Ocho Cinco and the Pepper Joe Experience
The plan:
Get a "Volcano in a Box" from Pepper Joe
Document the entire experience here on THP
Simple
I'm just a hobby grower. This will be my second year growing super hots but I am a relatively experienced gardener. Like most hobby growers, I don't have the space to grow a whole lot of plants. I will probably keep only one or two plants from each variety. The rest I will try to sell. I will try to keep contact with the buyers to see how their plants grew.
I plan on taking many pictures and videos to be as thorough as I can.
What will the results be?
Will the seeds germinate well?
Will the pods grow true?
Can I make some money?
Will this product succeed or fail?
Let the adventure...
Glogs
Start a Grow Log for your growing season.
So I'm setting aside 12 plants to attempt an overwintering.... looking at having 45 plants for 2014....
Plants I'm overwintering, 4 unlabelled supers that didn't produce, pimenta de neyde, purple flash, butch t, two unlabelled ornamentals from ajijoe, another unlabelled ornamental and pequin.
I have 11 varieties I'm waiting on from a sasbe offer here: super chili, aji pineapple, bishops crown, brazilian starfish, 7-pot jonah, datil, chocolate hab, f2 yellow fatali x red savina, and three wilds, c04392, c01225 and tc07246.
I have seeds saved from my last two seasons for orange manzano, rocoto amarillo, an okinawan variety, white habanero, golden habanero, tazmanian habanero, scotch bonnet, jamaican mushroom, yellow fatali, serrano...
Hi everyone,so,this will be my verey first attempt to start a glog,I live on a farm in SA in the Western Cape.
I AM still attending school (9th grade) and I will try my very best.
I just want to thank Lourens (PeriPeri)
And Conor (Saugapapper) for the fantastic seeds,you guys are awesome!
I will grow:
PeriPeri : mozambique
Habanero Orange
Peach Habanero
Jalapeno
7pot red
7pot brainstrain yellow
Yellow Fattali
Choc habanero
Billy Boy Douglah
Butch T Scorpion
The rest I can't remember,will send the full list tomorrow
I am in exam stage in school so things will be hectic,anyways,wish me luck,thanks.
As the title implies, I got off the line a bit slow. Owing to this, only having one seed tray, and no knowledge of my seeds viability/age (given by very generous users here, I thank ye) I took a shotgun approach and planted all seeds of a variety per cell. It worked out well as some varieties haven't hit 10% germination (yet). This'll likely be pilot error as I've never planted anything from seed except grass (of the lawn variety)!
The tray, uncovered:
My chicken scratch chart:
Unintended consequence of shotgun technique. Peruvian purples that were literally heaving the soil into the air as they all emerged at once. I had to push them back down multiple times. Still ended up with some helmet heads and a crowded mess:
Habanero in...
well, it's another year, and I promise this year to add weekly updates until the end of the season. I drifted off mid-summer last year and never showed any finished pods, plants, sauces, powders or anything! So, , , I started my super hots this afternoon after shoveling 4 inches of snow off my driveway. No overwinters this year, just seeds. I planted 15 White Ghost, 10 7 Pod Congo, and 5 each of the following: 7 Pod Orange, Large Yellow, White, Yellow Brain Strain, 5 Butch T's, and 5 Large Bell Peppers (as an experiment). All my seeds came from pepperlover.com. Started in peat pots, inside, with a heat mat and 7 inch humidity dome. Here's ground zero:
this season iv been way to slack to do a consistent Glog, so this year its just going to be bits and pieces.
to start with some pics from 20/3/14
more after a bump
I live in AZ and I feel like it seriously stunted the growth of my plants. They got 1' at most and was very lanky. It barely produced any fruit and fell over when it did. The method I'm going to use now should help A LOT. All I did before was put them in a raised bed with potting soil and used Miracle Gro pellets. Now I'm using a soil mix of: 1 part potting soil, 1 park peat moss, and half a part of vermiculite. I'm going to be using a fertilizer consisting of 1 part urea, 1 part pot ash, and two parts bone meal. I mix 1 teaspoon per gallon of water.
I'm also going to be growing in pots now. My main concern now is the heat. How do you guys do with the heat?
Yeeee freaking haaaa! It's that time of year can you believe it? I'll try to do a better job keeping the glog updated but don't hate me if I don't please!
Going to cut back on types and just grow a few this year. Absolutely fell in love with the Trinidad Scorpion Morouga from CPI last season so that will be my main grow. Got a few Sepia Serpents from SS that I'm intrigued by so a few of them. Had poor success with the Carolina Reaper last year so I'm going to give them another shot this season. Some 7 Pot Brain Strains and some 7 Pot Primo's will round things out. I imagine I'll be adding a few here and there as I can't never be happy with things at the beginning.
