Hey everyone, still trying to work my around the site so apologies if I've somehow messed this up or uploaded the photos wrong.
I've been growing for about 6 years, chilli growing is my special interest (I'm autistic) it's the one thing that gives me therapy and keeps me on schedule in life more than anything else, I love having the ability to learn new things at every turn & try solve challenges that arise.
Admittedly sometimes I get too carried away and hit a roadblock, this year has been somewhat like that as its a huge step up from my usual growing.
Last year I got into a conversation with general hydro Europe about a product of there's as it was recommended to me by other UK growers in the community.
In short I was having...
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After doing this for a few years and loving it my goal has always been to go bigger.
I keep limping along by improving my setup, automation, lighting, hydroponics, reading reference text, developing business plans, researching new products, but i just never have the resources or time to really go big.
It's quite annoying and depressing to have ideas and never get to really do what you want.
I'm kinda scaling back until i find a solution. go big or go home.
Although common knowledge is once you make a hobby a business it stops being fun.
Everything in moderation.
having a stable career and enjoying time with family is more important than business.
farming industry is dying, why make a new farm.
idk lol
To go bigger i need:
land...
Hello my pepper friends :-) I have been long over-due on posting a growlog for this season. This year I attempted to germinate alot of older seeds from my collection and, being afraid of poor germination rates, I decided to wait until I had established plants to begin exhibiting them. Indeed, I waited too long or I over-handled the seeds while counting and cataloging them repeatedly through the years. Despite old seeds and a bad batch of promix causing a lackluster beginning to my pepper season, I have remaining a decent assortment of peppers, as well as a whole heard of tomatoes--all of which cannot wait to be transplanted. We are experiencing a blackberry winter, as our weather has been unseasonably cool this spring including a...
I have a couple videos up, a little behind starting this topic for the year. Here are my seedlings as of yesterday
My seed start video from a couple of weeks ago
I'll post pics soon.
Well I have pretty much planted all of my various chili pepper plants
some in full sun and several in the shade I have about two more that
I need to plant into the 7 gal cloth planter bags. I wish I knew if they would be
fine in the shadier part of the yard where I have other pots with chili pepper plants
because I feel that these habanero type peppers might do better with some shade
as it will get very hot and humid here in Houston, TX
I also tried some seeds in seed starter kits but so far after even a week or two I have
not seen any seedlings. So I don't know if I am going to get any pepper plants from
seeds.
I had a great season last summer. Plants all over the place. I think I had about 28 varieties and 60 or so plants.
All of them were great producers after I got the fruit fly under control. I didn't get any fruit fly the previous year so they took me by surprise and devastated my plants early in the season. I was ready to give up at one point.
Some of them are even still giving me fresh pods now in the middle of our winter. Amazing considering we are regularly getting temps down to 0°c overnight.
Anyway,
This year I am cutting it back a few notches, and will be better prepared for the ff.
I am going to rip out all the plants from last season and grow all new varieties this time (except the ones that are in the ground, if they...
Hello everyone!
I planted a handful of peppers last year, but due to moving I got a very late start and was only able to plant a few plants from my local nursery very late in the season. This year I started nearly all of my plants from seed (for the first time!).
I got almost all of my seeds from Refining Fire Chiles and was super stoked with the quality and variety.
I may have gotten in a bit over my head this year, with around 20 varieties, but go big or go home, right?
I started roughly half of my peppers in jiffy pods and the other half in coconut coir in two trays with domes and had better results than expected! I had a very high germination rate in both media, although it did seem that the coir did a bit better of a job.
The...
Be it ever so humble...
Currently, there are three pepper plants on the bottom (the four all the way on the right are garlic experiments). The one that's nice and rootbound in a tiny container on the right is a manganji, which I pretty much just want to see the pheno from. In the bags on the left, there's shishito (which I found out my wife loves, so that goes on the list), and Greek pepperoncini, a.k.a. Friggitello.
I'm really hoping to grow giant white habanero, both over the winter and outside next year, but so far I've had no luck at all getting them to germinate. Which really sucks, because I was hoping to cross those with CGN 21500 and possibly larger sweet varieties. 21500 was also supposed to be the fourth tent pepper. I...
Hey all. This is my first Glog in my third year of casual growing.
Last year I had good success with Fresnos, Apaches and a couple of others.
This years starters:
Fresnos (seeds from last year's pods)
Fresnos (last year's seeds)
Rocoto aji largo (from semillas)
Rocoto Guatemalan orange (semillas)
Jay's peach ghost (semillas)
Bhut jolokia (source unknown)
I grow in soil indoors in England and it's fair to say my approach is pretty relaxed!
The seeds go into soil in groups and sit on too of the vivarium for steady heat. Once I get some shoots the sprogs spend evenings on the Viv and days in the window.
First few up!
The bhut seeds haven't popped after a couple of weeks, same with the original Fresnos. I'll persevere with some fresh...
I'm in Sweden, the outdoor grow season is fairly short and unpredictable. I mostly plant in pots so I can move them to the greenhouse, outdoors or into the house all depending on the weather. I was going to choose my best potted plants from this year and over winter them but when it came to it I decided they are all my best plants. So I now have a room in the house with 30 plants over wintering. They only receive natural sunlight and a little bit of light from the house lights. It rarely gets above 0C outside over winter and the days are very short, but everything is doing well. Apart from a piri piri that's about to enter its 3rd year everything was started from seed at the beginning of this year. The amount each plant was (or in some...
Hi all, after a year away dealing with health issues and multiple re-organizations at work I'm back with another slimmed down New England superhot glog. In addition to everything else on my plate last year I had a mild outbreak of Pepper Maggots in my vegetable garden. Due to that I'll be practicing crop rotation and planting onions and garlic there to encourage the little bastiges to move along so I can plant Gochus, Southwest varieties and sweets there again next year.
I'm continuing with my soil mineralization strategy in all of my garden plots to replace what was stripped away so thoroughly in the past. We're located on top of a Bluff above the Green River in the Connecticut River watershed. This whole area was underwater when...
hi friends, here's year number 3!
i'd like to thank everyone who takes the time to document their grows. you've helped me a lot.
previous glogs:
2018: http://thehotpepper.com/topic/68560-sinensis-grow-log-2018-2019-early-start/
2019: http://thehotpepper.com/topic/70835-sinensis-grow-log-2019-with-tomato-grafting/
i was busy last fall, and i didn't overwinter anything. i only sort of regret letting one of them go. it was two year old reaper with a girthy, gnarly looking nebari. it could have been made into a neat bonchi. anyway, time to start over.
i finally got my shit together and got some seeds going today. last year, i think i was about a month early. this year, i'm probably a month late. maybe i'll get it right next year...
...
So this is my first attempt at logging a whole season of growing so we'll see how it goes.
I got started a bit late but got my seeds delivered yesterday and got to work right away.
I had read numerous posts on another forum about people germinating seeds in their Instant Pots using the yogurt setting. Well I gave it a try and was surprised that after 28 hours I have several seeds germinating. I plan on leaving it for another 10 hours.
Here's a list of what I'm starting with, focusing on Scotch Bonnets:
Scotch Bonnet Trinidad Red Pepper
Scotch Bonnet Brown Pepper
APS Scotch Bonnet Red Pepper
Scotch Bonnet Peach Pepper
Carolina Reaper Yellow x Scotch Bonnet Yellow Pepper
7-Pot Jonah Yellow x Scotch Bonnet Pepper
APS Ghost...
Today I took 27 pellets off the heat mats and transplanted them into their first small pots. Then I moved them into my temporary grow room (sauna) under the lights where they will spend the next 60 days or so until it's warm enough to move outside for the summer.
I've still got another 75 pellets on the heat mats and will move them to the lamps as they pop.
On the tray in the photo, there are two separate LED lamp rigs.
