Hey everyone, I am starting a grow log to help encourage me and help me manage my new executive dysfunction troubles. This past May, I was assaulted and robbed and suffered my 6th tbi, nerve damage in my c6, and a torn shoulder labrum. I am still recovering from the injury. And I have a lot of long term health struggle including seizures nearly every day. One thing I am going to do to help my executive dysfunction disorder and help my rehabilitation is a grow log. I have tried in the past but as a 6 time brain injury survivor, growing peppers before was hard. This will be my first try since this injury. I am rehabilitating in college at Community College of Philadelphia studying computer science. I actually got a perfect on my intro to...
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All my 2020 plants died from a late freeze.. I had to buy a few nursery plants. I plan for a greater year 2021!
Hi THP,
I have a confession... It's been a loooooong while since I've last posted. Ever increasing family responsibilities killed off my gardening time in the recent past years.
However, with the 2020 pandemic cancelling my normal plans, my kids sporting events and other responsibilities, I finally managed to finally get my but into gear and get my yard landscaped and some raised garden beds built.
Last year was decent, it was a good first attempt at a return to vegetable gardening. I managed to finish my raised garden beds in time to get a decent crop of Fatalii's harvested along with a decent crop of tomatoes.
This years 2021 garden with plenty of lead-time, and a 100% survival rate on my 3 attempted overwinter peppers is...
I've been wanting to get an off-season glog for while now, so I bit the bullet and got things organized and some pictures taken over the past few days. I have a mix of plants currently, including continued indoor plants; some just started; OW's I cleaned and quarantined and will be actively growing inside; and OW's that will simply be sustained until warmer months.
I'll kick things off with a cool gift a friend sent me the other day. I haven't had an advent calendar since probably elementary school days and I've certainly never had one like this before:
The 25 hot sauces of christmas. Now, I can go through hot sauce quickly, but I'm not sure I can go through it bottle-a-day quickly ;)
The new starts should have been planted...
Hey Everybody!
So, I really only have two full seasons under my belt, before taking a multi-year break from the garden. During which time I have moved to a new residence. Then, 2020 happened and I realized that I was not taking action into hobby anymore and it allowed my mental health to suffer. Then I remembered how much I love growing peppers and here we are!
And thanks to a couple members in this forum and a first order with Refining Fire Chilies, it's time to finally start a grow log and share my experience!
Here is the small list of peppers I am growing this year, and the dates the seeds were dropped:
Thor's Hammer Peach (x2) (02/01/2021)
White Moruga Scorpion (x2) (02/01/2021)
Dragon's Breath (02/01/2021)
Sugar Rush...
Two years ago I planted some jalapeno's and had a thread about it here. I managed to harvest 30 - 40 peppers that year which was nice, but there was a lot of room for improvement. I also planted some habaneros and scorptions that year but too late in the season so they never managed to blossom.
Some time has passed and I'm ready for a second attempt, starting very early this year.
I planted seven types today:
- cayennes
- green curries
- Aji Omnicolor
- Habanero Yellow Super F1
- Bhut Jolokia Chocolate
- Chinese 5 Color
- Scorpions
I posted them in soil for tomato's, hope thats okay. They are on a heated propagator by a window with a lot of light :) Each separate container has 6 seeds in it of the same type.
Every year. Every goddamn year.
"Hold that football tight this time, alright Lucy?"
"You got it Charlie Brown, come give it a real good kick."
I know you can't grow peppers in Canada. The people who say you can are just filthy liars, lying all the lie-long day. Yes, even you. You know who you are. You liar.
But for some reason I feel compelled to try.
You know those shows about people with weird afflictions, where they're sitting there eating their couch, or their laundry detergent? Well, I'm a lot like that, except those fuckers look at me, their mouths crammed full of blue-powdered couch stuffing, saying "dude, you ca't gwow peppuhs id cadada, aw you toopid?"
Yes, DetergentFlavoredStuffingEater72, I am stupid.
Stupid...
This is my first attempt at a glog, so yell at me if I do something wrong...
In an earlier thread, I said I'd start a glog if I was successful at getting any seeds to sprout - and indeed I was!
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/73008-first-from-the-seed-year-some-questions/
Because this was a mix of seeds, some of which I thought I'd killed, I technically don't know what they are. But since they all came up at the same time, my guess is that they're the fresh seeds of Aji Pineapple I'd added to the mix of probably fried ones.
Some themes for the season:
I won't have a lot of money to spend on stuff until summer time. So I'm going to be "cheap", and you probably won't like it, but if I can get at least a few unique plants to grow...
Hi all!
