and C. Annuum on March 6.
Here is the growth list:
Suspended pots:
- Fatalii - V1 2021 / Semillas - 3
- Fatalii - PaulG - 2
- Purple Thunder F4 yellow/caramel - PaulG / Pepper Guru - 2
- Trippaul Threat F3 yellow - PaulG - 1
- Papa Dreadie SB - Sawyer - 4
- Aji Jobito - Semillas - 3
- Farm Locoto - Samaipata - Pepper Guru -1 (Growdown Throwdown 2022) I hope the seeds arrive soon. The envelope has been sent for a month
Floor pots:
-...
Oh boy, here we go again.
I joined this lovely forum back in 2018, been a lurker much longer though. At that time I was a student living in a small apartment, trying to learn all I could about indoor growing. Mostly because I didn't have outdoor space, and when I had a hobby that demanded I grew something, I had to get creative.
I loved the control of growing indoor, and trying to create optimal growing conditions for the plants.
However, late last year I bought my first house with a garden, and fortunately I got a greenhouse as a birthday present from my girlfriend and friends.
So my dream of growing plants in a greenhouse is finally coming true!
The gear:
Unfortunately this isn't from my garden, this is the picture from the website...
My first big season is winding down, and I’ve learned a lot… both about pepper cultivation and my own personal preferences.
My biggest issue was watering manually and thus unevenly. In the worst of the heat, most containers dried out every day, even watering every morning. It was necessary this year, but I think it caused a lot of nutrient uptake issues, blossom end rot, and similar niggles. I hope to use a dripline, next year, and expect this single change to result in greatly increased performance.
I planted two individuals per container in most cases, to increase genetic diversity. This worked fine, for the most part: with a few exceptions, both individuals grew equally well and the per container productivity seemed unaffected...
Hey there. I'm just posting to let you know I'm still kicking, but with an even smaller grow.
Only nine pots this season, three of them are habanero (two Calita Red's and Red Savina - I think)
I got them in local nursery after all my seedlings stopped growing suddenly :confused:
I only managed to grow my own tomato plants this season and some cucumbers - will probably add the photos from the garden later this month, after some weeding :P
Red Savina? and Calita Red - looks like they'll grow some pods for me
the lineup - three on the right are habaneros
this one is annum and is a yellow variant of Chili As - good for pickling but reds are tastier
Hopefully I can stick with it, and update more often this year. I have very limited space, one grow tent and an 11th floor balcony that faces North/Northeast.
State of the Garden -Late Fall 2021
The whole of the fenced garden is 60x70 with 6" wove wire 8' tall
Starting last fall, we built the first beds inside the newly leveled and fenced garden area.
Garlic, shallots and a few fall greens were planted immediately.
This spring about 3/4 of the fenced area was put into typical garden vegetable production.
An additional 15x38' area was temporaily fenced and hand tilled for a crop of sweet corn and is currently in diakon radish for cover.
14 cuyd of mushroom compost were delivered last year, and 14 yd of Tru-leaf compost this year.
I had 4-8' beds made in spring 2020 or prior that were brought inside the fenced area -compost and all.
Only a few yards of the Tru-leaf remain unused.
The bed...
Hi everyone,
My first chilli grow since 2017!! It's been a long time since I have been on here, I had a bad fall which shattered my elbow, snapping bones, tearing ligaments and all that fun stuff, so life went sideways for quite a while. But I'm now able to grow again and in the garden happily hanging with the birds and bees in Spring. Less so the ongoing minor flooding with all the rain down here, but it is shaping up to be a heck of a growing season in southern Australia.
Fresh seeds from The Hippy Seed Co. Neil and Charlotte are awesome, their stock always grow true for me. 3 x Naga-bon, 1 x chiro de norte, 2 x aji pineapple, 1 x yellow siam and 2 x japanese takanotsume. All enjoying their first day of full sunshine in their new...
Time to get ready for 2022!
Hybird Commercial/personal glog I suppose, I'll track everything.
Preparing the starter area today & Sunday. Super-hots get started next week.
Plastic is to protect the lights on the shelves below from possible drips while watering. The boxes are warming mats, something new I'm trying this year.
Super-hots get started next week:
Carolina Reaper - 490
Bhut Jolokia - 490
Habanero - 280
Yellow Reaper - 100
Dragon's Breath - 70
Habanada - 105
"Where's the Heat" habanero - 100 (first year trial)
I include the habanada with the super-hots because it's growth habit is similar - slow to germinate and slow to grow at first.
Big Jim, Sahuaro Anaheim, Serrano Tampiqueno, Poblano Carranza for myself getting...
OK, I know this is late in the season but having just registered on this forum I thought it was better late than never.
This year my aims are:
Grow a wide range of varieties that I’ve not grown before to find some new favourites.
Attempt some new crosses because it’s fun to try them even if they don’t all succeed or result in anything desirable.
Grow out some crosses I’ve been working on over recent years.
Growing methods being used:
Vast majority of these are growing outside in containers in the UK, so not the longest season and variable weather to contend with. I’ve found keeping the containers slightly smaller improves the chances of getting ripe pods in our climate when growing outdoors.
A small number of plants in smaller...
Starting chili peppers here next to my chair in my little library again! :dance:
This one-windowed room at the southeast corner started as a place to read quietly and store my books. Over the last few years it's become not only my refuge, but also a WFH office, a light workshop, and a productive year-round indoor garden. The place has become commensurately cluttered and is badly in need of an exceptionally ruthless purge, so I fished out an old shot of a tidier time to head this year's glog on our spiffy new forum. (Siv's plant!!) (So spartan!) Ah..
It looks more like some hermit's rat hole in a cyberpunk novel now, lol. You'll see it eventually, I'm sure.
I've got enough superhot powder stocked up to go to war and I luurve...
Many thanks to those who indulged in my long winnowing process. I had assumed space would be my limiting factor, but it was calculating how much soil would cost that convinced me to narrow my focus yet again. After some heartbreaking cuts, the plan is now locked in! I just put the first seeds in for an H2O2 soak in advance of sowing tomorrow. Let’s go!
Jigsaw, seen here edited in from June 2022, became iconic of the grow
Notes
Numbers refer to desired number of containers per variety
Two individuals per container, to increase diversity
5 gallon containers, unless noted
Sowing Schedule
Sat Jan 8
2 Capsicum flexuosum, wild
Sat Feb 5
4 NuMex Trick-or-Treat
4 Ají Dulce Rojo
4 Ají Dulce Margariteño Yellow
4 Hot Paper Lantern
4...
Hi Everybody, and welcome to this growlog! I'm always looking for input and feedback!
I grow in Kratky hydro for the first time, so this should be a steep learning curve! So far I have about 70+ varieties in this grow tent (3x2m) but some plants will move to new locations as we move along.
My biggest concern isn't really that I have WAY too many plants for my limited space, my concern is all the fantastic seeds and varieties I haven't started yet :)
If I don't start them soon it's so late for this season. Would love to grow some more rocotos etc
The outdoor season in Norway is short and cold, so growing peppers here you have to be an optimistic idiot like me, and be prepared to use a lot of time and energy for every fruit you...