glog Scandinavian indoor/outdoor grow

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I've done some glogs before, but the last two or three I've failed to update after a while during the season.
So I figured it would be better to have a glog that will be continuous, documenting each year of growing to the best of my abilities, no promises though.

Anyway, I've mostly been an indoor grower and 2024 was actually the first year I could do a partial outdoor grow. Granted it was on a balcony, but that counts, right?
The grow season is a bit short here, so I will keep doing indoor grows but moving plants outside as soon as temperature permits and space allows.

Since this is just a short introductory post I think I'll finish with links to my previous glogs and the list will be updated with links to the first post in this glog for a specific year (it will make sense in 2026, I promise).

Previous glogs:
2015
2016
2017
2018
2023
2025 - The next post

 

[CaneDog]

It's been less than a week since I repotted the final plants but I do think they have taken a liking to their new homes. Not sure if it's my imagination or not but several plants look like they've grown a lot in the past few days:

Things are looking great Ohjay. I get the same impression that they've grown noticeably in this short time!

 

[Ohjay]

Thank you for the kind words @Downriver & @CaneDog.
It definitely feels like I'm doing something right this season and it's been a while since I've had so many plants in picture perfect health. I usually struggle with some oedema, especially on annuums, but this year I have not seen any yet. *fingers crossed*

I thought my eyes were deceiving me when I checked the plants today because it looked like they had grown quite a bit since friday. So I snapped a picture and placed them side by side (from friday & today) and it is absolutely visible on several plants that they've grown quite a bit.
If this keeps up I'm going to have space issues long before I can move plants to the balcony. But I guess that is a good problem to have?

I also started 8 new hydro plants today. In no particular order:

• Aleppo
• Pasilla Baijo
• Numex Suave Red
• Moruga Blackjack DD
• Wild Galapagos
• Scotch Brains XCP
• 7 Pot Cinder F6
• Galapagos Isabela Habanero

This is the first step in my grand scheme (plan?) to use hydro growing to try new varieties.
The next step is to do better documentation of what I have grown, which seeds I have, opinion of pods and plants.
I'm probably small-time compared to some of you, but I do have seeds for somewhere around 120 varieties and I have an excel sheet for documentation purposes but it can definitely be improved, so step 2 & 3 is to update the excel sheet (or create a new one) and start organizing the seeds, because currently they are all in a cardboard box in a drawer. It's kind of a pain to sort through them every time I'm looking for something particular, so better organization is a must. Especially if (read: when) I get more seeds.

 

[Ohjay]

Plants are still happy and growing a lot. Space is now becoming an issue and my big grow tent is getting quite crowded and it's hard to water the plants in the back without moving other plants out of the tent:

I might have do something about this during the weekend, we'll see.

Several of the plants are already flowering and both Sugar Rush Peach Striped plants have peppers on them as well as one of the Black Scorpion Tongue. There might even be more, but it's hard to check considering the space in the tent.

No photo of the hydro plants today, but the Peter Pepper has 4 or 5 peppers that hopefully should start maturing soon.
The Yellow Bullet Habanero has started flowering but no peppers yet.
As for the newly sowed varieties for hydro growing it seems to be going well. I have four that have sprouted and a fifth that has just broken ground, so looking quite good. Hopefully the remaining three will sprout soon too.
And I still have on my todo-list to do a bit of a dedicated hydro post to show the different root structures but also to document a bit about the process for growing to have as reference for the future.

And the past couple of days my living room table has looked like this:

I finally started sorting my seed collection and putting them in proper seed pouches made of paper and then putting them in those plastic card collector sleeves, in alphabetical order.
It's slow going with 130+ varieties and making sure I don't mix isolated and non-isolated seeds, but once it's done it's going to be so much easier to find the seeds of varieties I want to grow next.

 

[NJChilehead]

Man those plants look great!! Good job with them!

 

[SatanicFlatIron]

Space is now becoming an issue and my big grow tent is getting quite crowded and it's hard to water the plants in the back without moving other plants out of the tent

I'm part of the "overcrowding" team now I have too many plants anyway and I can't walk where I want without moving the pots, but in the early stages (plants only in the growbox) I solved it by removing the mylar sheets and leaving only the skeleton of the structure, so you can walk around it to water and observe the plants better without stress

 

[Ohjay]

Note to self, starting in late december might be too early

I ended up moving three plants outside of the grow tent this past weekend. I chose three plants that were shorter than the rest with the idea that the lesser amount of light will make them stretch a bit:

The grow tent is still crowded though and the plants are now getting so large they need some support when moving the pots around. So the plan for the upcoming weekend is to get some plant support material and make sure it's safe to move the plants around.
Anyway, this is the state of the grow tent as of the past weekend:

And a close-up image of the Sugar Rush Peach Striped in the "wide" pot, it's producing a lot of peppers already:

Still waiting for the hydro peppers to mature, but the Yellow Bullet Habanero has started flowering like crazy. No sign of peppers on it yet though:

 

[Ohjay]

Okay, this is going to be a very picture heavy update. Don't say I didn't warn you.

But before that, I would love some input/help on an issue I've encountered with my hydro plants. They are now so top-heavy that they have a tendency to fall over once they use up 2/3 of the water. I thought about rigging up a grid with strings (as can be seen below) but quickly abandoned the idea. My second idea was so dumb I won't even mention it (but it can be seen in the photo below).
I've toyed with the idea of placing a strong magnet in the bottom of the coozies since the shelf is metal, but I'm not sure...
So, any tips, advice or things of the sort about how to prevent them from toppling over?

So, this past weekend I got the supplies for giving my plants some well-needed support, but I couldn't add them while the plants were in the grow tent, so all plants were taken out of the tent and while I did that I figured I should take a photo of each plant to share with you guys. So without further ado, a chili plant fashion (?) show:

Black Scorpion Tongue (wide pot):

Black Scorpion Tongue (not so wide pot):

Sugar Rush Peach Striped (wide pot):

Sugar Rush Peach Striped (not so wide pot):

Trinidad Moruga Scorpion White (wide pot):

Trinidad Moruga Scorpion White (not so wide pot):

Papa Joe's Scotch Bonnet (wide pot):

Papa Joe's Scotch Bonnet (not so wide pot):

Thor's Thunderbolt:

Bonda Ma Jacques:

Habanero Brown Egg:

Scotch Bonnet Brown:

Bhut Jolokia Peach:

Murupi Amarela:

 

[Ohjay]

I do think there is a bit of a difference in the plants I have in two different types of pots, but it could just as well be the placement in the tent that's the cause and not just pot size. But it will be interesting to keep following the progress of those plants.

I knew I had pods on the Black Scorpion Tongue and Sugar Rush Peach Striped plants, but I noticed I also had pods on the Habanero Brown Egg.
Most plants are flowering already as well.

This was the state of the grow tent once the plants were back in:

Anyway, speaking of pods, I think there is something wrong with the first pod I got which is a Sugar Rush Peach Striped. There is a brownish discoloration on it (it's on both sides) but it doesn't seem to spread so not sure what it might be: