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Carolina Reaper (HP22B) Community Grow

A few members including myself are growing seeds for this variety ASAP. I and a few others here on THP thought it would be fun to have a "community glog" strictly for this variety, a fun thread about the HP22B and growing this pepper for the first time.

I think we should start a community glog like this anytime there is a new pepper with alot of attention and alot of people growing it, possible world record holder or not. It would be fun, and this should be fun! That's why we all love this hobby is it not?

Therefore, this will be a drama-free, controversy-free, fun glog for all of us growers and others to enjoy. If you grow, please chime in. If you're growing this variety, please post pictures and chime in about your observations.

Again.. This thread is ment to be fun and informative, but mostly fun :)
Please. Pretty please with sugar on top.. lol. Keep it drama-free.
I, and many others would really appreciate this thread to stay that way.

Now lets get to growing!

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I went with the paper towel method for this guy just like I have with all my mid-season starts. It is far from my favorite way to germinate seeds but I'm in no hurry this time of year which is why I went this route. I've had the seeds in the paper towel for about a week now on top of my HOT5 lighting closet. The seeds should be showing root tips soon, then they will be visiting some real soil :D

How's it going for everyone else?

Brandon
 
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Pr0digal_son said:
4 weeks from seed? Very nice plants! The coco is going to have more air in the rootzone and less compaction than soil so they will cruise along. Should be able to keep plants in a smaller container too. DWC eventually will pass up the coco if taken care of properly. It takes alittle longer for them initially. I have a single bubbler and played around with it a bit. Too much hassle for my schedule. How big is your grow area? Some of these newer super hot chinese plants get gigantic.
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Thanks, I started the seeds on 8/29 and the first sprout was on 9/6.

The roots look good in the dwc just not long enough yet for all of them to take full advantage of the nutes. Once that happens hopefully it will catch up.

These are getting grown in my hydro store, I have one 2x4 tent set up with 400w mh/hps and a 4x4 area you see in the pics. The store has drop down ceilings and I'm afraid to hang lights from it. That and me having to sit 10 ft away from all the noise and heat these lights put off are my main limiting factors.
I had a problem with a Serrano plant in the tent, it got to be about 4-5ft tall in a dwc snapped in half and took 3 other plants with it. Was a sad day when I came into work and saw what had happened.
 
lock203..... I have an HTG store 5 miles from where I work. I would love to get a part time job (if I had a free minute) there. I have given them a ton of seeds and everytime I go in there, all the seedlings are getting ravaged by aphids. Seems like they are more into cloning plants. Lucky you to have all those toys to play with. Picture that serrano with insane side branching, 5' tall and equally wide! I will be following your plants until I get a chance to get mine sowed.
 
Hope I'm not too late to contribute.

I started mine two weeks ago. I placed the seed in a root riot starter cube and planted the cube in some fox farm potting soil. I watered it well and placed the pot on a heat pad and placed a one gallon bag over the pot.

It sprouted and I placed it in my south facing window. I want the roots get a little more established before it goes into my grow room under two 1000W HPS bulbs. It might get a slower start in the window, but as long as it doesn't become leggy I want to let it grow there. I'm battling a few temp issues in my grow room right now and don't want to subject my seedling to that kind of stress just yet.

Here's some pictures:

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Moved my plants from the window and added some lights; both are grow lights, the fluorescent is from Walmart and the flood is from Lowes..

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Here's an update on my reapers:

This is the one that lives outside on my balcony:
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This is the one that lives on my west facing window sill:
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I've been lucky so far, I'm really bummed to hear about how poor some of the germination rates, etc everyone else is getting. Seems like the quality control hasn't been great.
 
Week 5 and the plants are still coming along nicely.

dwc still looking healthy but still struggling to keep up with the ones in coco.
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These guys grew about 3" in the last week.
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Leaves are getting big, about 5-6" wide.
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Some nice growth hiding under those leaves.
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Using a camera phone so the pic isn't very good, but look close and you can see the this guy wants to start flowering.
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Go Cardinals!!!
 
lock203 said:
Very nice plants you got growing there! What do you have them growing in and how old?
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They were originally both in the container that is now in the windowsill. It is a water bottle with the top half cut off in jiffy seed starting mixture. I took a gamble early on and seperated them. I put the one I removed into a mixture of orchid bark, perlite, and potting soil.

I originally started germinating them about 5 or 6 weeks ago, they took a week to pop. I probably separated them around 3 weeks ago. I've been terrible about keeping records. They were both in the windowsill until a week ago when I moved the one outside just to see how it would do.

Your plants look amazing, by the way.
 
I'll officially join this glog. HP22B (and Primo) seeds soaked overnight 10/13/2012 in water/H2O2/chamomile tea, and hit soil/Rapid Rooters 10/14/2012.
 
I planted some seeds in my little mini greenhouse on thursday/friday (cant remember if i soaked them over night wed, or thursday), and notice a sprout this morning, I think its the fastest one i had to date, So i had bad luck with my last 20 seeds, so hopeing these ones will start do better. I had the seed cap (seed never fell off the plant) and couldnt get alot of them removed without them breaking. But someone gave me a tip in case it happens again.
 
My whole tray shot up the other day. I will check how many days that is and post back.

Weird thing is.. I have multiple 3-Leaved cotledons plants growing.

They are all from the same packet, but I had multiples in this try with 3 leaves.
 
I should be getting the 4 DWC's in the next couple of days, and as fate would have it, 4 of the Carolina reapers that sprouted have survived, and I will definitely be using them in the DWC :)
 
I went back and looked.. it was 7 Days to see a pretty high germination rate.

WHAT I DID:

- Using a window box style cell-tray. I filled the 16 trays with very moist pro-mix.
- Unit was un-covered and left under flourescent light 24/7 for a week about 2 inches away.
- Misted 3-4 squirts 2xTimes daily per cell... breakfast time and dinner time
- Sometimes the surface was starting to dry out and before bed I would wet the top of the soil.
- Had on top of heating mat, but raised the mat, with condiment cups with the covers on, so there is airflow between the mat and the unit. (about 1" gap between the unit)
- Temperature of soil was 72-76 the whole time.

Doing this it looks like I have about 85+ germination after a week, which seems pretty fast to me.

Previously I had tried, putting seeds on my cable modem in a baggie, and the seeds just would not sprout. 1 finally sprouted this way but after 4 weeks I gave up and most in the bag rotted
also I had tried some in a cheap seed starting mix mostly coco but this dried out so fast that it killed them off. (It was the one walmart was selling.. burpee seed starting mix... it sucks...)

trial and error.... this way I'm starting seeds from now on...... very fast germination rates and good looking seedlings from doing it this way.
 
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