I bought a house last fall and my first thought was that I finally able have a garden with all the peppers I wasn't able to have before. My first and only prior tinkering with peppers was a couple years ago when I rented a house and was able to have about 8 pots with various varieties. This year I'm converting the back third of my backyard into a raised bed garden packed with peppers...and whatever other things the girlfriend decides.
I have a few pics of my preliminary work, I started my seeds in paper towels in a bag at the beginning of February and started transferring them to peat pots a week or so ago. My basement is a little chilly still, about a 60 deg ambient temp, but I had luck using a heat lamp wrapped in an emergency...
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Okay guys so this is my first post on this forum! Its the first time i grow chiles and i hope its gonna go well.
I live in Sweden so i think this will be fun to follow because i guess its kind of a different climate than in USA... I only have a balcony so i cant plant very much seeds.
I placed an order two days ago on some seeds. Heres what i ordered (the ones with "?" i would be happy if someone could tell me the scovilles of) :
Bird's Eye Baby - ?
Bolivian Rainbow - 5 000-30 000 scoville
Pequante - ?
Pink Habanero - ?
Prairie Fire - 70 000 scoville
Tabasco - 30 000-70 000 scoville
Trinidad Perfume - 0-500 scoville
I also got some seeds from before that i planted two days ago:
Cayenne - 30 000-50 000 scoville
De Arbol - 15 000-30 000...
Seed/Plant List
Hybrids
Plants
SB7J Type 1 (F3) (F2s from Patrick)
7 Pot Original x Bhut Devil (F1, my intentional cross)
Ghost Scorpion (F2 I think, source: k. skwerl)
Bhut Devils (I think it's a hybrid but don't know what generation)
7 Pot Jonah x Pimenta da Neyde (F1, my intentional cross)
Germinating
SBJ7 Type 2 (F3, F2 from Patrick, different plant)
Thai Dragon x Primo (F1, my intentional cross)
7 Pot Jonah x Yellow Scotch Bonnet (not sure what generation, source: Butch Taylor)
Cayenne x Bhut Devil (F1, my intentional cross)
Superhots
Plants
7 Pot Morouga blend
7 Pot Douglah
7 Pot Brain Strain Yellow
Bhut Jolokia Red
Bhut Jolokia type 2 (another source but may be the same)
Bhut Jolokia Red Giant
Carolina Reaper
Yellow 7 Pot...
Tonight I started the new season. My growlist for 2012 contains the following varities:
Annuum
Caloro
Cayenne Golden
Cherry Chocolate
Chilhuacle Negro
Fish
Jalapeño Biker Billy Hybrid
Jalapeño Chichimeca
Jalapeño Craigs Grande
Jalapeño Farmers Market Potato
Jalapeño Hercules Jalapeño
Jumbo Jalapeño
Numex Jalmundo
Morron de Fabrica
Peppadew
Petit Marseillais
Santa Fe Grande
Baccatum
Aji Pineapple
Rain Forest
Chacoense
Yellow Chaco
Chinense
7 Pot Brown
Arbibi Gusano Red F-1
Armaggedon F-1
Biquinho
Bolivian Bumpy
CGN 20790
Chupetinho
Clavo
Congo Trinidad
Fatalii White
Fidalga Roxa
Habanero Bazooka
Habanero Big Jamaican
Habanero Big Sun
Habanero Black Congo
Habanero Cappuccino Nugget...
As a younger man I used to love hot foods, but over the years sort of drifted to the mild. After and extended trip through South and Central America with my wife I started getting back into foods with heat and in particular chillis. When we finally got back we started a little herb garden on our balcony. After chatting with my cousin (Nee), i decided to give pepper growing a go.
I started with two seedlings from a local big box store, an orange hab and a mystery chilli called razzamattaz (i think). The raz fruited well, but the hab flowered a small bit, but that was that. They started to get a bit mangy at the start of winter so I pruned them right back and brought them inside. They withered a bit in May/June and I thought they...
Ok, What we decided to do here is this....We decided that most likely theres quite a few people out there that are going to be getting FREE seedlings from us this Spring 2013. I also thought that most of you would like to probably follow your future plants from seed to your front door as a seedling 5" tall or so :) So im making a mini GLOG just for these!
