glog 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

 

[CaneDog]

I was taking some photos for the fig glog and grabbed a few of the peppers as well. These are the ones I've been actively growing over the winter.

Chilhuacle Rojo. Seeds courtesy of Marturo. Looks like it should be setting peppers soon. Not sure yet if I'll keep it inside until harvest or mark the set pods and move it outside once some pods have set in isolation for true seeds.

Jalapeno Zapotec. Note to self: Don't dry the pods while they're still on the plant

Giant Yellow Rocoto. This is Semillas la Palma's Giant Yellow Rocoto. SLP used to sell seeds for a "Gelbe Riesen," which, despite translating as "giant yellow," seems to be a different variety, producing more square and distinctly lobed pods. I still have some GR seeds and plan to get some of those going down the road. I grew SLP's GY before and thought it to be clearly different than the GR. If they are indeed different, it will be nice to have both varieties.

Tesuque Pueblo. This one had been on my cull list given its propensity to sprawl and take up space I don't really have, but the way it kept growing strong and has been producing despite some neglect it earned a spot. It's also a great tasting pepper. I have plenty of true seeds from it now, so the likely plan is to prune it back and send it outside when plant-out arrives. I'm just having trouble pruning it when it keeps on keeping on like it has.

Pasilla Bajio Negro. A "Moby Dick," of sorts. I got seeds for Pasilla Negro in 2018 and grew one with awesome peppers. There's a photo of PBN showing that vendors seem to "share" and the peppers looked just like that. Since then, the rest of the original seed pack grew hybridized shorter red peppers and I've ordered multiple packs from multiple vendors and to a seed they've all been hybridized. These seeds are from Holmes Seeds and, looking at the early pods, appear like they might finally be the real deal. I sure hope so!

Pasilla Bajio Negro. Closer look at the nascent pods showing the longer, narrower shape I expect from these.

Galapagoense. A couple wild Galapagoense that stalled for a bit while my winter temps were lower, but are coming back strong now.

Lesya Red x (ADD x TD F3). I crossed these just for kicks because the Lesya Orange I'd wanted to cross with the AD x TD germinated poorly and wasn't available (I finally got one sprout of the Orange from a full pack of seeds, but by then it was way behind time. It is a very strong plant, though and is starting to flower now). This pod set about 10 days before a second pod set (which I didn't cross), but here we are maybe 2 weeks after I harvested the later setting pod and this one has only recently started to ripen. Odd, but the last of the green on the dark side of the pod should be red in a few more days.

These pods are from serrano seeds Voodoo 6 shared with me (along with several other really cool varieties). This one's obviously hybridized and showing that quirky conjoined twin pepper up top so common to some jalapeno varieties. Not sure that's what it crossed with, but maybe. I'm curious how the pods taste. If they're really good, I might grow a couple seeds and see what comes of this. I already have a new plant growing, which I hope will produce the actual serrano.

Cheers,
CD

 

[Plantguy76]

Looking good CD things sure are coming along looks like a good season ahead

 

[CaneDog]

Looking good CD things sure are coming along looks like a good season ahead

Thanks, PG. I'm about ready for the weather to get behind the effort here!

 

[CaneDog]

It's that tough time right now where there's too many peppers getting too big inside and I'm trying to transition things outside, but it'll be May 3rd at the absolute earliest and most likely the following a week or so later before I can start leaving them out overnight and sinking them into the ground and such. I have all but one of the new batch of pubescens potted up into 3 gallon containers where they'll spend the season. Several have pods already. I'm in the process of potted up the OW rocotos too, but they're mostly sticks with budding growth at this point so not particularly picture worthy. In a few weeks they should be looking much better.

SLP Giant Yellow is sporting some nice pods.

One of them is even starting to ripen and will be the first of the season.

Aji Largo has pods too. I'm using blue painter's tape to mark the isolated pods, but it's not visible in several of the photos despite that all the rocoto pods so far are isolated.

Big Brown has a couple pods. These guys aren't as sickly as some look in the pics; the flash just pulled a lot of yellow because I didn't take the time to set things up right.

Rocoto Manzano Amarillo Ollantaytambo. Nothing yet on this one. Most all of the rocotos were flowering well before the pot-up, but as usual they stopped flowering on transplant to focus their energy on filling out the new root room and not all of them had set pods by then. I'm pretty focused on getting them up to size and flowering again prior to the dog days kicking in so I didn't wait as long for them to set as I might have.

Rocoto PS Chocolate X.

San Pedro Orange. I almost lost this variety, but with my very last seed I got a weak sprout and with some TLC (it's been a challenging one to get strong) I now have some isolated pods for new seeds. For whatever reason, this one has continued flowering modestly since transplant.

