bpiela 2019 New Season, new hope

I was thinking about possibly taking a year off.   Last year was my best year growing but the pepper maggots turned me off so much that I lost interest and left way too many peppers on the plants.  I can't let this happen again. 
 
All this talk about the Sri Lanka Chili Red in the growdown for this season has gotten me pumped up.  I started looking at the ole seed collection and have come up with the start of a plan.  I gotta get those Sri Lankan Reds planted so here is my first group of peppers that I will plant.
 
Starting with all Chinense and of course a few cells for the Sri Lankas.  Using the same Parks BioDome's that I have used successfully in the past.  60 cells in a 10 row by 6 layout.  I split it down the middle and do 10 rows of 3 cells per pepper.
 
I am going to start with the "weird" stuff and some old stuff.
 
Right 10 rows
Agony F2 (Rainbow Chile Seeds)
Armageddon F4 (Rainbow Chile Seeds)
Boze Moj F4 (Rainbow Chile Seeds)
Centurion F1 (Rainbow Chile Seeds)
Ikaraka F2 (Rainbow Chile Seeds)
Insane F4 (Rainbow Chile Seeds)
Carbonero Sherwoods Cream (Walchit)
Ghost White w strain (Walchit)  (what the hay is a w strain?)
JPGS (Walchit)
Swamp Thing (Walchit)
Left 10 rows
Sri Lanka Chili Red  (Woot!)
Griefer  (Gnarly Pods)
Aryana's Chocolate Naga Viper (Gnarly Pods)
Yellow Stinger GP (Gnarly Pods)
Carolina Reaper (Juanitos)
White Bullet Habanero (Juanitos)  I love these!
Devil's Brain (Pepperlover)
Douglah Red (Pepperlover)
Trinidad Scorpion Butch T (ButchT.com)
I Scream Scropion (ButchT.com)
 
This is just a start.  Lots more to go.

 

[PaulG]

Yeah, some I've never heard of.
Very exotic    sounding, Ben,
 
Can't wait for season to roll into
full swing to see them!

 

[Harry_Dangler]

Dude ... indeed your list rocks and keeps getting bigger.  I am endeavoring to grow some of the same.    

 

[bpiela]

Yeah, some I've never heard of.
Very exotic    sounding, Ben,
 
Can't wait for season to roll into
full swing to see them!

 
Yeah, a bunch of weirdly named peppers from Rainbow Chile Seeds.  Looks like the guy there does a ton of his own crosses and then gives them exotic names.  I don't know what I will get but it will be fun trying.
 

 

[PaulG]

 
Yeah, a bunch of weirdly named peppers from Rainbow Chile Seeds.  Looks like the guy there does a ton of his own crosses and then gives them exotic names.  I don't know what I will get but it will be fun trying.
 

I'll be watching to make sure you
don't grow anything too dangerous 
 
And, I'll be looking for some great pics
from you when they get rolling!

 

[bpiela]

Started potting up some seedlings.
 

 

[bpiela]

Started another set of seeds today.  3 cells of each.  These are some pubescens, some crosses and other chinense that I wanted to grow.  I probably won't be starting any more chinense after this.
 
Pubescens:
Aji Largo
Aji Oro
Rocoto Mini Red
Rocoto Marcara
Rocoto Peron
Rocoto Riesen
 
Chinense and Crosses:
7JPN
Bhut Jolokia x Brainstrain #2 (seeds from Walchit)
White Bullet Habanero x Urfa Biber F2
PDN x Bhut Jolokia Purple
Primotalii
Yaki Blue Fawn
Bahamian Goat
Daisy Cutter
Trinidad Scorpion Chocolate
Habanero Chocolate
Leviathan Gnarly Scorpion
CAP 691
Peruvian Serlano
Yuquitania

 

[stettoman]

And just like that, you're OFF!!
 
 
Let's hope not by much....
 
G'd luck, Ben!

 

[DontPanic]

Heck!  You must be closing in on 100 different varieties here.
 
If it's not already well over that. 

 

[bpiela]

Heck!  You must be closing in on 100 different varieties here.
 
If it's not already well over that. 

 

Yep, got 80 varieties so far.  A couple didn't germinate at all.  My goal is around 150 varieties.  Still got annuums and baccatums to plant.  That will happen next month.

 

[PaulG]

 
Yep, got 80 varieties so far.  A couple didn't germinate at all.  My goal is around 150 varieties.  Still got annuums and baccatums to plant.  That will happen next month.