To catch everyone up, each person holding one of the below pictured "Redemption Vouchers" will get a Trinidad Scorpion Chocolate, Trinidad Scorpion Moruga, and 7 Pot Brain Strain Red plant delivered for FREE around May 1st or so :) These were also sold as Holiday Seedlings packages and such too, so you folks as well can follow the progress of your plants you purchased :)
I will...
I just started up my peppers on the 11th doing the paper towel germination thing. Started having tails popup on the 15th and many more are coming. Already planted over 100 germinated seeds in 72 cell jiffy trays and I already have bunch of baby plants. Will update with what I'm starting along with pics once I get onto a computer.
Here's my 2013 Gardening Album on facebook. All the pics I'm posting here are also there as well.
I apologize in advance for the huge pics.
Hey everyone, I have been waiting to start a proper glog, so here it goes.
Light: Hydrofarm FLP48 4-Feet/8-Tube T5 , and other Various small T8 Shop light fixtures. (Low wattage)
Grow Area: Corner of basement, 2-3 x foot print of grow light.
I will start taking pictures tonight of my setup, or make a quick video with my Kodak Zi8 camera.
I'm going to probably setup as many pots that will fit under my light and then when they grow out I will start giving away plants to friends/family.
I'm only growing: (Mostly Reaper's but also)
Carolina Reaper (HP22B) - Seeds Straight from PuckerButt
Primo - Straight from the Source
Yellow Douglah - Won here on a giveaway.
Peach Bhut - Came from Ajijoe I think.
I purchased a decent number of...
Hi everyone, just wanted to share my growing mistakes and progress here.
Plants i have going on are:-
- Assam Bhut
- Billy Biker Jalapenos
- Giant Jalapeno
- Aji Limon
- Fresno
- Trinidad moruga scorpion
- Goronong (op)
- Generic bell peppers (i need more sweet pepper for daily eating)
My soil is a mixture of 3 parts soil, 1 part worm compost , 1 part peat and a some perlite.
I *try* to grow organically. My feeds are mainly chicken poop, worm compost and worm tea.
I crush penicillins and calmag supplements to give to my plants once or twice during the year (i guess this makes it un-organic)
I live in Malaysia, where it's hot and humid. I grow all year long and have pest problems year long too as there's no winters here to kill them...
November 10th, 2012 - Sowed pepper plant seed.
December 22nd, 2012 - Transplanted pepper plant (chocolate variation but not sure which one), currently at 6 weeks old
January 27th, 2013 - Saw first two flower buds, currenlty at 12 weeks old.
January 28th, 2013 - Two more flower buds have been noticed for a total of four buds
This is my second year with a serious hot pepper growing addiction. I will be doing deck and greenhouse peppers this year and I have 9 varieties germinating. Thai dragons, scotch bonnets, red habaneros, anchos, pasilla bajio, cayenne, jalapeno, filius blue and serranos.
I am lucky enough to have southern exposure with lots of windows so some peppers will be grown with natural sunlight and some under t5 ho floros. I have one thai chili I started a few months ago that is grown under natural light on sunny days and floros on not so sunny days. I hand pollinate it on a daily basis lately and have already eaten pods.
I really like the Glogs on this forum as it is such a great way to learn and see what folks are doing and growing.
I grow a lot indoors with most of my collection being Parvisepalum Orchids, a few straggler Tillandsia, violets, dyckia, and Cryptanthus. My son is getting a rather nice collection of Carniverous plants going that includs Nepenthes, Sarracenia, Drosera, and Flytraps. I will post pictures of those later.
I focus my growing as organic as possible and grow under HO T5's. I will be starting the following seeds right now for 2012/2013:
Trinidad Douglah x Trinidad Scorpion (Brown) F3 - (Silver_Surfer)
7 Pod Brain Strain (Red) - (Silver_Surfer)
Trinidad Douglah x Butch T (Red) - (Silver_Surfer)
Chocolate Bhut Jolokia -...
