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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 just found another pod on the Cereza Cross. I'm now more confident that it is indeed a cross, as this is larger and differently shaped than normal Aji Cereza. This looks more like the Bode Amarellas that I grew the last two years. So far, I believe this to be an Aji Cereza X Bode Amarella cross

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Group shot of the two indoor plants. I'm now hand-pollinating with a small paintbrush as somebody in chat pointed out to me that a Q-tip may not be efficient, as Q-tips are designed to get material to stick to them.


 
 
The small round pepper on the left is one of my Aji Cereza's. The one on the right is one of the Superchile's, but this plant is producing thicker hotter pods. I'm saving seeds to try and stabilize the variety.
 
 
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