Peter's 2016 Grow

I'm still working out my grow list, and will start most of my seeds in a couple weeks. I have started a few early, and have some growing in hydro and potting mix. Here are four over winters from this past year; 7-Pot Rennie Chocolate, Devil's Heart, Bahamian Goat and Peach Bhut.
 

 
Most recent pic of my hydro setup. Maxibloom nutes under 400 watt CMH. I'm going to probably switch to Masterblend/Calcium Nitrate/Epsom Salt blend at some point when the Maxi runs out. This is mostly for starting, I'm going to setup 2 buckets with one plant each that I'll try to grow out larger.
 
There's a mix of BBM, Caramel Moruga, Jamacian Hot Choc., Hot Fingers and Large Orange Thai currently.
 

 
Here're two that I took out recently and transplanted to potting mix.
 
The one on the left is Caramel Moruga Scorpion, and other is Jamaican Hot Chocolate. The JHC is about a week behind the C. Moruga.
 

 
The C. Moruga is in a Rapid Rooter plug

 
The J. Hot Choc. is in rock wool.

 
After transplant.

 
Here're a couple that'll go into the hydro bucket soon. These are growing under my cheap Wal-mart LED bulbs. They seem to work well for the sprouts.
 
Genghis Khan's Brain

 
Peach Bhut

 
So far what I've started and/or have germinating as of now is:
Big Black Mama
Caramel Moruga Scorpion
Jamaican Hot Choc.
Hot Fingers
Large Orange Thai
Peach Bhut
Genghis Khan's Brain
Superhot Beast
Trinidad Hornet
Monkey Nipples
Sarit Gat
Choc BrainStrain
Apocalypse Scorpion
Reaper
Orange Thai SSE
Unknown Reaper X
I Scream Scorpion
Butch T Scorpion
Chocolate Primo Reaper
BTR Scorpion
Sugar Rush Peach
Mayan Love Pepper
MA Wartyx Variant
Kraken Scorpion
Bhut Assam
 
Oh, I got this the other day too, to help monitor the nutes. I didn't realize how big this thing was until I got it. From seeing product pics, I thought it would be ink pen size. I like it a lot.
 

 
 

 

[Trident chilli]

Great little healthy plants you have got there Peter ... looks like your in for a bumper season

 

[Peter S]

Great little healthy plants you have got there Peter ... looks like your in for a bumper season

Thanks!

 

[Peter S]

The only non-peppers I'm growing this year. Ten Fingers of Naples tomatoes, for salsa making. Got seeds from rareseeds.com. 100% germ rate.
 

 

[Peter S]

Here's a video update of everything as of today:
 
https://youtu.be/Mry6GNmqxDY

 

[Peter S]

These guys are starting to get big enough to transplant out.

 
Cereja da Amapi

 
Monkey Nipples

 
Chocolate Brain

 
Black Naga

 
BBM pod

 

[SavinaRed]

Nice plants and I like the Styrofoam cup idea. I think I will be a copycat lol.

 

[Peter S]

Nice plants and I like the Styrofoam cup idea. I think I will be a copycat lol.

Thanks! So far I like using those cups. They're cheap and easy to prep. For the holes, I just poke a knife and twist holes around the bottom edge and underneath. They're very sturdy too.

 

[Peter S]

I transplanted eight plants from hydro to cups, here's a video of my process.

Some pics.
D3monic's Paper Lantern x Butch T Yellow

 
Some slow release fert I'm trying until I can get a big bag of Osmocote.

 
A few transplants

 

 

 

 
With my tomatoes...

 

 
After putting eight more back in to the multi site bucket.

 
Four Butch T's Mustard Moruga Brains with a Sarit Gat in the back.
 

 

[tsurrie]

Wov... super looking healthy plants. Looks like you know what you're doing. Keep it up.

 

[Peter S]

Wov... super looking healthy plants. Looks like you know what you're doing. Keep it up.

I don't know about the know what I'm doing part, but thanks!

 

[Peter S]

Here's a video I made this morning of transferring my BBM between hydro buckets.
 
Frame grab showing the roots.

 
https://youtu.be/xbuZxYTyQqw

 

[Peter S]

I trimmed a bunch of the obnoxiously fat Chin leaves that had some fert burn. They can breath a little now.
 

 

 
BBM

 
Jamaican Hot Choc

 
The D3monic's Paper Lantern x Butch T Yellow are growing like crazy

 

 
The Jay's Ghost Scorp Peach is starting to pick up

 
My Ten Fingers of Naples tomatoes with a Monkey Nipples in the foreground

 
Cereja da Amapi

 
Black Naga

 
Sherwood's Carbonero F4

 

[Hophead]

Here's a video I made this morning of transferring my BBM between hydro buckets.
 
Frame grab showing the roots.

 
Thanks for the video and all the tips! Im gonna try out hydro this year and these posts/vids are great! Thanks for the ppm info and the turkey baster hole & bucket mod seem like great ideas.

 

[Peter S]

 
Thanks for the video and all the tips! Im gonna try out hydro this year and these posts/vids are great! Thanks for the ppm info and the turkey baster hole & bucket mod seem like great ideas.

Thanks! I'm glad you found it helpful. 

 

[Peter S]

Quick update on my grow from yesterday.

Basement peppers

 
A few transplants

 

 

 

 
Jay's Ghost Peach

 
Coffee container peppers

 

[Devv]

Most excellent Peter!
 
You got it going on!

 

[Peter S]

Most excellent Peter!
 
You got it going on!

Thanks!

 

[Peter S]

Made a pretty good score at Southern Ag this week. I got a bunch of container mix stuff and ferts. A lot of the ferts should last into next year too. I'll need to make a run later to get the rest of the container mix as I couldn't carry it all in one trip. My plan is to use mostly slo release ferts for my containers, and by next year acquire a Mixrite fert injector and solely use the masterblend formula for feeding.
 
2 x 25lb bags of Southern Ag brand version of masterblend @$25.65 each
1 50lb bag of Calcium Nitrate $17.81
1 50lb bag of Epsom salt $15.60
8 2.8 cuft bags of SunGro mix @$10.20/bag
12 1 cuft bags cow manure compost @$2.50/bag
40lb bag of Southern Ag granular Essential Minor Elements 24.70 (will be first time trying this)
50lb bag of 14-14-14 3mo slo release $30.68 (The Andersons brand, but same specs as osmocote)
 

 

 

 

 

[Peter S]

I let the multi-site bucket go a little long. lol. Getting a bunch of these in cups today.
 

 
Jay's Ghost Peach

 
Some pods on my Jamaican Hot Choc.

 
My coffee can peppers. Also going in cups soon.

 
BBM and JHC

 
Kratky experiment Carbonero still alive

 

[Peter S]

I potted up 8 yesterday, going to do 7 or 8 more today. Planning to move the tomatoes to a t-8 light I have in the basement, to make room. I picked up a second fan from Goodwill cheap. It was actually brand new, box was dinged. Now I won't have to keep moving the same one between shelves.
 

 
Here are some I pulled out of the hydro yesterday,
 

 

 

 
This Black Fatalii is from seed that coachspencerx gave me. For a while it was very slow growing, then all of a sudden started growing like crazy.
 

 
Side note:
I picked up this smoothie maker/extractor from Sams club for 19.95. It has a second blade lid for grinding dry stuff. Tried it on these large orange thai. Totally pulverized it to a fine powder, seeds and all.