The lamp specs:
Strip Length: 61 cm
Watts: 15 watts per strip (45 watts per rig)
Kelvin: 6400K
Lumens: 1500 per strip
PPFD (at 100mm distance): 399 µmol/s/m2 per strip
Want to give thanks to MidWestChilieHeads for supplying me with the Aji Pineapple and Madame Jeanette x Goronong. They also threw in some Rattlesnake and Ms. Junie, which I'll be blending in with salsa and stews later on this year.
Grow List
Carolina reaper
Red Bhut Jolokia
Aji Pineapple
Madame Jeanette x Goronong
Rattlesnake
Ms. Junie
The reapers and bhuts went into paper towel germination on 3/5. Received the other seeds a day later, and planted them directly into solo cups with soil. Will report back next week, hopefully, once the tap roots on the super hots has shown.
:onfire:
Guess I will attempt to make a list for you guys this time around lol
White hot peppers
. Leviathan gnarly
scorpion
. Skunk chocolate
. White hot lime
. Scotch bonnet whpII
. Ghost giant chocolate
. Bbg7 pumpkin
. Orange ribbon
. Primo x lemon drop
. Scotch bonnet
cappuccino
. Bhut Jolokia solid gold
. Bad Brains
. Big Mustard Mama
. Ghost White W strain
. Freeport Orange SB
. Swamp Thing
. Ghost peach WM
. Ghost x YBS
. Sugar Rush Peach
Cone 9
. Brazilian starfish
. Cream fatalii
. Corbaci sweet
. Sugar rush orange
. Tepin x lemon drop
. 7pot white 2013
seedtrain
G.I.P
. Death spiral
. Major pain x yaki blue
. Tabasco x bbg7
. Tiger BB
. Deda de moca
Lucky Luke
. Naganero x devils
tongue yellow
. Mojo...
I plan to give the airport garden another go this year. Last year was the first with the rain-water collection system and experimentation on various water distribution methods and containers. See my 2019 Glog for photos.
I have a couple raised beds I will continue to use, and the container method that worked best last year was the Alaska Grow Bucket that I started mid-summer. I believe I will expand my collection of buckets and beef up my water distribution system and see how we fair this year.
March 1st has arrived, so I'm starting up my pepper plant listing. I will have new seeds as well as a couple overwintered plants to enjoy. I intend to start my seeds indoors this week. I'll share the list when I get it finalized.
...
Hello everyone,
I was'nt here for a long time. But this year I'm back with peppers :D
Again trying Aeroponics, but by this whole time I learned a lot more about this topic. So this year willl be better.
Started my seeds on petri dishes with paper + water with Rhizotonic.
1. CP358 Apocalypse
2. Raja Mirch
3. Nagalah
4. Scotch Bonnet Brown
5. Aji White Fantazy
6. Biker Billy Jalapeno
1/4 of peps showed they leaves above rockwool, and superhots started to do this week after mild ones.
For now Peps will grow in small Grodan Cubes to develop propper root mass and more true leaves before transplanting to bigger cubes, where next stage will be a greenhouse with Dry Fog Aeroponics setup.
This year I will try to grow on AN nutrrients and...
Finally got around to soaking seeds this morning :party:
Still not sure what the final quantity of each of these is going to be, but most of these will be multiples; x2, x3, and some possibly x4. I'm aiming to keep it under 40 plants, total. This will be my biggest Grow to date, and my 6th year growing :)
Starting from seed, and will eventually be grown in 5 gallon buckets, in 5:1:1 mix, either using CNS 17 or Dyna Gro liquid ferts. I'm still undecided on which ferts to use; I've had great success with both, but CNS is soooooo much cheaper! ;)
-7 Pot Douglah x4
-Chocolate Bhutlah DM
-Bahamian Goat x 3
-D3 "Giant" Goat F4 (D3monic)
-"OBEAH" (bumpy, lobed pheno from Genetikx) x2
-Reaper (big tail, from TGCM) x2
-Farmer's Market...
