HM's Second Attempt for 2020

PaulG · Oct 11, 2020

Glad to see your Kratky plants doing so well, HM! :party:

I would say you have definitely saved your grow
with the ‘second season’ attempt. Oh, yeah.

And more seeds to plant! :woohoo:

Well done, Mr. Miser :clap:

internationalfish · Oct 11, 2020

Looking great! Hopefully your pepperoncini turn out better than mine. I loved the flavor, but by the time they even started to ripen, every single pod was developing mold on the seeds. No idea what that plant's deal is; nothing else growing around it had that problem. :confused:

HeatMiser · Oct 12, 2020

PaulG said:
Glad to see your Kratky plants doing so well, HM!
I would say you have definitely saved your grow
with the ‘second season’ attempt. Oh, yeah.

And more seeds to plant!

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Well done, Mr. Miser

Thanks Paul, hopefully I'll be able to get a decent harvest from these plants. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for better luck this time around! Those mites really did a number on my previous grow...

HeatMiser · Oct 12, 2020

internationalfish said:
Looking great! Hopefully your pepperoncini turn out better than mine. I loved the flavor, but by the time they even started to ripen, every single pod was developing mold on the seeds. No idea what that plant's deal is; nothing else growing around it had that problem.

Thanks 'fish! Both my wife and I are intrigued with the pepperoncini, since we've only tried them pickled. Never seen a ripe one, so it will be fun to try them out! No idea about the mold on the seeds though, we'll see if that happens with this plant. I'll definitely report back!

HeatMiser · Oct 12, 2020

Quick update to show the seeds that germinated yesterday. I planted both of them earlier this year and wasn't able to see them setting fruit. Both of them will be grown in 1 gal containers.

Top one is my "Mystery Pepper", obtained at an Asian market. I think it's a kind of Thai pepper, but we'll see...
Bottom one is Numex Twilight.

internationalfish · Oct 12, 2020

HeatMiser said:
Thanks 'fish! Both my wife and I are intrigued with the pepperoncini, since we've only tried them pickled. Never seen a ripe one, so it will be fun to try them out! No idea about the mold on the seeds though, we'll see if that happens with this plant. I'll definitely report back!

Mine were sold as Golden Greek but appear to have been mixed up with the variety that ripens red. Seems to me the mold thing must be a problem with that plant, because I don't see how you'd manage to get viable seeds from those pods to keep the strain going if that were a normal issue... anyway, delicious pods. Looking forward to yours!

PaulG · Oct 13, 2020

HeatMiser · Oct 17, 2020

Plants are doing great so far.

They've added a few inches this week, so I had to raise the lights a few times. All plants have flower buds now, so I'm excited to finally see some peppers.

Lemon Drop and Pepperoncini
The Lemon Drop has a few flower buds already. Looking forward to trying these peppers for the first time. The Pepperoncini must have close to 100 buds already, with about ten or so flowers already open.

And the Pepperoncini is the first one to develop a pod. There are many more coming - hopefully we'll like them because this plant is gearing up to produce A TON of them.

Jalafuegos
These have gotten taller this week and are working on developing a few flower buds. Should see some flowers soon

CaneDog · Oct 17, 2020

Great to see how well everything is doing HM. Sounds like that pepperoncini could be be a real producer for you!

PaulG · Oct 17, 2020

+1, CD! Plants are looking great in your kratkys!

HeatMiser · Oct 17, 2020

CaneDog said:
Great to see how well everything is doing HM. Sounds like that pepperoncini could be be a real producer for you!

PaulG said:
+1, CD! Plants are looking great in your kratkys!

Thanks a lot guys! I'm still keeping my fingers crossed since it was at about this time that I started having issues with my previous grow. However, I like the fact that the grow has been pretty much uneventful so far, which is what I was expecting from my first grow here in THP!

PaulG · Oct 18, 2020

Uneventful is good :thumbsup:

HeatMiser · Oct 24, 2020

Another weekly update...

The plants are now increasing their nutrient consumption, so they got their second replenishment this week. They drank a full gallon of nutrients in 2.5 weeks and there were two gallons on average left in the buckets. From now on, they will be replenished with 2 gallons at every nutrient change.

