Dennish 2015 Fatalii Meltdown

sirex · Mar 12, 2015

Jesus H Christ!!!

Look at the trunk on that bitch!!!

Trident chilli · Mar 12, 2015

Great grow Dennis

Noah Yates · Mar 12, 2015

Wow!!! That plant looks sooo healthy.... very clean looking bonsai... You must post it to the "show me your chile with the fattest trunk" thread... http://thehotpepper.com/topic/42085-show-me-your-chile-plant-with-the-fattest-trunk/?hl=%2Bfattest+%2Btrunk

Hawaiianero · Mar 12, 2015

All your plants look nice but that 4 year old TSY CARDI is awesome. What do you keep it in during the summer months? I'm thinking it's gotta be in a pretty good sized pot to gain a trunk like that.

moruga welder · Mar 12, 2015

thats one sweet over winter ! great job ! :onfire:

Plantguy76 · Mar 12, 2015

That is one beautiful over winter Trinidad Scorpion Yellow CARDI & man that's a thick trunk!

dennish · Mar 13, 2015

sirex said:
Jesus H Christ!!! Look at the trunk on that bitch!!!

Cheers Sirex!

Noah Yates said:
Wow!!! That plant looks sooo healthy.... very clean looking bonsai... You must post it to the "show me your chile with the fattest trunk" thread... http://thehotpepper.com/topic/42085-show-me-your-chile-plant-with-the-fattest-trunk/?hl=+fattest++trunk

Hawaiianero said:
All your plants look nice but that 4 year old TSY CARDI is awesome. What do you keep it in during the summer months? I'm thinking it's gotta be in a pretty good sized pot to gain a trunk like that.

moruga welder said:
thats one sweet over winter ! great job !

Plantguy76 said:
That is one beautiful over winter Trinidad Scorpion Yellow CARDI & man that's a thick trunk!

Thanks guys, will try and post some pics in the fat trunk thread too! As I said this plant is 4 years old and a bit pampered as it's my only surviving overwinter this year... It is currently in a deep 6l pot, in summer it will be in a pot of about twice the size. It is in a homemade wick fed set-up. I think the trunk looks really cool as all of the new growth starts from the top of the Y section, as over the years I've always stripped back any lower branches which develop. I cut back very hard root and branch each year, seems to work well.

Here it is just as new growth starting in January following hard cutback October/November...

I just love how the new growth erupts from the gnarled, woody trunks on the older plants...

dennish · Mar 14, 2015

Been doing some potting up over the last few days, boy did they need it, some really quite pot bound already!

20 plants in in total now in 5" pots... the majority of my chinenses and baccas.

I'm including some pics of each plant in smaller groups of as a reference point on potting up to penultimate 5" pots...

All looking good with this first batch, Fatalii White has some leaf curl I'm keeping an eye on... Aji Oro Rocoto also looking bit sad/droopy not sure if this habit is normal for pubescens?

It will be natural light only from here on in for this lot.

Just noticed Fatalii Chocolate is filling out very nicely couldn't resist a solo shot!

Roll on spring! :dance:

Runescape · Mar 15, 2015

dennish said:

Nice lookin plants...when were they started?

Also, were you just celebrating something, or are the flag thingys a permanent fixture?

dennish · Mar 15, 2015

Nice lookin plants...when were they started?

Also, were you just celebrating something, or are the flag thingys a permanent fixture?

Thanks for the comments, plants started throughout January.

The flag thingys are bunting by the kids playhouse and pretty much a permanent fixture.

ronniedeb · Mar 15, 2015

Hey Dennish. Good to see you on here!

hogleg · Mar 15, 2015

dennish · Mar 23, 2015

Well things really starting to take off, just over week since potting on and the plants seem to loving the Terra Canna potting mix! One thing I have observed is a total lack of any gnats this year using this soil mix, so already justifies the extra expense for the indoor stage on this point alone.

Slightly concerned that they will become pot bound and start to stunt growth, as realistically I won’t be moving them outside to greenhouse and final pots for at least another 6 weeks or so. May have to look into greenhouse heating options to buy me a few weeks grace. Ideally I’d like everything potted up and in the GH by Easter, which is risking it in terms of a late frost or cold snap here in East Yorkshire.

