Cefn's journey to 2016 Glog

A bit of background ....
 
It all started back in 2014 when one of the kids bought me a Cayenne pepper plant, had a nice lot of peppers that year and i was hooked on growing a few more.
 
2015
Cayenne and Tabasco seeds were sown and had a few plants but very few pods, I thought (and not alone) how hard can this be?
 
I am no strange to growing things with a 5 acre farm, 40 foot poly-tunnel, 14x6 foot greenhouse and numerous raised beds  in Wales
only thing holding me back is the weather. 
 
So the end of 2015 A new grow tent was bought and this is were it starts.
 
I found this forum and did a lot of looking and reading to find i could over winter plants, I had a couple of Tabasco plants that i could experiment with.... This is about a week after topping?
 
 

 
 
Now for sum seeds ... Easy Grow ones
 
Hungarian Hot Wax
 
De-Cayenne
 
Ring of Fire
 
Apache
 
Krakota
 
As I start all my seeds in a propagator and compost that's what i did (with lots of Pearlite)
12 December

 
 
 
 
Seeds started showing
 
20 December
 

 
 
I will fast forward a bit, and after re-potting and culling a bit we come to the present day
this is how they look
 
Over wintered Tabasco
 

 
 
Group shot of my girls ...
 
 

 
 
To any one just starting out (like me) all i can advise is just browse around the forum look and take in all you can and most of all
 
DON'T OVER WATER!!!!!!!!   (if you think it needs water wait 2 days)

 

[CAPCOM]

Welcome to THP, and a very nice start to your 2016 grow! Congrats.

 

[mpicante]

Welcome and things really look good.Good luck on your grow.

 

[rghm1u20]

Welcome from Romania!
Nice plants! Though I think the cayenne on the back side, start to grow a bit too high, maybe lack of light. I also had this problem, thin plants growing too high.
Don't know, maybe you already use or plan to use a fan for hardening the plants. If not, think about.
The overwintered looks good too.

 

[cefncanol]

Many thanks for the reply's
 
 

Welcome from Romania!
Nice plants! Though I think the cayenne on the back side, start to grow a bit too high, maybe lack of light. I also had this problem, thin plants growing too high.
Don't know, maybe you already use or plan to use a fan for hardening the plants. If not, think about.
The overwintered looks good too.

Just re-potted the cayenne's they were leggy from the start ... got 4 t5s on top so they should be ok? as for fans ... yeh you cant see them in these photos but got 2 12vot pc fans .. one on 24/7 the other random time between 10-25min on and 10-25min off
 
top of my setup
 

 

[Trident chilli]

Great start ... when you next pot on plant the young plants right up to the base of the first leaves ... The sunken stem will then root making for a stronger plant ... As rghm1u20 mentions a fan is essential in a grow tent ... strengthens the plants and helps move warm stale air

What ever you are doing all looks great so far especially the O/W Tabasco

 

[mogly]

nice plants, i have a question, for how long u keep the light on?

 

[cefncanol]

Great start ... when you next pot on plant the young plants right up to the base of the first leaves ... The sunken stem will then root making for a stronger plant ... As rghm1u20 mentions a fan is essential in a grow tent ... strengthens the plants and helps move warm stale air

What ever you are doing all looks great so far especially the O/W Tabasco

 Many thanks for your reply ... will take on board plant them deeper next time i re-pot
 
 

nice plants, i have a question, for how long u keep the light on?

 
I'm growing these plants to pot out the end of February into the poly tunnel at first then the greenhouse ... then the poly-arc
so my setup is this ....
 
Lights are 4 T5's ....  15 hrs on 9 hrs off
Heat (it gets hard to control it here) 150 watt Thermostat control ... day temp is 70 - 75 with lights on .. night with lights off 60 - 65 so like a 10 deg difference
Fans are 2 12volt PC  one on 24/7 on top of lights to keep thermostat working .. one over plants random at 10-25min on and 10-25min off
Ventilation is from a 6inch pipe on top of the grow-tent all-ways open 
Humidity I try to keep it around 70%
 
A few Photos
 

 

[mogly]

interesting, i will stealing your idea haha, this pipe blows the air off? or inside?
 
another thing, this cicle off light don't stress this plants? 

 

[cefncanol]

 
interesting, i will stealing your idea haha, this pipe blows the air off? or inside?
 

Hi mogly the "pipe" is the heater so the top fan  mixes warm air on the top of the grow-tent right to left  along the pipe heating it to 70c  and around the grow-tent from the top, its also quite close to the inlet pipe which supply's the fan with new cool air.
 
 

 
another thing, this cicle off light don't stress this plants? 
 

ive not found this
 
Again thanks for the interest

 

[cefncanol]

An update to my grow  got a few seeds from [member='juanitos'] 
 
Very quick delivery and a few extras in the bag as well ... Many thanks juanitos
 
Scotch bonnet moa
 
Choc scorpian
 
Aji omnicolor
 

 
update to other plants ..
 

 
 
All seemed ok till i got "oedema" on a few plants, I thought it could not be over-watering.
I gave them a flush and removed the fan blowing across them and all seems to be better after a week osr so
 
I have a question ... some of the plants are producing buds cayenne ... hot wax ... should i remove these or will they drop off on the own, I want to just keep them going for a month or so till i can get them into bigger pots and put them out?
 
Any help
 

 

[NeedsWork]

 
I have a question ... some of the plants are producing buds cayenne ... hot wax ... should i remove these or will they drop off on the own, I want to just keep them going for a month or so till i can get them into bigger pots and put them out?
 
Any help
 

 
I'd top them and increase light to 18 on 6 off.  Maybe add some fish emulsion or other high N no burn ferts.  Let them bush out.

 

[cefncanol]

 
I'd top them and increase light to 18 on 6 off.  Maybe add some fish emulsion or other high N no burn ferts.  Let them bush out.

 
 
Many thanks for the reply NW ... i think i will top them as you said,  I will post a pic when done.

 

[santis00]

Looking good! Iike the case fan idea.

 

[cefncanol]

 
I'd top them and increase light to 18 on 6 off. 

 
Again many thanks for the reply's .... if i give them 18on and 6 off waht happens when i put them outside when the natural light is only 12 .. will they go backwards?
 
 

Looking good! Iike the case fan idea.

Thanks

 

[NeedsWork]

 
Again many thanks for the reply's .... if i give them 18on and 6 off waht happens when i put them outside when the natural light is only 12 .. will they go backwards?
 
 
Thanks

 
They will be fine as long as they are hardened off gradually.  Sunlight is significantly more intense than T5's... or any tube lights.  Your plants look great by the way!  

 

[Ozzy2001]

Looks great!  Keep it up.  It all started for me with a Caribbean Red Habanero plant

 

[cefncanol]

Looks great!  Keep it up.  It all started for me with a Caribbean Red Habanero plant

Thanks Ozzy Ive realy got the bug now ...
 

 
They will be fine as long as they are hardened off gradually.  Sunlight is significantly more intense than T5's... or any tube lights.  Your plants look great by the way!  

Thanks   NW ....
a few photos after giving the plants a trim, left a few leaves on .. will remove them in a week or so, as you can see just starting to put out side shoots 
 
(sorry if im posting to many pics)
 
I know when i was looking around the forum for tips i all-ways appreciated a photo
 

 
 
 
 

 

 

 
 
and my seeds a few days old now

 

[NeedsWork]

(sorry if im posting to many pics)
 

 
No such thing IMHO except when quoting and reposting all of the photos from the original post.
 
 
I think you are going to be really happy with the results of trimming.  It should refocus all of that reproductive energy.  
 
 
EDIT: Typo