Best of luck to all of you and I hope you all have a wonderful...
*Information about added varieties on page 3*
Hey everyone! Long time lurker here... been using this site as an incredible resource for my everlasting search for face-melting heat. Decided to finally put all the knowledge I've gained to use, and grow my first super-hots!
This year was my first ever outdoor garden (and things went great!) along with many typical garden veggies, I grew some Thai chili's and orange habanero's. It's so awesome seeing all your hard work end up at the kitchen table. That being said... I've got growing fever now! Our outdoor season here in Idaho ends in Sept. - Oct. if you're lucky, and doesn't start back up until April-May'ish. That leaves me all winter with nothing to grow. So I decided to move things...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MWvvjWlh9KpWyVoskLMJBIz2fpVKCGijGHi42lEJeXg/edit?usp=sharing
Sorry for the link, but it's way easier than making all the formatting and picture edits for it to make sense.
I found this guy buried deep and brought it up. It's much longer than when I put it in, but it's cotyledons are yellow and look wrinkly. Is there any chance for salvation? I'm only growing about four plants this year (if the last one sprouts), so it's kind of a big deal. Thank you so much!http://i.imgur.com/bwIOqYc.jpg
This is my second year attempting to growing peppers.
Last year, battling the usual mix of poor UK weather, less than perfect attendance/care and limited space gave me enough peppers to keep me going but not the success I was expecting. However now I have a bit of experience, I have high hopes for this year.
In terms of selection, while I love some of the really hot peppers, I really can't get through many of them (I do not intend on scortching myself to look hard) so I thought I'd go for some of the milder exotic varieties that I can literally eat off the bush. Most of friends won't go near the hotter varieties, so I want to grow mainly the more accessable kinds.
With that said, upon ordering a pack of Cheiro Roxa from refining...
I think it would be easier controlled if I just kept them by a window sill, but I don't want them to be lanky. How do they do near a window with a lot of sun?
Decided to create a new glog instead of adding onto the one from last year.
Started my seed germination and setup my lights over the weekend.
Grow list for this year
Yellow Scorpion
Fatalli
CRH
?? - It is a cross between a CRH and a Ghost ( I think ) Very large pods, lotsa flavor and heat
MoA
JaHab
Thai Fire
Thai Carigated
Jalapeno
Biker Billy
Barakapore
Choco Hab
Ghost
MadBallz
There are 2 more on the list but dont have the list here at work. Started about 10 seeds of each. Last year I had about 55 plants and ran out of room to plant them. If I get the germination rate I had last year (about 95-98%) I will be selling some plants LOL.
Heres to a great growing season to all.
Oh BTW- Sorry to be MIA the last few mths. Started a...
After a short season here in Toronto I can safely say I have learned a whole lot this season about growing a subtropical plant in Canada. With our shorter growing season I noticed a lot of my super hot varieties, Carolina Reaper, Naga Viper etc. did not have time to fully mature. I started germination for 2013 on Jan 27th. I also learned the hard way about hardening off my plants. I threw them out from my nice comfy downtown condo, under their ever so fancy 5 cfl ott light to the harsh winds and cold of Lake Wilcox in Richmond Hill, to discover they sun burnt and struggled to recover *all survived (somehow.) This year was definitely harsh compared to 2012. My tomatoes, zucchini and peppers were no where near the size this year compared...
Thought I would start my first glog. 2nd year with peppers, this time I'm ready to share and hopefully get some constructive criticism along the way.
I have 4 strains, all procured from fatalii.net. Varities are Aji Fantasy, Cherio Roxa, Bolivian Rainbow and Naga Morich. I ordered a bunch more but I thought this would be a fun mix, started 16 seeds, with 2 in each bolivian with the plans to bonchi them later on. 4 were started with Jiffy pucks the rest with Rockwool.
I think I will start with Jiffy from now on, they need less nutrients at the start to get a good root system and I am going for minimal nutes. All organic when I do use them and so far it's only bone meal.
I've got a 2x2x4 Secret Jardin DS60, 200W, 6400K CFL under a 18"...
First I would like to thank cone9 for providing my first ever seeds!
I planted:
Chocolate Hab
Choclate Naga Morich
Trinidad Scorpian
Brain Strain
Reaper
Ghost Pepper
March 1 2014
I started the seeds soaked in paper towels for 24hr, and then put them in paper cups with seedling mix, this whole thing went in a bx covered in plastic. I placed them in a sunny room during the day, and on my heating vent for the night.