Well it is that time again isnt it? I have decided I am going to grow only a couple varieties this year. I started them in a 72 cell tray thursday night, so not much to show at this point, but here is the list:
18 Bhut Jolokia Indian Carbon
18 Trinidad Scorpion Butch T
8 7-Pot White
6 Trinidad Scorpion Chocolate
12 Brain Strain Red
4 Brain Strain Yellow
6 Shishito - I love these things even though they have no heat at all
I am going to buy a couple Habanero and Jalapeno plants from Lowes or Menards when it gets closer to planting time, no sense in wasting my seed starting time on stuff I can just buy locally.
I am going to wait a couple more weeks before I start tomatoes, but then they will be:
6 Beefsteak
6 Roma
6 Believe It Or Not...
Hello everyone!
Planting seeds is still a couple of weeks away yet but thought I would start out with an introduction and let you know a little bit about our place we call The Hot Spot or should I say what others call it, I call it a garden. ;)
Here is a little bit about our hobby farm and how we turned what once was an old abandon farm into our favorite place to be.
This is a family oriented hobby farm located in Northeastern Wisconsin. The farm is about elevan acres in size but we are utilizing only a small portion for the garden. Even though our growing time is short we use every day given to produce some of the best peppers in the state.
We have lived here since 2002 and our garden is just a smidge over 1/2 acre. As...
Hi everyone!
Two days ago my season started. I try growing the following:
Bode Roxa
Manzano Amarillo
Jalapeño
Not Bode Roxa X Aji Limo Rojo (tried to crosspolinate them)
Limón
Rawith
Pimenta da Neyde
CGN 21500
Trinidad Scorpion
Brown Umorok (seeds from India)
Yellow Umorok (seeds from India)
Aji Limo Rojo
Mystery #3 (peppermania)
Mystery #4 (peppermania)
Mystery #5 (peppermania)
Mystery #6 (peppermania)
I ordered these varieties and hope to be able to put them into the dirt soon:
Scotch Bonnet - Jamaican
Datil
7pod Brain Strain
Peruvian White
And i am still looking for some seeds of Cheiro Roxa and Fidalga Roxa. Maybe someone wants to trade? I can offer everything of the top list (as many varieties as...
Well I thought I'd post up a glog since everyone else seems to be doing it (that's a good reason right?). Anyways, I'm a totally new grower. We had a garden last year but that was with a group of people and all I did was help weed and engineer the irrigation system. I don't have any prior knowledge about how to grow plants - including peppers - and make them big. I'd like to see some good fruit off of my plants this year so any help you guys wanna throw my way would be greatly appreciated. That's actually one of the reasons that I wanted to start this thread is so that people can catch me when I'm doing something wrong and set me straight. I've read through some glogs on here, mostly last year, so I have some basic ideas but no coping...
Its been a rough couple months but Im back Ive missed you guyz. Another year of growing i pray it turns out good may the chili gods bless these seeds.....im starting with around 150 seeds around 13 varieties....
Bih Jolokia
Moruga scorp
chocolate scorp
Red scorp
orange scorp
douglah
datil
fatalii
red 7 pot
yellow 7 pot
7 pot primo
butch t
harold st barts
These are going in pots.... Im going to start my annums later because they grow faster. All annums will go in the ground.....Thanks for watching
I thought I'd do a grow log this year, since I've enjoyed reading the ones that other folks do. I'm up in Michigan and last year was able to get the plants in the garden in mid-May, but that isn't a sure thing. I'm starting a bit early, but I want the plants to be a good size when I do get them in, so that I don't have to wait until later in the Fall to harvest. If we would've had an early frost last year, I would've been in trouble. The grow log puts a bit of pressure on. If this is a tremendous failure, then it'll be public. I've been gardening for awhile, and had great luck with my peppers last year, but I'm taking a giant step up this year, so we'll see.
Here is my grow list:
1. Douglah x4 Ajijoe
2. Scotch...
I am finally getting an early jump on my peppers. Up until this year its been mainly jalapenos and a bell type sweet. Here is what I'm starting with.
The rocoto pack says mixed because I am illiterate and thought I was combining red with red when I really combined red with orange. So now I have one mixed pack and one each still separate.
I grow these for myself but the wife and I also sell at the local farmers market. I have to start a lot more plants than I need for myself and there is a lack of germination space. I didnt invent this method but if you look at how they come up when a pod or tomato drops this is kinda what it looks like. That leads me to this...
