Greetings, all! I'm sure there are a ton of new faces here on THP, as par for the course when I don't make many appearances for extended periods of time! Anyway, I wanted to get the foot back in the door with my 2013 Glog! I took a short break headed through the late autumn into the winter now, but a chilehead's work is never done once truly dedicated!
I've been piecing together my supplies for awhile now, and reinvested in some new Mylar emergency blankets to hang up in the corner of my laundry room, just like I did last year. This year, however, I have been using sticky Velcro strips to the walls and blankets for easy removal and reapplcation in years to come. So far, it's been wonderful.
I also recently went browsing on Amazon for...
Glogs
Start a Grow Log for your growing season.
A lot of nice people have sent me things last year and I have had no time to post anything since I've spent the past couple months writing my thesis!
So here is the long overdue start to a glog, mainly as thanks to the people who have sent me seeds, to show them I'm actually using them.
Unfortunately no early pictures, but here's where I'm at now.
Peppers along the side already in the ground are mainly cherry peppers from RedTailForester.
Some closer to the fence are various bell peppers.
Anyways, onto the youngest...
Top row from left to right; brain strain (romy6), chocolate T. scorp (RedTail Forester), sunrise scorpion, wild chiltepin (RedTail Forester), 2 more sunrise scorpion
Bottom row from left to right...
Hi pepperlovers... :welcome:
Inspired by all your growlogs I decided to start one my self... I have only started my second season and this is the first attempt to grow hydroponics... I have read alot and think that I am well suited to start, but I don't expect it to not cause any trouble...
I bought a WaterFarm and drilled larger and more holes into the topbucket and throw an airstone into the reservoir... I read somewhere that it could improve the system a little... Beside that I throw together some parts and got myself a bubblerbucket...
I bought the 3 part nutrients from General Hydroponics (Flora), PH-down and a PH-testkit as well... I have an EC-meter on the way home from somewhere in asia...
Untill I get the EC-meter I have to...
Started a Testbatch of 84 in december because I changed a lot of parameters of my grow setup.
Tried using some cheap LED panels but they did not fit for me
So almost all of the things worked out and now I have allready 79 pubescens Plants that I will keep.
Yesterday I started the regular ones
I put 2 Seeds from 148 C.pubescens Varieties
From a Cross called Rocoto 3H from a friend I put 7 Seeds to germate after I allready had that one in the Testbatch and got 4 Plants I am trying to get 10 so I can compare how stable they are
From 6 Varieites I put 9 Seeds each to germate.
The first one is a variety a freind got in 2011 in Peru that is suppose to be the biggest Rocoto ever Problem is that I did not get one Seed to germate...
Well. I haven't posted much on this forum. I am new to gardening this year. My wife has been gardening for years and with a 2 year old at the house it can be a fun hobby for the whole fam. We do all natural gardening and eating and are trying to get back into the blog thing. Wife was doing great about it for a while and then the kiddo got mobile!
So is it kosher to post my url since I am basically doing a growlog on my wife's website? www.revivingrealfoods.com.
I am learning as I go, so I really would appreciate any help. I am in Fort Worth, TX if that matters to anyone.
I grew my first peppers last year, and this year was my first attempt to seed. Learned a lot in a short amount of time, but I definitely could use some pointers...
Back Story
This is my second year growing any peppers. Last year I got a late start and was only able to grow jalapenos, and habanero, this was also partially due to me only knowing about a few pepper types also.
Last summer I found this forum and learned a great deal about peppers. I started collecting seeds, some from donations from members of the forum and purchasing them myself in preperation for my 2013 grow.
At the beginning of December I started many plants, and they were doing great, I had the seedlings in solo cups and placed under a cheap $10 grow light from walmart. In the beginning of January I went on vacation for a week. I watered the plants and left the light on them. Upon arriving back home I discovered something evil...
Hi all! Although i've been into hot sauces / chillies for a long time, a Google regarding "growing chillies in Australia" led me to this site......and onto amazing people here in Australia, who have inspired me to grow my own!
There's not a lot to report as of yet, but here's my story so far! Please feel free to give advice to a newbie, as i really want this human vs chilli relationship to work out!
The story so far....
Pre-soaking my chilli seeds. I have 14 or more varieties to sow: From top left to bottom right....
