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CAPCOMS COCOA GROW 2017

I am starting early this year. maybe 3-4 weeks left here for outdoor growing and it will be time to put most of it to rest. I will be bringing a few plants indoors for the winter and as such, my seed starts my be more restricted this year. Lots of white flies showing up this fall and I would like to check them before the indoor retreat. Aphids? Yeah, they may hitch a ride but they are of no concern to me.
 
Big changes to next years grow. going to container grow again, but I am upgrading to 10 and 15 gal pots. haven't decided which yet though. 10s are wider and 15 gal are deeper.
 
I will continue using Nectar for the Gods nutrient line as it has not let me down and I am making inquiries as to setting up a tea making process as well.
 
My seed starts will be determined by what varieties I can obtain in the next few months and my inventory. I will post a list of them shortly, as well as my extended grow plants.
 
Oh, why cocoa grow 2017? cause 95% of my grow this coming year is going to be chocolates. So I will be looking for anything and everything chocolate and high heat is of no concern.
 
 
 
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A few of my plants are just trying to be beasts.
 
CPR
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Jays Chocolate Ghost Scorpion
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Chocolate Borg 9
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Starting to get some pod sets and tons of follow up buds and flowers. Weather is sunny and in the low 70s today and negligible humidity.
I have been pruning heavily to allow sunlight penetration into the lower branches.
 
Lesson learned for 2017, You can subject healthy pepper plants that have obtained a solid root system to very inhospitable situations that greatly stress the plants out, only to have them bounce back and impress the shit out of you. In the back of my mind I thought I may have severely effected this years crop by attempting to get a head start with a 1 month early plant out.
As of this moment, I have never been more satisfied with where a particular grow is at.
 
Just pulled and ate the 1st pod of the year and is it any surprise it was a jalapeno?
What I am surprised about though is the heat it had for an early pod. Generally the 1st ones are very disappointing.
I have seen some fruit sets for Reapers, choc ghost scorpions, choc borg 9 just to name a few. Early yet but now things start to get newbyish. I find myself checking them more often hoping they will surprise me with some unexpected steroidal like growth. Patience will return after a few unchanged checkups.
 
Genetikx said:
What's new Cap?
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lots of rain. almost too much.
I kinda wanted the pots to dry out a bit as I started to get a lot of leaf drop. Mature leaves, new leaves even some with no notable signs of anything wrong.
 
On another note, getting pods on CPR, choc primos, 7 pot burgundy,choc brains, maddballs and choc reapers.
The choc primos are exhibiting the strangest growth pattern I have seen. They have stopped increasing growth on the main stalk and are branching from the lowest nodes. almost looks like 4-5 new plants growing right next to the main plant. Ive seen a few aphids but nothing to be concerned about and the appearance of Japanese beetles. hoping they do not increase in quantity.
 
I'll get some pics posted
 
 
I was out of town for the last week and hoped I would see a significant change in my grow upon my return. I am disappointed in this years output and of its further potential. Last years plants were small trees by this time and this years plants are little mote than they were 4 weeks ago. I am also seeing a lot of pods not growing into what they are supposed to be representative of. I am not real hopeful of any kind of crop that supply me through out the winter, unless there is that typical last 6 week splurge of production. I lay blame on the continuously wet and uncharacteristically cooler summer we have been experiencing.
 
I am so disappointed in this year I am going to start looking at next year, RIGHT NOW.
 
CAPCOM said:
I was out of town for the last week and hoped I would see a significant change in my grow upon my return. I am disappointed in this years output and of its further potential. Last years plants were small trees by this time and this years plants are little mote than they were 4 weeks ago. I am also seeing a lot of pods not growing into what they are supposed to be representative of. I am not real hopeful of any kind of crop that supply me through out the winter, unless there is that typical last 6 week splurge of production. I lay blame on the continuously wet and uncharacteristically cooler summer we have been experiencing.
 
I am so disappointed in this year I am going to start looking at next year, RIGHT NOW.
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Sorry to hear that. I hope you get that late pod push!
 
austin87 said:
Sorry to hear that. I hope you get that late pod push!
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Thanks, I am going to spend the next few months sourcing quality and or confirmed seed. Will probably have to go to original sources to get true seed.
 
Just harvested and dried the first pods of the year. chocolate borg 9, jays chocolate ghost scorpion, chocolate scorpion, madd balls and a small chocolate primo.Tasted a chocolate primo flake and was impresses by the sweet taste up front. Pods was  small and heat was appropriately so. the madd balls on the other hand are insame!!! for heat.
 
JCGS and CPR harvest.
 
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I know the CPRs look really morugaish, but the first pod looked more reaperish than these. taste and heat will tell.
 
 
I have a few 7 pot burgundy pods on my bonchi candidate plant that I am allowing to ripen to their fullest potential before removing them as I dont have any more seed stock from them.
 
 
 
On a different note, I am going to seriously rethink my plans for 2018. From projected grow list to nutrient supplements to seed acquisitions and everything in between. This year was below substandard in comparison to the past 3 years and I knew less about what I was doing in each of those. I am quite literally going to start from scratch in many areas.
 
 
Chocolate reaper x scorpion
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Chocolate Bhutlah SM
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Chocolate Borg 9
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Jays Chocolate Ghost Scorpion
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Chocolate BBG
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I will have the reaper scorpion for lunch tomorrow. I tried the Bhutlah Sm today(see my Status for details). I had the bbg and JCGS on Sunday. I dried all the Borg 9s and will have to wait for the next fresh pod to try them. As well as for the CPRs.
I have one chocolate primo plant that I am reluctant to talk about for fear of jinxing it. It has grown low, branching low as well and only put out a few pods. But the pods are growing gnarly and dimpled in the proper primo shape. They are also very slow to ripen as none have even started to do so.
 
Dried some pods tonight. Borg 9 was fairly prolific but I think ironically the CPRs were the stars this year not only in #s but in expressing true form.
I may have enough for powder for another year and that is satisfying.
 
I think I must change things up a little for next year.
One. I am going to acquire seed from very specific and or trusted sources. Maybe the originators.
Two. I am going to limit my grow varieties significantly to a more manageable number.
Three. I am changing up my nutrient source. I dont know what that will be yet but I will figure that out before seed goes under.
Four. I am going to start isolating everything.
 
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