Puno Pica Orange.

The only one of the new group not in the pictures is an Orange Arequipa, which is still in a 5.5" square container. I'll likely pot it up by this weekend. The OW's are 2 Aji Oro, Puno Amarillo, De Seda, Tatiana F6, and a Giant Red Arequipa, which round out the crew for 2025.

 

[CaneDog]

Recently I've been harvesting seeds from lots of the plants I grew inside overwinter. The main purpose of the OW grow is to get isolated seeds and in some cases confirm the varieties grow true when I first get seeds. Here's a few of the later ones that will likely finish up outside after getting their iso pods marked. Several of these are rootbound because I had to keep them small and will be either refurbished or replaced with recently sprouted peppers for the main season.

Chile de Onza - this one isn't rootbound and will be going outside, hopefully after a few more isolated pods set inside.

Chilhuacle Amarillo Long

This is an Orange Lesya. I haven't grown this before and I'm curious how much it's really like an orange version of the lesya. If I'm not impressed, I may cross it with the red lesya then stabilize it orange or even backcross it against the red and then stabilize it orange if I think that will make it more leysa like than it is already. Very prolific. I have to pick pods off it because it's trying to grow way too many for how big they should get.

Pasilla Bahia Negro - Holmes Seeds. I have two different seed sources for the Bahia Negro growing now, this and RFC. The previous seeds I've gotten from RFC were hybridized and produced weird red pods as did seeds from other sources, so I'm happy to see what look like the real deal here.

Surti Marcha. Unfortunately this guy's terribly root bound, but when potted up will turn into a beautiful plant with big clusters of pods. I got the seeds from @Indiana_Jesse (thanks, Jesse!) along with seeds for kanthari and vera cruz, which I'm also growing this season. Last year's plant looked amazing, but had gotten a late start and shut down hard as soon as the mercury started to dip in fall so I still haven't tried the pods.

Chilhuacle Rojo, seeds from Marturo, who generously shared with me from a seed order he made. I wasn't expecting upright pods like this for it and have two examples doing this. I'm wondering if something's up here. I also have a Chilhuacle Rojo from RFC growing so, having never grown this variety before, I'll be curious to compare the two.

Zebrange. Some baccatum just don't seem to thrive in solo cups with the minimal root room they provide, but this one did grow a couple nice pods. Normally I'd pot it up to a 5.5, but I simply didn't have the space to so it and some others got rootbound and scraggly. I harvested the 3 pods today and I'll refurbish the plant and put it outside asap, where hopefully it'll do a lot better.

Chilcostle Rojo. One of several new-to-me Mexican heirloom varieties I added to the collection this season.

Cheers!

 

[Marturo]

Chilhuacle Amarillo Long

I've seen 2 versions, a long & a small bell pepper shape.

Chilhuacle Rojo, seeds from Marturo, who generously shared with me from a seed order he made. I wasn't expecting upright pods like this for it and have two examples doing this. I'm wondering if something's up here. I also have a Chilhuacle Rojo from RFC growing so, having never grown this variety before, I'll be curious to compare the two.

Whoa! This is going to be harder than I thought.
I have a feeling it's time for another Pic of Etsy preparing my mixed seed order. Kinda like the Amazon seed buy so many moons ago.
Well CD looks like the Chilhuacle Rojo, & the Chilhuacle Amarillo will have to be my next seasons hunt.

Mommie & Me ??? What was I thinking?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1771774217/chilhuacle-rojo-hot-peppers-seeds?ref=yr_purchases

 

[Downriver]

Your OW's look awesome, CD. Great job!

 

[CaneDog]

Mommie & Me ??? What was I thinking?

Sometimes you have to roll the dice. I have a 3rd one started that looks maybe a little different so far. We'll see how it turns out. It's always possible I mixed up seeds when planting or something. It's happened before

I've seen 2 versions, a long & a small bell pepper shape.

I Googled "Chilhuacle" and am told it means "ancient chile," in Nahuatl/Aztec. It seems reasonable that there's different local chiles called essentially "old yellow chile," but it's the regular one versus the long one that I think of as chilhuacle amarillo. I never even knew the long existed until recently. Who knows, maybe it didn't!

Your OW's look awesome, CD. Great job!

Thanks DR. The early season has a very positive feel to it so far

 

[ahayastani]

Chilcostle Rojo. One of several new-to-me Mexican heirloom varieties I added to the collection this season.

A good one, and difficult to find, even in Oaxaca. Chilcostle, by the way, means "yellow chile".

 

[CaneDog]

A good one, and difficult to find, even in Oaxaca. Chilcostle, by the way, means "yellow chile".

Maybe it's a yellow red...