2022 - too early to get started...

My real start of the season is still months away but I couldn't resist to put something in the soil already - Tasmanian Black!

 

[Trident chilli]

Good luck Marc with your growing season I will be following your progress closely 🌶

 

[MarcV]

Good luck Marc with your growing season I will be following your progress closely 🌶

Thanks, and thanks again for the seeds!

 

[PaulG]

Off to a great SB season, @MarcV! You can't go
wrong with @Trident chilli seeds, John is very
generous with them. Probably has done as much
to promote Scotch Bonnet growing as anyone!

You are going to have a great grow even if no more
come up, which I'm sure is not the case. Are you
going to grow multiples of each kind, or one of each?

Nice table. Good records are important. You know,
you can put it in post #1 and then you can edit it forever.

 

[MarcV]

I can only hope that they will grow as well as they did in the 2021 season. Unfortunately I can only keep one plant of each variety. As usual I am generously over my growing limit with what's germinating right now, otherwise I would definitely keep more seedlings (or grow more varieties ). It's not only the seedlings that I have to count but I still have the 3 overwintering scotch bonnets and the tasmanian black is also still around!

 

[MarcV]

Nice table. Good records are important. You know,
you can put it in post #1 and then you can edit it forever.

I think I may need the "extreme" status to be able to do that

 

[PaulG]

I can only hope that they will grow as well as they did in the 2021 season. Unfortunately I can only keep one plant of each variety. As usual I am generously over my growing limit with what's germinating right now, otherwise I would definitely keep more seedlings (or grow more varieties ). It's not only the seedlings that I have to count but I still have the 3 overwintering scotch bonnets and the tasmanian black is also still around!

You are a victim of your own success, @MarcV!
Got friends? for sharing plants?

 

[MarcV]

Unfortunately no...

 

[MarcV]

Off to a great SB season, @MarcV! You can't go
wrong with @Trident chilli seeds, John is very
generous with them. Probably has done as much
to promote Scotch Bonnet growing as anyone!

John has been very generous in sharing seeds, for which I am very grateful!

 

[Trident chilli]

John has been very generous in sharing seeds, for which I am very grateful!

Anyone that has a passion for bonnets deserve seed …. Where would we be if people didn’t continue to grow Erin’s P. Dreadie and Steve Queen’s MoA to name two

 

[MarcV]

Meanwhile, the Tasmanian Black is growing slowly but steadily...

I have the impression that one of my overwintering Scotch Bonnets, the Schneider Farms, isn't doing all that well. Its leaves aren't looking as healthy as the leaves from the other two. In fact it never did look as good as the others since I took it inside. And now it looks like the leaves show signs of drying out and they feel dry. The plant is also pushing out a massive amount of flowers which might be a survival reaction. I'm not sure what to think of it...

Three plants standing close together, top left Papa Dreadie, top right Freeport Orange, bottom Schneider Farms.

Leaves and flowers on the Schneider Farms SB...

 

[Sulsa]

Do you water them with rain or tapwater? Tapwater can cause some mineral build up in the leaves, wich leads to "dry leafs" and brown spots/tips on the leaves.

 

[MarcV]

Tap water, I still don't have a rain water reservoir...
But I think I may have watered it too little... it's not so easy to determine the water level in the bonzai scales they are currently growing in. Normally I lift the container to "feel" the amount of water that is still present but those ceramic scales are already heavy by themselves so that method doen't work here...

 

[Sulsa]

If that's the case,they should recover quite fast after correcting humidity of the soil.

 

[MarcV]

I do hope so, it was my favorite SB of the 2021 season...

 

[MarcV]

First of the white scotch bonnets just popped! I already though I heard something

 

[MarcV]

Status of today...
I already reduced the number of seedlings, keeping only the ones that look the most healthy. I also reduced a couple of varieties to zero (SB Chocolate and SB MOA Red). But that doesn't give me a bad feeling as I already have enough varieties to fill the next season . I still have some other SB Chocolate seeds in the propagator that I recently planted so there's still a chance .
I also still expect a couple of hooks of the SB Stuffing and SB Bahamian, I did notice something is "going on" in their respective pots which are still in the propagator.

 

[MarcV]

Yep, just a couple of hours later and hooks are appearing of both the SB Bahamian and Stuffing!

 

[Sulsa]

By the end of summer you will be in bonnet heaven for sure!

 

[MarcV]

If it works out like the 2021 season I will probably end up needing another fridge

 

[ChilliCrosser]

Status of today...
I already reduced the number of seedlings, keeping only the ones that look the most healthy. I also reduced a couple of varieties to zero (SB Chocolate and SB MOA Red). But that doesn't give me a bad feeling as I already have enough varieties to fill the next season . I still have some other SB Chocolate seeds in the propagator that I recently planted so there's still a chance .
I also still expect a couple of hooks of the SB Stuffing and SB Bahamian, I did notice something is "going on" in their respective pots which are still in the propagator.

That's a whole lot of Scotch and Bonnets.