Aji White Fantasy is turning out to be a really interesting plant, seeds originating from semillas.de. This is a natural mutation of the Fatalii.net Aji Fantasy which is yellow. Really looking forward to seeing how this turns out. The leaves are extremely large for a c.baccatum and the plant is growing really well, nice think main stem and vigorous.

The behemoth that is Peach Fatalii, again quite unusual elongated leaf shape for c.chinense, looks destined to become a monster.

Black Fatalii coming along very nicely.

Finally, Primotalii continues to hint at good things to come, filling out nicely!

Happy growing everyone, hope the sun is shining where you are!

OCD Chilehead · Jun 5, 2015

dennish said:
Well things really starting to take off, just over week since potting on and the plants seem to loving the Terra Canna potting mix! One thing I have observed is a total lack of any gnats this year using this soil mix, so already justifies the extra expense for the indoor stage on this point alone.

Slightly concerned that they will become pot bound and start to stunt growth, as realistically I wont be moving them outside to greenhouse and final pots for at least another 6 weeks or so. May have to look into greenhouse heating options to buy me a few weeks grace. Ideally Id like everything potted up and in the GH by Easter, which is risking it in terms of a late frost or cold snap here in East Yorkshire.

Aji White Fantasy is turning out to be a really interesting plant, seeds originating from semillas.de. This is a natural mutation of the Fatalii.net Aji Fantasy which is yellow. Really looking forward to seeing how this turns out. The leaves are extremely large for a c.baccatum and the plant is growing really well, nice think main stem and vigorous.

The behemoth that is Peach Fatalii, again quite unusual elongated leaf shape for c.chinense, looks destined to become a monster.

Black Fatalii coming along very nicely.

Finally, Primotalii continues to hint at good things to come, filling out nicely!

Happy growing everyone, hope the sun is shining where you are!

Very nice grow. Beautiful plants. I love the Fatalii and their crosses. I wish I would of had the means to start some. All I have is the Jigsaw this year. I have taken up sauce making, so I'm making my list for next year toward sauces. Fatalii is on the list. I'm dying to see a update.

Hope all is well and thanks for sharing.

Chuck

ronaldo_fanbelt · Jun 6, 2015

Awesome grow! Very healthy plants, I can't wait to see them outside.

dennish · Oct 20, 2015

Hi All,

My season is winding-up now as temps dip to 5c at night and light levels are very poor here in the UK...

It's been a good season, with some nice harvests and good results generally. Here is my latest harvest...

Fatalii x Cleo's Dragon

Blondie, interesting purple streaking caused by the sun on quite a lot of these pods

Fatalii Imposter (Suspected Fatalii x Bonnet of some sort, turned out to be quite productive)

Aji White Fantasy & TS CARDI whoppers

Mixed pile of Dorset Naga, Choc Fatalii & SB Foodarama

Fatalii Black

Fatalii White

Yellow Bhut

Primotalii (Fatalii x Primo)...

Also, something unexpected which I am quite excited about... my Fatalii Peach turned out to be an F1 cross and produced a really unique /interesting shape and super hot pod.

Here you can see the bulbous tops, tapered blossom end and pimply, gnarly texture. They ripen bottom-up too which looks great too. I've never seen anything like this in terms of pod shape.

I sort of abused the plant, which wasn't really that productive as a result and am hoping that the seed I harvested produce a similar pod shape next season, along with a better pod return.

I'm dubbing it 'Death Cap Peach' and we'll see what the F2 brings...

Here you can see the pod glowing that amber colour of capsicum oil. I tried a small piece of pod, sweet lord... definitely in the super hot bracket.

Here is the biggest pod I'm willing to fully ripen so I can harvest the seed...

More highlights...

Aji Melocotón, a great baccatum developed by pepperlover, fruity, aromatic and sweet... Delicious. Similar heat to a lemon drop I'd say making it a very useful pepper indeed! Family stir fries are about to get more interesting...

Highly recommended.

dragonsfire · Oct 20, 2015

Nice looking peppers!

N8thaniel · Oct 21, 2015

glad u liked the dutch grow mix- i exclusively use those(canna/plagran/biobizz) soil mixes for exactly the reason u mentioned that they dont have bugs in them- trust me root aphids cost more to deal with than the extra cost of the hydro store soils, plus they usually are amended with perlite and peat etc so its a nice mix for plants

well done here

Meteora 360 · Oct 21, 2015

Wow! Great Update

The Fatalii F1 looks great! Hope it stays like this in F2!