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
My grow list thus far:
I'll be growing out just 2 plants of the majority of these varieties. The exceptions being some of the hybrid lines I'm working on and varieties I tend to eat more of.
I have little under 200 m² of growing space at my allotment. I think I'm going to fit most of this in there. I also have a few m² available at home. Whatever doesn't fit in there will go in pots, the rest I'll just have to give away to friends and family I guess.
This season I wanted to experiment a bit with my germination methods. Previously I'd just stick the seeds in the potting mix, keep them warm and humid, and just wait until they showed themselves. I didn't want to mess around with the fragile seedlings. But the method has a lot of downsides. You never know when or if a seed is going to germinate, sometimes nothing happens and all the time spent waiting is wasted.
I bought some sealable sauce cups and pretreated the seeds in a 2% potassium nitrate solution. I added H2O2 (3%) at a 9:1 ratio to the KNO3 solution. I soaked the seeds for about 24 hours after which I removed the seeds from solution, dried the cups and placed the seeds back on a moist piece of kitchen paper.
The results are very good. C. praetermissum seeds finished the treatment on January 7th and germinated on the 11th. Aji Amarillo seeds finished the treatment on the 11th and germinated on the 14th.
By now most varieties have germinated, except for most wilds and some untreated chinense varieties that I've sown prior to deciding to do a pretreatment. I still have to start all annuums and frutescens, but I'm going to start those in about 2 to 3 weeks I think. Maybe even a bit later.
I'm really looking forward to my Aribibi Gusano hybrids. I also hope the CGN 19189 and C. flexuosum seeds germinate soon, I'm really excited for those. First year of trying to grow the harder to cultivate wild peppers, fingers crossed.
Ps. One of the main reasons I stop updating is a growing frustration of adding pictures to my posts. It's just such a hassle to do it properly. Some tips on that are appreciated!
So last season I swore to scale down a little. Again. Guess what? I scaled up. Again. Whoops
My grow list thus far:
Code:
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
Guinidilla
NuMex Piñata
NuMex Lemon Spice
Rooster Spur
Thunder Mountain Longhorn
Peter Pepper
Frutescens
Aji Guaguao
Wild Lombok
Duke Pequin
Cabai Burung Ungu
Wilds
CGN 19198
CAP 1141
C. galapagoense
C. eximium
C. flexuosum
CGN 22084
CAP 501
Hybrids
Brazilian Starfish x Lemon Drop F2
Brazilian Starfish x Lemon Drop F3a
Brazilian Starfish x Lemon Drop F3b
(BS x LD F2B) x Lemon Drop BC1
Aji Amarillo x Lemon Drop F1
Aji Angelo x Cumari Pollux F2
CGN 21500 x Aribibi Gusano F1
Goat's Weed x Aribibi Gusano F1
Goat's Weed x Thunder Mountain Longhorn F1
Thunder Mountain Longhorn x Aribibi Gusano F1
Small Orange Thai x Thunder Mountain Longhorn F1
Aji Omnicolor x CAP 214 F1
Purple Thunder (PaulG)
Trippaul Threat Violet F7 (PaulG)
BBG7 x Tabasco (Nevralex)
Overwinter
CGN 21500
C. chacoense
Cumari Pollux
Brazilian Starfish x Lemon Drop F2b
Chiltepin (bonchi)I'll be growing out just 2 plants of the majority of these varieties. The exceptions being some of the hybrid lines I'm working on and varieties I tend to eat more of.
I have little under 200 m² of growing space at my allotment. I think I'm going to fit most of this in there. I also have a few m² available at home. Whatever doesn't fit in there will go in pots, the rest I'll just have to give away to friends and family I guess.
This season I wanted to experiment a bit with my germination methods. Previously I'd just stick the seeds in the potting mix, keep them warm and humid, and just wait until they showed themselves. I didn't want to mess around with the fragile seedlings. But the method has a lot of downsides. You never know when or if a seed is going to germinate, sometimes nothing happens and all the time spent waiting is wasted.
I bought some sealable sauce cups and pretreated the seeds in a 2% potassium nitrate solution. I added H2O2 (3%) at a 9:1 ratio to the KNO3 solution. I soaked the seeds for about 24 hours after which I removed the seeds from solution, dried the cups and placed the seeds back on a moist piece of kitchen paper.
The results are very good. C. praetermissum seeds finished the treatment on January 7th and germinated on the 11th. Aji Amarillo seeds finished the treatment on the 11th and germinated on the 14th.
By now most varieties have germinated, except for most wilds and some untreated chinense varieties that I've sown prior to deciding to do a pretreatment. I still have to start all annuums and frutescens, but I'm going to start those in about 2 to 3 weeks I think. Maybe even a bit later.
I'm really looking forward to my Aribibi Gusano hybrids. I also hope the CGN 19189 and C. flexuosum seeds germinate soon, I'm really excited for those. First year of trying to grow the harder to cultivate wild peppers, fingers crossed.
Ps. One of the main reasons I stop updating is a growing frustration of adding pictures to my posts. It's just such a hassle to do it properly. Some tips on that are appreciated!
