Welcome to the The BalcoJungle, season 2024/2025 GLOG!!!
<= First Year
I've had plenty of pictures to choose the representative image from but this one is just beautiful, so, I couldn't say no to it!
Ok, I will show you my growing list for the year now, then do a really long summary of the last season - this was my first one, I get to be excited and brag a lot about what I learned and what do I love about what etc etc. It will be in a spoiler, because it is SO MUCH TO READ and nobody should be forced to see that wall. I am proud of pictures tho...
And then I will go into the next season, because it has already started.
Have an amazing time here, you beautiful soul! <3
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GROW LIST:
I - sown 28 of September 2024
Tomatoes (All from World Of Flowers Sp. z.o.o.):
- Malinowy Kapturek (4)
- Venus (4) - they were sown at two different times but the difference dissapeared lately;
- Aztek (5) - same as with Venus;
- Aji Mango (3) from Fatali Seeds;
- Aji Nortero (4) from Fatali Seeds;
- Purple Pumpkin (3) from Fatali Seeds;
- Orange Blob (1) from Fatali Seeds;
- Aji Jobito (3) from Fatali Seeds;
- Thunder Mountain Longhorn (2) from Fatali Seeds;
- Aji Melocoton (3) from Texas Hot Peppers;
- Ubatuba Cambuchi (1) from Texas Hot Peppers ( weird, on the chart I have two but I don't remember two, have to look into it);
- Bulgarian Carrot (3) from Texas Hot Peppers;
- Aji Lemon Drop (2) from Bohica Pepper Hut;
- Aji White Fantasy (2) from Bohica Pepper Hut;
- Aji Chachucha Purple Spotchlet (1) from Bohica Pepper Hut;
- Tribelli Orange (2) from supermarket lool;
- Big White (3) from supermarket;
- Sugar Rush Stripey (2) from Hydroponika Bez Ogródek (g2);
- Sugar Rush Peach (2) from pali2razy (g2);
- Aribibi Chocolate (2) from pali2razy;
5 Fermented Seeds Experiment (some did sprout but died, overall experiment failed due to neglect ;o)!
- SR Peach (pali2razy);
Hab Yellow (nursery);- PJ ICe (Towns-End Chilli & Spice);
SR Stripey(it didn't survive)(Hydroiponika Bez Ogródek);Ramiro (supermarket);Fatali (Heldros);- Dorset Naga (ChilliChump); //well, it's green still on 2nd of March ;o
Aribibi Chocolate(pali2razy);Black Molten (Towns-End Chilli & Spice);
II - sown 2nd of December 2024
- Aribibi Chocolate (4) pali2razy;
- Orange Blob (??) FataliSeeds;
- Purple Pumpkin (3) FataliSeeds;
- Aji Jobito (2) FataliSeeds;
- Aji Norteno (??) FataliSeeds;
- Aji Mango (5) from Fatali Seeds;
White Fantasy (5) Bohica Pepper Hut;- Cachucha Purple Sploched (4) Bohica Pepper Hut;
- Thunder Mountain Longhorn (??) Bohica Pepper Hut;
- Bulgarian Carrot (1) Texas Hot Peppers;
Ubatuba Cambuchi (5) Texas Hot Peppers;- KS Linzo Chocolate (4) Texas Hot Peppers;
- Manzano (??) Bohica Pepper Hut;
III - sown 5th of January 2025
- Cayenne Red (5) from supermarket (g3);
- Cayenne Yellow (5) from supermarket (g3);
- SR Peach (5) from pali2razy (g2);
- SR Stripey (5) from Hydroiponika Bez Ogródek (g2);
- Jalapeno (5) from supermarket (g2);
- Habanero Yellow (5) from supermarket (g2);
- Habanero Orange (5) from supermarket;
- Habanero Chocolate (5) from supermarket;
- Habanero Red (5) from supermarket (g2);
- Fatali (5) from supermarket (2 from Bohica Pepper Hut and 3 from Heldros [g2]); //didn't sign which are which
- Red Blob (5) from supermarket; //I'm calling it Red Blob because it looked like a green blob and then it got red.
