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

 

[Grass Snake]

Yep, annuum. Could be. I've thought for some time that they're cool looking peppers, but only got around to it recently. I was impressed enough with the red that I had to get the yellow added to my grow list pronto!

I came across the pepper that I believe is Jamaican mushroom by accident. It was labeled as a scotch bonnet at the nursery. I should have know it wasn’t a scotch bonnet by looking at the leaves.

 

[Grass Snake]

Post in thread 'OnlyPeppers 2023'
https://thehotpepper.com/threads/onlypeppers-2023.76567/post-1769891

 

[CaneDog]

Oh, yeah. I remember that now that you remind me. I just scrolled through a few pages of your OP 2023 thread again and you had a lot of nice pods coming in around that time. What color did the Jamaican's come in? How did you like them?

 

[Grass Snake]

These ripened to red. Fairly hot from what I remember. Typically annuum taste like a red jalapeño. I have a some dried pods still. Let me know if you want some more seeds.

 

[Plantguy76]

Yep, annuum. Could be. I've thought for some time that they're cool looking peppers, but only got around to it recently. I was impressed enough with the red that I had to get the yellow added to my grow list pronto!

I love them my gateway pepper previously bad taste orange habs about turned me off but them I grew these form lake valley at the time & the rest of history

 

[Plantguy76]

I always thought this crossed with a foodarama red sb might be good

 

[SatanicFlatIron]

I came across the pepper that I believe is Jamaican mushroom by accident. It was labeled as a scotch bonnet at the nursery. I should have know it wasn’t a scotch bonnet by looking at the leaves.

lol, same for me! In 2020 I ordered some Bishop's crown seeds (probably a claimed orange version) but they sent me Jamaican hot yellow... fun fact: these two and scotch bonnet are of three different species. I was disappointed because in my case even the shape was different from what I expected. I can't remember the flavor; they weren't hot, but maybe it was my plant, or my environment...

 

[CaneDog]

Was like Christmas morning today, with 10 new varieties sprouting. It's so much nicer when you sow lots and they're coming up plentifully, rather than when you plant only a few and have too much time in between sprouts to wait and wonder.

Notably, Jamaican yellow mushroom is now on the board!

 

[henryk1984]

That Baccatum Fragilis... It looks like a piece of art...

 

[CaneDog]

That Baccatum Fragilis... It looks like a piece of art...

Hey, Henry. I really like the look of it. On the negative side, it's slow growing and one of the more temperamental pepper plants I've grown. It seems to prefer an abundance of root room, which is hard to provide for it indoors when there are many other peppers wanting space. It's also stiff-stemmed and breaks quite easily when bumped, etc., hence the name.

 

[CaneDog]

A quick update on things.

Spring prep has been coming along well. The first two rounds of seeds went 24/25 with a 7.6 day average days to sprout. Only the
Habanero Tabaquite didn't show and at this point it doesn't look like it's going to. The final pepper round is at 7-8 days and 80% are up (39/49). I put down seeds for tomatoes and tomatillos yesterday now that there's room in the germinator, so lots of things to make space for!

Here's a look at the main sprout area. A few of the first group got slightly leggy because I didn't get them under proper lighting quickly enough when they sprouted, but they seem to be strengthening and I expect them to be just fine.

I'm needing to wrap things up on mature peppers I've been growing for seeds so I'll have room for all the sprouts as they put on size. I don't enjoy culling peppers, especially with plant out getting so close, but it's hard to maintain things well when it's too crowded.

The best of the 4 Antep Aci Dolma x Tekne Dolmasi F3's is getting close to harvest time. I culled the other 3 plants, but may try to keep this one around long enough to move it outside for the season. So far I've grown these only in Solo cups and I'd like to see what the full-size plants/pods look like.

These pods and the previous F1 and F2 generations all have kind of a clamshell split in the pods in addition to the pleating.

This little guy is a Lesya. The green pod in front is crossed with the AAD x TD F3 and the one in back is uncrossed, for true seeds. The green pod set a week or more ahead of the bigger one in back, but for whatever reason is trailing it in ripening. I'd wanted to cross the Orange Lesya with the AADxTD, but the orange was too far behind so I crossed the red just for fun. I'm hoping to get a shot at crossing the orange too as it will be flowering soon.

This is a Lumbre XXX from seeds Voodoo 6 sent me, which is supposed to be one of the hottest of the Hatch types. The pod on the left I crossed with Rattlesnake, another of the hotter Hatch varieties. I was hoping to get both the cross and the parent varieties into this season's grow, but they're running just a little late so I'll likely hold off on these until the next opportunity.

The rattlesnake parent is also ripening

That's it for now. Things are sure going to start getting busy soon!

