Hey all! I'm back! (like a bad cold... ;) )
Hope all is well with everyone. I haven't looked at anyone else's glogs yet, but I decided I'd go ahead and throw out what is going on here.
Some may remember we moved into a new pad last September. Some may also remember that my grow last year got overrun by bugs and was essentially gone. I saved what peppers I could in the freezer, but given all the aphid, whitefly, and mite damage, I turned off the water and said goodbye to my plants in September, 2013. I had a lot of peppers in the freezer, so I decided I was going to take this year off from growing anything.
A couple of months ago, I took a trip back over to the old house as I need to finish the renovations so we can get it on...
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Start a Grow Log for your growing season.
This year I'm growing a multitude of different peppers and veggies as usual.
most excited for the white naga jolokia, trinidad moruga and the viper also have a variety of cayenne, jalapeno and some other ones that I really can't remember at the moment.
will upload pictures once I get around to getting them on this computer.
Hello everyone. I wanted to share with you the fruits of my passion for chillies, successes and failures. below some photos of plants and fruits were not ripe yet. I hope you like them!
I can not pass the photos from my pc to the forum ... who could explain to me how to do? thank you
Here goes everyone, definitely new to the site - but I've been growing peppers for fun for a while. Not exactly how I did It this year though. I've always used the starter plants from local nurseries, but decided to have my hand at a from seed grow this time. I wanted something more substantial this time, not just the few plants that I had always had in the past. It's a learning experience for sure, and it took a lot of researching to make the switch from a small hobby grow to a larger from seed hobby grow. I was always fine with a small amount of peppers before, but I got the itch this year.... And here we are.
First I constructed my grow box...
Originally had the FlouroWing grow light, then added 2 more 6500k lights as an...
Living in Northern Michigan makes it tough to grow peppers, but last year I did pretty good. I had Fatalii and Naga Morich pump out hundreds of pods from each plant, so this year I wanted to go bigger. And since I'm moving next summer I need to get enough to make it through next year. I was fortunate enough to have met several very helpful and nice people who sent me seeds to use. So here we go:
01DEC13: first seeds soak overnight in water. I had 10 times more seed varieties than I could ever grow, so went with what I though would give me big yeilds.
TSMoruga red, yellow - MGOLD 86<---also sent awesome powders and peppers, thanks again man!!
Brainstrain red, yellow- MGOLD 86
Primo- smileyguy697<----sent me more crazy strains than...
Let's kick of 2014 with a bang!
The first sign of life in 2014. . . Aji Caballero
My second season and I'm off and running! THANKS thp gang!!
7 pot yellow
Fatalii
Naglah Brown
Red Lantern
Pepper Plants in Pots
Reaper
Orange Habanero
Over wintered Reaper
Hi all,
A complete newbie here - long time lurker, first time poster and undertaking my first real grow outside of a few plants on windowsill. Will swing by the Intro's in the next few days to say a proper Hi!
I live in the Wellington region of New Zealand, where it's just not overly warm most of the time.
(Around 22`c/70`f through summer days and 15`c/60`f or so over night, with too much wind. It's then 12`c/54`f in winter down to 0`c overnight, with way too much wind). Nights are pretty erratic, with frosts occurring when you think they shouldn't, and to add to it, we're often in drought for most of the summer. Much of the problem is that we're very much effected by microclimates, meaning from one place to another (even a 10...
Hello,
Forgive my bad english I hope you understand.
I have a small garden, so I grow my hot peppers in large pots. Only the sweet peppers are in the ground.
Here, the summer is very hot, dry and windy (many flower of C. chinense abort).
In winter, frosts do not allow me to keep the plants outside.
Only a few plants are overwintered in heated tunnel, like C. rhomboideum & galapagoense.
I reseed each year in February.
Seeds (2 varieties of each) are put directly in pots 6x6, and germinated in the bathroom at a constant temperature of 27/29 ° C.
This year I planted :
wild capsicums :
Aji Charapita (chinense)
CAP 214 (baccatum)
CAP 215 (baccatum)
Chiltepin amarillo ( annuum var. glabriusculum)
Chiltepin Dwarf (annuum var...
First pepper of the season in the ground. Sepia serpent more pictures to come in the next week are so as the weather looks like its on the upswing.
Well, let me start by saying "Thank You!" to many of the great members here on THP. I have gotten a lot of good advice and seeds from quite a few of y'all.
Here is my overwinter plant. It is a Carolina Reaper that I started in 2013. I gave it a serious pruning when I first brought it in. It was basically a few stems and no leaves at all. I placed it in front of a south facing window and it quickly began to produce new growth. It grew about 2 feet taller then it began putting out tons of blooms. I was concerned about it getting too big. I moved it next to the window instead of directly in front of it so it would get a little less sun. I also have not watered it at all since mid-October. The new growth came to a stop and all of the...
Seeds started on Feb 1st:
Peppers
Jalapenos mild
Ghosts
Carolina Reaper
7 Pot
Butch T
Red Moruga
Early Jalapenos
Naga Morich
Trinidad Scorpion
Orange Scotch Bonnets
Giant Ghost
Yolo Wonder Sweet
Keystone
Sapporo
Poblano
Mulato Isleno
Bell
Jalapenos plated on 2/5 - sprouted 2/11
Others
Cherry toms - seeds from 2013 prod
Giant Syrian toms
Marglobe
Beefsteak
Sungold cherry - sprouted 2/11
new girl - sprouted 2/11
brandywine - sprouted 2/11
romas - sprouted 2/11
Seeds started on Feb 7th
Peppers
Thunderbolt sweet
Cuke - Diva - sprouted 2/11
Cuke - Marketmore - sprouted 2/11
Toms:
Moskivich
Babyboomer
Mortgage lifter
cheeries jubiliee - sprouted 2/11
mountain magic
super sweet 100
summer girl
super tasty
steakhouse
gardeners...
Most of the varieties i'm growing this year are new to me. I need to give Pepperlover (Judy), alot of credit and other THP members for forcefully exspanding my pepper consciousness by sending me extra seeds that I would never would have thought to grow. I grow peppers on a fairly small scale, but each year it is my intension to a grow really awsome specimen of each variety.
My 2014 list so far (I will be adding more). I started three seeds for each pepper on 1/9/2014
Germinated:
Bhut Jolokia Red (my own strain I've been growing...
Well, after a long awaited time, I finally got some seeds in dirt this evening. Wow, it took a long time as some of these names of these varieties are long. :) My theme this year...Pequins/Tepins - rare ones & AFRICA. Also, I think some rare Brazilian varieties will be planted too along with some Pubescens in the next few days. I have no idea how germination will be on some of these African varieties, but it should be fun. I enjoy market varieties and odd stuff found off the beaten path.
Here's what I've got sowed to date. Wish me luck!
Chris
UPDATED LIST @ 2/27/12
5 Color x Whippets Tail F3 - Potawie C. annuum
Birdseye - Dakar, Senegal #1 - AR C. annuum
Birdseye - Dakar, Senegal #2 - AR C. annuum
Birdseye - Gahu...
Hi Everyone!
This is my first time growing and I've started really late. I didn't really get into growing peppers until I did a little research about some hot salsa I ate. It's made by Mrs. Renfro, and it's ghost pepper salsa.
It's great stuff with a nice heat kick. I love salsa so if you have any types or home-makes you recommend, by all means, send me the info and I'll give it a try.
Anyway, I started looking up information about the ghost pepper a while back and I found out it used to be the hottest pepper around so I started looking into who the champ was.
I found that the new one, the Moruga Trinidad Scorpion pepper, could kick the ghost pepper in the pants and make it scrub its floors like Cinderella.
So I was...
Under construction ...More to follow ...
Here in this link you can find last seasons trials and tribulations .... and some picture heavy content
If you feel like following a slightly less auspicious grow/glog then most on here ... please read on and enjoy ...