Habanero Chocolate
Scotch Bonnet TFM
Bhut Jolokia
Macedonian
Pimenta da Neyde
Magnum Habanero
7 Pod Jonah
Habanero White Giant
Hot Fish
Cili Goronong
7 Pod Red crossed Yellow
Manzano
Fatalii
Habanero White JellyBean...
Hey! Im jumping in feet first to Hydroponic (DWC), Aeroponic, and Hydroponic Coco! I want to see the difference between all 3 so here we go!
Aeroponic set up:
inside:
DWC and Coco Setup (HTGSupply Bubbleboy single-shot on left Coco on right Greenhouse in middle)
In the green house/seed starter tray i have 2 douglah, 4 Brainstrain, 1 Jonah, 1 Chocolate scorpion, 2 Reaper, 1 fatalii yellow.
Hello all.
I think I have finally gathered up enough content to start my first glog up. So here we are.
Location: Florida (South)
Zone: 10A
I'll start by posting three different mini sections:
1) Seeds and sprouts.
2) Potted up, planted, and seedlings.
3) Inventory (soil, fertilizers, ect.)
Seeds and sprouts.
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I chose to use Hell Hot Peppers (http://hellhotpeppers.com/) for most of the seeds because I liked the selection they had.
The seeds were priced well and they shipped very fast.
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Here they are listed:
Purple Jalapeno
Numex Twilight...
Hello!
I'm going to be breeding some peppers this year and I'll be documenting it all with some videos.
I'm going to cross the Chervena Chushka pepper with Jalapeños, and see what I can get!
Anyway, here's my first video. The pepper seedlings are shown at the end, the first minute or so is just showing you my setup.
Forming the hilled rows and installing the drip tubing.
Black plastic mulch and drip line installed.
Drip lines connected to header/valve assembly.
Plants hardened and ready for transplant to the garden.
A closer shot.
Another view.
I hope to get about 140 of these transplanted this evening.
Hey, this is my first glog so don't expect to much. Last year was my first year growing anything, and I had over 30 pepper plants. I just got back home from my first year of college so I haven't had time to grow anything from seed. I wanted a couple plants so I went down to my local nursery and picked some up.
I was surprised at the variety that they had and it was hard not to buy a ton of plants.
Plants (so far)
cappuccino bhut jolokia
yellow 7 pot
chocolate scorpion
birds eye
cajun belle
I also have a jamaican hot chocolate that has been in an aerogarden since september. The thing is massive and I'm considering trying to plant it outside.
Just added pictures to my original post.
I am having problems with germination of the Capsicum Galapagoense. Seed cap stems are getting very thin????? What is causing this?? Please help!!! Pictures are 3 different germinations.
Hello Everyone, Somehow I managed to delete my 1st set of pics but have more on my update further down on this grow log. Thanks for bearing with me as I learn.
I just purchased a camera and I'm still learning how to use it and how to upload. So pardon me if I have trouble uploading pics.
I'm trying to grow 14 types of peppers this year and they are as follows:
Chocolate Douglah, Red Brain, Yellow Brain, Thai Sunrise, TS Moruga, Datil, SB7J,
Wht Habanero, Pimenta De Neyda, Hot Lemon, Naga Viper, Goat, Butch T, Bonda ma Jacque
I have had 7 pop sprouts. Actually had 8 but I manage to kill off the Datil (new seeds started) and possibly a Hot Lemon & Wht Hab. Per Patrick's advice I have doubled and...
Well I decided to start new now that I cut everything now and will clean up the greenhouse for the new season this weekend.
Now for the List
This what they look likesince I started them earlier
That is it for now on my list hopefully, but there is a chance it will expand :banghead:
Ok,
I am very late starting this glog, but it seemed like a great way to show what I am doing and get feedback from all you amazing growers. Also, given my less than spectacular memory, I may need these notes in 2014. Just sayin...
History:
This is only my second grow; I had a very late start and a tough grow in 2011. I did get a ton of Manzanos which kept me in hot sauce and pepper jelly for all of last year.
I got a slightly late start sowing seeds this year; I sowed 3/1, 3/15, and 4/5. Overall this went much better than in 2011. After things started working out, I got kind of addicted and decided to add some additional variety by buying a ~20 additional plants. At the moment, I have 82 peppers in the ground and 89 in 3.5"...
