Welcome to my grow log.
A bit of a backstory – I’m from British Columbia, Canada. I’ve always had a penchant for spicy food but there isn’t a lot available locally in terms of fresh pods outside of your standard jalapeno, and habanero peppers. So I decided, eh, I’ll try my hand at growing my own. I came here, I read, and read, I watched videos on YouTube, and read some more – started building a list of what I needed (or “wanted” if you ask my girlfriend) to purchase to make it happen. Now three months later, here I am.
I am currently growing the following peppers at home:
Jalapeno
Purple Jalapeno
Habanero
Jamaican Hot Red Habanero
Pepperoncini
Fatalii (coming along VERY slowly)
Trinidad Perfume Pepper (coming along VERY slowly)
Kung Pao Hybrid
I am currently growing the following peppers at work in our garden:
Giant Marconi
NuMex Big Jim
Jamaican Hot Red Habanero
Jalapeno
Kung Pao Hybrid
This is how it all started,
A variety of tomatoes, peppers, and herbs that I planted using dirt that I took from the ground (if I only I knew then what I know now…)
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“Jalapeno plants” and a Mammoth Basil plant coming along nicely I’ll explain the quotations later…
Jalapeno seedlings for delivery! From talking to people at work I was able to convince a few people to get into growing vegetables (it’s a hard thing to get people in to at my age) and I wanted to have people to talk to about my new passion with. I didn’t want this to be just for me, I wanted to have plenty to give away (and perform horrific science experiments on).
Over the course of time and due to people’s suggestions my growing set up changed, and more money was spent much to the dismay of my girlfriend.
Since she was already mad, more seeds seemed like a good idea (and the addiction began!)
You can imagine my excitement when my purple jalapeno seedling had purple cotys (and later purple flowers), I’d never seen anything like it.
Out of all the seedlings I had grown to date it was the quickest to develop. I like to think that I was getting better at this.
As time progressed my plants outgrew the light cage and moved to the window sill. Signs of life in the plants, and my first pods emerged. As this was an extra experimental pepper I decided to let it do its thing.
One giant step for Mnemosynesis one giant leap for pepper growing kind. My first plants had moved out. A “Jalapeno” and a Habanero plant.
As time progressed they all slowly moved outside. Aside from window sill time, I must admit that I didn’t harden off a single plant and they did alright. Temps have been in the 30-37 degrees Celsius range for the past three weeks now.
I had my dad over on Canada Day for lunch and was showing him my Jalapeno plant when I realized that my Jalapeno plant was in fact a Kung Pao plant. I didn’t notice the pods as they were so small and thin they looked like extensions of the plant itself. I must have mislabeled my peat pellet trays that I first used before changing my technique.
I won’t be winning any gnarly pod competitions any time soon, but I thought my first habanero pod was pretty bad ass.
My first Purple Jalapeno flower dying off, I can’t wait to see the pod it produces.
I will keep this grow log frequently updated, as well as answer any questions you may have about what I’m using, or what I’ve been doing. I’ve had a lot of fun learning, and developing this far and am looking forward to July and August when a lot of these plants will have ripe pods.
A bit of a backstory – I’m from British Columbia, Canada. I’ve always had a penchant for spicy food but there isn’t a lot available locally in terms of fresh pods outside of your standard jalapeno, and habanero peppers. So I decided, eh, I’ll try my hand at growing my own. I came here, I read, and read, I watched videos on YouTube, and read some more – started building a list of what I needed (or “wanted” if you ask my girlfriend) to purchase to make it happen. Now three months later, here I am.
I am currently growing the following peppers at home:
Jalapeno
Purple Jalapeno
Habanero
Jamaican Hot Red Habanero
Pepperoncini
Fatalii (coming along VERY slowly)
Trinidad Perfume Pepper (coming along VERY slowly)
Kung Pao Hybrid
I am currently growing the following peppers at work in our garden:
Giant Marconi
NuMex Big Jim
Jamaican Hot Red Habanero
Jalapeno
Kung Pao Hybrid
This is how it all started,
A variety of tomatoes, peppers, and herbs that I planted using dirt that I took from the ground (if I only I knew then what I know now…)
[
“Jalapeno plants” and a Mammoth Basil plant coming along nicely I’ll explain the quotations later…
Jalapeno seedlings for delivery! From talking to people at work I was able to convince a few people to get into growing vegetables (it’s a hard thing to get people in to at my age) and I wanted to have people to talk to about my new passion with. I didn’t want this to be just for me, I wanted to have plenty to give away (and perform horrific science experiments on).
Over the course of time and due to people’s suggestions my growing set up changed, and more money was spent much to the dismay of my girlfriend.
Since she was already mad, more seeds seemed like a good idea (and the addiction began!)
You can imagine my excitement when my purple jalapeno seedling had purple cotys (and later purple flowers), I’d never seen anything like it.
Out of all the seedlings I had grown to date it was the quickest to develop. I like to think that I was getting better at this.
As time progressed my plants outgrew the light cage and moved to the window sill. Signs of life in the plants, and my first pods emerged. As this was an extra experimental pepper I decided to let it do its thing.
One giant step for Mnemosynesis one giant leap for pepper growing kind. My first plants had moved out. A “Jalapeno” and a Habanero plant.
As time progressed they all slowly moved outside. Aside from window sill time, I must admit that I didn’t harden off a single plant and they did alright. Temps have been in the 30-37 degrees Celsius range for the past three weeks now.
I had my dad over on Canada Day for lunch and was showing him my Jalapeno plant when I realized that my Jalapeno plant was in fact a Kung Pao plant. I didn’t notice the pods as they were so small and thin they looked like extensions of the plant itself. I must have mislabeled my peat pellet trays that I first used before changing my technique.
I won’t be winning any gnarly pod competitions any time soon, but I thought my first habanero pod was pretty bad ass.
My first Purple Jalapeno flower dying off, I can’t wait to see the pod it produces.
I will keep this grow log frequently updated, as well as answer any questions you may have about what I’m using, or what I’ve been doing. I’ve had a lot of fun learning, and developing this far and am looking forward to July and August when a lot of these plants will have ripe pods.