Pretty darn ambitious, Ben. Should be a terrific grow

 

[bpiela]

Some updates.  Its been just about two weeks since I dropped the Pubescens seeds and I haven't gotten any of them to pop yet.  What do people normally see with the pubes germination?    On my third group of chinense seeds, I was having poor germination plus some fungus started growing.  I tried to hit it with some H2O2 but I was lazy and I didn't cut it with water, so I lost a few seedlings.  Not too proud of that move.  I threw down some baccatum/frutescens seeds today, also including a short list of annuums.  That list is the following:
 
Baccatums:
Aji Amarillo
Aji Cito
Aji Fantasy
Aji Golden
Aji Melocoton
Aji Penec
Aji Pineapple
Malawi Piquante
Peachadew
Peruvian Giallo Arancio
 
Frutescens:
Cabai Burung Ungu
Duke Pequin
Aji Caballero
 
Praetermissium:
Cumari Parana
 
Annuum:
SSE #2090 (No real clue what this is.  Got the seeds from the Scorched Seed Train in 2015)
Stavros Pepperoncini
PI224411 (got these seeds from a pod from Wicked Mike a few years back)
Purple Cayenne
Tatli Sus
Thai Adaptive Early

 

[PaulG]

Great list of unusual varieties, Ben. Will be
lots of fun to watch you develop this grow.
 
"What do people normally see with the pubes germination? "
 
​I have had some success with certain varieties
like the Peruvian Red Rocoto, but less with some
others. It's good you are trying a bunch to see
which really likes your climate.
 
​As for germination, they can be stubborn germinators.
With the heating mat, I usually get hooks in 6-12 days.
Fresh seed is a good idea for these guys. And I soak
the black seeds overnight.

 

[stettoman]

What Paul said, Ben. I've had Rocoto seeds surprise me by coming up in less than a week, and last year I had some take like 6 weeks, it was ridiculous.
 
They're damm well worth it though. Most of my grow this year is Pubescens!!

 

[bpiela]

Thought I would bring this back to life.  I did a horrible job on the glog.  Had bad germ rates this year.  Lost a lamp and tried to get around not replacing it.  Lost a few plants due to neglect.  Didn't stake my plants properly when putting them outside to harden.  Just things that I did where you can see that my motivation was low.  Anyways, I got peppers in the dirt and I am happy with how things are right now in the garden.  I threw in a few marigold plants to liven up the atmosphere a bit.  Here are a couple of pics for either side of the garden.  Plants are close together, but I don't mind doing that.  I like to cram in as many as I can... 
 

 

 

[karoo]

Excellent comeback post pics.
Those plants look very happy so close together . Good looking pepper patch , soon to be pepper jungle.

 

[PaulG]

Quite a crew there, Ben!
 
Have fun crawling around in the jungle
when gathering pods!
 
Good luck going forward now that you
have everything back on an even keel...

 

[bpiela]