This is my second grow blog. You can find the first one here.
I bought a lot of new equipment enough to warrant a new grow blog.
Quick intro: Due to lack of outdoor growing space I've had to get creative with indoor growing without soil.
I grow mainly with grodan blocks with automatic watering, from a nutrient tank using masterblend.
Things that have changed from my last glog:
I have bought another tent and light.
I have started growing tomatoes indoor.
New seeds!
Also not mentioned in my last glog, but my lights and fans are controlled by a device called Shelly. Useful in everyday home automation, controllable from your phone with timers and monitoring.
Lets get started with some pictures!
Heres my new...
Hey guys,
Im relatively new to the gardening game, so Im looking forward to learning from all you pros. I love growing a wide variety of things but the peppers are what really gets me excited. This will be my 5th year gardening so Ill be expanding the list beyond jalapeños and sweet peppers, and see how the super hots treat me.
Due to moving, I made the mistake of placing my seedlings in with my overwintered plants. All was well until the older plants started showing signs of mite damage. I immediately sprayed a miticide on the OW, and a very light neem/soap mix on the seedlings. I think the mites are under control and the mature plants will bounce back just fine. My concern are the seedlings. Ive never had to deal with mites on...
Hello and a warning: this is going to be boring and small grow located in finland, mainly for keeping record.
This is my 4th or 5th season and 2nd in the same appartment. I have a small windowed balcony facing so, that in the summer sun hits it from ~12 to late evening between 18-22 if I remember correctly.
Last summer I had 2x aji fantasy, 2x harold st bart as main plants, then amashito wild and moruglah in a more shady spot. Results were nice for aji fantasies, got around 2kg overall from them and maybe 500+g from harolds. This year I'm not going to waste space with chinenses, the conditions just aren't there.
This years grow will be:
2x Challuaruro
2x Jalapeno orange spice
1x aji fantasy x harold st bart (if seeds viable, own...
Time to begin the new year and this will be my peppers glog.
This is the link to the last page of my 2019 glog for anyone interested.
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/70364-skullbikers-2019-container-and-kratky-glog/page-23
So I decided to soak seeds this time, finally, and I hope it will increase the germination rate, since last year rate was not so good anymore.
Hope it helps just a bit....
Here are:
- Kapija's
- Kapija x Palermo
- Aji Umba
- Chupetinho
- Habanero Chocolate
- Habanero Golden
- Caribbean Red Habaneros
- Moruga Trinidad Scorpion
- Rocoto
Maybel I'll add some later but this is the list for now.
It's my first time growing peppers and I chose an unfortunate time of year to germinate seeds, but I figure I'll try to keep them alive over winter for next spring, or if things go poorly I'll start some new plants in the spring with a little experience under my belt.
I sowed the seeds on 9/3 and 9/4 and have had intermittent germination through today. So far 15 out of 18 seeds have germinated. I planted the seeds in a 2:2:1 mix of happy frog soil:coco coir:perlite. The soil wasn't sterile and I saw a little bit of mold formation in some of the cups when they were under ziploc humidity domes, but I just scooped it out and haven't seen any issues arise from it (unless the seeds that haven't germinated succumbed to the mold).
I've had...
Greetings again. As you may recall, my harvest last year was pretty terrible. I wound up with three carboys of mash, which has been fermenting since October. I'm planning to bottle that within the next month or so. I'll probably just be doing Dragonfire and Smokehouse, although one of the 3 carboys is all jalapenos, so I'm really curious to see how that one turns out. I also pickled about 30 half pint jars, which turned out amazing. I definitely want to start selling those this year. On that front, I sold about 1000 bottles online and at various farmers markets and events. I'm now down to 8 cases of the plum sauce (which won 2nd place in the fruit-based category in the THP awards).
Partly because last year was so...
Welcome to another chapter in the great series of the Stettomans comedic gardening adventures! Come along, follow the antics of a guy makin' it up as he goes, having some luck, some not-so-much, and more than his share of whining about a fleepin' 3 month growing season! No telling what we'll see, Stetto's grows is always full of surprises and absurdities....
I almost named the thread the He should Know Better Grow, but I do and I'm going to go through with it anyway....
No list yet, but I put these Rocoto Amarillo to plug today to get a head start--I've decided to give them a full row in the half of an 8th acre, which I didn't plant at all last season. It was that bad up here...No corn, no beans, no lettuce, NO TUBERS...
And so it begins:
From left to right:
Growdown Fatalii - Seed Savers Exchange
Kang Starr Lemon Starburst - Pepper Donkey [new for 2020]
Bahamian Goat - Pepper Donkey
Sugar Rush Peach - Pepper Donkey
Dorset Naga - Pepper Donkey [new for 2020]
Piri Piri - All Good Things [new for 2020]
Peppadew - THP seed train (I think) [new for 2020]
Turbo Pube - fataliiseeds.net [new for 2020]
Datil - THP Seed Train
White Ghost - Pepper Donkey
Purple Thunder - PaulG [new for 2020]
Leviathan Gnarly Scorpion - WHP (I think) [new for 2020]
Solid Gold But - saiias [new for 2020]
All the seeds look pretty good other than the piri piri which seem small and darker than expected. We'll see how it does. Overall, I think I have a good mix of...
Hello all. I figured I start a grow log. It will be mostly for notational purposes. I will need much advice for growing on the Canadian prairie. Today marks the arrival of my final seed order. I have my lights all set up but still need a bit of soil mix.
The goal here is to produce peppers that are started indoors but will hit maturity outside.
Last year I started using pots and achieved moderate success. This year I will expand the collection of pots and start in on constructing hoop housing in April with the hopes of getting the plants outside earlier to take advantage of the long days near the solstice. Last year I was able to get the white jolokia to mature but not anything more pigment.
I'd like to get into making powders...
I'd been keeping a text-only Glog for myself on my computer. I figured I might as well add some pictures, and share it with everyone here on THP.
Here's my current grow list for the year:
Annuums
Jamaican Yellow Mushroom (3)
About 5 or 10 years ago, a friend bought some peppers at a farmer's market in Connecticut. He brought them back down here, and offered them to his neighbor, who is an avid gardener. He gave me some seedlings about 5 years ago, and I've been growing them from saved seed since.
Junk Yard Mutt F3 (3)
One of my Jamaican Yellow Mushrooms crossed with something (I think a Banana Pepper), and I've been playing around with growing out the cross.
Sri Lankan Chili Red (3)
From PepperGuru for the 2019 GrowDown...
2020 is underway, so it's time to start the new season's glog! Odd times though, as I'm still harvesting stragglers from last season while the earliest of my 2020 starts are already up. Grow areas are a bit disorganized as a result :rolleyes:
This season's grow should be a little more balanced than last season, though I'll still have a ridiculous number of rocotos - many OW's plus a bunch of new varieties - and quite a few carry-over OW wilds, too.
A big "thanks" to all who shared seeds with me for this season. I'm appreciative and excited to have lots of cool varieties in the mix, many of which I got to watch you grow last season and can now try myself. I think I'm current with everyone, but if by any chance you were expecting...
This is my first time growing peppers from seed. Previous years I’ve only bought a few nursery grown. Sometime last year I found a passion for growing peppers, and here I am now. Spent end of last summer/early fall planning out indoor grow needs with supplies, buying seeds, getting everything I would need. I started another section of property for spring time planning all my hot/sweet peppers. I’m in zone 6a, CT. These were started on 12/29/2019 after a 1 hour peroxide soak, followed by 10 hours room temp water soak.
I'm doing several stages of growing, so I'll just name based on date, batch 1, batch 2, etc in linked posts to help identify.
All of these are seeds purchased from Pepper Joe, Sandia Seeds, and seeds I’ve collected...
I'm starting this Grow-Log space now and will shortly be adding content to it.
I will initially be adding content to this first post as a work-in-progress.
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D1, ornamental annuum, fig.1 Fig.2
Purple,
Dwarf,
Up fruit...
Suspected to be a form of Black Prince from NMCPI. Obtained from a gardening and floral section of a grocery store.
Figure 1, D1↑
Figure 2, D1↑
Well it's about time to step up at home plate & present my Wild line-up card.Many players
added will shore up my batting line-up courtesy of CD, hopefully hit a few dingers,go
yard ,clear the bases and in the end have a # of web gems to show off.So let the games begin.
Many are proven big leaguers so that should put me ahead of the count,right!And I promise to
play clean,without cheating absolutely no (base) stealing...no, not gonna do it ;) ,speaking of;the
Astros cheating scandal grows with each passing week. :rofl: enjoying the humiliation thou'.
Another shoe is about to drop on a nearby team...can't wait for Spring Training to begin.
These were started on 1/28/20 using my ...
Hi THP members
So this will be my new season glog, last season i kinda never completed my glog as i got too busy with work and peppers and didnt find enough time to post updates so i will do my best to keep adding my progress here.