Cheers
Trippa
Hi,
New to the forum and this is my first season trying to grow some chillies. I started with about 8 Habanero seeds and 20 Cayenne seeds back in mid-march and I tried to germinate all of them for insurance that at least a couple would grow. I didn't realise the majority would germinate!! Anyway, I ended up leaving them to pick out the strongest of the bunch.
Here's them after a few weeks transplanted to individual propogator/windowsill greenhouse on 18th April:
So I had to get rid of a few more of the weaker ones because I simply don't have room for them in a small flat.
A few weeks later they are now in individual pots (photo: 2nd May):
Gave two of the Cayennes away and this is what I'm left with as of the...
Hey everyone,
I've been posting away in other people's Glogs, and I thought it was time to show off my gardens, so its not really so much of a Glog as it is pics....if this is in the wrong spot, please feel free to move it to the appropriate spot Mods...
Hi people!! Here I will upload some pics of my current grow.
Enjoy it!
Hi all, I had a great growing season last year with my Moruga Scorpions and My Bishops's crowns.
I still have 6 Morugas and 2 Bishop's Crowns.
This year i will be growing
Jalapenos (Telica) x 24
Moruga Scorpions x 24
Bishops Crown x 48 (already Planted Pics soon)
Orange Habanero x 8
Banana sweet x 8
Hungarian Wax x 8
pics and updates soon
Hey all, this is my first real post on the pepper, and my ever grow log so bear with me if i seem to fumble a bit. This is also my first year trying to grow some exotic peppers. My dad and i have been growing thai peppers and hawaiian purple peppers for several years, and i also have a red scotch bonnet and a bhut jolokia plant i purchased from the county fair. I cook with the thai peppers all the time, and the red bonnets have been a treat.
I ordered ten varieties from a couple different sellers: devils tongue, chocolate scotch bonnets, satans kiss, cherry bomb, aji amerillo, jamaican yellow mushrooms, bishops crown, chocolate bhuts, aji dulce and sweet apple peppers.
I intend to keep 3 of each of these plants in my back yard (yes...
I figured I should start one of these. Since I keep detailed notes, might as well keep them on here too. A big thanks go Judy for giving me a big box o'peppers to eat and save some seeds from.
This year I am planning on growing:
Jalapeño
Cayenne
Bishop's Crown
Datil
Fatalii
MOA Scotch Bonnet (Thanks: Hillbilly Jeff for seeds)
Peach Bhut
Peach Hab
White 7 pot
Antilles Fire (Thanks smileyguy)
Choc Scorpion (Thanks smileyguy)
From AjiJoe (Thanks Joe):
Aji Amarillo
Yellow Thai
St Lucia Red Season
Lotah Bih
Bahamian Goat pepper
Brazilian Sandollar
I have 3 plants that I am overwintering: Serrano, Red Bell, and a New Mexico 6-4.
I planted a round of seeds, sans the ones from AjiJoe, in Jiffy pots on 1/5 and I had to leave for a...
Only my second season, destined to be better than the previous.
My goal: more pods; more ale.
THE PLAYERS
1.Scotch Bonnet Choc (1)
2.Scotch Bonnet FTL (2)
3.Scotch Bonnet MoA (4)
4.Scotch Bonnet Faria (1)
5.SB7J (1)
6.Bhut Peach (1)
7.Bhut Assam (1)
8.Pimenta Leopard (1)
9.Carolina Reaper (1)
10.Bahamian Goat (3)
11.Jamaican Mushroom (1)
12.Big Red (1) (7-pot cross)
13.Brainstrain Red (1)
14.Caribbean Red Hab (3)
15.Red Savina (2)
16.Choc Hab (1)
17.Scarlet Lantern Hab (1)
18.St. Lucia Hab (1)
19.Isabela Island Hab (1)
20.Trinidad Perfume (1)
21.Moruga (1)
22.Scorp Red (1)
23.Scorp Tongue (1)
24.Jay's Peach Scorp (1)
25.Trinidad Congo (1)
26.7-Pot Primo (1)
27.7-Pot Yellow Giant (1)
28.7-Pot Savannah (1)
29.Siling Labuyo (2)...
