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