OK, I hope this is intresting to someone. My 1st attempt to share a season. I have not got the whole list done and I have just starting sowing this week. I have layed out about 300 seeds so far. Maybe another 300 today. At 4-5 days into it, I have a good number of sprouts. 3 types of wilds, some C. chinense, a Rocoto or two, and something else. I will get some pics together to show the grow spaces etc in the next day or so.
Capsicum galapagoense
Getting the 1st batch ready.
Part of last years patch not quite half way thru the year.
I had paths, but everthing overgrew. Hopefully better planning this year.
Rocotos
Pics from 2012
One of my contest giveaways. More coming, I hope.
You get the idea. Its a problem I have. lol
Ello all, time to start 2012/2013 Glog, well actually its quite over due.
For this season i built my self a germination cupboard. and it looks something like this.
as you can see its just an el cheapo flat pack cupboard that i bought 2nd hand, it then has 4 batten holders per shelf.
not all the batten holders have globes in them atm, i have left some empty to regulate the temperature.
As this is the first version of this cupboard it is pretty simple, the heat from the globes keeps the top 3 compartments about 16 degrees C above the room temperature in my shed (shed temp is same as outside), the daytime temp here for the last couple of months has been about 12 degrees C. so 16c + 12c = 28c. so for the daytime it usually sits about...
Hey everyone,
This is the first time Im really making an attempt at growing peppers outdoors. I have grown some super hots and some others indoors under HID's with decent results but I want to start doing it annually outdoors and overwintering them inside. Ive had an indoor garden for years now..... and recycled my soil for quite some time.. usually it consists of 1/3 ewc's from my worm bin, 1/3 perilite, and 1/3 recycled promix ammended with tomato tone. Its worked fantastically for my indoor garden.. but now Im really getting caught by the pepper bug and want to focus on these guys.
Currently I have 3 trinidad scorpion moruga blend, 1 douglah, a volcano pepper (a hungarian wax type), and another plant that is either another TSMB, a...
Hi guys,
this is my 3rd chili season and I would like to share some pictures of it with you.
I dont use high tech equipment and stuff... all I use is quality soil , daylight lamps and fertilizer. My growing conditions may sound or look a little bit poor but the result is not bad. My plants are healthy and extremely sexy :)
What soil am I using? Bio Bizz All mix
What lights am I using? 6500 K , 12h per day
What fertilizer am I using? Hakaphos blue
List of plants:
- Blue Mystery 1 plant
- Morouga Scorpion red 1 plant
- Morouga Scorpion yellow 1 plant
- 7 Pot Primo yellow 1 plant
- 7 Pot large yellow (somehow ) 3 plants
- 7 Pot Infinity 1 plant
- 7 Pot Brainstrain yellow 1 plant
- Trinidad Scorpion chocolate 1 plant
- Scotch Bonnet...
Hey guys this is my first year growing super hot peppers. I live in Northern California and I decided to start a video blog to see how these plants grow. I'm very new so if you have suggestions I'm all ears! I plan on doing an update video about once a week ( maybe every two weeks if nothing exciting is going on with them) I got my plants from cross country nursuries. I did not grow them from seeds ( although now I wish I had lol) any way enjoy guys!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcjgxPSxmPI
I'm growing a few from seed:
red savina habanero
thai birds eye
purira
NuMex twilight
I bought a few plants:
2 peach ghost scorpion
2 giant white habanero
2 chocolate scotch bonnet
they've yet to be shipped, but the seeds I sowed on the 15th are starting to sprout, I just planted them outside since it's normally between 80 - 90 F they seem to be doing well
Decided to put my GLog here a bit late and make a heavy first post and then keep going at a more normal pace.
This is my third season growing peppers (or anything really) and my first season growing anything but regular C. annuum supermarket varieties.
Original plan was to grow in containers in the backyard (renting our apartment, so no huge garden and can't make big flowerbeds in it) but as of last month we managed to get a lease on a plot of growing field where I will give growing in the ground a try. Since summers are quite short and might be cold here (southern part of Sweden) I'm planning on building a hoop house to cover the peppers.
Ordred all of my seeds except the Apache and the Bird's eye from Fataliiseeds.net last year in...