As you can see the cells have duct tape on them and are labeled. For...
The 2013 season has begun! :onfire:
I planted about 80-85 varieties overall, nearly 100 seeds, and filled up 2 full Jiffy trays.
There are seeds that are proven performers, seeds I haven't been able to germinate yet and just wanted to give another shot, seeds that I just recently got in trades and purchases, and seeds sourced and gathered from places like Nepal, Sir Lanka, New Zealand, India, Italy, Australia, Peru, and the Home Depot in Kileen, Texas (Fort Hood).
I have peppers ranging in piquance from sweet Bell's to the much lauded Carolina Reaper.
spp. range from annum to baccatum to chinense to frutescence to praetermissum to pubescens to wild types and unindetified spp. I even planted two "Blue Mystery" pepper seeds...
Last year was a bad year for the garden. The heat almost took out the peppers and was a problem elsewhere.
2013 will be better. So far, I've already gotten my seeds started as of 2/2/13 and already have a seed coming out of the shell, a Casper Ghost pepper. Not the white Ghost...but a mutated Ghost Pepper that has little to no heat...so he's a friendly ghost. ;)
I'm keeping track of my notes here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlAQsauCxVpxdE53ZTI4OVdzeXdLbG45TFY5T3NsWUE&usp=sharing
First time trying to do an online spreadsheet, but I think it will really work well.
So far I have:
Early Jalapeno
Chiltepin
Pimento, De La Vera
Aji Limon
Casper
Ho Chi Minh
Poblano
Breese Belle
Bannana Pepper
Toluca Red
i've yet to...
Well I thought its about time I wrote a Glog so here it goes.
I've always loved chilli and have bought plants before mainly habs and birdseyes, I've tried starting some seeds last year but unfortunitly it was late winter and I had no luck, so after last years flop and this year I decided to give it a proper go and I know its just come into winter down here but I thought hey why not :D it'll be a good early start to the growing season.
So my mission was to throw something together with the stuff I already have sitting around the house or free from somewhere else... I knew I had an incubator but its to small for all the plants I wanted to start and the heating element is low wattage but hey I figured I could fit the lid with the...
Greetings!
NOTE: All edits will be done to this first post until it gets full. All photos will be in timeline style (oldest first).
I see snow but that's not stopping me!
I have already germinated some 7 Pot peppers with a 100% germination rate. The Chocolate Habs (also 100% germination) are now in seedling containers waiting to pop. My Trinidad Scorpion seeds are a major bust. I tried multiple ways of germinating the seeds and there is nothing in any of them after nearly a month. Fail.
My germination and growing method is easy:
1. Soak seeds for 24 hours in pre-boild water in a container near a heat source (my laptop fan outlet works great as it's on all the time).
2. Drain seeds and put into large prescription bottles on a damp...
Just another glog of a newb who doesn't know what they are doing. But with the plethora of info on this forum how hard can't it be right..?
Baby Trinidad Scorpions.
Most of them transplanted.
My propergation light. Verigated leaves..? Yellow veins anyone..? Thanks to the kind THP folks it turned out I was loving them too much. Look at them now :)!
The result of using old potting mix.
The jungle!
Well I decided to do a glog on here. I have no frickin clue what I am doing but I have read a bunch of other successful glogs and trying to take something here and there to see if It'll work for me. Living in western Washington growing super hots will be a challenge due to no guarantees on hot summers each season. But I got a portable greenhouse 6x6x6 for Christmas so this should help a lot.
I started some store bought jalapenos a couple of weeks ago in some "experimental" soil. Do to a lot of factors I had some problems with them once they sprouted. More of that later. So here is a list of what I am currently growing. I got the seeds from a very nice person on another gardening page. I am very grateful for his generosity. *Disclaimer*...
Coming from 2011
http://www.thehotpep...n/page__st__440
About a month earlier then last year and this year I have a place in case I need to pot up.
First I got the germ bed set up and temps stabilized. Left to right go 82° - 87° - 83°
Next I took my old light racks
Slid one over and added a double
Then added a new bulb that hits 6500K to each side to go with the ones from last year
I have to get the bottom shelf done and then i will put up pics to show how the 2 lights differ and IMO will be good.
