I haven't actually created a grow log for the year so I may as well get one started. I have 53 or so plants on the grow right now and have a few overwintered ones. My short growing season (approx 90 days) makes overwintering and early starts an absolute must. I'll try and get some pics up ASAP, but there's a lot of plants to post. I'll start with just a pic of the plants in general and may have to update as we go. The numbers behind the plant names are the number of plants I have growing.
2010 Grow list
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7 Pot "Jonah" 1
Aji Lemon 1
Bhut Jolokia 2
Bishops Crown 1
Black Chilli 1
BP 7-Pot 1
Burkina Scotch Bonnet 2
Caribbean Red 2
Chili Goronong 1
Congo Brown 1
Datil 1
Faria Tobago Scotch Bonnet 5
Fatalii 1
Jamaican Red 2...
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I mentioned in my Introduction thread that I'm growing a bunch from seed for the first time. The only success I've had from seed before were some Hungarian wax plants last year. But I also didn't really know what I was doing until now either. I'll post a few pictures in here once I get them into Photobucket, and will also be posting everything here in my blog, also called Texoma Heat.
I get a seed starting tray with 50 peat pots and a bag of Jiffy seed starting mix, all set on top of a 24"x12" heating pad. I put all the seeds in moist paper towels yesterday and let them soak overnight in Ziploc bags on the heating pad with a sweatshirt over it. One of my cats found it to be a nice place to sleep as well.
Here's what all has been...
This is from my blog (link is in signature):
Finally! Seeds in dirt! Wooohooo! 144 peat pucks have been filled with 13 different varieties from 7 different sources, for a total of 18 different types to track (5 varieties are being planted from two sources). They were just sown, so the temps aren't back up to where they need to be yet.
I know I should've started this earlier. But better late than never, right? Anyways, here is my herd of planties this year....
straight from the store:
basil, thai, thai, shishito (japanese variety), ring of fire:
my 2nd avocado seedling and 4 thai (I didnt really plan to have so many thai, that's just what was available at the nursery at the moment):
ROF as of 5.7.10:
So I took some pictures of my seedlings yesterday and I am posting the better ones. In case you haven't seen my intro thread in the welcome section, here is what I am growing this year:
Bhut Jolokia - NMSU CPI & Seed saved from last season
Fatali - Seed Savers Exchange
Chocolate Habanero - Redwood City Seed Co
White Habanero - Redwood City Seed Co
Mustard Habanero - Seed Savers Exchange
Datil - NMSU CPI
Jamaican Red - Random produce stand in the Florida Keys
Charleston Hot Cayenne - Seed saved from last season
Tabasco - NMSU CPI
Fish Pepper - Seed Savers Exchange
Thai Red - Local asian grocery store
Rooster Spur - Seed Savers Exchange
Serrano Tampiqueño - Botanical Interests
This year I am going to focus more on saving my own seed...
Well i dont have a working digital camera but i thought i would start one since i am gonna try growing my plants in pots indoors well my first pepper i transplanted wer 3 Tangerine Cheese sweet pepper plants about 5 inches tall. i wanted to do more varietys in diffrent pots but the others were to small. i got the pots from plum trees i planted this year.
Intended to have everything sorted out and germinating in early January, actually got seeds in dirt on 2nd of March. Was out of town a few times, drinking sessions and waiting for seeds.
So Im kicking myself for being behind schedule, but its only two months, never mind, crack on.
Wanted a range of heat, flavours and colours.
Decided to grow a representative from each type of chilli, and a couple of ornamentals.
Annuums:
Jalapeno
Serrano Tamaqueno
Baccatums :
Aji Norteno
Pubesens:
Rocoto Yellow
Chinese:
Safi scotch Bonnet
Fatalii
Dorset naga
Frutescens:
Hot Purrira Yellow
The seed company sent me some Ring Of Fire seeds free also.
For germination I leave them in some warm water in the airing cupboard overnight.
Then I use the paper...
I figured why not...since I am growing a handful of plants this year it might be cool to keep a log. I have grown a few plants in the past but nothing to major. This year I only have two types started, Jalapeno and Habanero with several varieties of each. I will list what I started later since I am at work and I don't remember off the top of my head. Anyways...seeds started today so in a week or so I guess we'll see what we get. Here is a picture from a plant I grew last year since everyone likes pictures and there are none from this year yet. It is some variety of a Thai chili that was not too bad...had some fun with it.
