Caranx's ThailandGrow

So thought it might be fun to keep a Glog on my first pepper grow!
Went back to Europe in June to visit family and bought a bunch of seeds to bring back to Thailand. Returned to Thailand last week and first seeds went into my DIY propagators 6 days ago, second batch was started yesterday and the last batch will be started this evening.

To germinate the seeds i first put them in water for 24 hours to soften up the shell and after that they were put into pure cococoir.
Once they come up some will be transplanted into a cococoir/perlite/wormcast mix and some will go into some experimental mixes since im trying to find a good potting mix that have some food in it already so i dont have to feed all of them as often as with the cococoir mix.

4 will go into 5 gallon SIP buckets, 2 will go into hempty buckets and the rest will go into normal pots and also some 20 gallon laundrybaskets with bags inside of them since it is common to grow in laundrybaskets here so i want to try that out aswell.

I also have some local thaivarietys already running.


First batch of seeds are:
TFM Scotch bonnet yellow
MOA red scotch bonnet
7 pot brainstrain
Store bought Jalapeno
Store bought Paprika
Store bought Piri Piri
Unnamed Indian variety, seeds was gifted from a friends family in India, came with halftcut dried peppers and looks like jolokias or nagas. Very tasty when dried so will probaly do the same to the ones i will grow !


Second batch are:
Bahamian goat
7 pot SR strain
Jay's red ghost
Habanero hot lemon
Habanero St.Martin
Aji Limo
Wild brazil
Santa rosa blanco
Jalapeno M


Third batch will be:
Aji cito
Aji Angelo
Habanero Surinam
Datil
Bhut jolokia strain 1
Chinese 5 colour

I've sowed 3 each of the seeds i ordered online and 5 each of the ones that comes from storebought peppers and the ones gifted to me.
Will keep 1 or 2 of the strongest ones from each variety and the rest will be given to local thaipeople.

 

[Caranx]

So my travel got extended almost a week, first got stuck 2 days longer than planned up in the Mountains, then when I started to make my way back cross Laos down to Thailand I got food poisoned and got stuck some more days on the toilet lol.

Was expecting the worse when arriving back home because nobody could give them a watering and food the last week.

It sure was a ugly sight but not as bad as I expected.

Some of the plants was wilting very badly and dropped alot of leaves. Also found some week old peppers that was dark and shrink led that I picked off.

Worst affected was the prik ke nu, Jay's red ghost scorpion and the noname Indian chili however the noname Indian chili have already came back to life 4 hours after getting water, hope the Jay's ghost will do the same until tomorrow. Prik ke nu have all dried up leafs, but I scratched two stems and they are still green and moist inside. So maybe a cutback and it will grow back in a few months.

The bigger chinense wasnt wilting at all but had some clhorotic leafs and top growth was pretty wrinkled. Not sure if it's because nutes finished, or salt
build up from the coco not getting new water. And if the unusual wrinkled leafs is a pH issue or pest. The coco was still moist about 8cm down from the surface.

The jalapeno's and piri piri's did drop a few leafs and had some wrinkled ugly looking new peppers that i removed however they were alot of new peppers that looked to be doing fine.

The prik che fah didn't seem affected at all and peppers is double size now.

Surprisingly the plants that did the best was my seedlings in cups and the seedlings i potted up before leaving. Insane that the seedlings and clones in cups of coco survived that good, the coco looked to have been bonedry for a good while. Alot of leafs dropped and yellowing on one of the repotted ones but the rest seem to have no damage at all, and they are no longer seedlings because some of them trippled in size and are ready to become real plants!

Will take more pics of all plants tomorrow, so tired after this trip!


Edit; Noticed that some pics uploaded sideways, sorry about that and I'm to exhausted to fix it now lol. Will upload better ones tomorrow when they recovered!

The prik ke nu with dried out leafs

The Jay's ghost and noname indian

 

[emanphoto]

I never ever, ever, ever ever travel here without cipro and immodium.  I can't imagine the horror of being on some long haul bus and having that hit me lol!
Good to see plants are doing well despite it all!  
 
Here in BKK if the bugs don't get you the cats will and we have a major cat infestation that has befouled almost every inch of soil I have.  In pots, in planters, and the small garden we have all all filled with cat poo.  The smell is horrid and bad for humans since it has Toxoplasma gondii parasites.    We clean it up and they keep coming back.    
Did you have to do a visa run to Lao?

 

[Caranx]

Today's update!

The wilted plants recovered, the Jay's did have some top growth that didn't so I topped those stems.

Also cut back the prik ke nu, hopefully it will come back to life but if not I atleast have a clone of it.

Also all plants i took a closer look too had what appears to be whiteflies or something similar. I guess another pestspecie to cross of the list in my short growing career..

Sprayed non fruiting plants with cypermethrin and the rest with neem.
Gonna continue that regularly for a few week and if the neem won't work I'll pick the peppers and spray with chemicals instead.

The tops that were still wilted and cut off on the ghost

The damaged top growth on the chinense, if anybody ever something please let me know what was the cause

The superdurable seedlings and clone

The wild brazil and Angelo clone that got grew alot while i was away

Piri piri

Some paprika

Some of the new jalapeños that grew while i was away

 

[PaulG]

Plants look like they have recovered nicely from the wilting.
And pods!
 
Good luck getting a handle on the bugs.