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...
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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...
Figured that since I'm pretty new at this, and as it's also the first time I'm starting peppers (or anything) from seed that I'd take a run a creating a grow log. Hopefully, this will capture a wildly successful season, or, more likely, will serve as a reminder to me of things I did this year that I should change or improve upon for next year. :)
Here are the seeds that I have sown thus far:
I have not yet received a couple more varieties that I'm going to start -- KS Lemon Starrburst, and Purple Thunder (from @PaulG.)
I'm starting all of these in my new to me IDOO 12 pod unit (mixed grow with some herbs and tomatoes thrown in......). Here is the state of my peppers thus far:
I've got one pod of Bubblegum that should hook...
I wasn't going to do a garden this year, because I'm trying to get this Yukon back on the road, but I couldn't resist, lol.
I have 4 bhuts and 4 jalapeños I picked up. Also some tomatoes and yellow squash, and a raised bed that I poked a bunch of bean seeds into. Want to get a couple pumpkins and some corn going too.
This is the beginning of my 2022 Pepper journey.
I grow my peppers in open fields in Alsace, France. In 2022 I will add a hoop house to my growing arsenal (3 by 6 meters)
2022 will be my 3rd season of starting my chillies from seed. The year 2021 has been rather mixed, mainly because of the weather which has been very rainy all summer, I hope it will be a little warmer in 2022, fingers crossed!
I'm trying to keep my list pretty short for 2022, and the first seeds are already in my aerogarden.
Already in the Aerogarden:
2 x Capsicum Flexuosum Failed
2 x Capsicum Tovarii Failed
2 x Capsicum Lanceolatum Failed
I got my wild chili seeds from fataliiseeds during a promotion he was doing to buy a tractor for his farm.
I'm not a fan of...
Hi! I'm Alex from Brazil!
Some old members might remember me... I make some seeds exchange here back in 2009.
Had about 40 pepper plants but after the end of the season they suffered from massive whiteflies attack and I lost mostly of them... frustrated I gave up on growing peppers plants but this year I decided to start again I bought seeds from TexasHotPepper, HRSeeds and MK hope this time to be successful.
Yeah my english is quite bad but I hope can understand each other!!! :oops:
For now my list is:
(C. chinense)
Puma
Habanada
Naga BBG7 Orange
Big Olive Mama
Big Mustard Mama (gift)
Jays X Purple
PDN X Bonda Ma Jacques (White)
BTR Scorpion
Jays Peach Ghost Scorpion
Bleeding Borg 9
Papa Joes Scotch Bonnet
KS Lemon Starrburst...
Tabasco, cali wonder bell, shishito, orange ghost, Carolina reaper, and jalapeño. Already pulled about 10 shishitos. And a coupla jalapeños. Looking like the shishito is going to be most prolific this year. 😔
And we're off and running...
I started these on February 4th. Without heat, things are progressing a little slowly. But I think I'm seeing something in every cell.
Here's my grow list for 2022, starting with my AeroGarden seedlings...
From Refining Fire Chiles:
(2) Piment d'Espelette
(2) Dieghito Jalapeno (An Italian Jalapeno-like pepper)
(2) Rayados Jalapeno
(2) Senise (Peperoni di Senise, supposedly comparable to Hatch chilies)
(2) Malawi Piquante (closely related to the PeppaDew)
From Pepper Guru for the 2022 GrowDown ThrowDown:
(3) Farm Locoto
From my own saved seeds:
(3) San Isidro Rocoto
(3) Orange V3 (Some kind of cross from a Volunteer I grew last year.)
(2) Volunteer 1.2 (no name yet, another Volunteer cross from...
PM 2022 Grow Log - 2021 GLOG
Well its 2 weeks to start date for us here. We wanted to share with you some of the new peppers we have growing.
A lot happened in 2021 that changed how we will approach 2021, but we will still be doing grow bags and added a plot for next years grow.
The list of peppers is ever updating as the last seeds roll on in.
Cheers THP, I will update this as we go!
For now a quick shot of what plants we have growing in the tent. This Ninfadora is just blowing me away with its foliage.
Jumping right to the garden. I started everything late this year. Getting good results in my containers.
Here is one section of containers. All of these plants were small plants coming out of the gate on May 15th. They are filling up nicely.
One of my Pink Biquinho's
Love the standard Yellow Biquinho's
Purple Reaper plant that I purchased from Cross Country Nurseries. The plant was topped early on, not purposely. Some animal ate the top of the plant off. It has recovered well.
I had bought seeds from Lawrence Family Farms for the Brown Bhut. These are looking a tad purplish.
More photos to come.
The Rolling Stones, Nissan Stadium, Nashville, Oct. 9, 2021. My 13th (and possibly final) Stones show.
My first peppers for this season are starting to emerge and get transplanted waiting for spring to come. I took a cutting of the Scotch Bonnet Marabella Market Caramel that I had success with last year and put it a one gallon fabric pot. I'll either transplant the whole thing or take another cutting later on when it's about 8 weeks out from planting outside. See this post here for last year.
