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Dragon49's 2013 Grow Log

2013 Chile Pepper Grow Log:

My normal season begins in the middle of March, as I sprout 2 months before planting out in the garden. I’m dying to grow a superhot, but I have had 0% success in growing Capsicum chinense outside. A number of other factors prevent me from growing superhots in the garden.

I’ve decided on a small indoor only grow. A co-worker beekeeper jokingly offered to bring some bees into my apartment to pollinate, but I declined. If this works, I’ll have to expand my gardening skill set and figure out how to hand pollinate. I’ll also have to upgrade my lighting, as I’ve been told that my 54 watt T-3 florescent, while good enough to start seedlings, is not strong enough to get the plants to produce fruit.

Here we go. I’ve decided to sprout a Red Moruga Scorpion:

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I was hoping for a different answer.  I'm looking around the internet at pictures of baby pods.  I still can't tell the difference between the babies and unopened flowers.
 
I'm getting very frustrated about the flower drop and lack of pods on the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion.  I just misted both of my plants with a spray bottle.  Maybe lack of moisture was my problem.
 
Portuge said:
Just let mother nature do her part and your plants will be Fine...
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You are probably right - In the wild, nobody picks buds off, but standard forum wisdom dictates that we pull them for a while to encourage more vegetative growth.  I just pulled 4 more off today.   I haven't make up mind when I'm going to allow ti to flower, but it will probably not be more than another 10 days or so.
 
I watched my chinenses go thru a stage of dropping flowers and producing flowers thru out the growth cycle.... no worries Dragon, your plant will get there
 
The Cereza cross is getting bigger and prettier every day! I continue to pull buds off in order to encourage more vegetative growth. It is growing rapidly—it now stands at 10 1/2 inches tall. I haven't yet decided when I will allow it to flower. My dilemma is a difficult one, because as this is an unknown cross, I have no idea how tall it is supposed to get.

 
The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion still looks crappy. There is no new leaf growth, but it continues to explode with flowers. The problem is that, either they fall off, or dry out and disintegrate. I don’t think they are producing any pollen.
 
 
I've made a managerial decision:  No more pulling buds form the Cereza Cross.  Maybe the flowers can pollinate the flowers of the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion that sits next to it, as it needs some help.  Then, I can have a really interesting cross next year.
 
One of the Superchiles is starting to produce peppers.  The plant just inside the fence is Spearmint.  Nobody has been weeding the family garden.  It needs a lawnmower at this point!

 
It is hard to see the pods form the posted pic. If you can figure out how to download and look at it full size, you wil see the peppers. The second Superchile along the fence is starting to get peppers as well.
 
The Cereza cross is growing like a weed! It has grown two and a half inches in the last six days, and now stands at 1 foot and 1 inch tall.
 

 
The crappy looking leaves in the back are the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion that I over-fertilized. I just flushed it with nearly two gallons of water.
 
 
I have my first indoor pod!
 
The Trinidad Moruga scorpion still looks like crap, but the new growth looks a little better - AND I have a pod:
 
 
 
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