Meatfreak 2012 Growlog

meatfreak · Jul 7, 2012

SocalChilehead said:
Meatfreak it all looks great especially the flower pictures. I had to back track since I miss alot from the last time I saw it. That pimenta leopard looks great, so it goes into a full red stage when ripe. When you harvest one and get it ready for whatever awesome thing your going to do with take a picture of the interior?

It´s not completely full red, it's has like shadow´s on the pod. If you keep it under different angles it shows different kind of colors, very neat. I picked the 3 ripe ones a while back, but they were very small. Haven´t tasted them because they are way too hot for me, I´m still a trainee

So I send them too a buddy of mine, he´s gonna do a taste test. I´ll ask him too make some pictures of the interior.

The plant is producing new pods but the shape is different and looks more like Pimenta de Neyde. Those are ripening off now since they are showing some purple/redish color. Pods aren´t big either but that´s probably because of the bad summer we are having

cbradac · Jul 8, 2012

Awesome job with all the plants meatfreak. just looked through your whole glog! very nice.

So you're potting mix was just coco soil, perlite and vermiculite, And ferlitizing with chilli focus.

How often are your fertilising and watering? I'm using a similar mix, but I have a organic mix instead of the coco soil. But - I think it's causing dramas with the nutrients.

I have the exact same CFL too, but I only use 1 of them. I like your setup!

Chris.

mascalzone · Jul 8, 2012

Great job Stefan :dance:

SocalChilehead · Jul 8, 2012

Hey Stefan thanks for the picture they do look amazing. Yea I was having the same issue before installing the drip system inconsistent pod shapes now that I have picked all the small pods they are starting to get their expected shape so now I am just waiting. Are those part of the AISPES or your own project.

meatfreak · Jul 8, 2012

cbradac said:
Awesome job with all the plants meatfreak. just looked through your whole glog! very nice.

So you're potting mix was just coco soil, perlite and vermiculite, And ferlitizing with chilli focus.

How often are your fertilising and watering? I'm using a similar mix, but I have a organic mix instead of the coco soil. But - I think it's causing dramas with the nutrients.

I have the exact same CFL too, but I only use 1 of them. I like your setup!

Chris.

The coco soil was a big failure which set my plants back months in growth. You can use it as a sow medium but do not use only coco soil for your plants! I used it on my veggies also and they had a lot of grow issues also

Learn from my mistake

mascalzone said:
Great job Stefan

Thanks, Dom. Small but love the color contrast

SocalChilehead said:
Hey Stefan thanks for the picture they do look amazing. Yea I was having the same issue before installing the drip system inconsistent pod shapes now that I have picked all the small pods they are starting to get their expected shape so now I am just waiting. Are those part of the AISPES or your own project.

Your welcome

They aren't part of the AISPES project, I got them from mascalzone, it's his cross and project.

cbradac · Jul 8, 2012

meatfreak said:
The coco soil was a big failure which set my plants back months in growth. You can use it as a sow medium but do not use only coco soil for your plants! I used it on my veggies also and they had a lot of grow issues also Learn from my mistake

What did you use instead?

meatfreak · Jul 8, 2012

Just regular potting soil mixed with about 25% coco soil and some perlite. The coco soil too make the mix more light and too keep the moist better. Works perfect.

cbradac · Jul 8, 2012

meatfreak said:
Just regular potting soil mixed with about 25% coco soil and some perlite. The coco soil too make the mix more light and too keep the moist better. Works perfect.

Awesome. I'll give it a go on my next pot up. I've found the organic mix works okay. But still get some curling and crinkling in the chinese strains.

Made an error with too much epsom salt, burnt a stack of my new growth. Not going to do that ever again!

meatfreak · Jul 9, 2012

cbradac said:
Awesome. I'll give it a go on my next pot up. I've found the organic mix works okay. But still get some curling and crinkling in the chinese strains.

Made an error with too much epsom salt, burnt a stack of my new growth. Not going to do that ever again!

You'll learn from your mistakes, I made a lot this season also so we keep on learning :whistle:

That curling and crinkling could come from too much fertilizer in the organic mix maybe? If you add the coco you lower it down a bit. Also could from from the PH level in the soil that's not correct for the Chinense. I saw the same thing with a couple of my plants when I used the pure coco soil. Some reacted fine too it while others stopped growing and had problems.

cbradac · Jul 9, 2012

meatfreak said:
You'll learn from your mistakes, I made a lot this season also so we keep on learning That curling and crinkling could come from too much fertilizer in the organic mix maybe? If you add the coco you lower it down a bit. Also could from from the PH level in the soil that's not correct for the Chinense. I saw the same thing with a couple of my plants when I used the pure coco soil. Some reacted fine too it while others stopped growing and had problems.

Yeah. Will definitely try the coco. I have a feeling it's too much fertilizer. I generally fertilize once per week with a weak solution of chilli focus.