This year I will have less total plants, but more varieties. Lord please save me from this addiction. :rofl:
Initially I plan on 123 in ground and 25 in containers(some to be given away)
25 varieties, 27 strains...
GLOG =Good Looking Older Gentlemen or maybe Got Lot's of Gas......Today I'm going to have to go with both.....TMI....I think not.
So this will be my first GLOG. Enjoy Everyone.
Grow List
Brain Strain 7
Jonah 7
Yellow 7
Chocolate Bhut
Peach Bhut
Yellow Bhut
Douglah
Naga Morich
Chocolate Scorpion
Tepin
Pekin
White Habanero
CGN 21500
Fatalii Yellow
Fatalii White
Aji Lemon Drop
Jamaican Scotch Bonnet
Bonda Ma Jacques
Datil
Long Chocolate Habanero
Should have the grow area set up and seeds germing by February 15th
Hi,
As a continuation from - http://thehotpepper....881#entry620881
Ive got 500 + chilli seeds in regular seed starting mix outside in 2 mini greenhouses. No lights / no heat pads / I didnt soak the seeds / nothing complex just abit of soil and some water and the sun.
Germination times yes are abit slow 19-20 days but yeah getting some good results now a fair few are popping through.
How I got my seeds - I got a trinidad scorpion butch t chilli - cut it open and pulled the seeds out and planted the seeds directly into the soil no drying out or anything just straight into the soil. The majority of what has some thru is the butchies.
Butch Ts
Butch Ts
Butch Ts
Golden Habs
Korean Chilli - Gwarii
Here are the varieties...
Decided to get things started for the upcoming year this week. So I sowed a bunch on seeds earlier this week into rapid rooter plugs. I have had a few of them sprout already unlike last year they had taken forever to germ hence starting a little earlier. I will post a few pics later when I get the chance to snap a few.
So here's what I have planned for this year.
Overwinters:
red brainstrain
TS red
TS yellow
TS butch t
bhut jolokia red
bhut jolokia yellow
bhut jolokia chocolate
chocolate hab
fatalii
goatsweed
choc hab x ??costa rican sweet??
trinidad perfume
New Starts:
choc. scotch bonnet
jamaican yellow scotch bonnet
black pearl
maui purple
sweet tangerine dream
shishito
trinidad seasoning
pasilla
aji yellow
aji chombo
aji...
Well, last years grow was a mxed bag - the early harvests were huge, and well beyond my greatest expectations, however a tropical storm wacked my plants for the rest of the season and I barely harvested a couple of pounds, and lost hundreds of plants.
This year, I'm hoping the tropical weather stays away, and have a plan for recouperating the plants if one strikes again.
Last year I started a lot of my sprouts in my garage at whatever the ambient temp was in november. This year I took a step to help control the temps a bit more than last year - I picked up a 5' by 5' greenhouse from big lots. Its made of thin steel, and thinner plastic, but if I get a year out of it, then it was money well spent (~40$). Next year I'll wrap it with...
Please note: This grow log will be essentially for myself. It will contain items and photos that will remind me of what I did so the next time around, I can adjust accordingly.
December 31st, 2012.
I have been told that if I have the means to slowly germinate the dried seeds of last years peppers, Christmas time is the time to start growing, even if it is snowing as we speak.
I purchased some TS pepper seeds from a known supplier. Based on the dust particle of residue that floated out and into my eye when I opened the bag, these are the hottest things around (VERY ouch. I may put some jalapeno on it to sooth it ;))
I am germinating with two methods today. Two seeds will be germinated by soaking the seeds in a shot glass with a few...
After 6 months of joining THP, i've finally decided to start my grow log here.
Why so long? For one, i am a big lazy slob, and maintaining a grow log seems like an awful lot of work.
But its seems that i can learn faster and grow more if i have a grow log, which others seemed to be doing.