After not posting a glog in about 4 years I decided with the lack of southern hemisphere activity it was time!
My grow is very different now to what it was 4 years ago. I am now bound by lack of space, so my grow is small, but varied.
So my grow list for this year is as follows:
-pimenta de padron
-el oro de ecuador
-bishops crown
-Brazilian pumpkin
-starfish
-numex twilight
-sugar rush peach (long)
-pink tiger x peach bhut
-podzilla choc x
-leviathan gnarly scorpion
-bhut jolokia giant choc
-bhut jolokia Assam raja peach
-Thai birds eye
Second (late) round
-Sherwood's carboruga yellow
-reaper x SRTSL
-Scotch bonnet WHP
-scotch bonnet MOA
-umorok
-Trinidad scorpion moruga yellow
-scotch bonnet WHP 2
-super bhut jolokia JW
-bhut...
Hi Everyone,
For 2020 I'm growing mostly superhots, with some more mild stuff mixed in.
So far I'm doing:
Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Satan Strain
7-Pot Brain Strain X Carolina Reaper
7-Pot Atlantic Yellow
APS Ghost Pepper Orange
Chocolate Long Pepper Seeds
Brazilian Reaper
Apocalypse Scorpion
Habenero
Jalaneno
Banana
Poblano
Paraguayan something, not sure :)
I'm pretty low tech so far, just some LED grow lights (50Watt and what claims to be 1000W but only draws 110W), in a spare bedroom thats kept a bit warmer than the rest of the house.
I grow in the fiber pods for easier transplanting
On Feb 13th I started the Habenero, Banana, Poblana, Apocalypse Scorpion, and Paraguayan seeds. The Paraguayan ones I don't know the name of, but...
Let's give this another shot. In previous seasons I've always slacked on updating my glog, I'll try to do better this year. I think I've said that before, but that's okay.
So last season I swore to scale down a little. Again. Guess what? I scaled up. Again. Whoops :rolleyes:
My grow list thus far:
Chinense
7pot BBG
Chocolate Bhut
Bode Roxa
Fidalgo Roxa
Chocolate Habanero
Evergreen
Fatalii
Habanero Yucatan White
Pimenta Caixo
Madame Jeanette
Pimenta da Neyde
Baccatum
Aji Amarillo
Aji Panca
Duke Aji
Lemon Drop
Trepadeira do Werner
Cream Cheese (found a seed in stuffed peppers from the supermarket and a friend challenged me to grow it, not sure which variety.)
Annuum
Costeño Amarillo
Early Jalapeño
Ethiopian Brown
Fish...
I'm not quite done with the 2018 glog yet, but thought I'd get started on the new year's effort. I'll update the grow list in my profile soon and probably post it here, too.
Mainly, this morning, I wanted a place to stick links to some PDFs I (finally) found (again). These are technical documents from CARDI that some may find interesting (3.52 MB and 1.82 MB, respectively):
http://www.cardi.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Hot-Pepper-Production-Manual-for-Trinidad-and-Tobago-2011-reprint.pdf
http://www.cardi.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2013/02/Cbbean-hot-pepper-production-post-harvest-manual.pdf
They both contain a lot of good detailed information, but that's not primarily why I post the links. I'm not trying to start an...
Greetings Everybody,
I've been growing more interested in hot peppers and gardening over the last two years and have decided to get a little more serious about growing this year. I wanted to get a jump start on the season, but didn't quite know how to start. (Especially with lighting.) I asked for some guidance from the forum and received a lot of good input. Fast forwarding a few days, I ordered a 4 bulb T5 fixture and purchased a rack setup from Home Depot. I also have a little Jiffy seedling starter setup and a cheapo heat mat from Amazon.
We had 3 garden plots this past year at our community garden, each about 9x14ft. One bed was for tomatoes, another for peppers/tomatillos, and another for herbs. We'll probably do that...
" Full circle glog" , because after 4 years growing peppers with the help of THP I believe I've covered most of the important bases there is to cover . I started with the Annuums , moved to Chinense and superhots , grew and loved the Baccatums and then finally the Pubes .