March 25 2014
Everything except the ghost peppers hatched sprouted last week, and I keep them in a sunny room all day and under a normal CFL lamp for 4 more hours in the night. Here are some pics of my ghetto setup! Suggestions would be appreciated as this is my first grow!
So here next to the mighty Niagara Falls, most talk of the power of the falls and the energy it produces. My family, friends and neighbors speak of the nuclear pods I produce in my backyard!
This will be my 3rd year growing but more so 2nd devoted to mainly peppers. Last year was a pretty solid year. Thanks to many kind chiliheads and of course Judy, the varities have grown? Its like an obsession. More more more
This years grow consists of the following:
Brazilian ghost
Red bhut jolokia
Peach bhut jolokia
White bhut jolokia
Chocolate bhut jolokia
Naga morich
Moruga brown
Moruga scorpion
Carolina reaper
Fatali
Fatali red
Datil
Red congo
Yellow congo
Brown congo
Orange congo
7 pot primo
7 pot jonah
MOA scotch bonnet
Brown scotch...
I've just started growing for the first time this year.....
I'm currently in possession of a few seedlings and a few plastic tubs with seeds germinating.
I was also given a big headstart, when I was given a small selection of mature plants by a friend of the family. They were a bit tatty - but I'm working on that.
I was given these. I'm currently trying to identify these, with help on my other post here.... but they seem to be pointing to Birds Eyes and Hot Wax or Banana.
Anaheim, Costeno Amarillo and Tam Jalapeno. Started Feb 2013
Peter Pepper and Anaheim. Started 2013
Cheyenne. Purchased 4x seedlings Feb 2013. Re-potted Mar 2013
I'm hoping to record an inventory of what I have soon, and what success in germination there...
Varieties that are already sowed and ready to go.
cap 215
cap 220
cap 469
cap 499
cap 501
cap 1153
cap 1445
cap 1446
cap 1530
CGN 17020
CGN 19198
CGN 20800
CGN 22869
CGN 24360
CGN 22792
PI 260426
PI 293349
PI 441654
PI 441656
PI 446909446909
PI 594141
PI 633751
PI 639682
Grid 15020
capsicum buforum
capsicum exile
capsicum flexuosum
capsicum galapagoense
capsicum lanceolatum
capsicum parvifolium
capsicum tovarii
Bradley's Bahamian
Chilli Penguin
Peruvian Wild
Sonoran Chiltepin
More to come on the next few weeks. :-)
Coming from 2012
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/27752-justaguys-2012-garden-season/page__st__300
Ok life has stabilized and I am finally getting this going.
Back on January 23rd I cleared the back 200
Then checked on the germ tray I had set up.
2 days ago I was going to drop seed in soil, but noticed a fuzzy mold on the soil. It was left over soil from last year. Never used but in it's bag apparently whatever started growing. I deftly removed 3 inches from the bag before getting the tray ready, however that didn't do the trick. I dumped it all and reloaded then let it get back up to temp.
Today I finally dropped seed and it felt so good. :silenced:
And instead of typing up a list I decided to go the easy route.
Now the...
I got 25 pounds of commercially grown Datil Peppers last summer and saved off a bunch of seeds.
Like my grandmother used to do, I started them off in egg cartons with organic soil from a local vendor who specializes in Native Florida Plants here in Sarasota.
Here's the first sprouting - this was about 8 days into the process.
My high tech grow box.
Hi all. I have yet, since 2010, to complete a season without interruption. It looks like I am going to be sticking around my current location for the next 3-5 years. With that, I've requested a community garden plot. If things go as planned I will also have a decent yard to develop a garden.
No pics with the first post but I have made a start on germination and have a few seedlings with true leaves.
So far I have a few NUMEX varieties that have germinated: Espanola Improved, Big Jim Heritage, and Vaquero
From Tradewindfruit: 7pot Y, Fatalii, Padron (Tapas.. soon), and Mazano Orange (this guy has not popped)
Before I ran out of yogurt cups I managed to sow (from Midwest Chile): Scotch Bonnet MOA
I went a little crazy with...
Yeah I'm starting one...
No Idea where to start, so much pressure, so, mightaswell start with a funny photo, I like this...
Anything to encourage them to stick around! :)
Growing this year - a long list, will take me a long while to complete:
The reliable ones:
Super Chilli - my fav in the world, easy, prolific, floral and HOT.
Apache - another goodun' from last year
Cherry bomb - did me proud last year
The HOT ones:
Bhut
Naga morich
Fatalii
The experimental ones:
Hot Lemon
Some self pollinated super chilli from last year (it's an F1 I think? So should be interesting)
Peter red, yellow and orange
Tokyo hot
Naga "fire flame" (not convinced that's actually a thing..)