The first transplants:
Scotch Bonnet HSH (see this post)
Chocolate Bhutlah CS (Bohica Pepper Hut)
MA Purple (Texas Hot Peppers)
More to come...
So, last year growing season was a blast for me. I hope this year it wont be much different. I ordered seeds from 2 different companies, one pacage arrived this week. First four in the list are now in the soil. I had to stop myself from ordering more seeds..Its just so addictive looking through all this stuff..
Seed list:
Chocolate Habaneros (seeds from last year)
Hungarian hot wax (gift seeds)
Bhutlah chocolate
Mulato isleno
Serrano del sol
Ring of fire
Brazilian starfish
Lemon drop
Carolina reaper
Brown Rocotto
Another year has begun. This year as the last season comes to an end. Tonight Jan2 is our first frost of winter. So as I'm thinking of the grow season ahead. I am also pulling my final harvest. Had a terrible 2021 season due to Hurricane Ida. But I learned a lot about preparing for such an event.
Still working on this year's list but do have several varieties that I will be germinating today.
Yellow rocoto
Big Chocolate Mama
7 pot primo
7 pot Douglah
Red Naga Brain
Red Bhut Jolokia
Chocolate Bhut Jolokia
Death Spiral
Mustard habanero with thick wall (pheno hunt for a friend)
Final harvest pic.
Only doing the CPR/Primo clones again this year,
plus some Ecuadoran Hot Lemon Cayenne plants from Burpee.
This year I will be doing all container plants after letting my garden fall under to the Bermuda grass. Maybe I will get in there and go all scorched earth but for now I will do what I can on my patio. Seed sowed Feb 11, as of yesterday all except one had germinated. Those were some 5 year old banana peppers I was trying to get rid of, not sure if they will germ., but no harm if not. I have plenty other spares to take it’s place.
The plan is to harden off in the next couple of weeks and have everything outside by mid March. Wish me luck!
Well...I am not planning on having much to write home about this year...been busy.
However I do have some seedlings Bonnets that Bou so kindly sent me and P.Dreadie from John S...thanks again friends for the seeds.
Jamaican SB Bou
Faria SB Bou
Mushroom SB Yellow Bou
P.Dreadie SB John Sawyer
Mariwiri
Wiriwiri
For wilds..Got another seedling Tovarii too and many of my fav wild C.Galapogeonse seedlings..
...my Cardenasii and OLDER Tovarii from CD are hanging in and my as is my C.Flexuosum ..will get some pixs in here soon.
No lanceolateum...just no luck helmet head &all...and that was a bummer :(
of course my signature Wiri's are in there...have some other OWs to add as the weather perks up...I just need to get in the groove.
Hi guys, some pictures of last harvest ( 2020), unfortnualy last year due to some reasons i haven´t grow nothing, but this year i´m back as you can see
Hello all,
I feel like this will be embarrasing but what the hell :).
Caysan flower, actually two from the first branching node.
My two oldest, Jalapenos in the ground and have been in a war with the slugs.
Another two Jalapenos in 300mm pots,
and another 4 in 175mm pots.
What's interesting is all six of these have two flowers and three branches at the first branching node.
Three Caysans, starting to flower, (you can ignore the other three they are "sweet peppers").
Then twelve little Cayennes growing up.
It occured to me this wasn't enough plants and although it's late I still planted some seeds.
Jalapeno.
Caysan.
Thai.
New arrivals.
I'm still getting nights as cold as 5C (41F), and days as hot as 30C (86F)...
Still a week away from starting the full seasons line up. Figured I’d thoroughly track my season here since I’m doing a couple growouts/comparative grows. This season is mostly going to be for sauce and powder since our freezer is full of frozen chiles still (stays stocked).
Main plants for this season will be:
Piri Piri (7 different sources)
Bangalore Whippets Tail
Numex Suave Orange
Jalapeño
Chocolate Douglah
MustardGum Nagabrain
Habanero El Remo
Saco de Velho
Have others picked out also but will update once I get everything picked out and starting in their trays. First set will be Jan 1st, second set around Jan 18-25.
More updates soon to follow! Happy growing!!
in the shade house
looking at greenhouse
few plants for the chickens to dig up
thanks for taking a look.
Okay so it's time to start the 2022 glog here at THP! Last year we started everything on January 1st and I think they were a little too big and root bound by the time May came around for plant out. Thinking that may of stunted the plants slightly so we are starting this year February 1st to see if that makes any difference. I'll include some pod porn and last year's plants cause we all know everyone on THP loves pictures.
The list for 2022 as of Jan. 20th 2022
1. K.S. Yellow Starburst
2. Dragons Breath
3. White Bubble Gum 7
4. Chocolate Bubble Gum 7
5. Star Scream
6. Gold Reaper
7. Peach Reaper
8. Red Reaper
9. Gold Reaper TX strain
10. Peach Reaper
11. White Reaper
12. Peach Ghost Jami
13. Blood Ghost TX strain
14. Red Ghost
15...
