glog Nick's 2025 Glog

I am very excited to start from seed this year.
I don't have a lot of experience with (hot) peppers so I decided to do a trial for a several varieties of one specimen.
Initial plan is to have chinenses in unheated greenhouse (and maybe in pots?), while annuums/baccatums outside (again, maybe in pots).

Current list to grow:
Carolina Reaper
Habanero Chocolate
Habanero, Golden
Naga Morich
7pot Primo
Moruga Green
Yolo Wonder
Jalapeno Ruben
Anaheim
Shishito
Sweet Apple Kampe
Jalapeno
Black Cobra
Jalapeno, Mucho Nacho
Wild Purple Guatemala
Zebrange
Champion
Habanero, Mellow

I planted the chinenses on Feb 3rd to give them a head start. I was a bit too excited, so I decided to also start a few more:
Carolina Reaper
Habanero Chocolate
Habanero, Golden
Naga Morich
7pot Primo
Moruga Green
Habanero, Mellow
Black Cobra
Zebrange
Champion
Wild Purple Guatemala

Last four already germinated after 5days (28 celsius with heatmat) and I am starting to worry I will run out of under-LED space after potting up
Now I am torn whether to reduce temperature or wait until all chinenses have germinated.

 

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Aji Champion keeps on going I am tempted to keep 2-3 flowers although I am 3 weeks before transplanting... I think this one will go in a big pot or in the ground, seems prolific!

And at least one tomato started budding!
Sweet million F1

As you can see, the primary shoot is already out of the light.. I will move it to a south facing windowsill and pray it does not halt growth.

Edit:

I managed to hang one of the 4 barrinas on the place where the tomatoes were moved! Now there will be some 150 PPFD /4 DLI beside the sunlight in the morning. I am now hopeful!

 

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Back from holidays and I witnessed a small jungle

Lots of buds and flowers, too much growth.

I will sort them out this weekend and start moving the plants outside again to plant soon!

 

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Update:

All going well and the weather is suspiciously good this spring... Due to size limits I moved both trays outside after my last post, and the situation was hectic. Fortunately only one tomato plant suffered a lot from not enough light due to the overgrowth, but most other plants were okay, if not a bit stretched competing for light.

I moved several peppers and tomatoes into the greenhouse on May 1st.

San marzano 2 (sowed Mar6)

Aji Champion (sowed Feb3)

Due to travel and other obligations, I didn't put everything in the ground yet. I also bought some pots of various sizes (9,12,18L). Habanero chocolate, wild purple Guatemala and another sweet horn pepper gifted from my neighbor were transferred in the 9L pots.

Black Cobra, Zebrange as well as a Jalapeno were planted outside.

So far everything seems to be adapting well except Habanero chocolate, which is a bit sunscalded.

Exciting news are, Aji Champion is forming several pods!!!

And also some of my tomatoes have set fruit. Let's see how this goes!
San marzano 2

Sweet million F1

Indigo Blue

And wild purple Guatemala, which just looks gorgeous!

Now that there is space for indoor seed starting, I started several varieties of cucumbers and zucchini/courgette, as well as some more tomato varieties (cherries, some dwarfs, determinates)...

Until next time!