Monkey face!
Aji Yellow
The others...:
Thai...
I'd like to share a few pics of my 2014 progress up here in cold Connecticut.
Reaper plants:
New Seedlings: 7 pot douglah, 7 pot yellows, Assam Jolokia, Brainstrains
2014 Seedlings off to an early start. February 15, 2014.
I never grew from seed before but have grown peppers for years. Never made or kept a log before either so i figure why not. Ive been I taking pics and prolly should have started this weeks ago but here's my progress so far.
So first the seed...
Took the seeds from these pods here
I believe this is everything I've planted.
Fatalii
Bhut indian carbon
Orange Trinidad Scorpion
Yellow Trinidad scorpion
Chocolate Trinidad scorpion
Red brain strain
Peach bhut
Naga morich
Red savannah
7pot primo
7pot savanna h
Infinity
trinidad morauga scorpian
7pot douglah
Antiliis fire
Lemon drop
7pot congo s.r.
7pot chaguanas
White devils tongue
7pot jonah
7pot douglah x scorp f4
Red scorpanero
Chocolate scorpanero
Peach scorpanero
Butch t scorpian...
Thought id try and keep a glog.
Im a noob to growing anything and im just juming in the deep end.
I started a few plant back in Oct2013 which are doing well.
Scotch bonnet
jalapeno
serrano
choch Hab
Orange Hab
Trin Scorpion
Choc Ghost
All of the above in red i bought from the bay and i hope turn out to be what they are ment to be.
The other 3 i got from pods and grew from seeds.
Im going to keep this glog on some seeds i purchased from http://www.chileseeds.co.uk/hot_chili_pepper_seed.htm
They have a massive collection of seeds and to look through.
I finally settled on ....
lemon habanero
seven pod/seven pot (these were free)
Sweet Choc
purple...
A very late start for a glog! Better late than never, I guess. We are overwhelmed with pods. Here are my current top 3 chinense favourites, photos taken late this afternoon:
At number 3 - chocolate bhuts
Yellow Jonahs at number 2:
Bahamian Goats at number 1:
Most photogenic annuum:
After reading through most of the GLOGS this year, I decided to start one of my own. This will be my 4th season growing super hots, and every year the # of plants seems to rise. Last year I had around 40 plants of 25 or so varieties. This season I am looking at closer to 80 plants of 40 varieties.
Seeing as how I am in Canada, I have to get an early jump on the season. I started my first batch of seeds in early January, second batch in early February, and the third and final this past weekend. My plant out isn't until mid to late May, and once spring rolls in I will be building some new raised beds to accommodate everyone.
2014 Grow List
Scorpion Sunrise
Scorpion Moruga Red
Scorpion Moruga Yellow
Scorpion Moruga Brown
Scorpion...
Hello people, this is fern.
Ill be starting with
Moruga blend, 7 pod , Trinidad cardi , early jalapeño , giant jalapeño , red and yellow fatalii , habanero big sun , jimmy nardello , bishops crown , datil(i guess ), aji limon all of which i got from pepperlover
Some varieties which i received from bondgirl are adjuma , pretty purple and satan's kiss.
From filmost are bhut jolokia and giant rocoto.
Ill be posting a monthly update and twice if possible.
The ones that sprouted as of now are moruga blend and early jalapeno.
Hi guys,
Another Aussie here over in crappy Canberra. Thought I'd join in on the glogs and see how it goes.
So, after growing peppers for the first time last year from seedlings acquired from a local nursery, I decided to give it a shot growing from seed.
I think I got off to a late start for this season, but I really had no Idea until I found this forum a couple of weeks ago.
That's okay, lessons learned and all that jazz.
My seeds were sown on the 9th of September, except for the Birds Eye's (I'm yet to find out exactly what they are as I got the seeds from some pods on an old plant that was in the garden of my new house), they were sown on the 29th of September.
They were put into a propogator without a heat mat. They had...
I'm off to a great start this year!! I made a tiny little green house and all of my seeds have already sprouted and
I still have 3 plants from last year that I was finally able to successfully winter (1-Hot Paper Lantern and 2-Frenos)
A Pyrex Bowl on a dinner plate with a 'Lava Lamp' light bulb and a armature lamp
Hello All,
I have been patrolling the forums for best practices and developing an interest in all the varieties of habs and bhuts and other beauties that are out there. As it is my first time trying my hand at growing, and I'm starting things out on seeds I found around town at local nurseries.. and some bishops crown seeds a friend brought back from Germany. I'd love to try my hand at the wide variety of wonderful super hots I've seen around the forum and I figure i'd get a handle on growing before I look into sourcing seeds from around here!