So, I got bored when my kid was sick.
Now I have a couple of plants coming and some hydrostuff. Kid did the planting part.
Started way too early, but I suspect that I will f* shit up atleast once, because I'm new to hydrophonics, going dwc.
Plan is to have 4 plants, 1 of each:
Sulu Adana
Papa dreadie g2 2018
Sugar Rush cream
Bahamian goat
Thanks to @Sawyer !!
hey all! never done one of these before. this is my third or fourth year growing, but i'm still an amateur. i grow in smallish raised planters (5-7.5 sq.ft. surface area) last year i had 3, this year added 2 more. i don't add anything to the plants apart from store-bought manure and some miracle-gro every week or two, i've never topped plants or even pinched flowers before.
so i am definitely welcoming to any advice or suggestions you guys have for me, and i thank you for checking out my posts.
so here we have my plants for this year (left to right in the pictures, assuming i succeed at attaching them). my mother-in-law germinates my seeds and raises the plants in infancy, since she is retired and has a modest greenhouse off her...
Let's get 2021 started!!!
My grow list is a blend of my yearly regulars, new peppers I want to explore, and unstable crosses. Like a lot of people, I can never seem to grow enough pepper plants to satisfy all my desires, so I have to make some decisions.
I have a lot of Annuums on my grow list this year. Even though they're not the hottest peppers, I always seem to find them useful.
2021 Grow List
Jax - A cross from 2020 between a Jamaican Yellow Mushroom and another unknown pepper
Bumpy Bottomed Sri Lankan Chili Red - A 2020 cross between a Sri Lankan Chili Red and another unknown pepper. It had a bumpy bottom compared to regular Sri Lankan Chili Reds, and was thicker-walled.
Jalapeño - One of my regulars.
Sri Lankan Chili...
New year new challenge. This is my first year growing from seeds. Many varieties im new too, so im willing to learn different growing ways.
My growing list so far:
From seed
-cap528
-orange scorpion
-bolivian rainbow
-moruga x cgn 21500
-dream catcher
-elephant
-mattapeño
-count dracula
-yellow fish
-golden reaper
-orange ghost
Overwintered plants
-jalapeños
-serranos
-scotch bonnets
-white habanero
-corno di toro orange
-carolina reapers
-7 pot
-habanada
-chile de arbol
Heres to a good grow season!!
I got a very late start on my first season growing chiles this year, so in lieu of processing ripe pods I’ve spent my energy dreaming about next year. I hope y’all’ll forgive me an early start on my glog for 2022.
This is pretty ambitious for what amounts to my first season seriously growing vegetables, but I do have a fair amount of other gardening experience. I also work from home (web development) and have a lot of moments between tasks or entire dead days when I can be gardening. Also, my partner will be growing those marked ‘K’. It’ll be a hustle, but we got this.
My specific goals for the year:
Experience growing a wide variety of species and cultivars to establish what grows well here and what is most useful in my kitchen...
My first year: http://thehotpepper.com/topic/70997-sivs-2019-first-time-glog/
My second year: http://thehotpepper.com/topic/73302-sivs-second-time-lucky-2020-glog/page-10
Planning is currently underway for year 3. I'll probably start seeds in February with a view to putting them out in March. My wife complained several times this year that I didn't grow enough peppers that she could use for cooking so this year I'm going to remedy that. I didn't grow any annuums last year so will be going for several this year. I'm not going to bother with pubes as they can't seem to take the Texas heat. I'm also not going to bother with baccatums this year either. I'm going to aim for 15-20 varieties allowing for 2-3 plants of each. I have way too...
Happy New Year!
With the new year comes a new Glog, hoping that 2021 is much better than 2020 (low bar, I know). I'm already pumped to get things going.
Here's what I'll be growing this year
5 Gal Kratkys
Fatalii - Always wanted to grow these. I've had germination issues in the past. Hopefully I'll get to finally grow one this year.
Antep Aci Dolma - I've read amazing things about this pepper. Looking forward to using it in the kitchen.
Carolina Reaper - The one and only. The king of sting. I just had to grow one of these.
Paquime Hybrid - These Jalapenos are gigantic. I see some Poppers in the future.
Yum-Yum Hybrid - Growing these for my wife. She wanted to try a different sweet pepper.
Habanero - A classic. I'm growing this...
And so it begins, another year of growing some peppers. This will be a sort of continuation of last year
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/73129-skullbikers-roaring-into-the-twenties-glog/page-1
as several of those plants are still going(and many got whacked and ended up on the burn pile).
Anyway, I have 3 trays of peppers sown and many have germinated already(mostly annums). I wanted to compare several different jalapeños for taste in real time. This tray is all jalapeños, ten types from 7 different vendors. The seeds in block 3 are from 2014.
Another tray with annums at each end and mostly rocotos in the middle(and they're taking their sweet time).