I'm a bit late this year but now most of my seedlings are little plants. I hope to have them big enough next week to bring them out in the yard.
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Hi everyone,
Have decided (been inspired by everyone else, really) to keep a thread here about my attempt to grow plants this year. Most of the weird, off-topic stuff I normally babble about I'll confine to my blog, but I'll share the photos and interesting capsicum related anecdotes here as well.
I managed to overwinter (of sorts. I'd call it more a random collection of stems with little green shoots still growing on them) some plants from last year, mostly the ones at the office. Among them were an Orange Habanero, a Chocolate Habanero, a Caribbean Red Habanero, a Naga Morich and a Rocoto Rojo. There was also a Datil* I overwintered at home (which I started really late last spring).
To my surprise upon returning from X-mas break...
I will be growing naga morich,trinidad scorpion,and tabasco peppers, along with a couple skullcap lateriflora seeds.
I just started them on the first of June from seed. I will be using General hydroponics Floranova grow and bloom. I also have a few choice additives I will be adding to see if it will add an extra punch to the heat.
Growing inside a secret jardin DR80 fully equipped with a 400 watt hps with cooltube reflector and exhaust fan. Here are a few pictures. Sorry about the quality of the pictures but they were taken with my cell phone. I have a usb cable en route to me for my camera so better pics will be coming soon.
Please feel free to drop in and offer any advise,criticism (Good or Bad) Any and all comments are welcome...
i started to sow my new seeds from Neil of thehippyseeds just about a couple of days ago, got 4 types, bhut jolokia, naga morich, choco hab, and red savina.
place all 4 inside a container to maintain humidity, with the temperature here in philippines, i think no need for heating up, like what my other countrymen who have experience growing peppers. always follow their advice. will post pics as soon as my pepper have germinated. :)
So i've begun my 2010 and probably into 2011 plant grow and I will be over wintering them to grow again next summer.
I'm using an aerogarden ag7 pro200 and the stock nutrient tabs until I run out of them.
Got my letter of seeds from neil @ HSC today and installed/planted them into my aerogarden deck. Ill be growing the following:
Fatali's
Bonda Ma Jacques
2x Yellow 7's
Trinidad scorpions
Chocolate habanero
and lazienfat is sending me some scotch bonnets. :-D those will be added later. Thanks a lot!
If anyone wants to send me another variety I'd greatly appreciate it! I'll remove one of the yellow 7's and plant it in soil to compare its growth with the yellow 7 in the aerogarden.
Heres a video of the setup ive got going...
Well, I figured I should probably begin an online growlog. I have been keeping a personal grow log in MS Word but it's time to share my adventure with those of you that have helped make it an easier task.
I would also like to thank those of you that have been so keen to answer questions and help out someone who is trying this for the first year! I planted my first seeds on 13 Mar 2010. Here are a few photos I have taken since then:
ok so i ended up planting 3 seeds into 95 jiffy pellets tonight, labled and under lights with a heat pad. i still need a timer but since its just the germinating stage i should be ok for a few days.
so here is the "official grow list"
jalepeno
serrano
cayenne
lemon drop
scotch bonnet
roccoto
fatalli
thai hot
bhut jolokia
big orange(dont have the actualy name yet)
carribean red habenero
naga morich
chocolate habenero(long version)
chocolate habenero(short version)
bolivian rainbow
unknown peruvian(need to get the name)
unknow(have to wait for possible I.D.)
pequine
red bell
sorry for the long list. lol
but anyway, il keep you all updated on my plant progression. thanks for looking
I know some of yall will think I am really really late. I like to think I am really really early! On the 19th I started sevral seeds in peat pellets I had sitting around the house. I started Trinidad Scorpion, Fatalii, Trinidad Douglah, and Bhut Jolokia. Then on the 21st or 22nd I started Red 7 Pod (Sourced from Cmpman1974) and Bulgarian Carrot in moist coffee filters in bags all on a heating mat in the kitchen. Within 3 days one of the Bulgarian Carrot seeds in the coffee filter buttoned and last night I put it in a plastic drinking cup with 1 part compost, 1 part pine bark fines and 1 part vermiculite. Due to a small accident on my part (they call me grace ya know) the seed may have gotten buried a little deeper than the 1/4 inch...
I received my seeds and couldn't wait to get started for the 2010 growing season. I started 2 trays of 50 seeds, and I also have a bunch of plants I started from seed in Aug & Sept. The plants I started at the end of the summer were more of a test, as I was trying out a few new seed suppliers. Here is what I'm growing, now in alphabetical order and includes the seeds I ordered from The Hippy Seed Company.
7 Pot
7 Pot Barrackpore
7 Pot Chocolate
7 Pot Yellow
Aji Habanero
Aji Limon
Aji Norteno
Aji Panca
Beni Highlands
Berbere
Bhut Jolokia
Burkina
Caribbean Red Hab
Cayenne Long Red Slim
Cayenne Carolina
Cayenne, Golden
Chile De Arbol
Congo Trinidad
Congo Yellow
Datil
Fatalii
Goats Weed
Habanero Chocolate
Habanero Yellow
Jalapeno M...
Did certain posts get deleted during the forum upgrade? I was going to update my 2010 grow log but can't find it anywhere...even clicking the link in my signature just brings me to the main forum.
I have a very crude grow box made out of two saw horses, two 24" florecent and one 48" florecent. I have a blanket draped over the saw horses to hold in heat. It stays about 85*F when the lights are on. I will be adding another 48" soon.
I currently have 52 cells, 40 pepper and 12 tomato. Plus, I have a Bishops Crown and a Datil that I kept from last year.
All I have started is:
White Habs
Bishops Crown
Spicy Mustard Habs
Scotch Bonnet
Bolivian Rainbow
Long Red Cayenne
Hot Banana
Bhut Jolokia
Birds Eye
Atomic Starfish
The tomatoes I have started are:
TAPS
Orange Glow
White Bianca
Beefsteak
I will also be planting a small variety of herbs. Not sure what yet.
My setup:
A few of the seedlings:
Spicy Mustard Hab
Scotch...
Hey guys. Me again. Im going to try starting up a video log similar to Neil's and some others I have seen. (hope I do as good as Neil!!! Takes it like a champ.) I have a few varieties growin now and will be eating the first fully ripe one off of each plant for all to see, and possibly laugh at!! Im sure youll all enjoy. To the point now, does anybody have any fresh pods already that is willing to send a few for the trials? Ill cover shipping or trade for seed or products I have available. Not going to advertise here, but check out the industry announcements for more info on that. Im going to try to compile a video journal of me eating every pepper I can get my hands on from bell to bhut. If anybody has a special request or would like to...
Its about that time that i got around to finally posting some pics........... got a really late start this year (then again in trinidad, there is no late start........... u can start whenever u want....lol.... ;)
DIY greenhouse...... more like DIY shade shed :/
Here's a view of what it has under it
Hello everybody!
First off, I'd like to say a biggggg thank you to everyone who has traded seeds with me recently, and an even bigger thanks to those who have been generous enough to share with me seeds I haven't yet had.
Im off to a late start this season. Life got hectic with changing of jobs and now 2 jobs. I'm only going to be starting off with a small amount of plants so I have time to manage them for now, ill be adding more hopefully later on.
So far ive got started-
Jalapeno
Datil
"cardi"
Dorset Naga
Cajamarca
Seven pod
Scorpion
Bih jolokia lt green strain
Yellow Thai
Caribbean red
Aji Limon
Bhut jolokia
Explosive ember
Scotch bonnet (yellow?)
Brain strain 7
trini perfume
medusa
cumari
ill update this with pics of my...
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...
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...