Peter's 2015 Glog

I've started germinating a few seeds for 2015. I'm using the wet paper towel in sandwich bag method for the first time. For each seed type, I soaked the seeds in 3% hydrogen peroxide for one minute, then rinsed before putting on the paper towel. I've got all the bags in a plastic box, sitting on a germination heat mat. I put a half plastic egg carton on the bottom so they won't get too hot.
 

 

 

 
It looks like a few of the seeds have something white poking out. These are ajijoes Chocolate Hand Grenade Habanero and Pepperlover's Mustard Moruga Scorpion. 
 

 

 
I started them on 12/19. I'm going to move any germinated seeds to cups containing Fox Farms Light Warrior. This will be the first time using this as well.
 

 
Here's my, as of now, grow list. Most of these are from Pepperlover, a few from Buckeye Peppers. Two are from ajijoe, one from Dollar General.
 
7 Pot Brain Strain Yellow
7 Pot Bubblegum
7 Pot Primo
7 Pot Rennie Chocolate - Buckeye Peppers
Aji Cito
Aji Habanero
Aji Verde
Albanian Red Hot
Aleppo
Bahamian Goat - Buckeye Peppers
Bell of Lebannon
Bhut Jolokia Red
Bhut Jolokia Yellow
Brazilian Star Fish
Brown Moruga
Buckeye Butchlah - Buckeye Peppers
Chocolate Habanero
Chocolate Hand Grenade Habanero - ajijoe
Cinnamon Bell
Cumra Cherry
Devil's Heart
Devil's Horn
Dorset Naga
Ecuador Red Rocoto
Elephant's Ear
Farmers Jalepeno
Fatalii White
Hot Banana
Hot Fingers
Hot Tomatoes
MOA Scotch Bonnet
Mustard Moruga Scorpion
Orange Habanero - Dollar General
Paper Lantern
Pineapple Rocoto
Reaper
Red Maraba X - ajijoe
Sula Adana
Sweet Cow Horn
Trinida Scorpion Moruga Yellow
 
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A few more added later (edited in on 2/9/15)
 
Peach Congo
7 Pod Congo SR Gigantic
Rosemary Pepper
7-Pot Chaguanas
Cherio Roxa
CGN 20800
CGN 21500
7-Pot Lava
Bhut Jolokia, Peach
7-Pot Mad Ballz Red
Fatalii, Yellow
7-Pot Brainstrain, Red
Butch T Scorpion
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What I've started germinating so far is:
7 Pot Rennie Chocolate
Albanian Red Hot
Bahamian Goat
Bhut Jolokia Red
Bhut Jolokia Yellow
Buckeye Butchlah
Chocolate Habanero
Chocolate Hand Grenade Habanero
Devil's Heart
Ecuador Red Rocoto
Mustard Moruga Scorpion
Pineapple Rocoto
Reaper
Trinida Scorpion Moruga Yellow
 
There are a few others I'm going to start early, but wanted to test this germination method first. I'll start the rest sometime next month.

 

[PaulG]

Rather significant grow list this season!  Your starts look great,
nice and healthy in your grow shelf set-up.  Nice work.
 
Good luck going forward.

 

[Peter S]

Rather significant grow list this season!  Your starts look great,
nice and healthy in your grow shelf set-up.  Nice work.
 
Good luck going forward.

Thanks Paul! 
I think I forgot to mention I started these seeds last week, all from a friend at work, via Pepperlover.
 
Peach Congo
7-Pod Congo SR Gigantic
Rosemary Pepper
7-Pot Chaguanas
Cherio Roxa
CGN 20800
 
I started these today, a few from the many that Wicked Mike sent me. Thanks Wicked Mike!
 
Bhut Jolokia, Peach
CGN 21500
Fatalii, Yellow
7-Pot Lava
7-Pot Brainstrain, Red
7-Pot Mad Ballz, Red
 
This is from last year's harvest, but I made some cherry smoked Reaper/Primo blend over the weekend. Turned out pretty good, a little goes a long way.
 

 

[beerbreath81]

good progress over there. Nice work on the powder. oh and Kill that bug!

 

[Peter S]

good progress over there. Nice work on the powder. oh and Kill that bug!

Thanks Anthony! Yeah, I killed it. 

 

[BurkeasaurusRex]

Looks awesome man! Good luck!

 

[organic pepper]

Them powder bags are looking awesome! 

 

[Peter S]

Them powder bags are looking awesome! 