I figured why not. I eat all these peppers and would rather do it myself just to see if I can. I sowed on the 16th of April and heres my progress.
choc bhuts
infinities
7p barrackapore
yellow brain strains
reapers
yellow devils tongue
There's 40 in all so I hope to get pods on my first try but we'll see! Any advice is more than welcome!
Tuesday 20th August:
Today i have started an experiment.
I have planted 3 Dorset Naga seeds in one pot and in another i have panted 3 Naga seeds. The first part of my experiment is to see which germinates the quickest.
The second part of my experiment is to allow the strongest looking seedling in each pot to grow and to attempt to overwinter the plants.
I do not intent to move plants from the pots they are in now until late winter (February) time. I will be keeping them in the conservatory although for a 6 week period around the winter solstice i will bring them indoors and provide them with several hours of extra light. The light will just be either a standard house light or lamp.
Obstacles:
The first problem i...
Hey.
Lots of great pepper blog here. They drove me to build a raised bed and start growing.
I'm on my mobile so posting pics won't work right now. Pics will come tho.
Anyways, along with posting my blog updates I have a question regarding soil.
The soil I have my pepps in seems pretty unrich. The pepps are in the soil already.
Should I add some baged rich stuff to the top layer and should I be topping it with mulch??
Thanks
Pumped for my new fan... should help out a lot!
Currently have:
Pasilla
Bhut Jolokia
7 pod primo
Jalapeno Cracked
Big Jim
Bulls Heart
Red hot
Giant Jalapeno
Reaper
Ancho
Habanero
T.S. Butch T
Aji Mystery
Aji Dulce
Aji Pineapple
Guarani
Gouchu Garu
Hatch
Hawaiian sweet hot
Aji Poblano
Jalapeno
Santa Fe
Anaheim
Yolo wonder
I am going to this year bonsai 7 or so pepper plants. I had a bonsai tree for 10 years after I got out of the corps, do to many life events I lost my tree. I am now going to combine my two favorite things peppers and small trees. Never tried to grow a bonsai pepper but sure the same principles apply. I will be getting some pics up soon as I get them into there first pot. And will post as they get more mature through this season.
When I get a stable plant that is healthy I will be giving one away towards the end of this season.
Kevin
So I should have actually started this about 2 months ago... but I didn't know such a place was around.
Anyway, I will say I am a rookie when it comes to peppers. Literally, never even tried to grow them. I've learned a ton just from reading the forum here and finally decided to join!
My actual garden spot isn't ideal for peppers as it only gets some sun. Normally about 6 hours of full sun, which in North Dakota, can be pretty hit and miss, and when it misses, it misses for weeks at a time. So, in the actual garden there is cucumbers, radishes, kohlrabi, carrots, various herbs, and pumpkins. In my containers I have tomatoes and peppers, and one cucumber as an experiment.
So as for the pepper list, there isn't anything that would...
So I figured I would start a grow log now. I'm a noob and would at least like to share my trials and tibulations. I have a bunch of scorpions and bhuts hardening off (at least I think they are, ebay....) at the moment. Most of the plants are about 6 inches or more and I will post pics when I can. I also have a newborn baby so it makes it harder to keep up with this. Currently I have a bunch of scorpions and bhuts in solo cups about to go full sun in a couple of days but its been very cloudy/rainy lately. I'm about to get 10, 7 gallon root pouches in the mail very soon. I plan on a mix of 3.5 CU Ft of Top Soil, 2 Cu FT perlite, 1/2 Cu Ft coarse sand, 3 Cu Ft hummus/manure mix for all of it. Choices due to significant other...
In vegas if you have a greenhouse you can keep stuff going for a while so I am starting my grow right now don't mistake it as we don't have winter because we do quite cold actually snows a couple times a year sometimes hails. Anyways it is time to get this thing rolling I will bring you along through the heartbreak and struggles also through the success. About 99% of my grow will be wilds so it should be quite interesting some of this is full grown others need to be sowed. Well here's the list more will be added as they come to me. Will upload some pictures tomorrow raining and dark right now
WILDS:
Capsicum Flexuosum
Capsicum Flexuosum (S2)
Capsicum Tovarii
Capsicum Cardenasii (true)
Capsicum Galapagoense
Capsicum Parvifolium
Capsicum...