In the following thread over in the gardening instance of stack exchange there is a suggestion that a plant will pause fruiting during the period while the remaining segment between the node and the pod dies and falls off after plucking the fruit ...
http://gardening.sta...ucing/2081#2081
What do yo think?
I often pinch mine in he middle, and in a sense, I might be pinching the cross-section such that it doesn't lose hydration as quickly and essentially holding back my fruiting process ...
Now I'm considering using my little fiskars and snipping them more tightly ...
Interesting ...
Hello THP,
This is my first time growing superhots and i decided to grow a FEW. The potting mix im using is equal parts organic potting soil , promix BX, Worm casing , alaskan humus.. all outdoors, very jealous after seeing the results of indoors. I have around 40 plants and 50 more in my germ box, Pretty much 2 of each listed. Any tips would be appreciated!!
Here is my current list of what i have atm.
Carolina Reaper
Jays Ghost Scorpion (Red)
Jays Ghost Scorpion (Peach)
Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Blend (Red)
Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Blend (Yellow)
Trinidad Scorpion Butch T
Trinidad Sunrise Scorpion
7 Pot Primo (Red)
7 Pot Primo (Orange)
7 Pot Barrackpore
7 Pot Jonah
7 Pot Yellow
7 Pot Douglah
7 Pot Savannah (Long)
7 Pot...
The new babies are up. As soon as I figure out how to use my phone I will post pictures and a complete list.
Happy growing!!
I am going to give it a shot and start a glog and post some photos.
I started my 2013 season on 17 Feb 2013. I planted then what I had available and added more peppers as I got the seeds. Next year I am hoping I run a little logical in planting times.
Anaheim (Lake Valley)
Jalapeno (Livingston Seeds)
Habanaro- Red (Lake Valley Organics)
Habanero- Red (Burpee) Habanero mix
Habanero- Yellow (Burpee) Habanero mix
Habanero- Orange (Botanical Interests)
Fatalii (Seed Savers)
NuMex Joe E Parker (Botanical Interests)
Poblano (Lake Valley)
Jamaican Red (Lake Valley) packet says they are a scotch bonnet
California Wonder (Burpee) Carnival mix
Diamond (Burpee) Carnival mix
Golden California Wonder (Burpee) Carnival mix
Orange Sun (Burpee)...
My little grow log:
First off I have very thick skin, so feel free to judge or offer any insults that would help this become a greater success. I am new... But I have been growing all sorts of veggies in my outdoor 20x13 garden for years with lots of good (and bad) results.
This year I plan on changing it up a little. Last year I grew lots of tomatoes, to many. Some purple or grey Heirlooms that tasted like shit, cherrys that I couldn't keep up with and they dropped and rotted, etc. So this year I will dedicate a fair amount of my garden to peppers. As well as my garden, I plan on container growing a bunch, and I am building an indoor grow room with a 600hps.
Today I received my first seed order. They were just a couple varieties I...
Hi out there! I thought i would try to make a glog this year!
I live in Denmark so i don't have the best climate for peppers compared to most of the people in here. Also i'm a student so i can't afford to buy lights, heatmats and so on. That's why i thought i would make a glog about growing chili pretty cheap without all the pro hightech gear.
I have little garden where i will try to grow my first outdoors chili. I have my windowsill where i can grow up to six small plants. And hopefully i can borrow a greenhouse from my parents in law again this year.
Since i don't have a heat mat i am trying to germinate my seeds in ziplock bags on the radiator. I have put far more seeds to germination than i have space for because i'm not sure...
Lets see how I get on this year....
By grow box (cant move to outside greenhouse until ~May
And my seedlings - planted 6th March (black tray) 14th March (green tray)
Mixture of chillies and tomatoes (+3 cucumbers 1)
I put 2 Thai Mound and 1 Thai Orange in the window at the end of last year. Been harvesting chiles all year. Thought that I would share a typical picture (harvest this amount approximately once per month) - enough to keep me going. A few of these stayed on the plant a bit too long - oh well. Not bad for Northern Illinois.
I decided to try my hand at growing peppers in the winter. I wanted also to try hydroponics. Just the basic DWC method. I picked up those supplies and a Quantum T5 Badboy. These are the Peppers I am going to try.