Ok...here's the list of seeds that are in the dirt:
Billy Biker Jalapeno
Goliath Jalapeno
Purple Jalapeno
TAM...
I normally wouldn't do this as I'm generally not organized enough, compared to most grow log posters. But since this is what a couple Brain Strain 7 Pots looked like 9 days after putting seeds down, I thought I ought to document this particular grow-
Seriously? Jebus. I'd started a 100 cell tray with a production run of jalapenos and some more giveaway tomatoes and a test run of some of the seeds I received from Ecuador. I had 2 empty cells so I figured what the hell and tossed a couple Brain Strains in, figuring that since they take so long to germinate I'd just leave them in for a few weeks when I go to work and hope that they might come up when I get home. So I'm clearing the jals and toms and everything out of my germination...
Official 2010 Grow Log for arringdd
Hey guys...finally got off my arse and started this grow log. I've been lurking around here for the past few months and have had seeds in the BioDome since Feb 4, but have been so busy with work that I haven't had the opportunity to post the pepper "experience" until now.
I guess to start off with, I'll give you the rundown of all the species that I'm attempting this year.....my first by the way. These are in no particular order, and have the vendor info as well. Vendor abbreviations include (THSC - Hippy, PG - Peppergal, PM- PepperMania, TGSC - Tomato growers supply company, TWF - Trade winds fruit, GS - Gourmetseed.com, CG - Cherrygal.com, L - Lowe's, KS - Knoxville Seed)
Lemon Drop (PG...
G'day all
Been meaning to start a grow log for a while now. finally got off my arse to do it (finished my beer and on the way back from the fridge with a new one ;P )
i stared my seeds back in '09 at the end of nov, a complete newbie http://www.thehotpepper.com/showthread.php?15787-Starting-seeds-advice
This is what germinated after what seemed like forever:
3/5 Dorset Naga's
1/5 Trinidad Scrop
5/6 Numex Twilight
14/24 Orange Habs
...and one Orange Hab seedling from Bunnings which got really sick.
http://www.thehotpepper.com/showthread.php?16442-Bacterial-Spot-of-Pepper
In the time between i've learnt alot !!!
Last month i repotted all the plants i have left and the change has been amazing ! The seedlings that were growing...
1st Year Pepper Head Here!
This is my planned list on what I intend to grow this year......
6 - Bhut Jolokia
0 - Thai Dragon
0 - Caribbean Red Hab
1 - Tri Yellow Scorp
0 - Choc Hab
0- St. Martin's Hab
0- Orange Hab
This is the final list of what i have so far.
Hi all!
So I'm very new to this whole game and I've never grown peppers from seed before. I was poking around here, got a few ideas and started my first seeds Monday. A little late in the season I know, but better late than never...I'm just hoping something grows by the end of the year!
Anyways I wasn't planning on doing a log, but yesterday (I'm out of town every Wednesday night) my wife called and said "Do you know you have a sprout?" and I got super jazzed :dance: and I don't know who else to tell!
Hopefully you guys can help me out along the way, I have little to no idea what I'm doing. I also have very little money for this so my set up is kind of half-assed. I've got 40 seeds, some Bhut Jolokia, Habanero, White Habenero...
Hi,
Haven't posted in a while but I was lurking the other day and it got me psyched to start some plants for this year.
I just finished setting up about 40 Jiffy Pellets with the following varieties:
XL Trinidad Congo
Yellow Scorpion - CARDI
Bhut Jolokia
TFM Scotch Bonnet
Peach Habanero
Hot Paper Lantern
Lemon Drop
Fatali
Orange Devil's Tongue
Yellow Haberno
7-pot (120)
Naga Morich (46)
Mesilla Cayene (27)
Tabasco (29)
Jalepeno M
Golden Greek Pepperoncini
Trinidad Scorpion
Agni Cayenne
In order to have a successful season I have some stuff I really need to accomplish. One of my goals for the year is to craft a better setup for starting the plants out. My basement proves to be a little too cold for peppers this time of year.
I...
Ok, I finally got around to potting the maters up today, some of them were going nuts, some were straggling along and some didnt do squat! I ended up with 22 plants. I will probably get a couple Beefsteaks going here soon too. I planted them about 4 weeks ago, they took about 8 days to all pop up.
So heres my list of what I have...
6 Jersey Devil
4 Believe It Or Not
3 Russian Rose
5 Super Marzano VFNT
4 Belgium Giant
Heres the Russian Roses, Believe It Or Nots & Super Marzanos
And the Belgium Giants & Jersey Devils
Planted my seeds on Feb 6. I just have a 25 cell Burpee peat tray with coir pellets. The tray sat in our oven with the pilot light keeping it about 80 degrees.
