George's 2015 - Yokohama Down In Flames

New season starting!

New grow box. Bigger than the last.

Tough decisions to make.

Just Chinense starting today. Plenty of baccatum and a few annum coming soon.

My beautiful bug slayer was nearby. Just for luck.

So, seeds started today:
Yellow Devils tongue
Bhut orange Copenhagen
Carolina reaper
Reaper x bubblegum
Peach congo
Mako akokosrade
Chocolate bhut
red jays Ghost Scorpion.

Plenty more to follow, this Is just Chinense

 

[Peter S]

Nice looking start. I grew the Mako akokosrade last year, and really liked it. Good luck this season!

 

[georgej]

im looking forward to trying it. Don' have much idea about them and it was just one of the freebies i got from pepperlover last year.

 

[ohmatic]

Awwwwww what an adoreable hedgdhog !!!!

 

[stickman]

Nice start G! Best of luck in 2015.

 

[georgej]

Started this on Saturday
Gochu, Chinese 5 colour, shima togarashi and takanotsume. Apple wood smoked.

Into the dehydrator

3 days later, voila

Gonna powder soon.

 

[georgej]

Powdered. Damn it's good!

 

[georgej]

Didn't expect to see much after one week, especially as I had temperature issues.

But here's the first hook.
Peach Congo.

Now I'm getting excited for 2015!

 

[Essegi]

Good luck and great bugslayer!
Awaiting rest of list.

 

[georgej]

Good luck and great bugslayer!

Yep, she kills with cuteness.

Great Germination with the Peach Congo. 3/3 In 8 days. The third is hard to spot to the untrained eye

 

[PaulS]

Yep, she kills with cuteness.

Great Germination with the Peach Congo. 3/3 In 8 days. The third is hard to spot to the untrained eye

 
I love your bugslayer! Is it your pet?

 

[georgej]

yeh shes my pet. 
we rescued her as her previous (navy) owner was going to dump her in a park when they went on deployment. a friend of mine said hell no and looked for an owner, so we got her.
she had a badly swollen foot (human hair wrapped around and snared her leg) and she needed surgery. her limp earned her name 'tipsy'. she has a wonderful personality

 

[PaulS]

Really good of you. Cute name too, is she affectionate looking for attention from you?

 

[cypresshill1973]

Wow, It's a strange pet! but Is not dangerous?

 

[georgej]

Really good of you. Cute name too, is she affectionate looking for attention from you?

Haha! nope! she barely tollerates me.

given her rough past shes still quite timid. they can barely see too, so she often tries to spike/jump at me with her quills until i pick her up and she smells me, then she feels more relaxed.
But she looks so healthy now compared to when we got her and shes slowly getting easier to handle. she always rolled into a ball when i first got her and she wasn't much of a pet/felt sorry for her.

nah shes not dangerous, unless you are tying to pick her up with your eyes.
they are spiky and a bit painful but you learn to handle them and its stops. no danger really. shes only bitten me by accident and its not that bad. sharp teeth but not very powerful jaws.
Before we got her, she could barely walk

 

[georgej]

Mako akokosrade are up.

Bbg7 X Reaper

Congo are looking good!

Also seeing hooks on BOC and reaper.

New in the soil now are my baccatum :
-aji cito
-aji Peruvian
-aji verde
-aji habanero
First year growing Aji, looking forward to seeing how they turn out.

 

[georgej]

Chocolate bhut are up

Yellow Devils tongue has hooks too.

Only Chinense not showing activity is jays red ghost Scorpion. I won't be surprised if it doesn't. I tried growing a few years ago and no Germination, perhaps based seeds.

 

[jimbo53]

Geogrej,
 
Great start, and awesome looking powder.
 
What type of starting mix are you using?

 

[georgej]

i mixed it myself. 
It's a bark compost leaf mulch mix about 7 litres mixed with vermiculite 2.5 litres and peat moss 2 litres. Bit different to last year but im liking leaf mulch so far! I mixed and added stuff until i liked the ratio.

The smell of leaf mulch in the germination box is nice too! haha. microwaved my soil before sowing seeds, got the temp up to 85 degrees c to kill any microbes that might do seedlings harm

 

[jimbo53]

The smell of leaf mulch in the germination box is nice too! haha. microwaved my soil before sowing seeds, got the temp up to 85 degrees c to kill any microbes that might do seedlings harm

 
Did you microwave the soil in the cups, about how long?  
 
Did it smell up the kitchen?