Lemon Drop and Pepperoncini
The Lemon Drop keeps growing upwards and is now developing flower buds. I'm hoping to see flowers soon. However, there seems to be some signs of nutrient deficiency (I believe Potassium), which I hope will be resolved by the nutrient change. Otherwise, I'll have to increase the concentration since the EC was at 0.8 in this one plant when I changed the nutes. The Pepperoncini is absolutely loaded with flowers and there are a few pods already on it. I've only seen this many flowers in ornamental species, so this plant has been a pleasant surprise, despite the "meh" factor of it being a pepperoncini. Definitely fun to grow this one.

Group Shot

Flowers on the Pepperoncini - it was hard to take a picture that captures most of the flowers on this plant.

Necrosis on some leaves on the Lemon Drop - I believe this is caused by a Potassium (K) deficiency according to this. Putting this here to see if anybody has any other suggestions.

Jalafuegos
The Jalafuegos do not want to be left behind. They are flowering, but not as prolifically as the Pepperoncini. There are already a couple of pods on these plants, which I'm definitely excited to try

The two jalafuegos

Few flowers on one of the plants

A micro-jalafuego

CaneDog · Oct 24, 2020

Great to see the pods forming on the pepperoncini and jalafuego, HM. It seems like the plants have been developing quickly - of course, it always seems quicker when it's someone else's plants

And good luck with the marginal necrosis - this is supposed to be your hassle-free grow! Whatever it is, your plants generally look healthy and vigorous. :thumbsup:

ahayastani · Oct 24, 2020

CaneDog said:
Great to see the pods forming on the pepperoncini and jalafuego, HM.

Indeed

I've sown pepperoncini about a month ago and I can only hope my plants will look like yours

HeatMiser · Oct 24, 2020

CaneDog said:
Great to see the pods forming on the pepperoncini and jalafuego, HM. It seems like the plants have been developing quickly - of course, it always seems quicker when it's someone else's plants

And good luck with the marginal necrosis - this is supposed to be your hassle-free grow! Whatever it is, your plants generally look healthy and vigorous.

Thanks CD, they have indeed been developing quickly - growing about half an inch on a daily basis for a few weeks now. I know this because I have to raise the lights pretty frequently!

Haha, I know! I wasn't supposed to have any problems with this grow, but well - it's been a walk in the park compared to the previous one

. I think this should be fixed by increasing the nutrient concentration since that one plant is taking nutrients in faster than the Annuums. I wonder if this is a trait of the Baccatums in general. So I will do more periodic nutrient changes, increasing the concentration each time and see where that takes me. But as you said, overall the plant is looking healthy. Hopefully it stays that way..

HeatMiser · Oct 24, 2020

ahayastani said:
Indeed I've sown pepperoncini about a month ago and I can only hope my plants will look like yours

Thanks ahayastani - these pepperoncini have definitely blown my mind with how quickly they have developed and how prolific they have been so far. I'm sure the weather down there will help your plants grow even faster.

PaulG · Oct 25, 2020

Here's to continued success
with your indoor grow, HM!

HeatMiser · Oct 31, 2020

While most people are already finishing off their seasons, I'm still at work trying to manage a decent harvest before the end of the year

That being said, things are progressing nicely around here.

Lemon Drop and Pepperoncini
The Lemon Drop was starting to get too tall for my liking, so I started pruning it a bit in an attempt to get it to grow more bushy and not much taller than the pepperoncini. I also changed the nutrients for this plant in an attempt to mitigate the necrosis in some leaf margins. I used 12ml/gal of CNS 17 which resulted in 1.5 EC. This is a slight increase over the 1.2 EC that I was using originally. A couple of days after the change, the EC had dropped to 1.3, so this tells me the plant is absorbing nutrients faster than the others. The leaf necrosis doesn't seem as prevalent now, but I'll still increase the nutrient concentration to about 1.8 EC.

The Pepperoncini is hard at work producing more flowers and pods.

Both plants

Top view of the Pepperoncini. This plant continues to impress me.

A few pods

Jalafuegos
These plants don't want to be left behind. They are currently flowering quite a bit and some pods are beginning to set. Overall, they are bushier than the pepperoncini, and with bigger leaves.

Group shot

Some pods. Notice the pollen on some leaves - I shook the plant before taking the picture

PaulG · Oct 31, 2020

Those are some healthy looking plants, HM!

The light box looks like it's really doing the job.