Without further delay, my grow list this year (subject to change):-
- Chili Padi (Bird's eye chili)
- Orange Habanero
- Large brown habanero
- Chocolate Habanero
- Peruvian White Hab
- Aji Cristal
- Hungarian Hot Wax
- Stripe (Baccatum)
- Tabasco
- 7pod
- Trinidad Scorpion
- Bhut Jolokia
- Pimenta De Neyde
- Scotch Bonnet (patrick)
- Short Yellow tabasco (fatalii.net)
Aji Cristal seedlings and PND on the top left hand side
Hungarian Hot Wax -...
I'm chomping at the bit to get started with some new chilli varieties this coming Spring. So far I've just scratched the surface with Poblanos, Jalapenos and Serranos, all of which I really like. I've been egged on by a new Second Generation Mejicano neighbor as we've talked about hot chillis over the back fence! He helped me make some Pico de Gallo with my Serranos and Early Girl tomatoes and has some great recipes from his mother and grandmother. Hopefully I'll be able to share some of them on this forum in the future. I need to grow more Cilantro. Oh yeah!
I've ordered seed from several sources which received at least a few good comments on this forum (6/12 - items crossed out did not germ, or weren't planted this year):
US...
January 6th 2013 - Seeds Received From PexPeppers (http://i.imgur.com/KCt4g.jpg) <Image link
January 7th 2013 - Germination Begins... (http://i.imgur.com/nfRGH.jpg) <Image link
Dear Friends!
although we are in 2013 yet it´s not late to show you my grow log from 2012.
as some of you know i dont own a garden (not yet), i have to grow my plants on the window sills in my flat.
it sounds difficult to grow chilis in such places but none the less it´s a good challenge to grow in every corner you may find in our every day´s life :D
2012 was a good year with a lot of sun shine and i ended up with a good yield.
i have 5 plants from 2011 which i successfully had overwintered:
*Red Fire (C.chinense)
*CGN 22871 (C.baccatum)
*C04620 "red" (C.chinense)
*Petenero (C.chinense)
*Bombillito (C.baccatum)
2 plants from seeds:
*Not Black Naga Mean Red Cross (from cmpman1974) (C.chinense)
*C04620 "yellow"...
Hello ladies and gentlemen! Due to the euphoria caused by the suffering and anguish of people on Youtube after eating this and other hot peppers, I am deciding to grow some on my own so I can enjoy this experience myself in real life! I want to grow this pepper to not only try it myself, but also to allow others to try it and just have something else I can do/talk about in my life.
This is my first time planting anything. The only other plant I have ever owned was those chinese bamboo plants that you have to water once per week :P So I am new to this and know I am bound to stumble into problems or even fail--but I will learn from it :D
I poured the fertilizer while spraying them with luke warm water, then when the thing was 90% full...
Starting this year off sowing on Xmas!
After seeing some Jay's Ghost Scoropions I'm going with them as my main focus this coming season.
Still getting pods from my Wiri Wiri ma, on sad little scorp, my charlestons, and my jalapeño.
Hands down the Wiri Wiri wins in flavor thus far, just amazing for cooking.
Just got 25 of the Jay's Red Ghost Scorpions in the mail, will begin sprouting later today. Also thinking about going with some common cooking varieties.
Going to do the whole lot, all of em. Also going to try my best to isolate them. Pics later, very excited!
Man for those who haven't seen em check out the ghost scorps.....I'm just in love with the way they look. Big gnarly pods! Merry Xmas all!!!
Hello all , well its that time of year for us aussies to get the camera out and do some happy snaps, here is my grow list for this coming season.
First thing's first id like to say thanks to a few members from THP for sending me some of there seeds to grow this season.
Jungle Rain - Grant
Saugapepper - Conor
BigCedar - Brandon
Lavatung - Luke
Luigimex - Luigi
Seed List
7 pot Jonah
7 Pot Barrackpore
7 Pot Brainstrain
Antillais Caribbean
Aribibi Gusano
Bahamian Goat pepper
Bhut Jolokia Peach
Bhut Jolokia
Bhut Jolokia Assam
Bhut Jolokia chocolate
Bhut Jolokia chocolate x yellow 7 pot
Bhut Jolokia orange
Bhut Jolokia white
Bhut Jolokia Yellow
Black Naga
Cabe Merah
Devils Tongue Chocolate
Devils Tongue White
Devils Tongue...