Fatali
Mustard Habanero
Purple Jalapeno
7 Pot/Pod
I had the Fatali and Mustard Hab seeds so I started them in Oasis cubes on 08/31/2012
The other two seeds came in on the 09/05/2012. So I threw them in the their cubes. I also tried germinating a couple Korean Gochu seeds. They germinate fast and will be a good test because I have never used Oasis cubes. So far they seem to be doing good.
Took a picture today of them just peaking their heads out the top of the cubes. The tallest one is the Gochu pepper. The shorter...
Well folks...here goes!
Our 2013 indoor grow is the first step for freedom for us. We are planning on using this years seed stocks for next years grow which will then be harvested resale puposes to help put us on the property ladder. It's not a get rich quick plan but more of a plan we believe in and are prepared to see it through to the end. We hope you can join us on this adventure and offer any advice where you can. We are all ears!
(I will include as many pictures as possibe that are relevant to the grow and a few that are in for giggles also) I love looking at pepper-porn of other peoples grow's, it is an excellent research method, so hopefully our pic's will inspire and help you all to get a better understanding of what we are...
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Hey THPers! This is my first time growing peppers, or actually anything at all. I've got the help of my dad (who has certified "wizard magic" by my girlfriend on growing things), and he's the one guiding me through it. I certainly expect to see suggestions and help for me along the way from everyone here who watches my thread.
First and foremost I would like to thank Durham Bull for sending me a very large order of seeds of many types. Unfortunately I will not be able to grow them all as I have many things going on right now and, honestly, I wouldn't have the time for all of them. Of the 20 or so types he sent me, I am growing 8 different varieties The rest are going to go to a good friend of mine at work and I'm sure he'll be glad to...
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last year my chillies didn't grow much. I had a bunch of varieties and they all started growing at the very end of the season, so i didn't have any real amount of ripe chillies.
This year i decided to do things a bit differently and with that in mind I sowed some of my seeds early (around 20th December 2012) And they're doing great!
The varieties I've sown in the first batch are:
Bhut Jolokia
Jalapeno
Sparkler
A few weeks later, I sowed two varieties from the dried chilli pods I had in a jar. They had almost 100% germination.
Big Thai (I think)
African Bird's Eye (Ithink
I later ordered a few extra seed from South Devon Chilli Farm and bought a few other varieties in stores, which i sowed a few days ago. These are:
Fatalii
Hot...
As I've mentioned before, I have decided it's time to post more, and become a more productive member of this community. Today (1/4/13) was the first day I've had enough time to do anything pepper related (other than eat them, of course!). So here goes:
First and foremost, a HUGE thanks to meinchoh for being kind enough to offer me some seeds. It is much appreciated! (Pics soon - They came out crappy and I'll have to retake them.)
To start off, I ended up poking holes in the bottoms of each cup and placing the holey cups in the normal cups. I got the idea somewhere off here to line the inside of a cardboard box with foil and I ordered a better light bulb so we'll see how that works.
The following seeds were sown, 2 per cup:
4 cups 7...
I've just put first batch of seeds to soak (chinensis, frutescens and pubescens) so I might as well start a growing thread why not. Hope it won't turn into a disaster like most of the years before and i'll get decent crops in the end ;) Long way to go.
Cheers!
Previous grows have been fairly small with little regard for pollination. This year I'm going to try to keep at least one of each plant isolated. I've got some friends that have volunteered to foster some plants. Several strains are repeated across vendors because I wanted to see how well they would grow out. Lots of scorpions!
I'll get more pictures up once more seeds are in the ground.
Updated! 1/28/13
This is my second year growing hot peppers, and my first for growing super hots. This year is going to be a massive step up from my previous year. Pot size is going from 3 gallon to 5, varieties are going from 11 to 31 and counting, and plant count is going from 30 to about 300. I might end up giving some of them away; I don’t know what my yard can support. All of last year’s plants were grown on the deck, but this year they are moving out onto the lawn.
I want to thank this great community for its wealth of knowledge and generosity that has helped me get to where I am.
This year’s tentative grow list:
Chinense
White Bullet Habanero
Tangerine Habanero
7 Pot Yellow
7 Pot Jonah
7 Pot Primo
7 Pot Douglah
Scorpion...