This year I will stick to my favourites , chosen after careful consideration.
Overwintered
Aji Amarillo
Aji Charapita
Aji Cito
Dedo de Moca
Peppadew ( Malawi piquant)
Roccoto red
Roccoto Guatamala
Rocoto Puorto Rico
Rocoto Costa Rica
Jalapeno
Choc Hab
Just the basics, but my chosen few. :P
Overwintering might sound like an active process , but this winter I've tried passive overwintering.
I put my plants in my garden shed . No lights , no heat , water once a...
I prefer to post from the titular chair when I can. So, here I am, having found the gall to start another glog. There are still another couple few months to go before I get to eat my rookie cap, but my experience has been rich - mostly, I think, from taking my first grow way too seriously. And I've suffered for it. And I've grown for the suffering. This plant will not be suffered over, lol.
I'll be growing one plant over the winter next to my chair here in my little library. Pictured below, then, is a tiny death race. The first to slough his seed case and spread his cotys green and true will live on in glorious victory. The losers will be ceremoniously thanked and unceremoniously discarded. One plant.
Any and all comments or...
2019 was a poor year. I had too many plants and they didn't get potted on when they should nor did they have the space and air and light they needed. Even the plants in my neighbour's greenhouse didn't produce until very late into the autumn and most pods got frosted before they ripened. Generally disappointing.
I am overwintering indoors:
Bahamian Goat - three years old, entering its fourth year; wondering if it's past its best now?
SB MoA - ditto
White Bhut
Caramel Moruga - currently has about 10 pods ripening
Peach Fatalii - currently flowering and has set about 10 pods
Chocolate Nagabrain
Trippaul Threat White - currently flowering but doesn't seem to be setting pods
BOC
Havana Gold
Guyana Rush (Heefy's cross) - not...
Last year I did reasonably well and was happy with the results. This year I have much bigger plans.
From humble beginnings...
seeds started so far.
jalapeno(black, jalora, farmers, biker billy, purple)
long thin cayenne
poblano
Halaby
MOA Scotch Bonnet
Big Sun Habanero
TFM Scotch Bonnet
Turkish Cayenne
Aji Golden
Fatalli
Tekne Dolmasi
Chapeau Du Frade
Santa Fe Grande
Pimiento Cristal
Carolina reaper
bhut jolokia
habanada
Melrose
MOSQUETERO HYBRID
BIGGIE CHILE HYBRID
GOLDEN CAYENNE
ROULETTE HYBRID
SWEET SUNSET HYBRID
PAQUIME HYBRID
ill have to figure out how to rotate this. from my phone with no wifi was a poor choice to try this.
First time gardener here, 9b in Southern California, have around 550-600 square feet of space to use. Starting a garden this year, because its the first time I've had room for more than one or two plants in the last 6 years and I have hated vegetables outside of a small range since I was a kid. I'm hoping I can help kick my issue with vegetables this year by growing them. This all started with a drunken night celebrating and ordering some mystery "Super hot, Pepper Seed mix" off of Ebay. No clue if the seeds will actually be true to their labels, Reaper, Red and Peach Ghost, Trinidad Scorpion and Orange Habanero. Since I made this mistake, and didn't realize it until the item had shipped, I figured I would give it a go anyways. My...
SO..... here we go again. After the past 3 years being almost duds, 2020 will be the year to turn it around. I apologize for the absence and I am going to make a great effort to be here more like back in 2016/17.
To recap, I had a fantastic year a few years back when I used my ex-inlaws place, had 32 plants produce a great amount of pods. Very few ripened on the plant because they got in so late. The past w years I got skunked pretty much because of personal issues. Went through a hell of a time with my kids mom, lost 75 to 80% of my seed stock due to starting grows and having to scrap them for various reasons. (Some of you know, some do nkt) but if you are curious, or just wanna shoot the breeze, message me anytime. Now I can focus on...