 

Looks awesome man! Good luck!

 
Thanks!
Weekly update. I ordered little heater today from Lowes, going to pick up later this afternoon. I don't expect it to heat my whole basement obviously, but I think having it close to the plants will help. I'm going to try to position one of the fans to blow over it and push warm air to them. Without a heater it doesn't ever get below 60, so if I can bump it up 10 or 15 degrees that'll be awesome. 
 
Few pics of the babies.
 
Paper Lantern
 

 
Joe's Long
 

 
Farmer's Jalapeno
 

 
Aji Verde
 

 
Aleppo
 

 
Hot Tomato
 

 
Aji Habanero
 

 
Devil's Horn
 
http://i.imgur.com/hLh7DdJl.jpg
 
Yellow Bhut
 
http://i.imgur.com/Lo87rqbl.jpg
 
Ecuadorian Red Rocoto
 
http://i.imgur.com/f84WH6wl.jpg

 

[Runescape]

Nice lookin plants, but I cant believe you're not growing your own pepper...

 

[Peter S]

Nice lookin plants, but I cant believe you're not growing your own pepper...

 
Yeah, I did grow a couple last year. 

 

[Peter S]

I started potting up a few of my bigger plants this week. Tonight I went through everything to keep/cull. I've set aside all those I'm not going to keep and will take to work to give away. I didn't mess with any that just came up, that don't have true leaves yet. But so far I think there's around 80 that I'm keeping as of now.
 
Here's how the roots are looking on those I potted up earlier this week.
 

 
Choc Hand Grenade Cross in its solo cup.
 

 
These I'm keeping
 

 

 

 
Here are my pot-ups. I made up some fabric pots out of cheap landscape fabric for an experiment. I'm not planning on using them when I put outside, but want to compare the root systems and growth rates between those and solo cup plants. Was hoping to get away from the solo cups this year, didn't happen.
 

 
I have around 70 that I'm giving away. This will make room for the others that still need to be potted up, and will free up some time too.
 

 

 

[Runescape]

Choc Hand Grenade Cross in its solo cup.
 

Are you hoping for chocolate pods off that thing? Would be kinda neat with that dark foliage...

 

[Van]

awesome list you have there ...Good luck!
The purple tinted Hab makes me regret giving away my last Peruvian seeds

 

[Peter S]

Are you hoping for chocolate pods off that thing? Would be kinda neat with that dark foliage...

I'll be happy with whatever it puts out, but yeah that would be cool looking.

awesome list you have there ...Good luck!
The purple tinted Hab makes me regret giving away my last Peruvian seeds

Thanks! And sorry you lost those seeds. 

 

[Devv]

Nice looking starts!
 
They should be timed just right for dirt day!

 

[PaulS]

Looking good dude

 

[Peter S]

Nice looking starts!
 
They should be timed just right for dirt day!

Thanks! Last year, once they got in the dirt they really took off.
 

Looking good dude

Thanks!

 

[Peter S]

I potted up a few more today. Here's a pic of most of my keep plants, some are down below out of view.
 

 
Pot ups from today, except for last four in the back.
 

 
Two fabric pots in foreground are from today.
 

 
A few pot ups from last week.
 

 

 

[Peter S]

I finished potting up everything I'm keeping, with exception of a few that I'm still nursing to size.
 

 
Closeups of a few of my babies:
 
Buckeye Butchlah
 

 
Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, Yellow
 

 
Bahamian Goat
 

 
I used up all of my FFOF before potting up the last 25 or 30. I found a local agricultural wholesaler that sells to the public and got a good price on mix materials. So I made my first ~28ish gallon batch comprised of 1 2.8 cu ft bag of Fafard 3B mix, 1 cu ft bag of manure compost and about 6 quarts of perlite. I have some 14-14-14 controlled release fertilizer (Southern Ag brand, osmocote based)  that I'm going to use as well. I mixed a small does of the ferts in the soil mix of the last 10 or 12 that I potted up for experimental comparison. 
 

 

 

 
Want to give a big thanks to Wicked Mike for suggesting and helping source a wholesale place in my area. I probably saved well over 100.00 on these materials compared to a big box store like Home Depot.

 

[PaulG]

Nice grow going there, buddy!  Will be interesting to see how
the fabric pots work.  I'll bet great.  Maybe have to watch the
water a bit; do they dry out quickly?

 

[Roguejim]

Well done!  Peach Congo??  Yet, another one I never heard of...