I don't seem to have a list of what I is in the garden at this time so I figure I need to put one in the glog.  If I bought the plant from someone, I will include that in parenthesis after the plant name.  Otherwise, I grew it from seed.  From the pics above, if I start with the first row after the marigolds....
Row 1
Peruvian Giallo Arancio                  Aji Golden
Aji Amarillo                                      Aji Penec
Aji Cito                                            Malawi Piquante
Aji Melocoton                                  Peachadew
Aji Pineapple                                  Pasilla Bajio (Juanito)
Pepper Fish                                   Pepperoncini
Mako Akokosrade (LFF)                Bhut Jolokia Giant Chocolate (LFF)
Carbaruga Yellow (LFF)                Devil's Nagabrains Chocolate (LFF)
Sandra's Giant Orange (LFF)       7 Pot Douglah (LFF)
Trinidad Perfume (CCN)                Black Cayman (CCN)
Senegal (CCN)                              Piaozinho (CCN)
Carolina Reaper (Juanito)
Row Two - annuums
Aleppo                                          Chile De Arbol
Antep Aci Dolma                           Trotolino Amoraoso (CCN)
Chilhuacle Negro                          Corbaci
Chilhuacle Yellow                          Cristal
DWB Orange Matte                      Devil's Brew
Paradicsum Alaku                        Early Perfect Italian
Cayenne Buist (CCN)                   Goat Horn
Mellow Star (CCN)                        Han Rim Gwari Put
Shishito                                        Rosemary
Super Chile                                  Tatli Süs
Super Chile Korean                     Thai Adaptive Early
Cow Horn (Bonnie)                      Cajun Belle (Bonnie)
Row Three - more annuums
Devil's Horn Giant Sweet            Jalafuego
Hermosillo (CCN)                       Jalapeno Brown
Albanian Red Hot                      Jalapeno Farmer's Market
Mulato Isleno                             Jalapeno Biker Billy F2
Catarina                                    Jalapeno Purple
Charleston                                Jalapeno Tajin F1
Hair Pepper                              Jalapeno Titan
Harbiye                                     NuMex Vaquero
Mayan Love Pepper                 Serrano
Ms. Junie                                  Petit Marseillais
Omarsko Kambe                      Cayenne Dragon (Bonnie)
Row Four - Chinense
Agony                                      Death Spiral
Armageddon                           Grenada Seasoning
Boze Moj                                 Habanada
Centurion                                Kraken Scorpion
Ikaraka                                    Naga BBG7 Orange
Insane                                     Naglah Beast
DouglahT X                             Primo X
Podzilla Choc                          Scotch Bonnet Foodarama Red
T. Rex                                     Scotch Bonnet Freeport Orange
Devil's Brain                           Scotch Bonnet Papa Dreadie
Scotch Bonnet MOA               Bahamian Goat
Row Five - Chinense
Arseclown Jolokia                   7 Pot Nebru
Bhut Orange Copenhagen     Harolds St. Bart's
Habanero Mayan                    Bhut Jolokia White w strain
Kathumby Yellow                    Bhut Jolokia x Brainstrain #2
Morugalah                              Carbonero Sherwoods Cream
Primotalii                                Swamp Thing
SB Choc                                 JPGS
SB Faria Tobago                    JPGS x Reaper
TScorpion Orange Longtail   Griefer
Yaki Blue Fawn                      Naga Viper Aryana's Chocolate
7 Pot Bubblegum White         Yellow Stinger
Row Six - Chinense
Big Black Mama (Juanito)      7 Pot Brainstrain Brazilian Chocolate
Fatalii (Juanito)                      Fatalii (CCN)
Carolina Reaper                    7JPN
Habanero White Bullet           Alphanerdz Douglah
PdN x Bhut Jolokia Purple      Bonda Mahala F4
SB7J (Juanito)                       Carolina Reaper Florissa's Peach
Scotch Brains (Juanito)         Naga Purple
7 Pot Pink                             Scotch Bonnet Kroger
Bonda Ma Jacques               Scotch Bonnet Trenton Farmers Mkt
Trinidad Scorpion Choc        Habanero Chocolate
Last row - Frutescens and Chinense
Aji Caballero            
Cabai Burung Ungu              Trinidad Scorpion Butch T
Duke Pequin                         Trinidad Scorpion I Scream
Guam Boonies (CCN)           Peruvian Serlano
Siling Labuyo (CCN)             Yuquitania
Hab White X                          Daisy Cutter
SB7J                                     Leviathan Gnarly Scorpion
Infinity  (CCN)                       Aji Chombo (CCN)
 
And in Random Pots
CAP691
Aji Charapita
Chupetinho
Biquinho Yellow
Cumari do Para
Sri Lanka Chili Red x2 (one chinense-ish and one annum)
Chiltepin      
Pequin         
Rocoto Yellow (CCN)      
Amarillear (CCN)
Mini Red Rocoto (Indoors for now)
Rocoto Riesen (INdoors for now)
Scotch Bonnet Papa Dreadie  (Sawyer)
Bhut Jolokia Red  (Sawyer)
 
That is all!  Note that LFF stands for Lawrence Family Farms and CCN stands for Cross Country Nurseries.

 

[Devv]

Well done!
 

 

[PaulG]

Gotta agree with Scott - you have a regulation
grow going there, Ben!

 

[bpiela]

Its about time I posted some pics.  Just started picking ripe annuums.  I have one ripening chinense pod which I have a pic of.
 
For starters, here is a pic of a Bonnie's Cowhorn.  Gonna have to stake this one.  A Bonnie's Cajun Bell in the background.

 
Next is a Paradicsum Alaku.  Got these seeds off of the seed train last year.  Growing true!

 
This next pic is of a Tatli Sus in the foreground and a Rosemary pepper in the background.  The Tatli Sus pods grow straight up, but for some reason, when they ripen for me, they seem to be either rotting or drying out.  Kinda like what some people are seeing with the growndown plants...

 
A Malawi Piquante.  These plants seem to grow very tall.

 
This is a Bhut x Brainstrain #2 that I got seeds from Walchit.

 
Here is a Yellow Stinger, seeds from Gnarly Pods.  It is starting to ripen.  Bad angle, cannot see the mini stinger. 

 
Another from Gnarly Pods is the Griefer.  These pods are big.

 
And here is a pic of an Ikaraka F2 from Rainbow Chile Seeds.  Cool looking.

 
Last pic for today.  This is from a Devil's Brain seed pack I still had from Pepperlovers.  I think there might have been two phenos.  This one is smooth.  I have another Devil's Brain from the same pack of seeds that didn't make it into the garden where the pods are showing the same shape but are bumpy, which I think is the desired pheno.  But, these are starting to ripen so I will be able to try these soon.  Sorry for the blurriness.  I am not a good photographer.