My Starts, 6 each
Orange Habanero
Big Thai Hybrid
Bishops Crown
Spicy Thai Hybrid
Anaheim
Hungarian Yellow Wax
Jalapenos
Pepperchinis
Bells
Mat
Lights, Timer
Thermostat
Tiles
Seed starter...
This will be my first grow from seeds. I live in Alaska and it’s -1 outside right now. More importantly, we only have about 6 hours of sunlight right now and the sun we do have is so low in the sky it looks like sunset! I’m going to grow indoors and attempt to bring the plants to fruit all inside…
My grow setup: I have a 6 tube T5 4’ fixture that has 6500K bulbs that will put out 30,000 lumens. I also have a 2’x4’x84” grow tent set up. I have a thermometer inside the tent and without the lights on, it's hovering around 73 degrees. I have a 50 pod root shooter in a seedling tray with a plastic dome with a heating pad.
My grow list: I’m going to start out by only growing two peppers for now given the size of my tent. I’ll...
I've never grown peppers before. I've always been fascinated with hot things though, so finally I ordered some seeds off the internet. I'm going to attempt to grow:
- Carolina Reaper
- Chocolate Trinidad Moruga
- Habanero
I like to make things hard on myself so I'm not going to use sterile starting mix or much fertilizer. Natural growing conditions only :)
That being said I would like some advice. I've got a lot of questions.
- How much sun do the seedlings need starting out? It is already pretty warm here in NC(It will be over 65 for the next 5 days and it is colder then normal this year) and I don't have any really sunny windows, no south facing ones on my house. Should I stick them outside in semi-shade for a part of the...
this is the first time making a garden in our house we bought last year. i have a total of 4 raised beds 1 for all peppers.
last weekend i tilled and leveled the ground, i also put in the first 3 beds. this weekend i bought more bricks and made the pepper patch out in the big backyard.
heres where im a so far. im putting good soil in the beds monday, the commercial nursurey that sells good dirt is closed weekends.
Heres the vegetable gardens. the little one in the corner is my 4 year olds. she's got it all planned out what she wants in there.
here is the bed i'll plant peppers in. its almost 10ft long. im thinking 6 plants???
i'll post photos after i get some dirt in there too. i'll probably start my seed...
Well here we go again! Those that saw my grow last year know that I was plagued by virus issues and many other problems, but I was still able to pull off the most amazing grow of my life. By season's end every plant was infected. Some keeled over, but others just kept right on trucking. I learned a ton, and hope to use it to pull off a season without that virus making a repeat appearance. It will be tough. I had huge numbers of pods, and many hit the ground and rotted, so there are sure to be some infected volunteers that show up. My grow this year will be MUCH smaller and focused on the varieties I liked best along with a couple new ones I really wanna try out.
First a couple of my money shots from last year...
I plan to use a...
Im helping my buddy Jon aka megahot out and growing some plants for him and wanted to start a glog which i will update atleast once a week. These popped up on 10-24 and are in coco at the moment being watered with Liquid Karma. I am growing Bubblegum7,Borg9,Yellow Infinaga F5,Yellow Billy Boy Douglah,Barrackpore Monster,Burmese Naga and Chocolate Trinidad Scorpion Moruga. Here is a pic of the little ones that have popped so far.
Here are a few of their room mates the big ones on the right are Butch T Chocolate Habanero Bhut Jolokia and Dorset Naga. The ones in the white grow bags are Carolina Reaper,Primo,Madballz and Infinity. Then there are Savanna7,more Primos Madballz Infinity Reapers and some 7 SR x 7 Douglahs. Most of these...
started my 2014 grow log so far started the following
Allen m boatman true jamacian scotch bonnet
Jays red scorpion
Jays peach scorpion
Bhut jolokia rust
Trinidad sunrise x choc scorp
Yellow daisy cutter
Moruga x primo
Yellow naga
Carolina reaper
Jigsaw
Habanero Vietnam
Brown moruga
7 pot lava
Madballz choc
Yellow butch t
Bengal naga
Defcon 7
(choc bhut x 7 pot yellow) x Jonah
Madbalz 7
Moruga satan
Purple hab
Turbo pube
Fidalgo
Yellow billy boy douglah
Scorpion gui
Choc scorpion
Bahamian goat
Choc scorpion x butch t
7 pot sr
Scotch bonnet moa
Habanaga
Choc moruga
Choc scorp x barrakpore
Carolina reaper x naga morich
Yaki blue
Scorpion vv7
Tovarii
Bedfordshire super naga
Choc fatali
Sunrise scorpion
Choc bhut x yellow bhut
Nebru 7...