Marino's 2012 Grow Log

Hi everybody!

I think I'm gonna start with sowing at the beginning of March 2012.

The seeds are all stored in my seeds book, but I'm having short time till the end of February; moreover I'm not gonna use any lightbox, so I'll grow indoor till the outside temperature is rising again in Southern Italian spring.

I started growing in 2011 for the very first time, reaching the amount of about 25 pots/15 different varieties at the end of May; other 15 were given as gifts to friends and relatives.

My growing list for 2012:

CHINENSE
Bih Jolokia Chocolate
Bih Jolokia Assam
Naga Morich
Fatalii
Habanero Orange
Habanero Chocolate
Habanero White
Habanero Red Savina
Chupetino
Trinidad Scorpion
TS Morouga
T. Douglah
7 Pod
7 Pod Brown
7 Pod Strain I
Pimenta da Neyde
Pimenta Leopard
Pimenta Elisir
ANNUUM
Goat's Weed
Black Scorpion Tongue
Peter Pepper
Ancho Poblano
Early Jalapeno
Fish
Jalabomb F2
FRUTESCENS
Tabasco
Malagueta
Bird's Eye (overwintered)
BACCATUM
Aji Amarillo (overwintered)
PUBESCENS
Rocoto

BACCATUM x ANNUUM F2 (only saved 3 seeds from the only 3 fruits that the F1 plant gave me)

It's a 31-variety list, I know I'm gonna make my blacony suffer again. I cannot keep more than 1 plant per variety, so friends and relatives will benefit even more than last year (I will start growing 2 small plants per variety, then I will focus on 1 plant).

Season's coming, stay tuned.

 

[seaman]

New update

my green balcony

a comparison between the three pimentas

p. elisir: grows up and, then, widens

p. leopard: stays shorter

p. de neyde: grows up and slender

neyde's first pod

aji amarillo with its first pod

owerwintered red hab

a graceful trinidad scorpion

[t.b.c.]

 

[gnslngr]

You balcony will be the hottest in the "house", ...lovin those Pimentas.That scorpion is going to be a shade tree!

 

[seaman]

You balcony will be the hottest in the "house", ...lovin those Pimentas.That scorpion is going to be a shade tree!

thank you, for sure, it's the only one loaded with plants

more photos

7 pod

chocolate hab

chupetinha

white hab

douglah

bih jolokia

fatalii

orange hab

tabasco

TS morouga blend

[t.b.c.]

 

[Trippa]

Wow fantastic looking plants bro. They are going to overtake your balcony by the time summer is over.

What is the white residue on the leaves if you don't mind me asking??

 

[Jamison]

Looking green man!

 

[seaman]

Wow fantastic looking plants bro. They are going to overtake your balcony by the time summer is over.

What is the white residue on the leaves if you don't mind me asking??

thanks, on the leaves it's copper oxychloride, I sprayed it some days ago

the last set of photo for today

brown 7 pod, now you can see the real damages of the thrips' "picnic"

7 pod douglah strain 1

jalapeno early

red savina

goats weed

fish

black scorpion tongue

malagueta

jalabomb F2

and now the end, with this fantastic chocolate bhut jolokia plant

greetings from italy

 

[meatfreak]

Whats not too like about this update Great looking plants, Marino! The Jalabomb looks like blown up Jalapeno's Did the F-1 look like that also?

 

[seaman]

Whats not too like about this update Great looking plants, Marino! The Jalabomb looks like blown up Jalapeno's Did the F-1 look like that also?

thanks meatfreak. nature is doing its job... on a balcony! well, about the jalabomb: f1-f2 fruits look actually the same, plant and leaves show some differences: f1 plant was higher-wider, leaves were longer-wider... but this may be due to the fact that I've not given any fertilizer this year

hope the pods do not explode , I wish I can taste at least one of them

 

[seaman]

First fresh pods picked up today


good flavour, very little heat, almost undetectable

 

[meatfreak]

thanks meatfreak. nature is doing its job... on a balcony! well, about the jalabomb: f1-f2 fruits look actually the same, plant and leaves show some differences: f1 plant was higher-wider, leaves were longer-wider... but this may be due to the fact that I've not given any fertilizer this year

hope the pods do not explode , I wish I can taste at least one of them

Thanks for the feedback. Would be interested too help you out with the F-3 growing of this cross next season As long if you keep fire away from them I think your safe

 

[seaman]

Thanks for the feedback. Would be interested too help you out with the F-3 growing of this cross next season As long if you keep fire away from them I think your safe

remind it to me as season keeps going... collecting the seeds won't be a problem, each pod contains about 100 seeds

 

[seaman]

the growth

1) 7 pod; 2) fatalii; 3) orange hab; 4) pimenta de neyde; 5) chupetinha; 6) aji amarillo

 

[meatfreak]

I will! Keep my eyes on this topic anyway

 

[SocalChilehead]

Amazing progress Marino plants and pod look awesome I am just starting to get flower on my pimenta de Nedye. I forgot to ask this earlier did you notice anything different on the Jalabomb from last two generations from fruit and flower? Can not wait to read your review on it.

 

[seaman]

Amazing progress Marino plants and pod look awesome I am just starting to get flower on my pimenta de Nedye. I forgot to ask this earlier did you notice anything different on the Jalabomb from last two generations from fruit and flower? Can not wait to read your review on it.

almost no difference neither the shape of the pods nor the flowers

 

[seaman]

New update, keep growing happily on the balcony!

younger ones:
red savina

goats weed

goats weed (left) and fish (right)... look at the difference between the trunks!

black scorpion tongue

douglah

brown 7 pod

the overwintered: aji amarillo and red habanero

7 pod

chocolate habanero

[t.b.c.]

QUESTION: is there anybody able to recognize which version of 7 pod is the one I'm growing?!?

 

[seaman]

some photos of this nice trinidad scorpion

chupetinha

the three musketeers

pimenta elisir

pimenta leopard

pimenta de neyde

assam bih jolokia

fatalii

[t.b.c.]

 

[seaman]

orange habanero

tabasco

TS morouga blend(left) and jalapeno early (right) which seems very short, I'm gonna try to put some granular fertilizer

first pod growing on the morouga blend

7 pod douglah strain 1

malagueta

jalabomb F2

white habanero

chocolate bhut jolokia

and a complete view of my balcony

ok it's all for now

P.S.: could anybody recognize which kind of 7 pod is the one in the previous post?

 

[SocalChilehead]

Hey marino it looks like the 7 pod Chaguanes, but not fully sure going to have to wait until they ripen do you what varieties you had to grow or was it label 7 pod. Hopefully that helps somewhat everything is looking great my pimenta de neyde just started to set it first pepper.

 

[meatfreak]

Another great update, Marino. Your pimenta leopard looks exactly the same as mine, hopefully yours will be a bit bigger. I just harvest them the other day, the colors were amazing. How it taste no idea, not gonna try either! Way too hot for me as of now The Jalabomb looks great for filling with all kinds of tasty stuff!