CaneDog 2025 Indoor/Outdoor Glog

Seems like it's been forever since I made a glog post, but 2025 is right around the corner and as someone once said, it's never too early to get started! Last year was a tough year with aphids getting into my early season starts and generally cool sucky weather, so I'm hoping for better in 2025. I'll kick things off with some pic's of my current indoor grow, which I've taken over the past couple/few weeks.

First up is a Scarlett's Chili x Poblano. They're cool looking plants with great tasting mild peppers. I'm doing a lot of work with Jalapenos and planned maintain this variety going forward while also backcrossing it a bit toward its jalapeno roots.

Another Jalapano type I have growing inside is Chile Rayado. I like how fuzzy these guys are. In addition to needing more true seeds, I want to cross it with both zapotec and orange spice jalaps.

Farmers Market Jalapeno. Another fuzzy type. Somehow I've gone forever without growing these before. I'm impressed with how vigorous and robust they are.

Mayan Cobanero. Another first time growing for me. I've been keeping it in a solo to rein in its growth, as I often do indoors, but shortly after this pic I saw it start to bud/fork so I moved it up into a 5.5" pot to fill out.

Baccatum Fragilis, with its rather unique mutated look.

Rhomboidium. After my OW finally died, I had only old-ish seeds to start again so I planted a bunch. I ended up with almost a dozen of these guys so had to cull them back. This guy was one of the lucky few that made it.

Rocoto Manzano Amarillo Ollantaytambo. Some of the rocotos haven't been too happy being restricted in solo cups, but they're looking good and still staying fairly small after getting upped to 5.5's. This guy still shows a little chlorosis on its lower leaves, but seems happy enough.

Anyhow, enough for now.
Cheers!
CD

 

[Bou]

To say your Scarlett's Chili x Poblano looks cool is an understatement CD! The leaf pattern and flowers are looking incredible

 

[CaneDog]

Thanks, Bou. It's been a fun variety and has done some cool things in the few years I've been growing it. The original cross was by PollenNut who used to post here. I got my seeds from Tybo at F3 or so.

 

[hadanero]

Nice! I also picked up some Cobanero seeds for the 2025 season. I tried some Cobanero chili powder while down in Guatemala and it was fantastic.

And the foliage on that Baccatum Fragilis looks totally wild - can't wait to see how it turns out.

Good luck with the season!

 

[CaneDog]

Nice! I also picked up some Cobanero seeds for the 2025 season. I tried some Cobanero chili powder while down in Guatemala and it was fantastic.

And the foliage on that Baccatum Fragilis looks totally wild - can't wait to see how it turns out.

Good luck with the season!

Thanks, Hadanero. Hopefully a good season all around! I'm curious, did you notice much of a smoky flavor to the Cobanero powder? I hear about that, but I'm not sure if it's just the natural smoky flavor from the dried pods or if they're smoking it for a stronger flavor.

 

[MarcV]

Seems like you started your season very early. I would never do that!


Rayado jalapeño crossed with zapotec sounds like an interesting idea. I might even try that myself, assuming I still have some rayados seeds...

 

[Marturo]

The plants are looking great CD, hopefully 25 will be a much better season for us all.

 

[Downriver]

Plants look great, CD. I knew you've been keeping busy. Good to see you glogging for 2025. I'm thinking about it as well.

Here's to an excellent grow-season '25!

 

[hadanero]

Thanks, Hadanero. Hopefully a good season all around! I'm curious, did you notice much of a smoky flavor to the Cobanero powder? I hear about that, but I'm not sure if it's just the natural smoky flavor from the dried pods or if they're smoking it for a stronger flavor.

Yep - smoky is the word, though I'm not sure if it's smoked for the powder or not. They use it in a Mayan turkey soup recipe. I think it's called Kak Ik. And the heat was substantial and pleasant without being overpowering.

 

[NJChilehead]

@CaneDog let's go! Looking forward to seeing how your season progresses!

 

[CaneDog]

Jalapeno

Seems like you started your season very early. I would never do that!


Rayado jalapeño crossed with zapotec sounds like an interesting idea. I might even try that myself, assuming I still have some rayados seeds...

Hope you can find some of those! I've been thinking about this one for a while and have finally made some progress now. The Zapotec does very well in my conditions, so I'm hoping I can combine that with some features of the Rayado, which I really like but isn't as consistent for me. Yesterday I harvested a ripe Zapotec x Rayado pod, so I put a couple seeds in soil right away and hope to have the F1's growing soon.

Here's the Zapotec plant I selected.

Here are the pods. I did a Zapotec x Orange Spice too as an "Orange Zapotec" sounds kind of cool to me, plus I like the Orange Spice in and of itself, though it has some quirky growth issues I'd like to be rid of.

Another cross I've been working on is with a couple Turkish peppers, Antep Aci Dolma x Tekne Dolmasi. The goal was to retain pleating and heat from the AAD, while introducing thinner skin and crispier/sweeter attributes of the TD. Surprisingly, both F2's I grew seemed to do this quite well. I have F3's growing now and I'm hoping for the best.