Seeds planted:
4 - Barrackpore 7pot
4 - Bhut Jolokia from last year's chiliseeds.UK seeds
4 - Naga Morich (edit) from last year's chiliseeds.UK seeds
4 - Red Habenero from last year's chiliseeds.UK seeds
6 - Fatalii from last year's chiliseeds.UK seeds
8 - Naga Morich (edit) from my Nagaseeds plants
4 - Orange Habenero from last year's plants
4 - Jalapeno
4 - Serrano
Today, I moved some them out of the oven and under a growlight. I have sprouts from the following seeds so far:
3 - Red Habenero
2 - Bhut
2 - Serrano
2 - Nagas
Well we will start at the start this year.
I have built a grow box and i cant wait to use it. Im going to get some seed trays tomorrow and will have seeds in by tomorrow night.
I ran the box with lights and fan and got 29 deg air temp in the center of the enclosure.
here is the box closed up
Now as you can see in the above pic...... the room is well lit. As you can see from the exposure of the pic below.... its bright in there. It mad my garage look dark.
the lights in the roof
And the fan thats pointing at an angle across the enclosure. Its perfect actually. It spreads air evenly but doesnt make a line of wind that i was worried it might. It just moves the air evenly around and will work a treat.
Will take pics tomorrow...
WEll on november 19 i germinated 5 SEEDS.ON 11/23/09 4 pop up one was KIA.Out of the 3 i had left i pick one to keep and so far it's doing great.:)
Heres where I am at so far (as of Feb 22nd, 2010)
Seedlings Progress, you probably can't tell to well from these pics but each cup has the type written on it and a colored ziptie for identification, heres the color code.
Ziptie Color Code:
Orange = Orange Habanero
Pink = Caribbean Red Habanero
Green w/out black top = West Indies Habanero
Green w/ black top = Jamaican Habanero
Blue w/out black top = Caribbean Red (female) x West Indies (male)
Blue w/ black top = Caribbean Red (male) x West Indies (female)
My Bih Jolokia which I started way too early is already podding up which is a good thing because it was growing so big and so fast (even without pinching buds) I have been pruning the ends constantly!
Here are some of the pods...
A completely different grow. Six plants: 2 each of First Prize and Better Boy, one apiece of Goliath and Celebrity. I did not record when I sowed the seeds, (stupid!) but they were transplanted to 3" containers on Christmas. They are now in 7-gallon pots under a 400 watt HPS system. Hopefully, will get pics tomorrow when there is something besides artificial light in the room.
Mike
Been growing peppers off and on -depending where I live for maybe like thirteen years. Did a bit of vocational horticulture school, but I screwed off more than anything so I really don't remember a lot of it. Right now I'm growing in closets and my garage under lights, in containers and in the ground outside, and getting ready to start up my various hydro systems.
I'm kind of an undisciplined grower. Kind of lazy sometimes. If I was more on it, I'm sure my production would be better. I spend a lot of $ and time amending soil, messing around with fertilizers and such but am easily sidetracked and I don't always do things the right way. Sometimes my gardening sessions rapidly deteriorate into drinking beer outside and killing the...
Well, I woke up this morning and to my surprise, I have my first sprouts of the season!(orange habs)
I will throw up some pics after the weekend is hopes I will have quite a few more by then....YAY!:onfire:
After reading several other threads, I started getting nervous. I figured if Patrick was starting already, I'd better get my backside in gear.
After growing the standard first timers peppers last year, I decided it was time to branch out a bit this year. My list so far includes:
Bhut Jolokia
Bih Jolokia
Trinidad Scorpion
7 Pot
Fatalli
Caribbean Red
Yellow Hab
Orange Hab
Large Peach Hab
Peach Hab
Golden Cayenne
Long Red Cayenne
Lemon Drop
Serrano
Biker Billy Jalapeno
Mucho Nacho Jalapeno
Aji Panca
Put Gochu
Orange Thai
I'm trying Jiffy pellets on a heat mat for germination. Seems a little more regulated and is working better than last year.
I've been sucking valuable info off of this forum for some time now, so it's time to say thanks to everyone for answering all the questions I never had to ask!