- Medusa (5) from FataliSeeds;
G2 being 2nd generation and g3 the third.
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I will do now a 2024/2025 season in a nutshell! And hide it in a spoiler, because it's a lot of text!
Season 2023/2024 was so much fun! I've had so much work on the balcony and so much relaxing time it is really my favourite place on hearth right now. I mean, not now, now it's cold and there is still plenty to do and I am kinda running from it gracefully with a cold and on cold medication so very very... funny but from time to time that was the case with every love partner I've had to this day so, I think it may be love.
Every part of the journey was fun in a different way.
~Choosing seeds and them germinating! - everyone loves it, I am not different here. Giving life to new plants?! From tiny little thing to months of jars on shelves!? I think it is important to do a little bit for Earth and that may be a really good little bit. Like really juicy one. Like walking dogs and seeing some bottles on the road because people can be pricks. You're going to throw away some poop? Take the bottle. Or 3, because more people nearby are pricks. Throw them away with the poop. No problemo.
So, yes, seeds in a dirt, hooks, beautiful green or even purple leaves, so so so wonderful, this part is fun! Have to say, non of the ajis from the picture germinated or germinated but I lost them. Only freebie grew and still gives me berries!
~Caring for saplings inside under the lights in my room! Seeing them growing out of one pot and another! And another! And where the hell is May?! Three months from now! WTF!? - yeeees, this part can be crazy sometimes. Especially if you're bad at keeping the list small AND I KNOW ALL OF US ARE! It flies fast but May is always so so far away and plants are looking at you with anger. Love, I mean, love. Just make double pots at the end there. And buy some hydro solution. Pff. But sirously, there is half a year of greenery inside my room and it makes my heart sing. Rearranging the futniture so peppers have all the (window) sun in the world!? Huhu!
~First nice sun all around the house - I don't have outside yet to put them on the ground but chasig the sun inside was fun too, I remember. Plenty of work but it is kinda first big work of the season, so, still fun. don't have pictures tho...
~FIRST BALCONY TRIP. Hah. Sun and good temperatures at the balcony, I remember it was tempting me way too soon to put them there fulltime. Nights still were too cold for them to groow reasonably and I learned that inside is better for the roots and roots are the most important till jun even. Patience is what we grow here! Omg it was in MARCH!
~Spring was kinda unpleasand because I was constantly seeing them as too small and I really have to loose this part of my character because it doesn't matter, at the end they were way bigger than I imagined. This season I hope OWs will take the focus here.
~Summer and the first pods - everything before that stopped existing because from now on, everything is constantly producing amazing colourful pods. I mean, there was a month where I was waiting for them to ripen, again, insant rewards are fun but that is not how it works here. But from the first red/yellow to the last (FATALI IS STILL RIPENING!) there is so much peppers to pick, my inner child is content.
~More pods! - after entering harvest season there is nothing else, only pods pods pods pods...
~Autumn and now - I don't wana talk about it!
But seriously, sauce making is amazing, I have some sugar rush ready to make a jelly out from (yes, I saw some of your posts and today I woke up with a jelly in mind). Preparing OWs, taking all the plants from dirt, cutting them and cleaning the space... It poses some new challenges to my weird brain but I am sure after I start it won't be so bad.And here you have! 2023/2024 season in a nutshell! I chose few pictures to show some parts of my journey but there were way more of them, of pods harvested and jars done.
What's the most fun in a weird way? Having one season dying but not dead, still lingering with some jars and greenery on the balcony and second being born with tiny leaves under the bulbs. Like, it works! Do you wanna all year and a little bit more time to spend on a passion!? Choose chillies! It will give you some time you din't know you had!