I know the seasons already winding down, but I just made an account so I want to start sharing my grow.
Last year my neighbor had a weird pumpkin looking pod come from what he thought were habanero plants.
I liked them enough that I over wintered the plant and saved some seeds
Between then and now I had a load of bad luck, I wont get into it, but my season this year was pretty weak. I ended up purchasing a bunch of c. frutescens peppers from the greenhouse where I work instead of starting my own seed.
It wasn't until the end of june that I started some seeds. We hired some new people at the greenhouse, one of them is from India and he got his brother to send me some seeds from home. I started the Indian seeds as well as the yellow...
It's time to start my 2014 Grow Log! This is the first glog I have ever done so please bear with me as I make mistakes and stumble through this process. I'm a complete newbie at most of this stuff so hopefully it goes right and I have some great peppers at the end of the year.
First off...I would like to thank everyone that has sent me seeds over the last few months. THP members have been more than gracious and unbelievable in helping me gather my seeds for this year's grow. These guys include SmileyGuy697, RebelGrower, Romy6, Hendrix1326, Coheed196, JediSushi, Jamison, AjiJoe, and a lot more that I'm sure I'm forgetting. I can't thank you guys enough for the generosity.
2014 Grow List:
Bishop's Crown
Pumpkin Habanero...
Hello and welcome to my second year of seed starting and having a glog. My name is Mike and I love chili peppers.
As for 2013 here is a link to my glog on here http://thehotpepper.com/topic/37184-fireeater101-2013-glog/
As you can see last year was a very busy and almost overwhelming year and I never updated here beyond August. Check out the link above for anymore details. Needless to say I got at least a freezer full of peppers and a wife that never evicted me from the house. Made lots of powders and a few hot sauces too!
So for this year 2014 my theme is going to be manageable quality plants producing quality peppers for the entire year. I started all of my peppers this year from seeds I had from last year so I am keeping...
Hi Everyone finally got a camera to post some picks and get the Glog going im going to start with my Amirrillo Tepin i started from seeds from Joyners Hot Pepper Powders !
Already Podding Up !
Chilly Chilli
Unknown Red Chili It Is Very Hot and it is bangning right now !
Tomatoes on the right... Peppers on the left... 2 Simple 40watt fluorescent bulbs (cool white).
Indoor Grow spots...
Yes, those plastic containers at the bottom were filled with manure... If manure was measured in gallons, I would have 87 gallons!
Earth day success!!!
SINGLE BHUT BOUGHT FROM STORE.
Spoke too soon... (sunburn on tomatoes)
More updates to follow... Lessons learned.
I accidentally posted 2 of the exact same thread. Anybody know how to delete one?
Admin?
What the heck, weather? 70 degrees one day, snow the next?
Anyway, this year is going to be way stepped back from last year. We now have a 7 week old baby in the house, and between preparing for his arrival and actually having him here, I didn't get a chance to get any seeds started. They'll live happily in the fridge until next year, I guess. My garden prep also didn't really go where I wanted it, so there's that, too. It's okay, a scaled back year this year and spend what time I can this summer getting major work done on the garden and then next year will be rocking.
I think I'm just going to be planting peppers that I can find at the local shops, either Big Blue or Big Orange, or the local garden stores if they have some. I've...
Since I am starting this grow log about 2 months late I will make a summary post and keep it updated a couple of times every week, I am expecting it to last till end of October-mid November.
I started growing peppers last year and it turned into a major hobby of mine so I decided to step it up and build some raised beds in my very small Tokyo garden. Last years grow was very successful but it was in containers and only peppers.
In the end of 2013 I had peppers out of my ears and as a result and still being a newbie gardener I wanted to have experience with more than just peppers. So this year I am mainly growing tomatoes but there is room for peppers as well naturally.
At the end of the post I will list whats in the boxes. I...