AAD x TD F3. The plants are sturdy and vigorous, in the way sweet peppers often are.

AAD x TD F2 pod. The seeds are from this, which is the first pod to ripen. All the later pods on both plants show more pleating, so I suspect the smoothness in this pod is just early-season variation. All the pods have a slightly flattened clam-shell look to them, with a bigger, deeper seam of pleating at the middle (you can somewhat see the seam in the pic, below) and then a few bunched pleats on each side, which were lacking in just this one pod.

 

[ahayastani]

Thanks, Hadanero. Hopefully a good season all around! I'm curious, did you notice much of a smoky flavor to the Cobanero powder? I hear about that, but I'm not sure if it's just the natural smoky flavor from the dried pods or if they're smoking it for a stronger flavor.

They're toasted or smoked. A few months back, I bought some cobanero on the local market, and even though the taste was good, seeds were not viable. A month ago, I bought from a different vendor. Taste was good and enough seeds were viable to get a few plants.

 

[CaneDog]

Love these videos. That's totally cool and something that could easily be done at home.

Glad you could get some viable seeds out of the locally sourced pods. That's pretty much the Holy Grail from my perspective.

 

[MarcV]

Jalapeno


Hope you can find some of those! I've been thinking about this one for a while and have finally made some progress now. The Zapotec does very well in my conditions, so I'm hoping I can combine that with some features of the Rayado, which I really like but isn't as consistent for me. Yesterday I harvested a ripe Zapotec x Rayado pod, so I put a couple seeds in soil right away and hope to have the F1's growing soon.

Here's the Zapotec plant I selected.

Here are the pods. I did a Zapotec x Orange Spice too as an "Orange Zapotec" sounds kind of cool to me, plus I like the Orange Spice in and of itself, though it has some quirky growth issues I'd like to be rid of.

Another cross I've been working on is with a couple Turkish peppers, Antep Aci Dolma x Tekne Dolmasi. The goal was to retain pleating and heat from the AAD, while introducing thinner skin and crispier/sweeter attributes of the TD. Surprisingly, both F2's I grew seemed to do this quite well. I have F3's growing now and I'm hoping for the best.

AAD x TD F3. The plants are sturdy and vigorous, in the way sweet peppers often are.

AAD x TD F2 pod. The seeds are from this, which is the first pod to ripen. All the later pods on both plants show more pleating, so I suspect the smoothness in this pod is just early-season variation. All the pods have a slightly flattened clam-shell look to them, with a bigger, deeper seam of pleating at the middle (you can somewhat see the seam in the pic, below) and then a few bunched pleats on each side, which were lacking in just this one pod.

Unfortunately I don't seem to have any more rayado seeds...

 

[CaneDog]

Unfortunately I don't seem to have any more rayado seeds...

Oh no! Well, if you decide you want some and don't have easy access feel free to let me know.

 

[MarcV]

Thanks for the offer but I don't really have any room left for more plants...

 

[CaneDog]

Took a few more pictures today.

This is the "big" table. It's 4 x 2 like the other, but it has the bigger plants on it. I culled 8 or 9 duplicates this weekend, but it's still pretty full.

I spotted the first ripe rayado half hidden in back. I noticed the pods darkening earlier this week. Other than crossing it with jalapeno zapotec and orange spice (hopefully), I needed some more isolated seeds for this one.

Another crossing project I was working on was with tomatillos. I'm hoping to cross a malinalco with a verde. I never tried to cross tomatillos before and they were a bit challenging mechanically. The pistils were super brittle and tight in under the anthers and I seemed to keep breaking them at first. A couple fruits just dropped off the plant the other day and I'm not sure they're ripe enough for the seeds to be good. The last, a slightly larger fruit, is still on the plant, but I'm not sure it's a clean cross. Bottom line is I'm not sure I'm going to get the job done right this time and I might be best off just planting both varieties again and running this back over the summer.

I haven't had a galapagoense for a couple few years now and my seeds were getting pretty old. I planted about 10 to improve my chances, as I didn't want to have to wait and then start again if nothing came up. Anyhow, 90 days in I finally got one, then more, then more. I now have 8 sprouts (I can only see 7 in the picture, but I think there's another hiding in there somewhere). It surprises me how they can sit seemingly dormant for so long, then suddenly knock out 80% germination within about a week. The sprouts look a bit scraggly, but seem happy enough.

 

[PaulG]

Impressive, my friend!

 

[CaneDog]

Impressive, my friend!

Hi Paul. Thanks! I hope you're having an enjoyable Christmastime and are looking forward to a pepper-full new year!

Cheers!

 

[Tybo]

Thanks, Bou. It's been a fun variety and has done some cool things in the few years I've been growing it. The original cross was by PollenNut who used to post here. I got my seeds from Tybo at F3 or so.

Hey CD. It's been quite a while. Glad to see you still growing these PollenNut peppers. Looks like you have a nice grow coming along.
And those Galapagoense at 90+ days to germinate! I don't know if I would have had the patience.
I wish you a successful grow this year.