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Fishiest Grow in Tokyo, 2025 Edition

Hello again, pepper friends!

Courtesy of @bansho hot sauce, I'm starting out with two Bahamian Goat seedlings (left) and one Bahamian Beast Peach. I'd had an absolutely terrible time getting anything to sprout recently, so these new kids are a real relief.

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I retired my Hot Thai and Yatsufusa after I ended up with a few liters of hot sauce and couldn't use it or give it away fast enough, but it's not like I can just not grow peppers. So in a few months, all the sauce should be gone, and hopefully these guys will be giving me something new to work with; I've always wanted to grow Goats, so this is exciting. The Beast variety is something I wasn't even aware of, so that's also fun.

Since I've obviously pared things down a lot (heh heh), I'm thinking of growing some larger sweet peppers to smoke and/or dehydrate, so I could potentially make something approximating Mexican food without breaking the bank here. Haven't decided on a variety yet; pretty limited here, without access to Poblano or similar, so it'll still be a bit of improvisation. Which, hey, kind of defines cooking western food for me.

Since the above picture was taken, I have split the Goats into two separate containers, so hopefully in a few weeks they'll all be ready to go into bags. I'm being more careful about keeping the lights close and the nutrients mixed right, so hopefully this time around I'll have less of a leggy-plant issue.

Here we go! 🤞
 
The kids are looking OK. :)

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Since I've finally made a point of keeping the lights close, these are probably the best squat, healthy seedlings I've grown... maybe ever. But that also resulted in a lot of mold. So, as soon as they were properly rooted, I gave them a foil covering and started bottom watering, which is going quite well. There might be some nutrient issues to work out, but they mostly seem fairly happy.

It's been quite chilly here -- we had snow twice last week, which is a big deal for Tokyo -- so I've had a heating mat going in the tent to keep it at a reasonable temperature. I'd really like to put one of the goats outside when the weather warms up, to make room in the tent for a larger, milder pepper. But that's down the road a bit. And considering it gets hot enough here to stall peppers for at least a few weeks in summer, it's kind of a questionable idea anyway. I suppose we'll see how productive they are and decide whether to roll the dice on that one.
 
Went ahead and started bell peppers and cherry tomatoes (yellow ones, though, so... maybe mini lemon tomatoes?) from seed. I figure it should be interesting to see if I can get those to grow happily in the tent, since even two hot pepper plants would be more than I need anyway.

Even here, these aren't so expensive I can't just go pick them up at the grocery store, but if I can get larger plants growing and producing well inside, maybe I can take a stab at getting Poblano and maybe things like antep aci dolma seeds imported. 🤞
 
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