Hello friends, acquaintances, and strangers! I didn't grow much this past season, just a couple of plants to tide me over. This year I'm doing a small grow to continue a few things I'd like to keep going. Much of the seed I'm attempting to germinate is a bit old, so I'm starting some now to see how it goes. I put them in the grow medium on Nov 18 and my first two hooks came up today on Nov 25 - not bad!
Well, last year, i had a pretty successful grow, but an utter failure of a GLOG. I wasn't nearly as diligent with updates as i ought've been, and i never got good with the pictures while posting from my phone, which is downright pathetic. I have to confess, i was posting more on FB, i guess because it's so convenient to upload pictures whilst you're taking them. But, overall, the FB Pepper Ppl aren't as rad as THP Pepper Ppl, not by a mile. I guess there's lots of overlap, and lots of cool pepper ppl on FB that ain't here on THP, but there's just a zillion douches on FB and I'm sad to admit it, but the truth is.... FB turns me into a Douche, too.
One exception is a tiny and mostly inactive cabal of Scotch Bonnet Afficionados, populated...
Hi all pepper enthusiasts.
I live in Scandinavian, or more precisely in Denmark, where unfortunately the weather can be pretty brutal. Ironic we currently have the hottest sommer I can remember. However, I can't rely on the weather all year round, especially because I don't have a garden.
So I decided to upgrade my old windowsill garden, to a better hydro setup. This way I can grow year round :).
My setup consist of:
Grow tent: Homebox Vista medium.
Light: Quantum board 260W LED.
Drip irrigation system with drain to waste.
Air intake: Black Orchide Ø 150mm
Air circulation: Secret Garden Monkey Fan 30W
Water pump: Micro-Jet MC 450 Oxy Pump
Medium: Rockwool
The brain of the system is my Sonoff 4channel Pro with this I control...
After waiting for a very long time some of my seeds have been germinated so here is my glog.
I am running a small grow tent with 4 T5 double bulbs at 55w each.
I removed one of the bulbs because the fixture runs hot. There is a small fan blowing on the plants 24/7 and the lighting is also 24/7 at this point.
These are planted in double cups in coco coir and perlite. The bottom 70% layer of medium is a mix of coco and perlite at a 70:30 ratio and the top 30% is just coco.
The bottom cups have a small layer of hydroton (clay pebbles) at the bottom to make sure the plants aren't sitting in any runoff.
They are being fed from the top until 20% of the nutrients drains out into the bottom cup and then the runoff is emptied out. They...
Whats up yall!
Time to get some peppers going again!
I gave DWC a shot two years ago and it went fantastic.....until I got some kind of root bugs and thrips that I could not kill off (I tried three different root dips, sns, and even a friggin bug bomb, spent over $120 on treatments before I caved in)
My 1st go round is here:
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/65938-first-shot-at-dwc/
I moved and started completely fresh with a new tent. Just finished building the DWC tub and it has been fully water tested. Found a sweet airpump for $30 on amazon and its a beast, each of the big stones fills half of the tub with bubbles. Tub is 27 gallons and when full holds about 20 of nutrient solution so it should hold temps stable and not have to...
So I started again. A little later than usual (used to do it around january 25th) but still early enough I think.
Thought I tried if some of the older stock is still viable. I'll see how they'll do.
And some of them are from the last season, just to be sure.
Annums:
Kurtovska Kapija
Alpina (yellow bell pepper)
Sulu Adana (rghm1u20)
Goatsweed (Hogleg)
Farmers Market Jalapeno
Jalapeno Hercules
Pubescens:
Rocoto
Chinense:
Yellow Douglah (Hogleg)
Aji Umba
Chupetinho
Dorset Naga
Caribbean Red Habanero (rghm1u20)
Caribbean Red Habanero (from my old stock)
Jamaiquinho (rghm1u20)
Habanero White
MOA Scotch Bonnet
Habanero Golden
Habanero Maya Red (Nulle)
Habanero Cappucino (Nulle)
Crosses:
...