In a weird way? Because it is somewhere in the background of where the fun usually is
If you get me. It's so satisfying when you think about it but you don't really go and think about it all the time powering that satisfaction to do some good in a world. It doesn't last but it... is.I AM SO SORRY. I THINK I MAY HAVE TEMPERATURE.
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2nd of October
I have put some seeds to the ground officially starting the 2nd season! They are under 2k lumens, 4k kelvins light bulbs (3 of those) which did amazing job last year.
So peacefull. At this time, the life is being called upon! Wizardry in progress! DNA activating! CREATION TAKING PLACE! But quietly and below the surface.
There is even THE LIST! But it is readable only to me, so, I will now create the sheet.
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Green ones are tomatoes.
Seeds for the jalapeno x ramiro experiment are inside the pepper which started to color few days ago, so, soon enough!
Big White is the sweet supermarket pepper, tribelli orange also. I wanted to have more sweet ones on the balcony but while browsing online shops I tend to focus on shapes and colors and then I wake up few days later with hot peppers seeds in my hands not knowing how what whyyyyy? And if I want something and tend to be stupid, Universe is giving me things anyway.
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I don't know if I remember it correctly (wouldn't be the first time if not) and the day of sowing was 28th of September because I know that was a day I was writing the post about doing that. But maybe tomatoes are just so fast... because I have pictures done DAY AFTER the 2nd and first tomatoe sprouted. It was Venus!
I'm choosing the 2nd of October as THE DAY because I am more sure of this one (surer sounds wrong).
I wouldn't put them in the ground just yet but I wanted to have some inside anyway and the varieties are determinate, I wanted to test how they behave under the lights. I am not as scared they will make my early inside jungle into something wilder than I want. I like wild but undeterminate are too crazy for me, grow too fast and the lights soon enough would be overran.
And then the next day!
First peppers sprouted 6th of October, so 4 days after sowing.
It was Orange Blob! The winner of this year's germination contest!
Link to picture from Fatali Seeds.
Soon after Melocoton and Tribelli. And then the rest joined in. They were fast. I remember most varieties bought online last year sprouted to and some even over the month time.
Today's picture.
I have to say, lilies experiment failed. I mixed some lilllies, they both have put seed... thing one of which ripened and those were the seeds. Bu I think they were empty inside, so light, it would go far places on the windy day. I have never seen one so, I've put them in the ground anyway not expecting much. And they failed.
Ajio Jobito, and Manzano Yellow didn't sprout. Orange Blob sprouted, so there is a win, I don't need the second one. Aztek the tomatoe... I wanted to give one away to my dad but I always can clone the one that sprouted.
I really hope for Manzano to germninate but like I said at some point thinking about the last season - no fail is worth crying about because the wins take the spotligt. Should, ofc, and we decide how soon they will but the sure thing is - they always will with time.
Soon enough I will be sharing those wisdom so much, you will throw up rainbows at me.
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So, here we are! October 2024! Woah.
Last year I didn't really start the season any day, because I had some peppers already and was sowing some in different times, I think in November, maybe December and January... This time more order! Chaos is still here but there always will be with me as a grower! It adds sparks. Nah, I'm just crazy and lazy sometimes.
I like what I see from the start, so, this is going to be wonderful season!
Brought to you by Bear.
He thinks he has cold also. But he's an actor. I should start paying him for his work, he is really good and I kinda feel like I'm stealing from him especially when he stops and pretends to piss when he sees some mildly big dogs far enough so they won't yet start pulling towards but close enough that he thinks he can buy some time to meet them. He also can yawn pretty loud if he wants attention and talks. So, perfect husky mastered.
Have a great day and night!
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At first glance I thought the mossy branches were part of the plant, but now I think they are part of the support 
nice purple calyces anyway!
. My current location sucks, I started 5 plants somewhere in March and I've got only 1 left: 2 destroyed by a baby tlacuache (caught and handed over to an organisation that releases them in the wild, away from urbanized areas) and 2 by cats.