Back to the subject at hand... how can I go back to dirt now that I've done hydro? Haha. I decided a few months back being an extremely long winter here in Canada to try my hand at hydro, just to see if it was all that it was cracked up to be. The project started near the middle of November '09. I was going to try DWC but then the guy at the hydro store convinced me try the continuous drip feed system that they sell. He claimed it was less effort of watching water levels and such. I guess I was easily convinced, as well they had a nice little Thai pepper plant run on that system...
We were hoping to have 1000+ plants this season - but have fallen well short and lost a heap to various factors. We have around 150 plants.
Its still early in the season, but here is what is growing:
7 POD " Brain strain "
7 POD " douglah "
7 POD " red "
7 POD " yellow"
7 POD " Cardi yellow"
7 POD " Barrackapore "
Bhut Jolokia
Bhut Jolokia "chocolate"
Bih
Birdseye - African
Bonda Ma Jacques
Buldog Hungarian
CAP 1117
CAP 1118
CAP 582
CAYENNES
CO 1403
Corno De Torro Rosso
Dedo De Moca
Devils Tounge
Dorset Naga
Fatalii
HABANERO " Caribbean "
HABANERO " orange superhot "
HABANERO " magnum"
HABANERO " Trinidad Congo"
HABANERO " yellow"
HABANERO " chocolate "
HABANERO " pastel "
Hot Lemon Aji
JALAPENO
Jalapeno OLE
Billy Biker Jalapeno...
I'm getting an early start this year in hopes of having plants ready to pollinate & set before it gets too hot.
I'll be starting a new tray of pellets today.
Seedlings grow slowly this time of year as it's getting fairly cold at night, so need to start bringing them in now.
I don't have any ground, so all will be in pots. Too bad I can't let them root thru the pots into the ground like AJ. But I may set each pot on a tray of dirt this year to facilitate drainage with some wick type action.
Grow List:
From Cappy -
....Brain Strain, 5 of 12 sprouted, this week I will start the other 12
....Yellow Scorpion, 10 of 1st 12, doing well so I need to start 2nd 12
....Mustard Hab, 9 of 1st 12 - most robust of the group
....Big Sun...
30 Jan 2010
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o9VURytpoM
This is just of the front yard, got some more out the back, might make up another video tonight which would be a lot shorter.
I've started on my second season and have "transplanted" eight plants so far: 3 Legend, 3 Mira, a Siletz and a Sacramento. Discovered that delivering too much air to a bucket of water is not good for plants - they were wilting. Turned the pump off and they have perked up a bunch.
I have no idea how many plants I can cram into the GH - somewhere between 39 and 51 - only time will tell.
The plants so far:
Three Mira
Three Legend
One Siletz
One Sacramento
Joining them, in time, will be Florida 91, Delicious and IT-06-313.
Minimum goal: A ripe tomato to pick on Christmas Day in the morning.
Ultimate goal: 100 pounds of ripe tomatoes per week by the end of December.
Mike
I started some seeds sunday night (1-10). I have a few more seeds in the mail from trades.
To keep track of the plant dates, I'm going to list them out here.
Seedman.com seeds(two seeds per cup):
4x Fatali
4x Bhut Jolokia
2x Golden Greek Pepperoncini
2x Goat Horn
The last two are annums if my research is correct. If they grow to fast i will start them over at the end of Feb.
Bob
Hail! So i shall start another one of these threads for your forum clogging pleasure :-)
At the time of this post i am growing:
Bhut Jolokia
7 pot
Trinidad Scorpion
Aji Omnicolour
Bolivian Rainbow
Jalapeno
Orange Habanero
'Razzamatazz'
Mystery Ornamental
This is my first time growing seedlings, and apart from a brief forray into gardening when i was like 4, my first growing experience!
Today i repotted most of my seedlings from 1.5 inch seedling tray cells to 3.5inch pots. I used potting soil mixed with some perlite to help drainage.
I've never repotted before and im sure i will lose some seedlings. Some of them had very small root balls!!! I buried them a few cm deeper than they were before.
Here is pics!
Top tray roughly left to...
I bought some seeds that were supposed to be Caribbean Red Habanero. They sprouted directly in an outdoor container in less than a week, and grew nicely. But then when I saw the first podling I said, "What the heck?"
I began taking pictures, so I may as well continue thru harvest.
Same pod a couple weeks later.
Moving from one house to another at 30° F, though 4 miles only, was a lot of stress for my plants. The neglect during all the moving and cleaning up activities added some stress too and caused some severe setback for my plants. This is how far they recovered until now.
The plants in the wintergarden:
My biggest plant so far: Aji Pineapple
Tepin