SKULLBIKER'S 2024 "Less Is More" GLOG

This first post is picture heavy.
I originally wasn't going to do a glog this year but have decided as I am going to grow less variety this year there may not be as much posting involved. The pepper list for this year is JALAPENOS, yep, thats it...........although there will be TWO varieties. I have started MUCHO NACHO and EMERALD FIRE, from new seeds no less.
Here is the signature image for the blog which was actually from a couple of years ago:

Now on to a couple of pictures I took over the last couple of months of the new plants.
My wife wanted a jalapeno plant she could keep in the screen porch so naturally a Kratky plant. Here are some earlier pics and current ones will be posted later.
It all started with a culled seedling that I literally ripped out of the dirt.

After a while it started making roots and leaves.

Then December came and it was time to get it into a bigger home, a 3 gallon bucket with a 10 inch net pot lid. The container will be upsized as needed.

I filled the net pot with Hydrocorn XL media and kept it from floating out with a custom retainer.

I capped it off with foil to cut down on evaporation.

On the shelf, under the lights.

And now a few random earlier pics of some jalapeno plants.

Updates will follow.

 

[SineNomine]

Superb! Good luck in the new growing season!

 

[ahayastani]

 

[wiicek]

I am happy to hear that you changed the decision about making a Glog! Have a wonderful season.

 

[jgundo]

Good Job man... Looks awesome

 

[skullbiker]

I guess it's time for a couple of current pics. First is the Kratky Emerald Fire plant that is now too tall for the shelf under the lights so it's sitting on the "never used" hot tub on the south end of the screen porch.

Here are a couple of Emerald Fire Jalapeno plants outside in 43 liter containers.

 

[skullbiker]

A little update on the Kratky Emerald Fire Jalapeno porch plant. I got the rolling stand built and the lights mounted but will still have to tidy up the cords a bit. The plant is still in the three gallon bucket but will likely get upgraded to a 7 gallon soon, and after that it will be an 18 gallon tub.

 

[PaulG]

Right on, SB! Glad to see you are getting into a new grow log season.

 

[skullbiker]

Well, I seem to be a little slow on the updates here. With a "all jalapeno" pepper crop this year it probably won't be that exciting to a lot of people.
The "the kratky in the porch jalapeno plant" did indeed get get moved into a 7 gallon bucket and has been growing steadily. It went through a bout of aphids and mites, whenever it gets real windy the pests show up and many have no problem getting through the screens. I'm thinking of upgrading the Kratky Jalapeno to an 18 gallon tub in the near future.

My first ripe jalapeno is showing some good color, this is on one of the first three plants that went out and for whatever reason those three look quite bleak.

Here are a few other plants, I won't show pics of all of them because they all look pretty much alike.

 

[skullbiker]

Nothing wild going on here on the pepper front but an update on the screen porch Kratky Jalapeno. I did the reservoir switch from the 7 gallon bucket to a 18 gallon tub. Because of the distance from the top of the net pot to where the roots were in the solution in the 7 gal bucket I started out with about 12 gallons of liquid. 1000 ppm and 5.7ph solution, the water was 0 ppm as it was all saved from the dehumidifier in the house.

The tub.

The net pot and plant. Not a lot of root on the sides but this is a 10 inch bucket cover top.

The plant settled into it's new home. Cover is 1/2 inch plywood painted on both sides.

Now with the cage to keep the branches proped up. I counted 11 peppers on the plant now. As with all my Jalapenos, they will be left to go red ripe before picking.

 

[Downriver]

@skullbiker Plant is looking healthy SB. I really like what you did with the plywood. With the plant set up like that, you can use any reservoir you want. You could pop that onto a 55 Gal drum, if you wanted to, lol. Nice idea!

 

[skullbiker]

Time for a long over due update. I recently bought a few jalapeno plants from a big box store, not so much that I needed more plants but as an experiment for my root knot nematode infested soil. I'm trying a different method of treatment so.................time will tell. Here's a pic of the newbies, they are "Bonnie" brand plants.

Next a few pics of some decent Emerald Fire and Mucho Nacho plants with fruit.

The other day I got these off of an Emerald Fire plant, definitely not true phenos.

Today I got this one off of a different plant, way the hell off pheno, possibly alien influence! Ever see a stinger on a Jalapeno?

 

[skullbiker]

Nothing super wild here in my jalapeno only pepper grow. The Kratky Emerald Fire Jalapeno porch plant is doing pretty well and just recently it seems to be on a growth spurt, I'll get a new pic soon.

This is the pepper farm for this year under the shade cloth. The original Emerald Fire and Mucho Nacho plants on the left and the Bonnie plants in the experimental dirt in the buckets on the right.

A couple of random pepper pics.

 

[MarcV]

Nothing super wild here in my jalapeno only pepper grow. The Kratky Emerald Fire Jalapeno porch plant is doing pretty well and just recently it seems to be on a growth spurt, I'll get a new pic soon.

I really like this setup!

 

[skullbiker]

The Kratky porch jalapeno is growing wildly right now. I think the branches are growing about an inch a day now.

I picked a bunch of the Emerald Fire jalapenos today. Some were not as REDY as I like. Lots of corkin' though.

And always a smart a$$ in the crowd flippin' people off!

Even the flipper is corking!

 

[skullbiker]

Had to add more juice to the kratky porch plant, it's going through it fast now. I can see now why the growth has picked up, it's getting a pretty big root mass/ball.