Is once a week too often for the small plants? I have started mixing dolomite lime into the mix now to change the PH. But it's still all about experimenting.

meatfreak · Jul 10, 2012

I'm bad at giving plants fertilizer at a regular base :oops:

I keep forgetting too give it too them. For small plants once a week sounds a bit too often, but it depends on the ratio you give it, 5ml on 1 liter of water?

meatfreak · Jul 11, 2012

The crows at my garden are really giving me a hard time, they really seem too like Jalapeno's since they feast on them. I found half eaten pods on a regular base. Also the Pimento Leopard pods were eaten by them, this was left.

And today I discovered they damaged the foil of my foil tunnel :shame:

Anyone recognize this podshape already? It was suppose too be a Chinense but turned out a unknown Baccatum.

Although this year's summer has hit a new low when it comes too temperature and rain, the plants in my foil tunnel are starting too kick off (don't mind the weeds, after the pictures I pulled most of it

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From the top: Habanero Mustard, Habanero Purple, Moranquinho.

Left top: 7 Pot Brain Strain Red, Peito de Moca and 7 Pot Brain Strain Red -- Right top: Pimenta Elisir, CGN22207 and Fatalii White.

Left top: 7 Pot White, 7 Pot White and Fidalga Roxa -- Right top: Trinidad Seasoning Yellow, Trinidad Seasoning Yellow (notice the different leaves) and Biquinho.

Left top: 2x Harold St. Bart's and Habanero Tasmanian Chocolate -- Right top: 2x Habanero Maldivian and Habanero Cappuccino.

Left top: 2x Chupetinho and Habanero Orange Devil -- Right top: Habanero Chocolate Hand Grenade, Habanero Pastel and Habanero Martinique.

Left top: Jalapeño Biker Billy (hard to see), Jalapeño Farmers Market Potato and Jalapeño Conchos -- Right top: Joe's Long Cayenne, Habanero Giant White and Habanero Oxkutzcabian Orange.

romy6 · Jul 12, 2012

Man Stephan that stinks about the crows. They are one dirty bird. Time to build a scare crow or but a large black plastic trash bag on a stick. Allow the bag to flap in the wind. That will sometimes scare em off?

Plants are looking good and that Bac looks like an aji lemon :party:

Melissa77754 · Jul 12, 2012

Amazing grow Stefan, the flower pics are absolutely beautiful! You have some really cool varieties going, keep up the great work!

meatfreak · Jul 12, 2012

romy6 said:
Man Stephan that stinks about the crows. They are one dirty bird. Time to build a scare crow or but a large black plastic trash bag on a stick. Allow the bag to flap in the wind. That will sometimes scare em off?

Plants are looking good and that Bac looks like an aji lemon

Thanks Jamie, plant is spitting out pods now but have too wait till they start too ripe. Then we'll know, always fun too have an mystery

Melissa77754 said:
Amazing grow Stefan, the flower pics are absolutely beautiful! You have some really cool varieties going, keep up the great work!

Thanks, Melissa. I do what I can with this limited climate of ours :lol:

Today we had the first sunny day since 8 days. Just sad.

In the meantime, some more picture's from my plants in my back garden.

CAP 1546... not sure, think it's a cross with something else. The pods look like young Jalapeno's.

Cherry Chocolate, small plant but still a decent amount of pods.

Cayenne Golden with stingers or is this normal with Cayenne's? Always thought they grow longer and not so pointy. Love the look of the podshape though!

Forgot too add my big harvest picture :lol:

Some Padron's and an Santa Fe Grande I wanted for tasting.

meatfreak · Jul 16, 2012

Update from the foiltunnel, they are doing great! Next year I'm gonna build a bigger one so I can keep all my plants in there, the ones that are outside now are slowly dying because of the bad weather and diseases. I'm afraid those are lost if the weather doesn't change very quickly.

Scarlet Lantern, recovered nicely and is making small buds.

Habanero Chocolate Hand Grenade. Joe, I think these have the shape that you want, don't they? I love how they look! Hopefully they will taste great also

Chupetinho, nice and bushy.

Habanero Orange Devil

Habanero Purple

Habanero Mustard

Trinidad Seasoning Yellow

Habanero Oxkutzcabian Orange

Jalapeño Conchos, about 4 inch tall now.

Tbc...

915river · Jul 16, 2012

Very nice images of your plants & pods Stefan

meatfreak · Jul 16, 2012

Thanks, Vladan! Finally the rest of the pictures!

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Jalapeño Farmers Market Potato, pods don't look like your regular Jalapeno but it's a cross with something else. After they get even more bigger, they should get excessive corking.

Jalapeño Biker Billy

Jalapeño Numex Jalmundo

Jalapeño El Jefe

After taking pictures I went into battle with all those weeds

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meatfreak · Jul 22, 2012

Time for some pictures, temperature is finally getting better over here. You can see the plants growing again.

Plants in the foiltunnel.

Jalapeño Farmers Market Potato, biggest pod is 6,5inch tall.

Chupetinho

Peito de Moca

Habanero Martinique

Habanero Mustard

Trinidad Seasoning Yellow

Joe's Long Cayenne

Cayenne Golden, appears too been crossed with something else cause they stay small and all have stingers.

Tbc... bump please

Lando · Jul 22, 2012

Nice pods

bump