My 2020/21 season pepper list is as follows
pot Chaguanas yellow
1. 7 pot red
2. 7 pot yellow
3. 7 pot douglah
4. 7 pot evergreen
5. 7 pot barrackpore
6. 7 pot Barrackpore chocolate
7. 7 pot bubblegum Jobito chocolate
8. 7 pot primo chocolate
9. 7 pot primo red
10. 7 JPN Dark
11. Aji Cristal
12. Aji criolla sella
13. Aji fantasy
14. Aji cream fantasy
15. Aji White fantasy
16. Aji cito
17. Andy's unreaper
18. Apocalypse scorpion chocolate
19. Baby belle pimento
20. Barra do ribeiro
21. Bbg...
Terrible puns aside, I'm getting a very late start to the growing year. This is my first attempt at growing peppers, but I'm hoping that I can get some experience and some hot sauce by the end of the year. Fortunately I live in a mild climate and I think that means I can grow into winter.
My plan was to get started in March, but due to what's happened this year, I haven't had the opportunity until recently. On top of that, two separate orders of seeds I ordered never arrived so I'm not getting to plant all that I wanted, but I've got a few seeds in the works. I've been raring to go and annoying my wife :P , but I decided to get started with what I have on hand and try to salvage what's left of the year. Here are the seeds I've...
2020 Grow Log-
I am a novice still, but learning a ton and thought it would be fun to document my success and FAILURES. It might prevent others from falling into the same traps I have.
Goals for 2020: Grow tons of varieties of peppers so I can try them all and really hone in on what types I really love and what types I wont bother with in future years. This is truly the year of exploration into this wonderful hobby. I also plan to harvest seeds so that I can save money next year! Shout out to all members who also generously sent me seeds or did trades with me this winter!!
Challenge of 2020: I am moving in the spring/summer! This list is daunting to say the least considering my circumstances, but I must try anyway! I do not expect...
Hey folks,
I'm attempting to store my own chile and tomato seeds this year and had some questions about how to go about it. I've got each variety is its own little sealed seed packet and have all of the packets now in a sealed storage container. I've read in a couple places that they should go into either a refrigerator or a freezer. I'm curious if one is better than the other and why. I'm also curious whether I should be putting any packets of desiccant in with the seeds to keep them dry. Do any of you do this? If so, do you put them in each and every packet, or do you simply put them into the container into which the seeds are stored? Let me know, would you? Thanks.
SCARBO
Well after looking through lots of glog's, I decided to try doing one myself. Hopefully I can keep it updated regularly and improve with photo quality along the way.
That being said------I"M LATE! Yep, this first post is 10 days late. Meaning I started some seeds 10 days ago. I guess my excuse is that we've been trying to get ready for the holidays here.
Anyway, I was lucky enough to get on the 2019 seed train and when B train showed up here, I was able to get some seeds that I probably wouldn't have thought of getting on my own.
It's a little early to start my main grow but I wanted to get something going so I chose to start some wild seeds that I got off the train. Some of these came from Canedog. (The Cap. 524 and 1445 and...
Terrible at logging every year, lets see if I have better consistency this time!
I have a new son, born in January this year. So I only had time to grow one pepper bought from my local bunnings - a habenero. It's been in the pot about 2 weeks now.
This pot is now in it's 4th consecutive year with absolutely no fertiliser - just 100% pure organic. I also last watered this pot in February 2018 despite living in Adelaide, South Australia where we had 358 millimetres of rain last year in 2019.
I have some red and red clover growing in the pot as well at the moment, these will most likely die off when it gets warm but for now they are doing a great job fixing nitrogen
Dangler's 2020 Plan ..... Looking forward to getting started.
Group A (Target start: End of January)
7 Pot Brainstrain
Amnesia
Bhut Jolokia Red (Dangler's Red Bhut)
Bhut Jolokia Solid Gold
Bonda Ma Jacques
Death Spiral
Scorpion Leviathan Gnarly Caramel
Scorpion Red CARDI
Scotch Bonnet Beth Boyd
Scotch Bonnet Freeport Orange
Scotch Bonnet Stuffing
Star Scream
White Hot Lime
Whynot
Group B (Target start: Group A + 2 Weeks) ..... We're thinking this group has some real potential.
Aji Ahuachapan
Aji Cachucha
Aji Fantasy
Aji Margariteno
Aji Panca Lima
Antep Aci Dolma
Antohi Romanian
Bacskai Feher
Biquinho Iracema
CAP 455
Chervena Chuska
Chilhuacle Negro
Corbaci
Cowhorn
Cubanelle Long Tall Sally
Dolmalik Biber
Ferenc Tender
Giant...
