Jalapenos & more

I really wanted to try out writing a glog and hope that you find it interesting to follow. I have some jalapenos, naga morich and bunch of hainan yellow lantern growing at the moment. I plan to mature the jalapenos in the tent and for the rest - i wish i can already move to grow outside on the balcony in month or two.

The biggest two in the picture are jalapenos. Naga morich is the medium sized one and hainan yellow lanterns are those two seedlings. I have also more seedlings of hainan in the tent as well, but these can't be seen on these pictures.

I'm also considering sprouting some seeds for more seedlings, but I'm having difficult time choosing which variety to choose. I have seeds from the following chilies:

• Kongo Brown
• Fatalii Red
• Chocolate Bhut Jolokia
• Yellow Bhut Jolokia

 

[Ratatouille]

It looks like you're well underway! The plants nice and green as well. I'll definitely keep an eye on your GLOG.

 

[Botanylover69]

It looks like you're well underway! The plants nice and green as well. I'll definitely keep an eye on your GLOG.

Thank you for your kind words

 

[Tinkerbelle]

Looking good - I love a jalapeno

 

[Sulsa]

I'm also considering sprouting some seeds for more seedlings, but I'm having difficult time choosing which variety to choose.

you will fit in just fine around here!

The choice is actually quite simpel.... grow them all!

 

[PaulG]

Good Luck this season!

 

[Botanylover69]

Finally my first Jalapeno pod ripened! Was actually quite surprised how hot jalapenos are once they are ripe vs unripe. Definitely will not underestimate those in the future.

My Naga Morich plant unfortunately got infected by some insects, but for some reason my Jalapenos are not affected by it even though they were basically rubbing against the Naga. I did buy some insecticide and treated the plants nevertheless just in case. I threw the Naga to trash bin while i was panicking. I wonder, if it was rational action to do and, if i would have treated the plant with pesticide could i have saved it?

I also started multiple new seeds to be put to the balcony in the future.

 

[Tinkerbelle]

I love a jalapeno - nice looking pod you've got there

 

[Botanylover69]

I love a jalapeno - nice looking pod you've got there

Thank you. I wish the stores would also sell ones that are ripened. These ones, atleast in my opinion taste a lot better than the green unripe ones!

 

[CaneDog]

The new sprouts look great. Looks like you took Sulsa's advice to grow them all!

Were those definitely pests on the naga or could it have just been light edema? Sometimes it can be hard to tell from just pictures.

I wish the stores would sell the red jalapenos, too. Better than the green IMO and with a bit more kick. What type of jalapeno is the red pod in the picture? It looks awesome!

 

[Botanylover69]

The new sprouts look great. Looks like you took Sulsa's advice to grow them all!

Were those definitely pests on the naga or could it have just been light edema? Sometimes it can be hard to tell from just pictures.

I wish the stores would sell the red jalapenos, too. Better than the green IMO and with a bit more kick. What type of jalapeno is the red pod in the picture? It looks awesome!

Sulsa's solution was just what i needed!

I first was also skeptic, if it indeed is pests that could be causing it. I came to this conclusion after i noticed that there were multiple insects flying inside of my tent. I suspect that it was my fault though - I had kept the coir too wet too long because i had a dome on top of it that kept the moisture inside. Hmm... after giving this more thought that would certainly explain as to why my jalapenos basically brushing into the infected leaves have not received ANY kind of similar spots... you may very well be onto something with this.

The jalapeno seeds were picked from store bought green jalapeno. I was very pleased how these turned out. Next jalapenos most certainly will be something more exotic.

 

[CaneDog]

I get fungus gnats pretty regularly from wet peat and such. They're worse with higher heat and humidity. Could have just been gnats and edema, maybe. No one wants to take risks of pests spreading though, especially indoors!

 

[Botanylover69]

I have recently added a raspberry pi 2 to my grow tent. I made a crontask tab that schedules pictures to be taken every 1 hour or so and added a DHT-22 temperature & humidity sensor to my raspberry. The humidity and temperature sensoring code still needs some work to be done. I'd like to have it log the data of both and draw a easily readable curve out of the collected data.
Video that has been added to this message is a timelapse of my plants going thirsty and the recovery they make after being watered.

I repotted my Hainaan Yellow Lanterns into bigger pots and they've made some good progress after it. The smaller seedlings had to be brought into the tent because of the weather here in Finland. It's been cold for some weeks and the sun has been behind of the clouds. Really hoping better weather to come in the near future so i can finally bring them outside for good.

 

[thoroughburro]

That’s a cool setup! Must be fun to combine two hobbies like that.

 

[Grass Snake]

I never thought to grow peppers from cuttings. Are they easy to root?

 

[Botanylover69]

I never thought to grow peppers from cuttings. Are they easy to root?

This is the first time i've taken cuttings from a pepper plant. Done bunch of other plants and i've had great success with those. We'll see if they do root - i will update you if/once they do. With other plants it was somewhere between 2wk-1month before showing any roots, so this is in no way a quick way to make more plants. It however should guarantee that the cuttings turn out to be exactly like the mother plant.

Edit: Remembered that there used to be some hormone that was sold in grow shops and it would make the process much quicker. It was unfortunately banned in EU.

 

[MarcV]

That hormone ban must be relatively recent then as I remember my daughter buying some not so very long ago (couple of years maybe...).

But I tried it for rooting lavender and have never noticed any difference "with" or "without" rooting hormone...

 

[Nulle]

I never thought to grow peppers from cuttings. Are they easy to root?

Hubby and I have done it several times. We had a plant that broke so we cut some pieces from the part that broke off and put them in our Aerogarden.

This is the last one just taken out minutes ago.

 

[Botanylover69]

At last i've been able to bring the plants outside to the balcony. They have been there for a week+. All of the pots are around 6 liters both square and round ones and everything is grown in coco coir.

The weather has been mostly sunny, but there were couple of days of rain and the sun barely shined. I added one of my old grow lights that i'm not too worried about to the balcony to hopefully give some light to my plants on rainy days.

I would like them not to cross pollinate so i have resorted to moving some of my plants to my moms apartment. She actually was the one who gave the suggestion of moving the plants to her house. That raises a question in my head though - how much is enough of a distance that most of the cross-pollination can be prevented? My undereducated guess would be a meter or so? Would that sound sufficient enough?

I'd like to end this update with great thanks to everyone that has taken interest in so far with my glog and wish you all a great summer!

 

[CaneDog]

I get good results (no or perhaps very limited hybridization) inside with the plants actually touching, so any space at all likely accomplishes what you need.

One thing I'm cautious about is when an indoor pepper is dropping lots of flowers and setting only an occasional pod. In this case I assume it may not be producing viable pollen and when a pod does set it may be from stray, viable pollen grains - so perhaps those "occasional" pods aren't going to be the best ones to consider as isolated. Still, I think the chances are better they're isolated than that they're not.

When one considers that each ovum in the flower is pollinated by a separate grain of pollen, even if some cross-pollination occurs it is very likely largely outnumbered by the pollen grains coming from directly within that same flower than by pollen grains floating in the air that may happen to find their way to the stigma. Many, if not most (depending on the variety) peppers self-pollenate from the same flower as sets the pod (often during the process of the flower opening) and, absent pollinating inspects, the odds indoors are strongly in your favor.

Great that you are getting the plants outside and hopefully the weather improves quickly. I'll sometime "share" pepper plants with friends and family when I want to be sure they're isolated and for whatever reason I can't keep them inside.