Hello and thank you for viewing! This is my first season in miami fl focusing on peppers. Last season was my first ever grow in general and I seem to have a green thumb when it comes to a lot of plants, but peppers seem to be different. I use self watering containers which you can see in the first picture of my yellow scotch bonnet + ? pepper. These boxes save me when it comes to watering everything especially tomatoes, but peppers I think are different since they need the soil to dry out right? Anyways, my ignorant self is very open to any guidance and opinions on what I should be doing.
So here's two pics of my yellow scotch bonnet that I bought last year and a pepper plant which I thought was a bhut when I started it but it's probably a pequin bird chili based on the seeds that I have. The scotch bonnet was doing decently but now it seems not as happy.
Surprisingly, my most healthy looking plant is something that popped out of my mushroom/worm compost bin. It topped it and it grew nicely, but has always been infested with white flies and ants. Now that the temp has been going down, they have somewhat left and it started to produce some peppers. Not sure what it's going to be, but we'll see soon. That's a jackfruit in the corner of the box if anyone near miami wants one by the way.
So like I said, the white flies down here are kinda nasty. Makes it impossible to put anything that's small and not established outside. I have this grow light setup with other small plants like my heirloom tomatoes.
The first is one of two non hot pepper, a lunchbox pepper from johnny seeds
An aji pineapple I got from Wicked Mike
Round of Hungary Pimento from johnny seeds, my other non hot pepper
Cream Fatalii from Wicked Mike
Trinidad pimento seasoning pepper from some Trini guy I met
This one isn't doing so well, what do you guys think? It's a hot santa fe grande in my grow box under a light. I water from the top instead of put water in the reservoir
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t29/xarsharn/pepper%20log/santafe.jpg
And finally a cachucha
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t29/xarsharn/pepper%20log/cachucha.jpg
I have about 30 mild-hot plants on my wishlist (mostly aji and chinense's) from chileplants.com but they don't ship till january. Got on wicked mike's seed train too so i'm looking forward to starting some of his super hots and I have a couple of other pepper seedlings i'm trying to get started: more pimentos, aji lemon drop, fish peppers, bhut and my yellow scotch bonnets. I think i'm getting myself into something a bit too big but oh well, can't have too many peppers
So here's two pics of my yellow scotch bonnet that I bought last year and a pepper plant which I thought was a bhut when I started it but it's probably a pequin bird chili based on the seeds that I have. The scotch bonnet was doing decently but now it seems not as happy.
Surprisingly, my most healthy looking plant is something that popped out of my mushroom/worm compost bin. It topped it and it grew nicely, but has always been infested with white flies and ants. Now that the temp has been going down, they have somewhat left and it started to produce some peppers. Not sure what it's going to be, but we'll see soon. That's a jackfruit in the corner of the box if anyone near miami wants one by the way.
So like I said, the white flies down here are kinda nasty. Makes it impossible to put anything that's small and not established outside. I have this grow light setup with other small plants like my heirloom tomatoes.
The first is one of two non hot pepper, a lunchbox pepper from johnny seeds
An aji pineapple I got from Wicked Mike
Round of Hungary Pimento from johnny seeds, my other non hot pepper
Cream Fatalii from Wicked Mike
Trinidad pimento seasoning pepper from some Trini guy I met
This one isn't doing so well, what do you guys think? It's a hot santa fe grande in my grow box under a light. I water from the top instead of put water in the reservoir
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t29/xarsharn/pepper%20log/santafe.jpg
And finally a cachucha
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t29/xarsharn/pepper%20log/cachucha.jpg
I have about 30 mild-hot plants on my wishlist (mostly aji and chinense's) from chileplants.com but they don't ship till january. Got on wicked mike's seed train too so i'm looking forward to starting some of his super hots and I have a couple of other pepper seedlings i'm trying to get started: more pimentos, aji lemon drop, fish peppers, bhut and my yellow scotch bonnets. I think i'm getting myself into something a bit too big but oh well, can't have too many peppers
This coming up season is going to be better for me. 
My seeds will be started earlier this year and inside. 