 

[CaneDog]

There's been lots happening here over the past couple weeks. Amid the potting up of the spring starts, I've been harvesting and culling mature peppers as they produce ripe pods in order to create space. So far I've potted up 59 varieties and a total of 84 pepper plants, plus a few tomatillos and tomatoes. I think I'm down to about two dozen remaining that will need pot-up soon; a mix of peppers, tomatoes, and tomatillos.

My pot-up process is to bulk fill the 3.5" pots, then dig a transplant hole and shape it with a sprouting cup. Then I just pop them out and in.

A lot of prepared containers ready for sprouts.

Here are a few Mexican varieties ready to go into their new homes (Chilhuacle Amarillo, Pasilla Apaseo, and Mulato Islena). I don't know what it is with the Chilhuacle Amarillo, but they insist on growing tall with long internodal spacing. Even placed directly under the LED where the light is most intense, they just keep going for it. In the future I may end up topping these, but this one will be the first one I grow outside and I want to see what this type does without my intervention before I start messing around with them.

The roots of this Huasteca Serrano look cool in the transparent poly port. Here, it seems the seed mysteriously managed to travel under the surface from where I planted it in the middle of the cup to the side then germinated against the plastic, giving the roots an inverted espalier appearance.

Here's a look at the most recent round of pot-ups I did on Sunday. That's a Rhomboideum photobombing from the back corner. It could really use a pot-up, but will likely have to wait until it's ready to go outside as space will be at a significant premium for the next 7-8 weeks.

I'm really hoping the weather cooperates for an early plant out this year. As fast as the new crop has been growing, I don't know how I'm going to be able to keep them all happy until then

 

[Bou]

Quality stuff as usual mate

 

[SatanicFlatIron]

My pot-up process is to bulk fill the 3.5" pots, then dig a transplant hole and shape it with a sprouting cup. Then I just pop them out and in.

a smart way to repot!

do you find any benefits in using those small cups? maybe improve horizontal root development in new pots?

Unfortunately I had to abandon the idea of tomatillo for this year, because the little piece of land they gave me is 100% shaded... I'm sowing old seeds of aromatic plants and salads

 

[Downriver]

Awesome looking plants CD. Are you still doing the CG plots?

 

[CaneDog]

Quality stuff as usual mate

Thanks, Bou. It's sure a better start than last year with all its hassles. I'm feeling pretty darn positive about this season!

 

[CaneDog]

a smart way to repot!

do you find any benefits in using those small cups? maybe improve horizontal root development in new pots?

Unfortunately I had to abandon the idea of tomatillo for this year, because the little piece of land they gave me is 100% shaded... I'm sowing old seeds of aromatic plants and salads

That's too bad about the tomatillos. Hopefully you'll get a chance to try them soon. Will they move you to a better location seasonally as they become available? That's how it worked for me with the community garden allotment.

The poly port cups do seem to do well for me. What I find best about them is I can effectively separate germination and initial growth from the development stage, optimizing the conditions for each. Then, if I time it right, the transition is super smooth and the sprouts don't seem to be slowed hardly at all. I watch the roots through the plastic and, like you say, they seem to spread out well. Then when I move the full root ball into a deeper container they're already spread out well versus more just going down.

This season I've been focused on how to supplement them most effectively during the brief time they're still in the inert seed starter mix so I can prepare them for a more strongly fortified soil mix without shock when I transplant them. The result has been that they take off super fast after pot up compared to what I'm used to. It actually has me a bit nervous as they're getting bigger faster than I'm used to and I can't even think of starting to harden them off until May.

 

[CaneDog]

Awesome looking plants CD. Are you still doing the CG plots?

Thanks, DR! I still have both garden plots and will be out there digging in the ground soon. They actually just emailed me and told me strong winds blew my landscaping cloth all over the place, so I guess I'll be out there again a little sooner than expected

 

[ahayastani]

Thanks, DR! I still have both garden plots and will be out there digging in the ground soon. They actually just emailed me and told me strong winds blew my landscaping cloth all over the place, so I guess I'll be out there again a little sooner than expected

Nice of them to contact you instead of following a finders keepers policy.

 

[SatanicFlatIron]

That's too bad about the tomatillos. Hopefully you'll get a chance to try them soon. Will they move you to a better location seasonally as they become available? That's how it worked for me with the community garden allotment.

The piece of land is only 2x1mt in the corner of the condominium garden, so there will be no upgrade but having a net and a step for access is already an upgrade compared to the previous hole I had dug in the garden, which then suffered poisoning and unwanted pruning by the elderly now it will be more difficult for them to stick their nose in!
I think that to be able to plant vegetables such as tomatoes and tomatillos I will have to wait to move house in the future and have a sunny garden. On the balcony I had grown different types of cherry tomatoes, but they are more delicate plants than chili peppers and I preferred to keep only the latter.