Hello! I might as well try this. List is still in progress. Yes, I'm way behind, but who's in a hurry, anyway? Lol
Here's what has germinated and is now in the dirt. More to come. Waiting on germination.
Cinder F5
Black Naga x Peri-Peri F3 (Brown)
Volante
MustardGum NagaBrain
Purple BBG x 2
JPGS x Primo x 2
GSM (Grocery Store Mystery...Brown)
Brown Moruga
Black Panther
Berry Amarillo
Later added as germinated:
Rocoto Oculta CLEF
Caramel Moruga
Chocolate Scotch Bonnet
Purple Reaper
I'll leave this recipe for Depression Bread here...just in case...
After a big failure last year (I killed my plants with excess neem oil), I have started a new grow.
I'm growing in pure Coco coir (a few plants have some perlite mixed in because I ran out of coco).
A lot of tips and tricks came from blisters grow logs.
I've finally found a setup that works for me.
Here are some of the strains I'm growing.
Trinidad X strain variant
Devil's brains
Brain stinger
Peach ghost Jami
Coyote Zan white
Chocolate fatalii
Yellow fatalii
SB7J
Moruglah
Bahamian goat
Purple ufo
Chocolate bhutlah SM
Carolina reaper
7pot brain strain yellow
7pot nebru
Yellow nagabrains
Yellow scotch brains
Chocolate Naga brains X reaper
Trinidad moruga scorpion yellow
Tasmanian habanero
Pink Tiger x Peach Bhut
Big black mama...
Good day to all my fellow pepperheads out there. Given that 2020 is well underway, I figured it's time to get my new glog going. I'm hoping this year's will be full of delicious peppers, learning moments, new things to try out and last but not least, a lot of fun growing these tasty little devils together with the awesome community that makes THP the mecca it is.
I'm almost exclusively growing new varieties this year, which is not due to the fact that I didn't like last year's peppers, but rather taking the opportunity to create the illusion of making a dent in trying the many cultivars that have found their way onto my bucket list. I've sourced seeds from various places including Semillas and South Lincs Chili boys, and am forever...
Getting to the point where I will start seedlings for 2020. Still finalizing seed lists. I need to buy some new lights this year.
I have brought inside the following plants that I grew in containers with plans to overwinter:
Amarillear
7 Pot Bubblegum White
Aji Charapita
Bhut Jolokia Red
Bhut Jolokia White W Strain
Bonda Mahala F4
CAP 691
Mini Red Rocoto x2
Riesen Rocoto
Rocoto Yellow
The Aji Charapita was not happy and quickly perished. The other plants are doing well, but I seem to have gotten a bit of an aphid infestation. My plan is to take the plants out of the containers, recycle the old soil into my garden beds, wash the plants off and douse in Insecticidal soap, trim root ball if needed, trim plants if needed and...
39 is a multiple of 13, and that makes it cool.
That very important point out of the way, I've actually started planting for the season, so I figured I might as well start migrating to a new thread. How is it that I've gone through three glogs here already? I feel far internet-older than I should.
Rather than leading with the full plan, which I've already beaten to death in the winter thread, here are the first victims.
Yep! Not peppers. I'm going to try some companion plants. After some wicked aphid and stink bug infestations made my life less pleasant last year, I figure not only could this help keep them out, it wouldn't be bad to have some herbs. They're at least as stupidly expensive to buy in grocery stores here as they...
well my grow is up & running some seedlings but most are in the propagator, my list so far consists off
CHINENSE
1 PEACH BHUT WM X JONAH
2 BENEGAL NAGA PEACH
3 SWAMP THING
4 PINK TIGER X PEACH BHUT
5 UMOROK CHOCOLATE
6 PURPLE CHUPETINHO
7 BAHAMIAN BEAST MUSTARD
8 UBSC X SB
9 BBG7 TABASCO
10 HABANADA
11 PEACH MORUGA
12 BIQUINHO AMARELO
13 7 POT CINDER
14 TEMPEST
15 BRUTALITY
16 BANESTRAIN WHITE
17 AJI PANCA LIMA
18 GOTTA HAB IT
19 PURPLE BULLET
20 BOOGER ARMSTRONG RED
21 BIQUINHO VERMELHO
22 DA BOMB
23 ABYSS
24 BURMESE X REAPER
25 LEVIATHIAN SCORPION
26 CHUPATINO X REAPER
27 YELLOW REAPER
28 HURT BERRY
29 PDN X BONDA WHITE
CHINENSE
30 PDN X BONDA VIOLET
31 SAIPAN
32 PURPLE GHOST SCORPION
33 MANGO HAB
34 SKITTLE
35 MORUGA UV
36...