Island_Dan 2013 Glog (First super hot grow season!)

Well everyone thanks to my Caribbean background and heritage, I have always been interested in spicy foods and ever since I heard about the Trinidad scorpion pepper, being a Trinidadian citizen, I have become fascinated with super hots and thanks to this site and to all the great people I have met here, I am starting my first big pepper grow season!!!

Thank you THP for getting me addicted!!!

So to in starting my first season, I planted 7 plants in potting mix about 2 and a half months ago. Those consist of 3 Trinidad scorpion butch T's, a moruga scorpion, a yellow seasoning pepper and 2 bonda ma jaques.

I have 2 moruga seedlings in DWC's running my happy vs stressed experiment and I have put to germinate a lot more varieties. Maybe too much for my first season but here is what I am going to run.

SB7J F1
SB7J F2
Ice Scream Scorpion F1
Ghost scorpion
Douglah
Twisted Chocolate Habanero
7 pot yellow
7 pot chocolate barrackpor
7 pot white
7 pot burgundy
7 pot orange
Naga morich
congo trinidad
fatalii yellow
brain strain
chocolate trinidad scorpion
black naga
Tobago seasoning red
St. Lucia seasoning yellow
CGN 21500
Pi 281429
Antilles Fire
Infinity
yellow bhut jalokia
HP22B
chocolate bhut jalokia
Manzano
Black Habanero
Trinidad Scorpion Yellow Cardi
Beni Highland
Devil's Tongue
Trinidad Scorpion Butch T
Trinidad Scorpion Moruga
Bonda Ma Jaques
King Chile (Unknown dried yellow pod sent from India)

That makes 34 Varieties for this first season and I may add more I am guessing.

I am also growing buttom mushrooms for the first time and will include this in the grow log. I got some wheat spawn off of eBay (yeah I know), and I seeded my substrate. So far they are blooming and the mycelium is spreading through the substrate slowly. When the substrate becomes fully myceliated, I will add the compost layer and wait for my first flush. I may use my myceliated substrate to seed some fresh substrate and that way I can keep a constant mushroom farm going since I LOVE mushrooms.

Here are some pictures of what is already growing, my morugas in the DWC's and what is germinating. So far out of germinating seeds, the yellow fatalii has popped on 1/19/2013.

Also what is in sure to grow cubes will be all grown hydroponically. In the past I grow everything hydroponically but due to the mass number of plants this year, I can only manage 10-13 full grown peppers indoor so the rest will be outside in pots when the weather warms.

Time for pictures!!!!

Damn I can't wait for everything to be grown and producing already!!!!

 

[KingLeerUK]

I've had a huge success this year with heirloom tomatoes grown from seed; definitely a slow start but the plants have turned out super healthy and they seem to be more resistant to brown spot than the few plants I store-bought as seedlings.  That said, my Early Girl from Lowe's is over 7 feet tall now.

 

[Island_Dan]

Well update I guess since it has been a while. My early girl tomato is huge!!

Been getting lots if ripe tomatoes from her. Almost every pepper plant has pods but by far the meanest looking are the yellow 7 pot pods.

The burgundy 7 pot, fatalii yellow, TS yellow, orange habs, seasoning peppers, bonda am Jacques, hot lemons, various bells, Benni highland and jalapeños all have pods on them. The eggplants are doing great. And here are some random pics.

Enjoy checking it out.

 

[lock203]

Very nice Dan!